Past
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Wura-Natasha Ogunji
So Pretty 18 Sep - 31 Oct 2025 MAGNIN-A gallery is pleased to present So Pretty , the first solo exhibition in France by Wura-Natasha Ogunji. Bringing together around thirty works created between 2017 and 2024, the exhibition offers an immersion into the graphic and deeply sensitive world of the Nigerian-American artist. It features her emblematic ink-drawn tracing... Read more -
Ana Silva
As guardiãs 5 Jun - 30 Aug 2025 Ana Silva gained recognition by creating maternity scenes on textile. Then she began collecting raffia bags from Luanda’s markets, diverting their use by embroidering and sometimes assembling them into installations. While giving these objects a second life, she sketched with poetry and by using colored thread, scenes of daily life... Read more -
Jp Mika
Mongongo ya Bozalisi
The voice of nature 22 Mar - 24 May 2025 For his second solo show at MAGNIN-A gallery, JP Mika plunges viewers into a poignant reflection on the preservation of our planet. Through the representation of a magnified nature, the artist invites us to rediscover the beauty of the world around us and to become aware of our collective responsibility.... Read more -
Lignes
Rodrigo Armando Mabunda, Houston Maludi, Mega Mingiedi 18 Jan - 8 Mar 2025 From January 18 to March 8, 2025, MAGNIN-A presents a new exhibition featuring three artists conquering urban space : Rodrigo Armando Mabunda, Houston Maludi and Mega Mingiedi. Entitled Lignes, the exhibition invites us to explore individual and collective journeys through complex forms and narratives, at the frenetic pace of these... Read more
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Fabrice Monteiro
The Prophecy 8 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 From 8 November to 21 December 2024, MAGNIN-A gallery is devoting the first ever exhibition to Fabrice Monteiro's entire photographic series The Prophecy . On this occasion, the gallery will be presenting the 18 photographs in the series, which constitute powerful, dreamlike messages. We don't usually see them. We can't... Read more -
Magic Ghana
Eric Kpakpo, Kane Kwei, Ataa Oko, Regula Tschumi 14 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 As Ghanaian artistic production is not merely the figurative painting recognized by the Western art market, the Magic Ghana exhibition invites us to discover the inventiveness and singularity of artists exhibiting for the first time in a gallery. Magic Ghana results from a long conversation between ethnologist Regula Tschumi, who... Read more -
The Narratives of Black Hair
Curated by Zama Phakathi 30 May - 10 Aug 2024 The exhibition explores different narratives, historical and present, about Black hair through the works of Nakeya Brown, Shani Crowe, Marius Dansou, Meschac Gaba, Romuald Hazoumè, Taiye Idahor, Favour Jonathan, Murielle Kabile, Alassane Koné, Althea Murphy-Price, J. D 'Okhai Ojeikere, Anya Paintsil, Ngozi Ajah Schommers and Ana Silva, to highlight the... Read more -
Moke
Moke, peintre 28 Mar - 18 May 2024 MAGNIN-A Gallery is pleased to present Moke, peintre , the first solo exhibition of Moke's historical works. In Kinshasa in the 60s, the arts were the preserve of students trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. From the 70s onwards, critics discovered a particular genre of painting that the 'Art Partout'1... Read more
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Shneider Léon Hilaire
Nou ak sa n pa wè yo [Nous et les Invisibles] 13 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 MAGNIN-A is delighted to present the first solo show in France of Haitian painter Shneider Léon Hilaire, Nou ak sa n pa wè yo - Nous et les Invisibles , curated by Régine Cuzin. On January 1, 2024, Haiti celebrated the 220th anniversary of its independence, proclaimed on January 1,... Read more -
Modern Congo
1930 - 1960 14 Oct - 23 Dec 2023 Beauté Congo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain took place in 2015. We unveiled a collection of works by modern and contemporary artists. Written freely, this story covers almost a century of creation. It was the result of both chance and necessity. The chance of contacts between men,... Read more -
