The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection

Baptism 1 - 2000
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 10 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 11 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 12 - 1999
30 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 13 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 14 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 15 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 16 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 17 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 18 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 19 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 2 - 2000
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 20 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 21 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 22 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 23 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 24 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 25 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 26 - 1999
28.3 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 27 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 28 - 1999
30 x 31 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 29 - 1999
31 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 3 - 2000
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 30 - 1999
30 x 31 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 31 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 4 - 2000
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 5 - 2000
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 6 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 7 - 1999
41.6 x 43 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 8 - 1999
28 x 30 cm
Watercolour

Baptism 9 - 1999
43 x 41.6 cm
Watercolour
Barthelemy Toguo

Born 1967, M’Balmayo, Cameroon.
Works in Paris, Düsseldorf, Bandjoun, Cameroon.
Barthélémy Toguo is a multi-discipline artist working with watercolor, sculpture, photography, video, installations and performance art. He started his art studies at the Abidjan School of Fine Arts in Ivory Coast. His studies continued in Europe where he attended Grenoble’s Graduate School of Art and Klaus Rinke’s studio at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.
His first training involved reproducing classic European sculpting until in 1992, he took a woodcarving workshop that would radically change his approach. In Grenoble, he discovers photography and video and later encounters “German realism” while studying in Düsseldorf. It is here that he became interested in performance art and in 1996 he performs his “Transit” series.
In 1998, Toguo began his work with watercolor. Much of his watercolor series are inspired by his travels and experiences. Politics also enters into his work as seen in his wood sculpture series “The New World Climax”. Giant wood carved “rubber stamps” with engraved inscriptions similar to those found on passports and administrative documents illustrate the difficulty encountered by immigrant workers.
Toguo is also committed to the promotion and presence of art in Africa and especially his native Cameroon. Since 2005, he has been working on a non-profit cultural center in Cameroon. Called Bandjoun Station, its aim is to promote and support local as well as international artists by giving them a space to create and perform their art.
SPECIAL EVENTS
January 2023: Barthélémy Toguo has been commissioned to create the design for the future Line 5 of the Montpellier tramway, in southern France.The graphic universe of Line 5 is based on the theme of nature, botany and the plant world.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Désir d'humanité, Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
2020
If Not Now, When ?, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris,France
2019
Urban Requiem, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, États-Unis
A Road to Exile, Museo of Mille Miglia, Brescia, Italie
Of Blood and Water, Le Parvis, centre d’art contemporain, Ibos, France
Wouri, Donga, Sanaga..., Lelong Editions, Paris, France
Terra Incognita, Archives Nationales, Paris,France
2018
Heimatlos, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The Beauty of Our Voice, Parrish Art Museum, New York, États-Unis
Homo Planta, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Secret Evidence, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, Allemagne
2017
Strange fruit, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France
Fragile Body, Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Pékin, Chine
2016
Déluge - Barthélémy Toguo, Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier, France
2015
Les diables et les dieux, Château de Tanlay, France
Maison des Arts de Chatillon
Château Lynch-Bages
2014
Drawing Now, Lelong Gallery, Paris, France
An Afropolitan View, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
First Solo show, Cape Town, South Africa
Specific creation, Nousbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne, France
MAM Mario Mauroner - Contemporay Art Vienna, Austria
Michael Stevenson Gallery, South Africa
The House of Secrets, La Chaufferie HEAR, Strasbourg, France.
2013
07/03-04/05
Barthélémy Toguo, Hidden Faces,
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Coexistence on earth, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
Print Shock, Musée du Dessin et de I'Estampe Originale de Gravelines, France
Talking to the Moon, Musée d´art contemporain de Sainte Etiennne, France
Dérives, Chapelle Saint Anne, Arles, France.
Signs in the Leaves, Médiathèque Benjamin Rabier, La Roche Sur Yon, France.
In The Head, Collège Boris Vian, Dunkerque-Branche, France.
2012
A World Child Looking At The Landscape New Works, Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
Stand up and Walk, Espace culturel Le volume, Vern-sur-Seich, France.
The African Spirit, Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland.
2011
15/11 - 31/01/12
Criminal Tribunal
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
New Ceramics,Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris.
New Poster for "Roland Garros", Paris.
PUMA African Football Kits project, Design Museum, London.
International Print Biennale 2011, Print Awards, Who is the true terrorist Hatton Gallery, Claremont RoadNewcastle, UK.
