African contemporary art

The is very dynamic. It is inspired as well by the traditions of the continent as, and it is more and more the case, of contemporary urban realities of Africa in change, which still seeks an identity. The techniques and the supports are varied, active simple painting with the installations with video projection, while passing by sculptures made out of materials of recovery…
L' exposure “Africa Remix” which was presented in Germany, in England, in France and in Japan showed the richness of this sub-Saharan African contemporary art. But Africa itself obtained centers of contemporary art, and of the festivals or biennial are regularly organized on the continent to emphasize the talent of the artists of today.

Examples of works

painting

sculpture

installations

photographs

video

design

other techniques

art of outside

Some artists

  • South Africa

    • Jane ALEXANDER,
    • Tamlyn ARTIN,
    • Willie Bester,
Protest art
    • Kevin BRAND,
    • Carol-Anne TO SHEATH,
    • William Kentridge,
    • Moshekwa LANGA,
    • Zwelethu Mthethwa,
Painting and photography
    • John NANKIN,
    • Tracey PINK,
    • Paul Stopforth,
    • Eduardo VILLA

  • Angola
    • Fernando ALVIM (lives in Belgium),
    • Claudia CRISTOVAO

  • Benign
    • Valentine AGOSSOU SENANOU (lives in Cameroun)
Born in 1972 in Porto-Novo. Sculptor on scrap and materials of recovery. In Douala (Cameroun) since 1996
    • Prudence ASSOU MARCELLIN (lives in Cameroun)
lives Born in 1975 in Cotonou. Designer, it works primarily on wood. It is installed in Cameroun since 1999.
    • Romuald HAZOUME,
    • Dominique ZINKPE

  • Burkina Faso
    • Alassane DRABO

  • Cameroun
    • Jean-Marie AHANDA
Born in 1953. Artist with the very varied professional path: former journalist, advertizing executive, illustrator, teacher of art, it begins its career of painter in 1981. Scultures and paintings, coloured style.
    • Walter ANGU SHE
Born in 1980. Raise of the painter Spee. The music, the African culture and of the topics like the human relations and family are its subjects of predilection.
    • Blaise BANG,
Born in 1968. Painter. A formation follows to the University of the Art schools of Strasbourg. " What interests me, it is to reveal the things which one sees without really regarder."
    • Florence BEAL-NENAKWE
    • Francis BUDIN
Born in 1965 in Yaounde. Self-educated painter. Take part in several international exhibitions.
    • Ginette Flora DALEU
Born in 1977. Painter, mixed technique. Preceded once at the time of a national competition, and once at the time of an international contest in Spain. " I liked the forms and the colors before arriving at the art."
    • Samuel PAVES
Born in 1980 in Bandjoun. A formation follows to the artistic Training institute of Mbalmayo (Cameroun), then another with the Academy of the Art schools of kinshasa, in DRC.
    • Georges DAVIDSON
Born in 1977 in Sangmélina. Self-educated painter, it owes his discovery of art with his meeting with a large collector.
    • Luc Fosther DIOP
Born in 1980 in Douala. Painter. Follows its academic works to Yaounde, where it obtains at the same time a license in history of art and visual arts.
    • Christian DJOMAGNI
Born in 1973. Sculptures out of metal, forms abstract.
    • Justin EBANDA EBANDA,
Born in 1982. Painter. A formation follows to the artistic Training institute of Mbalmayo (Cameroun) and to the university of Yaounde.
    • Alain EKOLLO,
(1974-2004). With fact left the collective New art . Founding member of Socadap (Civil society of the rights of the artists plastics technicians and graphs. With also be professor of drawing. Deceased at 31 years, leaving unfinished fabrics.
    • Stephan ELOUNDOU BIFOUNDOU

    • Samuel FOSSO (lives in Reference mark. Central African),

    • Koko KOMEGNE,
    • Goddy LEYE,
    • Salifou LINDOU,
    • Louis SWORD,
    • MALAM,

