Salim Currimjee was born in 1963 in Port Louis, Mauri:us and lives there. He studied Biology and Art History at Williams College, MassachuseFs, and Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. An alumnus of London’s Gasworks studio residency programme, Currimjee has shown on the biennales of Johannesburg, Seychelles and Cairo; the Lalit Kala Akademi Triennial of New Delhi; and in galleries in Berlin and London.
Currimjee has shown three exhibi:ons with Stevenson – the first, A play in space, was held online and in Port Louis in 2020; the second, Journeys in Space, was held in Amsterdam and in Port Louis in 2022; the third Tula, was held in Johannesburg and in Port Louis in 2025. He par:cipated in the group exhibi:on Works on Paper in Cape Town in 2021. It is his 15th solo show in Mauri:us, where his exhibi:ons throughout the years, held in old buildings or structures in Port Louis, have in a way mapped the city – a project in itself.
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Salim Currimjee was born in 1963 in Port Louis, Mauri:us and lives there. He studied Biology and Art History at Williams College, MassachuseFs, and Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. An alumnus of London’s Gasworks studio residency programme, Currimjee has shown on the biennales of Johannesburg, Seychelles and Cairo; the Lalit Kala Akademi Triennial of New Delhi; and in galleries in Berlin and London.
Currimjee has shown three exhibi:ons with Stevenson – the first, A play in space, was held online and in Port Louis in 2020; the second, Journeys in Space, was held in Amsterdam and in Port Louis in 2022; the third Tula, was held in Johannesburg and in Port Louis in 2025. He par:cipated in the group exhibi:on Works on Paper in Cape Town in 2021. It is his 15th solo show in Mauri:us, where his exhibi:ons throughout the years, held in old buildings or structures in Port Louis, have in a way mapped the city – a project in itself.
