Alexandre Tilmans Entrepreneur Baz-Art South African Street Artists
Alexandre Tilmans Entrepreneur Baz-Art South African Street Artists
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Alexandre Tilmans is the Director and Co-founder of Baz-Art, and has numerous years of business expertise running a thriving internationally active arts organisation.
Baz-Art\u2019s annual flagship event is Africa\u2019s largest public art festival - the International Public Art Festival - which has expanded Cape Town\u2019s economic and social development. Baz-Art\u2019s success is tangible with the NGO receiving the award \u201cBusiness of the Year\u201d at the Cap40 annual Business Awards, with Alexandre Tilmans subsequently also being the recipient of \u201cEntrepreneur of the Year\u201d.
In 2019 Baz-Art received the BASA award and was also featured in the 2020 CNN street art documentary titled \u2018Street Arts in Africa\u2019. The new addition to Baz-Art\u2019s offering - the Public Art Conference - launched in March 2022, will also feature on a Momint\u2019s documentary.
Baz-Art employs close to 200 people annually.
In our chat we cover lots of aspects of the interface between art and business which I am sure you will find interesting.
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