MAGNIN-A

Current

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

Past

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 photographer... 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 ever... Read more

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

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 her... 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

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

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

Off site

Freedom without Borders. From Appel to Basquiat.
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen 2 Jun - 8 Oct 2023 www.cobra-museum.nl/en The exhibition Freedom without Borders. From Appel to Basquiat is the highlight of the anniversary year in which we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the international Cobra movement (1948 – 1951)! A must-see for anyone interested in modern art and a unique opportunity to see these revolutionary and inspiring... Read more

Le Papier dans l'Art Contemporain
Maison des Arts, Antony 17 May - 16 Jul 2023 www.maisondesarts-antony.fr To close the season celebrating its 30th anniversary, Maison des Arts has chosen to present the airy, delicate works of four contemporary artists from very different universes, demonstrating the richness and diversity of the shapes and forms of an ancestral material: paper. Omnipresent in our daily lives, despite the... Read more

Worlds on Fire. The Prophecy.
E-WERK, Freiburg 12 May - 9 Jul 2023 www.gegenwartskunst-freiburg.de The two solo exhibitions with photographs by Fabrice Monteiro and installations by Tom Bull engage with fire a contemporary art’s perspective. Fabrice Monteiro, The Prophecy Fire in the form of uncontrolled burns as a result of global warming or as waste incineration that endangers people and the environment are... Read more

Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations.
The National Museum, Oslo 6 May - 6 Aug 2023 www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en Refusing to be content with a single, fixed expression or to be confined by a single artistic movement, the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) explored a variety of styles and techniques that few artists can rival. The exhibition 'Imaginary Conversations' stages encounters between Bourgeois and other artists. Some of... Read more

Célébration Picasso, la collection prend des couleurs
Musée Picasso, Paris 7 Mar - 27 Aug 2023 www.museepicassoparis.fr It is fifty years since Pablo Picasso died, on 8 April 1973 at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, his home in Mougins. The body of work that he left behind had a profound impact on the entire 20th century. For this anniversary year, the Musée National Picasso-Paris has invited the British designer Sir... Read more

Oil, beauty and horror in the petrol age
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 4 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 No other substance has shaped societies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as petroleum. Airplanes, tanks, and spacecraft, motorways, shopping malls and suburban settlements, nylon stockings, mountains of plastic, and vinyl – key materials and technologies, lifestyles and visions of our time owe their existence to the... Read more

Là où est la mer
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Brest 11 Jun - 11 Sep 2021 With Achille Adonon (Benin), Amina Agueznay (Morocco), Clay Apenouvon (Togo), Imane Ayissi (Cameroon), Yancouba Badji (Senegal), Alun Be (Senegal), Soly Cissé (Senegal), Beya Gilla Gacha (France-Cameroon), Willys Kezy (DR Congo), Ange Arthur Koua (Côte d’Ivoire), Bunny Claude Massassa (Gabon), Amébédé Mouleo (Togo), Ghizlane Sahli (Morocco), Chéri Samba (DR Congo) The... Read more

Face à Arcimboldo
Centre Pompidou - Metz 29 May - 22 Nov 2021 Arcimboldo Face to Face reflects the current state of art through the eyes of 130 artists, whose selection was guided by the influence - assumed, unconscious or fantasized - that the Lombard master exerts on their thinking and art. Each of the 250 works in the exhibition bears the imprint... Read more

Romuald Hazoumè - Expression(s) décoloniale(s) #2
Château des Duc de Bretagne, Nantes 6 May - 14 Nov 2021 In 2018, the first edition of Expression(s) décoloniale(s) invited visitors to discover ethnographic objects taken from Nantes’s colonial institutions and examine the museum’s collection through “how one sees the Other”. The goal was to highlight “what collections do not say out loud when they evoke the Other… but quietly murmur... Read more

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré & Marcel Miracle - Essai de définition du monde
Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp 27 Feb - 17 Apr 2021 An exhibition in collaboration with Gallery MAGNIN-A. FIFTY ONE TOO is honored to present a duo exhibition of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and Marcel Miracle. Just like Arpaïs Du Bois in Galley FIFTY ONE, the oeuvre of these two artists is characterized by a combination of image and text and a... Read more

Ex Africa - Présences africaines dans l'art d'aujourd'hui
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 9 Feb - 27 Jun 2021 Read more