    • Alioum FOAMED,

is an excellent doubled graphic designer of a plastics technician. He is indeed moved each time the creativity is convoquée.il took part in the project of residence IAAB in Basle in Switzerland in 2006, with the African western artistic round " EXITOUR 2006" , Prize winner of visa for creation 2007 of AFAA/Culturesfrance. Lives and works in Douala-Cameroun, it created a mark of clothing and " objects; LOGONE". alioum66@hotmail. Contact: +237 7.799 93 33/France: 0033 (0) 6 37 56 71 77

    • Nazaire KOLO,

    • Francis MBELLA,
    • OTHEO,
    • SPEE,
    • Joseph Francis SUMEGNE,
    • Jules WOKAM,
    • Herve YAMGUEN,
    • Herve YOUMBI

  • Central Africa
    • Ernest WEANGAI

  • Congo-Brazzaville
    • Jean-Paul EPONDET,
    • Guy Leon FYLLA,
    • Marcel GOTENE,
    • David MAKOUMBOU,
    • Ehud MAKOUMBOU
    • Rhode Bath-Schéba MAKOUMBOU
Born on August 29th, 1976 in Brazzaville. Republic of Congo. Since its tender childhood, it was initiated with painting by her father, the painter David MAKOUMBOU. It really engaged in art as from 1989. In its painting, it especially emphasizes all the social activities of the African woman. In the oil-base paints, it generally paints with the knife. The variety of its works is illustrated in the realistic style and cubist. Since 2002, it created many matter sculptures made up (woodworking sawdust and glue on a metal structure) representing the trades of the villages which tend to disappear. Some have more than three meters in height. Official site: www.rhodemakoumbou.eu
    • Serge OUABOULE,
    • Francis TONDO NGOMA

  • Democratic republic of Congo
    • Cherished Cherin,
    • Marcel Gotène,
    • Jose Kankinda,
    • Aser Kash (lives in Cameroun),
    • Bodys Isek Kingelez,
    • Papa Mfumu' eto,
    • Botembe Minbayi Lita,
    • Aimé Mpane (lives in Belgium),
    • Daddy Nganga Puati,
    • Chéri Samba,
    • Mambengui Tondo,
    • Freddy Tsimba
    • Bers Grandsinge (lives in Belgium)

  • Ivory Coast

    • Elie DRO

    • Siriki Ki (lives in Burkina Faso),
    • Jems Kokobi,
    • Ananias Leki Dago,
    • Ouattara
    • Ernest DÜKÜ
    • Koffi-yao

  • Ethiopia

    • Spitz Cherinet

  • Gabon

    • Felix-Benoit Arenaut,

    • Georges Mbourou,
    • Myriam Mihindou (lives in Morocco),
    • Marcellin Minko Minzé,
    • Robert Oyono

  • Ghana

    • Brahim el Anatsui

    • Otchere Isaac Azey

  • Guinea

  • Kenya

    • Ingrid Mwangi (lives in Germany),

    • Allan de Souza

  • Madagascar

    • Joel Andrianomearisoa (lives in France)

  • Mali

    • Madeleine Bomboté,

    • Cheick Diallo (lives in France),
    • Abdoulaye Konaté

  • Mozambique

    • Shine Basto,

    • Berry Bickle,
    • Gonçalo Mabunda,
    • Sergio Santimano,
    • Titos

  • Nigeria

    • Dilomprizulike,

    • Douglas Sokary Camp,
    • Emmanuel Eni,
    • Yinka Shonibare (lives in London)

  • Senegal

    • Congratulated Codjo,

    • Khalifa Ababacar Dieng,
    • Mustapha Dime,
    • Balthazar Faye (lives in France),
    • Gabriel Kenzo Malou,
    • Ndary Lo,
    • Serigne Mor Niang (known as “Mara) (lives in Austria),
    • Henry Sagna,
    • Bassirou Sarr (lives in Germany),
    • Mamady Seydi,
    • Ousmane Sow

