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Barthélémy Toguo
Purification VIII, 2007 / 2012
Aquarelle sur papier
113 x 94 cm
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Born in 1967 in Cameroon. Lives and works between Paris, Bandjoun, Cameroon, New York.
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d´Abidjan, Côte d´Ivoire
École Supérieure d´Art de Grenoble, France
Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf, Germany.
Knight in the Order of Arts and Literature, France. Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France.
Solo Exhibitions - Selection
2012
"A World Child Looking At The Landscape", Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
2011
"The Well Water", New Performance "Shower Life", La Verriere, Hermès, Brussels, Belgium
2010
"The Lost Dogs’ Orchestra", Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (cat.)
"Cissé / Toguo", Dak’Art Biennale de l’Art Africain, 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", Bandjoun Museum, Bandjoun, Cameroon
Institut Français du Congo – Pointe-Noire, Congo
"The World Examination", Item Editions, Paris, France
2009
"The Pregnant Mountain", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
"road for exile" Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Palace of Marquis de Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal
"... et la parole fut", Frac île de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, France
"The world examination", Item Editions, Paris
"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, 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", Ecole supérieure d’Art de Lorient, France
2004
"The Sick Opera", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (cat.)
"Swallowing the World/Avalez le monde", aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
"La guerre des sexes n’aura pas lieu", Ecole des Beaux Arts de Valence, France
2003
"Pure and Clean", Institute of Visual Art ,Milwaukee, USA
2002
"Puk, Puk, Puk", CCC, Tours, France
"Emergency Exit", le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (cat.)
"Épidémies", Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2001
"Das Bett", Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque, France
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Barthélémy Toguo, The Box Associati Gallery, Turin, Italy
2000
"Virgin Forest", La Criée centre d’Art contemporain, Rennes, France (cat.)
"Pénicilline", Centre Culturel Français, Turin, Italie
1999
"Baptism", Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in der Tonhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Migrateurs", ARC / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
François Barnoud, Dijon, France
1998
"Parasites", Centre d’Arts plastiques, Saint-Fons, France (cat.)
1996
Barthélémy Toguo, Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon
1994
Pôle européen universitaire de Grenoble, Saint-Martin d’Hères, Grenoble, France
Group Exhibitions - Selection
2012
La Force de l´Art 2012, Triennale de Paris, Paris, France
"Dakar Biennale in Milano", Besana, Milano, Italy
"Fliegen/Flying", Project by 2 und 50 UG, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2011
"J´ai deux amours", Cité nationale de l´histoire de l´immigration, Paris
"Une terrible beauté est née", 11ème Biennale de Lyon, Specific creation and new performance: "Le Chien du roi", Lyon, France
International Print Biennale 2011, Print Awards, "Who is the true terrorist", Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
"Essays on Geopoetics", 8th Mercosul Biennial 2011, Brazil
"Mutations", Barthélémy Toguo /Martin Sulzer, Centro d´arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Biennale internationale d’art contemporain, Melle, France
"Fabula Graphica 3", Grandes Galeries de l´Aître Saint Maclou, Ecole des Beaux-arts de Rouen, France
"ARS 11", Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
"Mises à l´eau", Maison de la Culture de la Province de Namur, Belgium
"Toguo / Cissé", Centre culturel Français de Douala, Cameroon
"Environment and Object in Recent African Art", Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York, USA
"Promenade, 9", Fondation Kogart, Budapest, Hungary
2010
"The Production of Space", Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
"Le jugement dernier", Centre culturel Français de Pointe Noire, Congo
"Forum d´avignon 2010", Palais des Papes , Avignon, France
"Africa: See You, See Me!", 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, 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, New York, 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, terres de l´empathie", Musée d´art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
"Homeless in the city", Cornelius strasse, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
"Laughing in a Foreign Language", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"Un voyage sentimental", 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, Canary Islands, Spain
"Black Paris", Musée d´Ixelles, Brussels, Belgique
"Der Mensch 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 Tomé et Principe
"Mondo e Terra", Musée d´Art de la Province de Nuoro, Sardaigne, Italie
Cité idéale, Abbaye de Fontevraud, France
"Micro-Narratives", Musée d´art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
2007
"De Schwitters à Toguo, un choix", Cabinet d’art graphique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Die Schöne und das Ungeheuer - Geschichten ungewöhnlicher Liebespaare", Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Austria
"Black Paris", Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth ; 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 Rhône, Aix-en- Provence, France
Shenzhen Biennale, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen, 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", 1st Tessaloniki Bienniale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006
"Paris Black", Iwalewa Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
"The Unhomely", 2nd International Biennial Of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain
"Africa Remix", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
Nuit Blanche, "La goutte d’eau, de l’or qui coule", 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 (cat.)
"Africa Remix", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
"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 (cat.)
"Accion tricontinental", Nouvelle Biennale de la Havanne 2006 / Galeria 23 y 12, La Havane, Cuba
"Le Monde coloré", Museum of African Art, Belgrade, Serbia
"Wien Mozart 2006 : Hidden Histories – Remapping Mozart / Configuration 2", Vienna, Austria
"Notre Histoire…", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (cat.)
2005
"La Collection permanente : L’art en France depuis 1950 à la création la plus contemporaine", MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (cat.)