Specific creation,The Well Water New Performance, shower life La verriere by Hermès , Brussels, Belgium.
J'ai deux amours, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris
Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, USA
The Unhomely, Biennial Of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
2010
The Lost Dogs’ Orchestra - Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Cissé / Toguo, Dak’Art Biennale de Dakar, Institut Français de Dakar, Senegal.
The World Examination - Centre d’Art Contemporain de Châtellerault, France.
Liberty Leading the People - Fundaçao Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lyrics Night, Royal Museum of Bandjoun, Cameroon.
Centre Culturel Français de Pointe Noire, Congo.
The World Examination - Item Editions, Paris, France.
2009
The Pregnant Mountain at Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NYC.
Road for exile, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Palace of Marquis de Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal.
"... et la parole fut", Frac île de la Reunion, Saint-denis, France.
The world examination, Item Editions, Paris, France.
"The aids issue cannot be solved thanks to the distribution of condoms. Benedict XVI"- Mario
Mauroner Contemporary, Art Vienna, Austria.
2008
Heart Beat - Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art, New-Castle, UK.
Spiritual Genocide – Art Brussels- Brussels, Belgium.
The Devilish Human Temptations - Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienne, Austria.
2007
Purifications Arco 2007, Madrid, by Mario Mauroner contemporary Art Salzburg and Vienna, Austria.
2006
La Magie du Souffle, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France.
The Wildcats’ Dinner, Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France.
The Wildcats’ Dinner, Mario Marauner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Austria.
2005
The Human Mirror, école supérieure d’Art, Lorient, France.
2004/2005
13/10 – 18/01
The Sick Opera
Palais de Tokyo
Paris - France
2004
11/03 – 02/04
La guerre des sexes n’aura pas lieu
Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts
Valence - France
2004
20/02 – 03/04
Swallowing the World / Avalez le monde
Aliceday
Brussels - Belgium
2003
25/01 – 1/05
Pure and Clean
Institute of Visual Arts
Milwaukee - USA
2002 – 2003
01/02 – 10/03
Emergency Exit
Le lieu unique
Nantes, France
2002
12/04/02 – 22/05/02
Mamie water
Galerie Anne de Villepoix.
Paris - France
2002
Epidémies
Goethe Institut.
Yaoundé - Cameroun.
2002
02/03 – 19/05/02
Puk, Puk, Puk
CCC
Tours - France
Épidémies, Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
2001
Das Bett
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque
Dunkerque - France
2001
Art Unlimited
Bâle - Suisse
2001
Barthélémy Toguo
Galerie The Box Associati
Turin - Italie
2000
Virgin Forest
La Criée Centre d’Art contemporain
Rennes - France
2000
Pénicilline
Centre Culturel Français.
Turin - Italie
1999
Baptism
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in der Tonhalle
Düsserldorf - Allemagne
1999
Migrateurs
ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris - France
1999
Barthélémy Toguo
Galerie Barnoud
Dijon - France
1998
Parasites
Centre d'Arts Plastiques
Saint-Fons - France
1996
Barthélémy Toguo
Goethe Institut,
Yaoundé - Cameroun
1994
Pôle européen
Saint-Martin d'Hères
Grenoble – France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Voyage Voyages, Mucem, Marseille,France
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris , FranceCouleurs du monde, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2019
Liberté, égalité, diversité, Abbaye de Daoulas, Daoulas, France
Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation, New York, États-Unis
Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Museum Beijing, Pékin, Chine
Prête-moi ton rêve, Maison de l'Union,Casablanca, Maroc
Une bouteille à la mer, Aquarium de Paris,Paris,France
Prête-moi ton rêve, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Sénégal
Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami,États-Unis
Jaume Plensa - Kiki Smith - Barthélémy Toguo, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris , France
Disturbing Narratives, The Parkview Museum, Singapour, Singapour
Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, États-Unis
2018
Fragile State, Pinchuk ArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Newwwar. It’s Just a Game?, Bandjoun Station, Pète-Bandjoun, Cameroun1
AFRIQUES. Artistes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Fondation Clément, Le François, Martinique
Pour un musée en Palestine "Nous aussi nous aimons l'art..", la collection du Musée d’art moderneet contemporain de Palestine, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Persona Grata, Musée d ́art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Persona Grata, Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Museum, Singapour, Singapour
Exil, Red Cross Museum, Genève, Suisse
Unlimited, Art Basel, Bâle, Suisse
2017
Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier. Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (04/26/17 to 09/04/17)
2015
Les Diables et les Dieux - Château de TANLAY, France
All the world’s future, Urban Requiem, Venice Biennale, Italy
2014
Ici l’Afrique/Here Africa - L’Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Musée des Suisses dans le Monde,Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland
FOOD, Reflections on Mother Earth, Agriculture and Nutrition, SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Drawing Now, artiste focus au stand Galerie Lelong
ART for the World, Switzerland
Mairie de Thonon-les-Bains, France
Saline Royale – Cité des utopies, France
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale - Nova Southeastern University’s Museum of Art, USA
Fondazione Palazzo Magnani per la Direzione Artistico-Organizzativa, Italy
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Artopie - Centre de Création Artistique, France
Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Italy
Galerie Lelong, TRIO, Paris, France
Vivre(s), Domaine Départementale de Chamarande, France
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
No fixed abode, the New Church, Cape Town, South Africa
Biennale internationale de Casablanca, Morocco
Biennale de DAK'ART 2014, "Dak'ART au Campus, Art Vert", Senegal, Dakar.