  • Tanzania

    • Georges Lilanga di Nyama

  • Togo

    • Dédé of ALMEIDA

    • Dodji EFOUI (lives in Cameroun)
Born in 1973 in Lome. Painter. Lives in Douala (Cameroun) since 2003. " The texture of my environment made of me what I am, and intensity of the things which I live enriched my imaginaire."
    • EL LOKO
    • C MESRINE
    • German WILSON

  • Zambia

    • Annie Anawana Haloba

  • Zimbabwe

    • Mambakwedza Mutasa

Events

Under the term of events are included/understood biennial the, triennial ones and other artistic festivals taking place in Africa. They are gathered by country.

South Africa

  • 3CFF - TRI Continental Film Festival

  • Biennial of Johannesburg:

Since 1997

  • CAPE:

Contemporary African Culture. Initially a platform of discussion (in 2005), it gives place in 2006 to the first exposure: Trans CAPE The Cape

  • Cape Town Triennial

  • Cape Town World Cinema Festival:

  • International Durban Film Durban Festival:

  • Time off the Writer Festival:

Durban

Angola

  • Triennial of Luanda:

TACCA - Territórios de Arte E Cultura Contemporânea Africana, Luanda. First edition of November 2005 in May 2006.

Benign

  • Boulev' Art:

Artist in the street, Cotonou and Abomey, Benign

  • FESNAC:

National festival of Arts and the Culture, Cotonou

  • Festival Hip Hop Kankpé:

Cotonou

Burkina Faso

  • FESPACO :

The Panafrican Festival of the Cinema and the Television of Ouagadougou

Camerun

  • Duta :

Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Douala

  • Fescarhy :

Festival of the caricature and the humor of Yaounde

  • the CUS (Living room Urbain de Douala):

The Living room Urbain de Douala is a festival of visual arts which gathers artists of Cameroun and whole world. A score of projects, inspired by the town of Douala (Cameroun) and dépoyant itself in the middle of the city (public art, installations in the city, animations in the street, development of the inheritance…) take place over one week. The idea is at the same time to animate the city, to question the inhabitants on their daily universe, to make them take part in the projects by as much as possible integrating them into the achievements, and to give to Douala, city where cohabit of many artists of contemporary art, an international cultural radiation. The first edition will take place from December 9th to 16th 2007. The CUS is organized by association Doual' art

Democratic republic of Congo

  • African Living room of the cartoon and the reading for youth:

Kinshasa

  • Karika' celebrates:

Celebrates caricature and drawn humor of Kinshasa

Ivory Coast

  • Biennial of Abidjan:

Took place only in 1993

  • BINA :

Biennial International of Naive, Abidjan

  • FAR :

Festival of Arts of the street of Large Bassam

  • COCO BUBBLES:

International festival of the Tuck pattern and the Cartoon of Large-Bassam

  • MASSED:

Market of the Performing arts African. Initiative of the Intergovernmental Agency of the Francophonie.

Guinea Equatoriale

  • Biennial Bantu

With place since 1995, Malabo The 8th editione will take place in July 2007.

Kenya

  • Africa Week Cinema:

Nairobi

  • Biennial of Malindi:

FN Center
  • FARMING

    LAMU FESTIVAL

With take place with Lamu in 2001

  • MABOOMBOOM :

Kenya Arts Festival. With take place in 2003.

Madagascar

  • Month of the photograph:

Antsiranan

Mali

  • Meetings of African Photography:

Bamako. In 1994

  • Festival of the Theater of Realities

Senegal

  • Dak' art:

The first edition of the Biennale of Dakar, which took place in 1992 in the town of Dakar (Senegal), gathered artists of contemporary art of the whole world. Following its success and with the sights of the lack of radiation of the African contemporary art on the international scene, it was decided that the following editions would be devoted only to the African contemporary art. This biennial is a real success: it attracts amateurs and professionals of the art of the whole world, and makes it possible artists of whole Africa to be made known. The next edition will take place in 2008.