"Scheizer Krankheit + die Sehnsut nach 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 (cat.)
"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 (cat.)
"Femme Femmes", Musée de Carouge, Genève, Switzerland.
"African Art Now, œuvres de la collection J. Pigozzi", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (cat.)
"Exotic Ambivalence", Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden (CDRom)
"The Giving Person", Palazzo Delle Arti, Napoli, Italy (cat.).
"Art of Africa, œuvres de la collection J. Pigozzi", Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
"Gott Sehen", Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland (cat.)
"Singuliers", Guangdon Museum of Art, China (cat.)
"De lo real y lo fictiocio : art comtemporaneo de Francia", Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
"Africa Urbis : Perspectives Urbaines", Musée des Arts Derniers, Paris, France
"Africa Remix", Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
"Le Mélange des genres : créatures hybrides et mystérieuses", Frac Haute-Normandie,
Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France (cat.)
"Domicile privé/public", Musée d’art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France (cat.)
"Barthélémy Toguo, Cyril André", Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble, France
"Africa Remix", Hayward Gallery, Londres, UK (cat.)
2004
Exposition collective de sculpture, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
"Africa Remix", Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
@rtscreen, Biennale de Dakar, Senegal
"Dessins et des autres II", Galerie Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles, Belgium
"Burning down the house", Joyce Pensato, Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporaneo, Firenze, Italy
"Les Afriques", Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Lille, France
"Settlements", Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France (cat.)
"Cabinet des dessins N°1 : Quelle est l’origine d’une œuvre", Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
"Playground & Toys", La Manufacture des Oeillets, Ivry-sur-Seine, France ; Musée océanographique, Monaco
2003
"Great Expectations!", Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy (cat.)
"Mouvements de fonds, Acquisitions 2002 du FNAC", Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille et Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
8the Havana Biennial, Cuba
"Achtung Rottweiler", Forum Kunst Rottweil, Germany (cat.)
"Love Zones", Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France
"Outlook", Athènes, Greece (cat.)
"The Ideal City", Biennial of Valencia 2003, Spain (cat.)
"Zanimaux", Galerie Éloge de l’Ombre, Uzès, France
"L’Europe Fantôme", Espace Vertebra, Brussels, Belgium (cat.)
Heimatkunst.com, Rottweil, Allemagne
Dolce Tocco, Napoli, Italy
"Singuliers voyages", Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France (cat.)
"Party", Galeria Autori Cambi, Roma, Italy
"Ökonomien der Zeit", Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (cat.)
2002
"Chambre double", Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Hôtel La Louisiane, Paris, France
"Apocalyptique Dance", Künstlerhaus von Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria (cat.)
Troisième Biennale de Montréal, Canada (cat.)
Busan Biennial, Corea
"Tutto normale", Villa Médicis, Académie de Frande à Rome, Roma, Italy
"Ökonomien der Zeit", Akademie der Künstler, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
"Ökonomien der Zeit", Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany (cat.)
"Postcards", Biennale de Dakar, Senegal
"Last minute. To the end of eternity", Vecchio Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy (cat.)
2001
"Intrinsecus/Extrinsecus", Studio Casoli, Milano, Italy
"Selections Fall 2001", The Drawing Center, New York, USA
"De quelques dessins contemporains", Fondation Guerlain, Les Mesnils, France
"Naturaleza, Utopias y Realidades", International Contemporary Art Meeting, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
"Mercancias", Espacio C, Camargo, Spain (cat.)
"Killing me softly", BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden
"Political Ecology", White Box, New York, USA
2000
"Bruit de fond", Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
"Chosen Drawings", Alliance Éthio-Française, Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia (cat.)
Exit Congo Museum, Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium
"Paradise Zéro", Uppsala International Contemporary Art Biennial, Sweden
"Continental Shift", Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (cat.)
"Heimat Kunst", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
"Mikse", CAMAC Centre d’art Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
"Partage d’exotismes", Biennale de Lyon, France (cat.)
"Alimentation d’Art", Biennale internationale de Dakar, Senegal
1999
7. Triennale der Kleinplastik, SW Forum Europa-Africa, Stuttgart, Germany
"Managers de l’immaturité", Le Magasin, Centre national d’Art contemporain, Grenoble, France (cat.)
"Fantasy Heckler", Tracey, Liverpool Biennial, UK
"Diaspora", International Art Meeting, Oviedo, Spain
1998
"Vidéo 98", Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
"À quoi rêvent les années 90", Espace Mira Phalaina, Montreuil, France (cat.)
Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Biennale Internationale de Dakar, Senegal
1997
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
"ArtistPhotos", In Vitro, Geneva, Switzerland
"Südwest LB", Stuttgart, Mannheim, Germany (cat.)
1996
"Magnolia", La Casamaure, Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, France
"Das Bett", Hohenstaufenring, Cologne, Germany
1995
Wilhem Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (cat.)
Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany (cat.)
Museum Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha, Germany (cat.)
1994
Biennale Internationale de Saint-Quentin, France (cat.)
1993
Goethe Institut, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Festival des Cultures du Monde et des Droits de l’Homme, Paris, France
1991
700 ans de Confédération Suisse, Basel, Switzerland
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