Amadou Sanogo
Yebali Lakali [Telling the invisible] 7 Sep - 7 Oct 2023 MAGNIN-A Gallery is pleased to present Amadou Sanogo's second solo exhibition. Yebali Lakali [Telling the invisible] , will unveil from September 7 his latest works and will be accompanied by a catalog. Born in 1977 in Segou, Mali, Amadou Sanogo is Senoufo but grew up with Bambara culture and philosophy.... Read more -
Kiripi Katembo
Un regard 3 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 From June 3 to July 29, 2023, MAGNIN-A gallery opens its doors to the dreamlike world of Congolese photographer and filmmaker Kiripi Katembo (1979-2015). Kiripi Katembo, who died suddenly at the age of 36, leaves behind a powerful body of work and a sublimated vision of Kinshasa through a unique... Read more
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Ndary Lo & Assane N'Doye
Dakar, Dakar 1 Apr - 20 May 2023 From April 1 to May 20, 2023, the exhibition Dakar, Dakar at MAGNIN-A gallery presents the work of two Senegalese artists whose artworks have been too rarely presented in Paris. While the exhibition Senghor et les arts at the Musée du Quai Branly explores the key role of the arts... Read more -
Constellation
Group Show 21 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 It is an artistic constellation of the African continent that the gallery MAGNIN-A unveils at the beginning of 2023. In its spaces, it brings together 50 works by 23 artists from different generations and backgrounds. The selection made by André Magnin responds to this desire to affirm the diversity of... Read more -
Omar Victor Diop
5 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 MAGNIN-A gallery is pleased to present Omar Victor Diop's solo exhibition. For the first time, the last three emblematic series of the photographer will be gathered at the gallery: Diaspora (2014), Liberty (2017) and Allegoria (2021). In Diaspora , Omar Victor Diop embraces the art of the self-portrait. The Senegalese... Read more -
Chéri Samba
Stupefaction 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 In 2004, the Fondation Cartier hosted his first major solo exhibition in France. Since then, Chéri Samba's work has travelled the world and been included in the collections of the most prestigious international cultural institutions. 18 years after J'aime Chéri Samba , André Magnin is devoting the first solo show... Read more
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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
On ne compte pas les étoiles 2 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 While the MoMa in New York is currently devoting a monographic exhibition to Frédéric Bruly Bouabré entitled 'Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound', MAGNIN-A gallery is pleased to present 'On ne compte pas les étoiles' in its space at 118, boulevard Richard-Lenoir in Paris. This exhibition, whose title refers to the... Read more -
Seyni Awa Camara & Estevão Mucavele
Les restes du bruit 24 Mar - 22 May 2022 From March 24 to May 14, 2022, the MAGNIN-A gallery pays tribute to two great artists, Seyni Awa Camara and Estevão Mucavele, around an exhibition entitled Les restes du bruit. One is a sculptor, the other is a painter; both depict the presence of a world populated by strange creatures... Read more -
Marcel Miracle
ZOAR 9 Dec 2021 - 12 Mar 2022 An island, Madagascar, has a connection with MM. The important thing is not that he was born there in 1957 but that he returned there when the man and poet he had become knew what he was looking for. In Moramanga, his birthplace, he found traces of desert geomancy, invented... Read more -
Romuald Hazoumè
21 Oct - 3 Dec 2021 Romuald Hazoumè’s work has been remarkably showcased this year, with two major exhibitions at the Château des Ducs de Bretagne in Nantes and at the Musée du Quai Branly as part of EX-AFRICA. 2021 is also the occasion for the artist to present his latest creations at the MAGNIN-A Gallery,... Read more
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Ana Silva - Portrait de famille