  • FESNAC :

National festival of Arts and the Culture, Dakar

  • Festival of film of district:

Dakar, in 1997.

  • TDG:

" Tambacounda-Geneva-Dakar" , in 2001. With initaitive of the CAPE - Collective of the Artists Plastics technicians.

Chad

  • Fest'Africa

Djamena

Tanzania

  • EASTAFAB :

Biennial East African Art. First edition in 2003.

Togo

  • Photographic Days of Lome

  • Ewolé :

  • Meetings and International Résidences of Visual Arts, Lome

  • Festival AFRICARAP (festival internatonal of Hip Hop of Lome)

Zanzibar

  • ZIFF :

International Zanzibar Film Festival

Exposures

They are the exposures having taken place in the whole world, since the years 1960.

1962

  • Art from the Commonwealth : The Commonwealth Institute, London

1966

  • '' Tendances and Confrontations '': Dynamic museum, on the occasion of the World Festival of Negro Arts.

1967

  • Contemporary African Art : Transcription Centers, London

1969

  • Contemporary African Art : International studio, London & New York
  • Contemporary African Art : Otis Institute, Los Angeles

1974

  • African Art Today : Furnace Major Artists. African-American Institute, New York
  • Contemporary African Art : Museum off African Art, Washington D.C
  • Contemporart African Arts : Field Museum off Natural History, Chicago

1977

  • African Contemporary Art : The Gallery off art, Washington D.C

1978

  • Christliches Africa : Kunst und Kunsthandwerk in Schwarzafrika, Haus Völker und Kulturen, St Augustine (Germany)

1979

  • Modern Kunst aus Afrika : Horizonte '79 Festival der Weltkulturen, Berlin

1980

  • Modern Kunst in Afrika : Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

1984

  • art in Africa is the life : Gallery Altana, Hamburg (Germany)
  • Sanaa: Contemporary Art from East Africa : The Commonwealth Institute, London

1985

  • Tributaries (on South Africa): Johannesburg (South Africa) and Germany

1986

  • From Two Worlds : Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1987

  • African na5ive art : Museum of Na5ive art max Fourny

1988

  • Art for Africa : International exhibition of contemporary art. National museum of African Arts and Océaniens, Paris
  • Kunst uit een andere wereld ( Art of another world ), Museum of Ethnology, Rotterdam

1989

  • Bild/konst I will södra Afrika ( Art/Images in South Africa ): Stockholm (Sweden)
  • Magicians of the Earth : Editions of the Center Pompidou, Paris
  • The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain : Hayward Gallery, London
  • Burbot gold the Trasformation off the Art Object : Grazer Kunstverein and Accadémie d' Art, Vienna (Austria)
  • Art from the Frontline : on the Southern Africa, Frontline States-Karia Near, London
  • Contemporary African Artists : The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
  • Wegzeichen: Kunst aus Ostafrika (1974-89) ( Signs: Art of the East Africa (1974-1989) ), Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt-year-Hand (Germany)
  • Africa Explore : African art of the XXè century, Center for African Art, New York and Prestel-Verlag, Munich (Germany)

1991

  • Africa Hoy/Africa Now : Jean Pigozzi Collection, Central Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • Art and Ambiguity : Futurologies one the Brenthurst Collection off Southern African Art, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg (South Africa)
  • MIT Pinsel und Meissel, Zeitgenössische afrikanische Kunst ( Signs of time: Art nouveau of Africa ): Museum für Volkerkunde, Frankfurt amndt Hand (Germany)
  • has Grain Wheat off: The Commonwealth Institute, London
  • It Southern del Mondo: Arte contemporanea will altra: Mazzotta, Milan (Italy)
  • Contemporary Bushmen art off Southern Africa : Farming Kuru Project, Botswana
  • Desplazamientos : Central Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • Transmission : Rooseum, Malmô, Swiss

