Biography
Shiran Ben Abderrazak is an independent consultant in cultural development and digital transformation, author, and curator based between Dakar, Tunis, and Brussels. A graduate of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) in political studies, he works at the intersection of contemporary art, emerging technologies, and international cooperation. VP Strategic Partnership & Growth at Dar Blockchain, he is also the founder of Armature, a curatorial platform supporting eleven artists across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and contributes regularly to Diptyk Magazine and Afrique Magazine as a critic and reporter.
Trained in modern literature at the Sorbonne then in social sciences at EHESS (Master's, Magna Cum Laude), Shiran built his career on a dual foundation: reflection and action. Since 2011, he has designed and implemented projects at the crossroads of culture, strategy, and technology — from Senegal to Belgium, from Tunisia to Egypt, from Burkina Faso to Palestine.
On the consulting and technology side, he is VP Strategic Partnership & Growth at Dar Blockchain, a structure specialising in web3 digital transformation. Fifteen years leading private organisations at the intersection of economic development and international cooperation — UNESCO (MENA region), Mawred Al-Thaqafi, Senghor University, Jeune Afrique Media Group — have given him a cross-sector vision that allows him to translate the needs of diverse industries into concrete technological solutions. He lectures at Sup de Pub on the digital challenges of new technologies applied to communication and art direction.
On the art side, he co-founded Mono, the first digital art gallery in Africa and the Arab world, based in the medina of Tunis and specialising in NFTs. He then founded Armature, a curatorial platform that bets on transparency in a field that lacks it: displayed prices, documented careers, long-term support. Eleven artists, no systematic fairs, deep work.
On the writing side, he is editor-in-chief of El-Kasbah: fragments of revolution (2014), one of the contributors and curatorial committee members of La Main Tunisienne, le geste en héritage (Skira, 2022), which he creatively directed, and the author of Journal d'une défaite (2015). He has contributed to the catalogues of the Bamako Biennale and the Tunisian pavilion at Venice. He writes regularly for Diptyk and Afrique Magazine — market investigations, interviews, exhibition reviews.
He is also the co-founder and host of the podcast Culture sans filtre, which has around forty episodes on art, culture, and creative industries, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Franco-Tunisian, he operates between Dakar, Tunis, and Brussels.
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