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Vivre(s), Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France.
Specific creation, Biennale nationale de la sculpture contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, Canada, Quebec.
Specific creation, Le chateau d'eau, Strasbourg, France.
Against the Grain, Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design. Fort Lauderdale, USA.
Biennale de l'Aquarelle de Narbonne, Chapelle des Pénitents bleus, Narbonne, France.
2013
Body Language, Studio Museum Harlem, NY, USA.
How far away is the horizon?, Part of Images of The World Festival “Occupy Utopia”, Aalborg-Kobenhavn-Aarhus, Denmark.
FIAC 2013, Grand Palais, Paris.
Egarements, Domaine départemental du château d’Avignon, Camargue, France.
Le Pont, Musée d'art contemporain de Marseille, France.
Transit(s), XBorder Art Biennial 2013, Luleå Rovaniemi Severomorsk, Sweden.
Aqua Vitalis, Festival Normandie Impressionniste, Caen, France.
Trienal Alentejo, Evora, Portugal.
Juegos de Lenguaje, Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain.
How far away is the horizon?, Aalborg- Kobenhavn-Aarhus, Denmark.
Speaking artists, Busan Museum Of Art, South Korea.
Football, Art and Design – PUMA Kits, Stadtmuseum, Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Le Musée éclaté de la presqu'île de Caen, ESAM, Caen, France.
Les Voyages Parallèles, Centre culturel Salvador Allende, Neuilly-sur-Marne, France.
Passionnément, Palais Fesch-Musée des beaux Arts, Ajacio, France.
Fliegen/Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
2012/2013
Biennale Bénin 2012, Inventing the World : The Artist as Citizen
2012
Triennale de Paris, Intense Proximité, Paris.
Eleventh Havana Biennial Art Practices And Social Imaginaries, Havana, Cuba.
8ème Festival International du Film sur L'argile et le verre de Montpellier, France.
J'ai deux amours, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris.
Judith facing Olopherne, New Ceramics, Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.
Fliegen/Flying, New Painting, Projet by 2 und 50 UG, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
Nodes Of Mobility: transnational transfer zones and terminals Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria.
We Face Foward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.
Friktionerfriction International Performance Art Festival, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden.
Museum of Arts and Design, New York. -When Attitudes Became Form, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts ,College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Art Brussels, New Works Brussels Expo, Belgium.
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2011
Environment and Object in Recent African Art, Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Museum, NY.
Mises à l'eau , Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, Belgique.
ARS 11, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland.
Fabula Graphica 3 , Grandes Galeries de l'Aître Saint Maclou, Ecole des Beaux-arts de Rouen, France.
Border, Bamako Encounters, The Gulbenkian Foundation Lisboa, Portugal.
State of the Union, Freies Museum Berlin.
Island Never Found , Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italia / Museum of modern art, Saint-Etienne, France.
Longing for Sea-Change, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA
Habiter la Terre, Biennale internationale d’art contemporain de Melle, France.
Luleä Art Biennial 2011, The Art Gallery of the House of Culture.The Regional Museum of Norrbotten.The Museum Park, Sweden.
Là où se fait notre histoire, Frac Corse, Corte, France.
11ème Biennale de Lyon : Une terrible beauté est née, Specific creation The Time, Lyon, France.