RESIST! The Art of Resistance
Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln 29 Jan - 11 Jul 2021 Read more

Posing Beauty in African American Culture
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA 19 Oct - 26 Jan 2020 Posing Beauty in African American Culture October 19, 2019 - January 26, 2020 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States Website Read more

Kinshasa Chroniques
Cité de l'Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris 14 Oct 2020 - 5 Jul 2021 Read more

Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington 16 Sep 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Read more

Alpha Crucis - Contemporary African Art
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo 16 Jun - 6 Sep 2020 Exhibition curated by André Magnin Alpha Crucis is the brightest star in the constellation of the Southern Cross, located in the Milky Way. It is one of the most visible in the night sky and indicates the direction of the South. As such, it is often used by navigators, but... Read more

Afrika - im Blick der Fotografen
Weltkulturerbe Völkinger Hütte, Germany 5 Apr - 1 Nov 2020 Afrika - im Blick der Fotografen Weltkulturerbe Völkinger Hütte, Germany April 5 - November 1st, 2020 3D tour Website Read more

De paroles en paraboles, on se sert
La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes 21 Mar - 31 May 2020 At La Criée centre for contemporary art Amadou Sanogo is presenting a group of thirteen large paintings specially created for the occasion. They add up to an incisive, La Bruyère-style portrait of contemporary Malian society, polarised between its rich cultural heritage and the energy and complexity of the present. Website Read more

Christian Louboutin : l'Exhibition[niste]
Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris 26 Feb 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Christian Louboutin: l'Exhibition[niste] From February 26 to July 26, 2020 Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris Website Read more

Scrivere Disegnando - Quand la langue cherche son autre
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève 29 Jan - 3 May 2020 Website Read more

Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African artists confronting past and present
Moody Center for the arts, Houston 24 Jan - 16 May 2020 Website Read more

Jeux de balles, jeux de ballons
Musée de Tessé, Le Mans 30 Nov 2019 - 15 Mar 2020 Website Read more

Fashioning Black Identity
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australie 29 Nov 2019 - 9 Feb 2020 FASHIONING BLACK IDENTITY Africa and the African Diaspora November 23, 2019 - February 9, 2020 Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Website Read more

Fiction Congo - Les mondes de l'art entre le passé et le présent
Museum Rietberg, Zurich 22 Nov 2019 - 15 Mar 2020 CONGO AS FICTION Art Worlds Between Past and Present Website Read more

Prête-moi ton rêve
Pan-African travelling exhibition 19 Jun 2019 - 1 Jun 2020 Exhibition view, courtesy FDCC Panafrican travelling exhibition At the Villa Anfa, Casablanca, from June 19 to July 31, 2019 Steps: Casablanca, Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Addis Abeba, Cape Town With Chéri Samba Website Read more

CODA Paper Art 2019
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn 10 Jun - 27 Oct 2019 Website Read more

A Queen Within Adorned Archetypes
Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle 11 May - 2 Sep 2019 Website Read more

Congo Stars
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany 9 Mar - 30 Jun 2019 In collaboration with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, the Kunsthaus Graz, the Iwalewahaus in Bayreuth and PICHA in Lubumbashi. Curated by: Sammy Baloji, Bambi Ceuppens, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Günther Holler-Schuster and Barbara Steiner Website Read more

Uniques. Cahiers écrits, dessinés, inimprimés
Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny, Switzerland 20 Oct 2018 - 25 Aug 2019 With Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and Marcel Miracle In partnership with the MAMCO Geneva Curated by: Thierry Davila Website Read more

Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams
MoMA, New York 26 May 2018 - 1 Jan 2019 With the collaboration of MAGNIN-A Gallery “Without a model, you are nowhere. A nation that can’t make models is a nation that doesn’t understand things, a nation that doesn’t live,” said visionary artist Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948–2015). Based in then-Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), following its independence from... Read more

African Passions
Evora Africa, Festival d'art et de musique 25 May - 30 Sep 2018 Views of Cadaval Palace: © Cadaval Palace and Filipe Branquinho. African Passions Exhibition at Cadaval Palace, Evora, Portugal During Evora Africa, African Art and Music Festival May, 25 - August, 25, 2018 EXTENDED until September, 30, 2018 Curated by André Magnin and Philippe Boutté, 'African Passions' is a contemporary african... Read more

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