1992

  • Africa Hoy/Africa Now : Jean Pigozzi Collection, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Holland and Centro Farming of Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City City
  • Home and the World: Architectural Sculpture by Two Contemporary African Artists : The Museum for African Art, X-ray Collana one African Art, New York
  • birth of contemporary painting in central Africa (1930-70) : Royal museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, Brussels
  • Paris Connections : Artists of Africa and the Caribbean in Paris, San Francisco

1993

  • Africa Hoy/Africa Now : Jean Pigozzi Collection, Out off Africa, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • Fusion: Biennial West African Artists At the Venice : Museum for African Art, New York
  • the great truth, stars African : Museum of the Art schools of Nantes (France)
  • Creative Pulses/Modern Expression-Furnace African Artists : Skunder Boghossin, Rashid Diab, Mohammed Omer Khalil, Amir Nour, Ithaca

1994

  • F.R.A.C. Meeting, Places Of Memory : artists: Beng-Thi jack, Michael Elma, Alain Padeau, Eric Pongérard, Edouard Rajaona, Alì roivili tells Me Napalo, Malla Chummun Raymyead. Police chief Antonio Picariello.
  • Otro Feed: Escalas Africanas : Central Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • African Meetings: Exposure of Current Art : Institute of the Arab World, Paris
  • Around & Around : Stuttgart (1994); Douala (1995); Berlin (1999); Stuttgart (1999)
  • Seen/Unseen ( voir/ne not to see ): Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

1995

  • Black Looks, White Masks : Ministerio de Asuntos Exterioires, Tabapress, Madrid
  • Seven Stories Butt Modern Art in Africa : Flammarion, New York and London (1995); Switzerland (1996); Gugghenheim Museum, New York (1996).
  • Vital: Three Contemporary African Artists : Artists: Cyprien Tokoudegba, Touhami Ennadre and Farid Belkahia, Touch Gallery, Liverpool (GB)
  • Big City: Artists from Africa : Serpentine Gallery, London
  • Year inside story: African Art off Our Time : Japan Association off Art Natural history musea, Tokyo (1995); Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (1995); Tokushima Modern Art Museum (1996); Himeji City Museum off Art (1996); Koriyama City Museum off Art (1996); Genichiro Museum off Contemporary Art, Marugame Inokuma (1996); The Museum off Fine Arts, Gifu (1996).
  • Sign Calligraphy Traces: Five contemporay artists from North Africa : London-Barbican Centers & Amsterdam-Treoenmuseum Kit
  • Persons and Pictures: the Modernist Eye in Africa : Newtown Galleries, Newtown, Johannesburg (South Africa)
  • New Visions: Recent Works by Six African Artists : Zora Neale Hurston National Museum off Fine Arts, Eatonville

1996

  • Archetyp' Art Italia-Africa, Premio Termoli : Artists: Mimmo Paladino, Massimo Pulini, Gilberto Zorio, Santolo De Luca, Roberto Nottoli, Roberto Lucca Taroni, Ngwenya Valente Malangatana, Mickael Elma, Alain Padeau, Thierry Fountain, Alim' Roivili says Napalo, Sandile Zulu. Police chief Antonio Picariello
  • Colors: Kunst aus Südafrika ( colors: art of South Africa ): Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
  • In/Sight: African Photographers (1940 Present to the) : Guggenheim Museum
  • Neue Kunst aus Afrika ( art nouveau of Africa ): Edition Braus, Heidelberg and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
  • Die Andere Reise: Afrika und die Diaspora ( the other voyage: Africa and the diaspora ): Holzhausen, Vienna
  • Gendered Visions: The Art off Contemporary Africana Women Artists : Africa World Close