Portrait de famille 4 Sep - 15 Oct 2021 An intimate and poetic journey where the artist questions her own history, that of the 'passage' between her grandmother and her daughter. About thirty works, up to 3 meters in size, will be displayed throughout the gallery spaces. In parallel, a selection from the Agua, Child and Grandmother series will... Read more -
agnès b. interprète Claire Tabouret
Les drôlesses 28 May - 31 Jul 2021 From May 28 to July 31, 2021, the Gallery MAGNIN-A will present Les Drôlesses , a series of photographs taken by agnès b., in the spring of 2020 during confinement. These images stage two portraits of Claire Tabouret in the springtime decor of agnès b.'s garden dressed in creations from... Read more -
Fabrice Monteiro
Signares 28 May - 31 Jul 2021 From May 28 to July 31, 2021, the Magnin-A gallery will dedicate its two exhibition spaces to women and photography. While the first floor will unveil Les Drôlesses by agnès b., the second space will be dedicated to the captivating beauty and power of the Signares by Fabrice Monteiro. Read more -
HERITAGE
Carte blanche à Omar Victor Diop 6 Mar - 8 May 2021 Heir from the African photography studio - whose codes are sometimes reinvested in his self-portrait - Omar Victor Diop selected for this Carte Blanche about fifty pictures from the photographers who influenced him. Mama Casset, Seydou Keiïta, Malick Sidibé, J.D.'Okhai Ojeikere, Jean Depara and Ambroise Ngaimoko (Studio 3Z/3C) encounter Omar... Read more
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Hilary Balu - Joseph Obanubi
8 Dec 2020 - 20 Feb 2021 Read more -
Kings of Kin
12 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 These « Kings of Kin », true pioneers of the Congolese artistic scene, are the true guards of the independence of their country. Moké paints the ambiance and the sentiments, Chéri Samba takes a critical look at the global events and Bodys Isek Kingelez imagines the future. While the political... Read more -
Nathalie Boutté
Way Down South 29 Feb - 31 Jul 2020 The artist is interested in ancient photographs, and especially in anonymous portraits. She reinvents the images of the past by thoroughly assembling paper strips one by one, to recreate the portraits. For her first solo show in France, Nathalie Boutté revisits the portraits of African-Americans from the photographic fund of... Read more -
Vincent Michéa
Variété 7 Dec 2019 - 8 Feb 2020 Some beautiful orchestras from Senegal and Congo have this willingness of knowing everything, of playing every repertory the best possible and I love that! That’s what I’m looking for in my work, something easy to assimilate, something popular. I am a “peintre de variétés” I adapt my subject to the... Read more
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Bisengo
Bisengo 7 Sep - 30 Nov 2019 The painter JP Mika is the most brilliant heir of the peintres populaires of Kinshasa, from which he distinguishes and distances himself, “I am not a peintre populaire, I am JP Mika”. He takes an interest in drawing, makes ornamentations and copies movie posters since his earliest age. He then... Read more -
Na Kinshasa Eza Possible
MAGNIN-A Gallery, Paris 27 Apr - 27 Jul 2019 Of all the continents, Africa appears to be the one that evolves and surprises the most. It is no longer a question of disorder and dark visions but rather of pride, diversity, creativity and cultural wealth. Africa is a continent of light. In Africa, contemporary art was born with the... Read more -
Amadou Sanogo
26 Jan - 13 Apr 2019 The painter Amadou Sanogo pays a lot of attention to the nature of the support, from simple fabric to very thick artisanal cotton canvases from the suppliers of Bogolan. The canvas, its irregularities, its defaults .. are an essential element in his work. The canvas is laid on the floor... Read more -
Co-Naissance - Alighieri E Boetti - Frédéric Bruly Brouabré - Marcel Miracle
Alighiero e Boetti - Frédéric Bruly Brouabré - Marcel Miracle 19 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 The world and the human being in the world : mythos and logos Fascination of the infinitesimal, of the trace, of the primordial writing. To measure the rivers, to record the signs on the surface of things. To condense the dispersed, to observe, to link, to share: 'Co-naissance' Marcel Miracle Read more