8th Mercosul Biennial 2011, Specific creation New Performance Essays on Geopoetics, At, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Mind The Gap And Bridge It! An international seminar on integration Arkitekturmässan, Gothenburg, Sweden.
"Mutations", Barthélémy Toguo /Martin Sulzer. Curated by Mario Casanova. Centro d'arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Biennale internationale d’art contemporain - Curated by Dominique Truco. Melle, France
"Mises à l'eau" - Curated by Jean-Michel François. Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, Belgium
"Toguo / Cissé" - Curated by Alban Corbier and Hubert Maheux. Centre culturel Français de Douala, Cameroon
"Environment and Object in Recent African Art" - Curated by John Weber, Lisa Aronson.
Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, NYC
"Promenade, 9" - Curated by Dr Lòrànd Heygi. Fondation Kogart, Budapest, Hungary
2010
"The Production of Space" - Curated by Tasha Parker. Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
"Le jugement dernier" - Curated by Eric Girard-Miclet. Centre culturel Français de Pointe Noire, Congo
"Forum d'avignon 2010" - Curated by Laure Kaltenbach, and Alexandre Joux. Palais des Papes , Avignon, France
"Africa: See You, See Me!" - curated by Awan Amkpa, Museu Da Cidade- Pailhao Preto, Lisbon, Portugal
Longing for Sea-Change
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA, USA
Rencontres de Bamako - FotoMuseum Antwerp, Belgium; Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; Cape Town National Gallery, South Africa and Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, Maputo, Mozambique
Fragile, Fields of Empathy - Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
Philagrafika 2010, The Graphic Unconscious - Philadelphia, USA
Island Never Found - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy; State Museum of Contemporary Art, travelling through 2011: Thessaloniki, Greece; Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
Les Hivernales d’Avignon - Théâtre des Hivernales, Avignon, France
World in Hand / Welt in der Hand” - Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Dialogue among Civilizations, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
Océan - Palais Bellevue, Biarritz, France
Venice Architecture Biennial, Italy
The Smell of God - MCAD and OBSIDIAN ARTS, Minneapolis, USA
Work in Progress - Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, France
Space: Currencies in Contemporary African Art - Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Longing for Sea-Change - Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
Environment and Object in Recent African Art - Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, USA
The Beauty of Distance - 17th Biennial of Sydney, Australia
2009
Biennale Africaine de la photographie 2009, Musée de Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Une Collection, Espace Vallès, Saint Martin d'Herres, France.
Elusive dreams,Les Hauts du Ru, La Cathédrale, Montreuil, France.
Art Albertina, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.
The Crisis of the Genre, International Sculpture Triennal in Poznan, Culture centrum Zamek, Poznan, Poland.
Persona, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Fragile, Les champs de l'empathie, Musée d'art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France.
Arco 2009, Madrid, Spain.
Art Dubaï, Mario Mauroner contemporary art, Dubaï.
Homless in the city, Cornelius strasse, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2008
Laughing in a Foreign Language, the Hayward Gallery, London
Un voyage sentimentale, 1st Poznan Biennial, Poland.
Farewell to Post-Colonialism, The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China.
Une Histoire Partagée..., Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.
Traversia, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Iles Canaries.
Black Paris - Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Der Mench in der Zeichnung, Im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Vienna, Austria.
Collection in context: Four Decades, Studio Museum, Harlem, USA.
Des territoires à partager, Ve Biennale d'Art et de Culture de Sao Tome et Principe.
Mondo e Terra, Musée d'Art de la Province de Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.
Cité idéale, Abbaye de Fontevraud, France.
Micro-Narratives, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France.
2007
De Schwitters à Toguo, un choix, Cabinet d’art graphique, centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Die Shöne und Das Ungeheuer - Geshichten ungewöhnlicher liebespaare, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Austria.
Black Paris- Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, and Museum Der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt, Germany.
De leur temps (2), Musée de Grenoble, France.
Et voila le travail, Galerie d'art du conseil Général des Bouches du Rhone, Aix- En Provence, France.
Chenzhen Biennale, HE- Xiangning Museum, Chenzhen, China.
Micro-Narratives, Museum 25th May- Museum of Yougoslav History, Serbia.
Foodscapes-Art and Gastronomy,Ex-Cinema Trento, Parma, Italy.
African Way Orangerie de Madame Elisabeth, Versailles, France.
Society must be defended The 1st Tessaloniki Bienniale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2006
Biennale de Shenzhen, Chine.
Paris Black, Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany.