1997

  • Watchers of World: Gbedji Kpontolè - a Beninese adventure : French arts center of Benign the
  • Die Anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika : Rise der Kulturen of Welt, Berlin
  • Crossing: Time, Space, Mouevment : Miami (1997); Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica (1998); Indianapolis (1999)
  • Modernities & Memories : Biennial di Venezia (Italy)
  • African Continuations : Brood of Cordeliers, Paris
  • black Lumière: Contemporary art : Castle of Tanlay-Yonne, Yonne (France)
  • Image and Form: Prints, Drawings and Sculpture from Southern Africa and Nigeria : School off Eastern and African Studies, University of London, London
  • Inklusion: Exklusion, Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und total Migration ( intrusion: exclusion, art at the age of the postcolonialism and universalization ), Cologne (Germany)

1998

  • Africa Africa : Vibrating New Art from has Dynamic Continent : Tobu Museum off Art, Tokyo (Japan)
  • Body & Drunk : Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Holland
  • Transatlantico : Central Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain (1966-1996) : New York
  • Snap me one! : photographs, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Städtisches Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach and Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth (Germany); National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1999)

1999

  • Africa by Africa : In Photographic View : Barbican Centers, London
  • Trafique : Race
  • Contemporary African Art from the Jean Pigozzi Collection : Sotheby' S, London
  • South meeets West : Berna (Swiss)
  • Transatlantic Dialogs: Contemporary Art In and Out off Africa : Ackland Art Museum, Washington D.C. ; Smithsonian Institution; DuSable Museum off African American History, Chicago
  • Tagewerke: Bilder zur Arbeit in Afrika ( one day's work: images of work in Africa ): Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt amndt Hand (Germany)
  • Amabhuku: Illustrations of Africa/Illustrations from Africa : Clamart (France) and Bologna (Italy)

2000

  • TransAfricana : Artisti contemporanei : Bologna (Italy)
  • It ritorno dei Maghi: It Sacro nell' arte africana contemporanea : Milan (Italy)
  • Division of Exoticism: Biennial of Contemporary art of Lyon : Lyon (France)
  • Insertion: Coil and Other : Apexart, New York
  • Continental Shift: With Voyage Between Cultures. Year Exhibition off Contemporary Art : Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen; the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (Netherlands); the National Gallery, Heerlen; the Museum off Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege (Belgium)
  • African Court: Contemporary furniture and objects : Africa in creation, room of the Patients, Lille
  • Mostra Africana de Arte Contemporânea : Farming Fundação Prize list E Farming Associação Videobrasil, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  • El Tiempo de Africa : Central Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Madrid
  • EXITCONGOMUSEUM : Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (Belgium)
  • Blick-Wechsel: Afrikanische Videokunst ( change of vision: video African ): Ifa Gallery, Bonn (Germany)
2001
  • Authentic/Ex-Centric : Forum For African Arts, Ithaca (NY) and exposure at the time of the 49e Biennale de Venise (Italy)
  • Africas: The Artist and the City - has Journey and year Exhibition : Center of Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (Spain)
  • African Styles: Kleidung und Textilien aus Afrika : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Unpacking Europe: Towards has Critical Reading : Museum Boymans-van Beuningen E NAI Publishers, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
  • popular Art : Foundation Cartier for art, Paris
  • The Century Shorts: Independence and Movements Release in Africa (1945-1994) : Prestel, Munich and New York; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum off Contemporary Art, Chicago; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center & The Museum off Modern Art, New York

2002

  • Afrikanische Reklamekunst : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Die Welt STI ein Maskentanz: Afrikanische Künstler in der Sammlung Greiffenberger ( the world is a masked dance: African artist in the collection Greiffenberger ): Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • africa apart: Afrikanische Künstlerinnen und Künstlern konfrontieren Aids ( artists (men and women) African faces the AIDS ): Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin

2003

  • has Fiction Authenticity off: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum : St Louis (the USA)
  • Transfers: Palate of the Art schools, Brussels
  • Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art Shifting Landscapes : inIVA, London
  • Iwalewa Reload : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Roots & Roads: Afrikaner in Oberfranken : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Correspondences Africas : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Black President: The Art and Legacy off Cracked Anikulapo-Kuti : New Museum off Contemporary Art, Chelsea, New York
  • Ethiopian Passages: Dialogs in the Diaspora : National Museum off African Art, Smithsonian Institution
  • Almighty God and The Apostles off Accra : catalogo Parise, Verone (Italy)
  • Fuoriluogo 8/Afritalia : Chiesa San Bartolomeo E Galleria Limiti inchiusi, Campobasso