The Unhomely 2nd International Biennial Of Contemporary Art Of Seville, Spain.
Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Nuit Blanche: « La goutte d’eau, de l’or qui coule », Quartier Goutte d’Or, Paris, France.
Carton Rouge, Atelier Tampon-Ramier, Paris, France.
Des Hommes sans Histoire ? musée des Arts derniers, Paris, France.
Distant Relatives / Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
La Force de l’art : Un nouveau rendez vous avec la création en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Festival photo et vidéo de Biarritz : Passages en ville, Bellevue, Biarritz, France
Profils : 15 ans de création artistique en France, Institut français d’Istanbul, Turkey
Accion tricontinental, Nouvelle Biennale de la Havanne 2006 / Galeria 23 y 12, La Havane, Cuba.
Le Monde coloré, Musée d’Art Africain Belgrade, Serbia.
Wien Mozart 2006 : Hidden Histories – Remapping Mozart / Configuration 2, Wien, Austria.
Notre Histoire…, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
2005
African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Houston - USA
La Collection permanente : L’art en France depuis 1950 à la création la plus contemporaine,
MAC/VAL, musée d’Art contemporain en Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
Scheizer Krankheit + die Sehnsut neach der Ferne, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
À Fleur de peau : Le dessin à l’épreuve, galerie Éric Dupont, Paris, France.
Short Cuts Between Reality and Fiction, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA.
Faire signe, La Criée centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, France
Playgrounds and Toys, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Foire internationale des arts derniers : Les Afriques 2, musée des Arts derniers, Paris, France.
Donna Donne, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Femme Femmes, Musée de Carouge, Genève, Switzerland.
Exotic Ambivalence, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
The Giving Person, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, Italy
Art of Africa, œuvres de la collection J. Pigozzi, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
Got Sehen, Kunstmueum Des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland.
Singuliers, Musée d’Art du Guangdon, China
De lo real y lo fictiocio : art comtemporaneo de Francia, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico
Africa Urbis : Perspectives Urbaines, musée des Arts derniers, Paris, France.
Le Mélange des genres : créatures hybrides et mystérieuses, Frac Haute-Normandie,
Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Domicile privé/public, musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne métropole, France
Barthélémy Toguo, Cyril André, école des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble, France.
2004/2005
Africa Remix
Art contemporain d’un continent
24 July 2004 – 7 Nov 2004
Museum Kunst Palast
Düsseldorf - Germany
10 Feb 2005 – 17 April 2005
Hayward Gallery
London – England
25 May 2005 – 8 Aug 2005
Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris – France
27 May – 30 August 2006
Mori Art Museum
Tokyo
24 June – 30 Sept 2007
Johannesburg Art Gallery
2004
13 May - 13 June
Dessins et des autres – Part II
Galerie Catherine Bastide
Bruxelles - Belgique
2004
09 April-13 June
Je m’installe aux abattoirs
La collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b.
Les Abattoirs
Toulouse - France
2004
31/03 – 08/08
Les Afriques
Tri Postal
Lille - France
2004
Playgrounds & Toys
Manufacture des Œillets
Ivry sur Seine – France
2004
@rtscreen
Biennale de Dakar
Dakar - Sénégal
Exposition collective de sculpture, galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France.
Burning down the house – Joyce Pensato, Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporaneo, Florence, Italy.
Cabinet des dessins N°1 : Quelle est l’origine d’une œuvre, musée d’Art moderne, Saint-Étienne, France.
2003 - 2004
08/11/03 – 08/02/04
Vieille Charité
FNAC / MAC
Marseille - France
2003-2004
24/10 – 25/01
Outlook
Athens - Grèce
2003
3/07 – 12/10
The American Effect
Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York - Etats-Unis,
2003
Biennale de la Havane
La Havane – Cuba
2003
Actung Roettweiler
ForumKunst Rottweil
2003
04/10 – 15/11
Love Zones
Galerie Barnoud
Dijon
2003
03/07 – 27/09
Z’animaux
Galerie Eloge de l’ombre
Uzès - France
2003
Solares : Ideal City
Biennale de Valence
Valence - Espagne
2003
26/04 – 05/10
Singuliers voyages
Domaine de Chamarande
France
2003
Heimatkunst.com
Rottweil - Allemagne
2003
13/02 – 30/03
Party
Autori Cambi
Rome - Italie
2003
Dolce Tocco
Naples – Italie
2003
L’Europe Fantôme
Espace Vertebra
Belgique
2003
Okonomien der Zeit
Migors Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Zürich - Suisse
Great Expectations !, Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
The Ideal City, Bienal de Valencia 2003, Spain
2002
14/12 – 27/12
Chambre double
Galerie Alain Le Gaillard
Hôtel la Louisiane
Paris - France
2002
26/09 – 03/11
La vie, c'est la vie !
Plaisirs, Passions, Émotions
3ème Biennale de Montréal
Cité Multimédia
Montréal - Canada
2002
15/09
Biennale Busan, Korea
2002
14/07 – 08/09
Ökonomien der Zeit
Akaemie der Künst
Berlin - Germany
2002
20/06 – 20/08
Tutto normale
Villa Medicis
Rome - Italy
2002
16/03 – 02/06
Ökonomien der Zeit,
Museum Ludwig
Cologne - Germany
2002
Apocalyptique Dance
Künstlerhaus von Thurn und Taxis
Bregenz - Austria
2002
Last Minute. To the end of eternity
Arte Placenza
Vecchio Ospedale Soave
Italy
2002
Full Contact
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Monte Vergini - Italy
2002
Postcards
Biennale de Dakar
Dakar - Senegal
2001/2002
20/11 – 20/02
Intrinsecus / Extrinsecus
Studio Casoli
Milan - Italie
2001
08/09 – 13/10
Selections Fall 2001
The Drawing Center
New York – Etats Unis
2001
04/05 – 30/06
Mercancias
Espacio C
Camargo - Spain
2001
De quelques dessins contemporains
Fondation Guerlain
Les Mesnuls - France
2001
Naturaza, Utopias y Realidades
International Contemporary Art Meeting
Osorio - Spain
2001
Killing me softly
Bild Museet
Umea - Sweden
2001
Political Ecology
White Box
New York – USA
2001
Dessins Choisis d’Ethiopie
et d’ailleurs
Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil
Blanc-Mesnil - France
2000 - 2001
(24/11 – 24/06)
Exit Congo Museum.
Un siècle d’art avec / sans papiers
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Tervuren - Belgium
2000
Chosen Drawings
Alliance Ethio-Française
Addis-Abeba - Ethiopia
2000
Partage d’exotismes, 5ème Biennale de l’Art Contemporain
Lyon - France
2000
Bruit de Fond
Centre National de la Photographie
Paris - France
2000
Paradise Zéro
Uppsala, Sweden
2000
Continental Shift
Bonnefantenmuseum
Maastricht - Holland.
2000
Heimat Kunst
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin - Germany
2000
Mikse
Centre d’art
Marnay-sur-Seine - France
2000
Alimentation d’Art.
Biennale Internationale de Dakar
Dakar - Senegal
1999
7ème triennale der Kleinplastik,
SW Forum, Europa - Africa
Stuttgart - Germany
1999
Managers de l'immaturité
Le Magasin
Centre national d'art contemporain
Grenoble - France
1999
Fantasy Heckler
Tracey
Liverpool - UK
1999
Diaspora, international art meeting
Oviedo - Spain
1998
Vidéos 98
Musée d'art contemporain
Lyon - France
1998
A quoi rêvent les années 90
Espace Miraphalaina
Montreuil – France
Goethe Institut
Yaoundé – Cameroon
Biennale Internationale de Dakar
Dakar - Senegal
1997
Kunstmuseum, Kunstpalast
Düsseldorf - Germany
1997
Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine Genève - Switzerland
1997
Artist photos
In Vitro
Genève – Switzerland
Südwest LB
Stuttgart – Allemagne
Mannheim – Germany
1996
Discussion, discussion, discussion, Musée de Saint-Maur
Saint-Maur – France
Acalypso Center
New York – USA
1996
Das Bett
Hohenstaufenring
Cologne - Germany
1996
Magnolia, La Casamaure
Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux - France
1995
Musée Wilhem Lembruck
Duisbourg - Germany
Stadtische Museum
Heilbronn - Germany
Museum Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha - Germany
1994
Biennale internationale
de Saint-Quentin
Saint-Quentin - France
1993
Goethe Institut Insaac
Abidjan – Ivory Coast
1993
Festival des cultures du monde
et des droits de l'homme
Paris - France
1991
700 ans de Confédération Suisse
Bâle - Switzerland
1991
Jeunes Créateurs Francophones
Evry - France
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