2004

  • Looking Both Ways : Art off the Contemporary African Diaspora : Museum for African Art, New York (2003-2004); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (2004); Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills (2004); Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2005); Museum off African Diaspora, San Francisco (2006)
  • Africa Remix : Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (Germany) (2004); Hayward Gallery, London (2005); Center Georges Pompidou, Paris (2005); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2006)
  • Africa Screams: The Evil in Cinema, Art and popular Culture : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany) (2004); Kunsthalle Wien, Come (Austria) (2005); Kunstverein Aalen (2005); Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt (2005-2006)
  • Black Box: Africas : Lille (France)
  • Africas: 36 contemporary artists : FIAC, Paris
  • Africa to come : Gallery Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart
  • Africani in Africa : Palazzo Pazzi-Ammanti, Florence (Italy)
  • Escape and Memory : Camera dei Deputati, Roma
  • Insights: Selections from the contemporary collection : National Museum off African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
  • Der Black Atlantic : Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
  • the arte africana dall' Algeria Al Sudafrica : Tuscany (Italy)

2005

  • Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika und Europa im Dialog : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth (Germany)
  • Plakate in Afrika : Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth
  • Crossing Africa : under one of the arches of the Viaduct of Arts in Paris
  • Gleichzeitig in Afrika… ( During this time in Africa… ): Akademy der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg (Germany) (2005); Universität der Künste, Berlin (2006)
  • Mostra Side-Africana of Arte Contemporânea : Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (Brazil)
  • Africa Urbis: Urban prospects : Museum of last arts, Paris
  • Textures: Word and symbol in contemporary African art : Smithsonian Museum off African art, Washington D.C
  • African American vernacular photography : International Center off Photography, New York

2006

  • Olvida quién soy/Erase me from who I amndt : Central Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain)
  • Africa Nera: Protagonisti dell'arte africana : Manor house dell' Ovo, Naples (Italy)
  • Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography : International Center off Photography, New York; International Center off Photography, New York; Miami Central Art, Miami
  • 100% Africa : Guggenheim museum of Bilbao (Spain) (October 2006 - February 2007)
  • Of the Men without History: History and spoliation of the cultural goods through works of contemporary artists : Museum of Last Arts, Paris
  • Distant Relative/Relative Distance : The Cape, South Africa

When African cities relative of contemporary art…

  • artist: Joseph-Francis Sumégné,
  • production: association doual' art

This 12 height meters monumental statue, weighing nearly 10 tons, entirely out of materials of recovery, was built in 1996, on the roundabout of Deïdo, one of the busier places of Douala. Causing polemical and rejection initially (it, still today, is called " Ndjoundjou" (monster) by the inhabitants), it seems since being made a place in the city. It besides is very often taken as symbol of Douala (such as for example by the newspaper " the daily newspaper of Douala").

Those which work with the recognition…

Ars Ante Africa

Ars Ante Africa aims to develop knowledge, to promote, emphasize, to support the recognition and to take actions for the diffusion of the African contemporary art… This very rich site proposes between aure a gallery of exposures and furnished documents (bibliograohie, selection of sites…)

  • Africa in Creations

The Africa program in Creations supports dÃf©veloppement contemporary African cultural expressions and makes it possible to the crÃf©ateurs of the continent to more take share with the large international artistic currents. (it is developed by the AFAA, French Association of Artistic action)

  • virtual Africa:

Virtual Africa is a global area network whose objective is to create contexts of exchanges of ideas between intellectuals, scientists and artists originating in Africa and other continents. To discover: Dakar Web, project of art Senegalese Web set up in 1999, in which the artist Serigne Me Baye Camara took part, (Cauris project) which has several times exposed to the space of arts rurart.

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