Pascale Marthine Tayou bio


PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU Born in Yaoundé, Cameroon Lives and works in Brussels and Yaoundé
Solo Exhibitions
2005 2002 2001 2000 1999	Rendez-vous, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany Brazilisme, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York Erection, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Le Menu Familial, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Qui Perd Gagne, Inaugural exhibition Palais de Tokyo, Paris Pascale Marthine Tayou, INOVA, Milwaukee, WI Islands, ARCO, Madrid, (curators,Yuko Hasegawa, Octavio Zaya & Rosa Martinez) After Shave, Damasquine Gallery, Brussels Crazy Nomad, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Group Exhibitions
2005 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994	51st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Documenta11, Kassel, Germany (curated by Okwui Enwezor) Bienal of Sao Paulo, Brazil Short Century, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago and P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, Museum Stuck, Munich, Germany (curated by Okwui Enwezor) Arte all’Arte, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano Italy Kunst & Zwalm, Zwalm, Belgium House of Words Culture in the Martin Gropius-Bau, Short Century, Berlin Charlottenborg exhibition hall, Copenhagen Berlin Biennale, curated by Saskia Bos, Berlin Mirror’s Edge, Glasgow, Scotland, Vancouver Canada, Umea University Museum, Umea, Sweden (curated by Okwui Enwezor) Taipei Biennial, curated by Jerome Sans and Manray Hsu Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma) Helsinki Trafique, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England Zeitwenden , Kunstmuseum, Bonn Around & Around, zeitgenossiche Kunst aus Afrika, Europa und den USA; Berlin, Stuttgart Un Matin du monde, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris Galerie Peter Hermann, Stuttgart, Germany Trafique, Stedelijk Museum voor actucle Kunst, Gant, Belgium Passage: New French Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan South Meets West, National Museum, Accra, Ghana Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Nagoya City of Art, Nagoya, Japan Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Galerie Bernard Dulon, Paris Construction in Process: "The Bridge," Melbourne L’art dans le Monde, Passage de Retz, Paris Cet été-là, CRAC-Sète, France Bridging the Gap, Geneva Personal Touch, Presence and Absence, Art in General, New York La ville dans tous ses ètats, Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo 11th Biennale de Sydney, Sydney Galerie Lucien Durand, Galerie Bernard Dulon, France Klein Plastik, Stuttgart, Germany La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France Paris Maintenant, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gare de l’Est, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Art’Sénik, Reunion Island Performance Looobhy Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon De Rode Poort, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands Völkende Museum, Zürich Suites Africaines, Revue Noire, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris Le Dèballage, performance comique et dramaturgique avec Hèlene Beleck, Modestine Mekuete Eteke, Rigobert Tamwa et Richard Pipa de la Compagnie Looobhy, Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon Le Tronconnage, performance-techno au couvent des cordeliers, Paris Universitè de Pau, France 6th Biennale de la Havana, Cuba La vigne en Fumèe ou la Chambre Noire, Château de Tanlay, France SITE Santa Fe Biennale, New Mexico 2nd Biennale de Kwangju, South Korea 2nd Biennale de Johannesburg, South Africa Campo 6, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l’Arte, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna c Contemporanea,Turin, Italy Galerie du jour, Agnès B, Paris Atelier et performance, Berlin Around and Around, Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon Biennale de l’Art contemporain Africain, Dakar, Senegal New Art From Africa, haus der Kulturen der welt, Berlin Transgressions Majeurs, Goethe Institute, Berlin Detripations, Centre Culturel francais, Yaoundé, Cameroon Setegata Art Museum, Tokyo Himeji City of Art, Japan Horiyama City of Art, Japan Marigame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan Africa, Art of our Time, Setegaya Art Museum, Tokyo Biennale International de Kwangju “Beyond the borders”, Kwangju, South Korea La Chaise à Doual’Art, Centre culturel français de Douala, Cameroon La Performance Looobhy avec la Compagnie Looobhy, Goethe Institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon Les Artistes africains et le Sida, Êmotiona Profondes Avec Titi, Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon Atelier la Rencontre, Goethe, institut, Yaoundé, Cameroon Transgression, Centre Culturel français, Yaoundé Cameroun Jazz sous les manguiers, Yaoundé, Cameroon Festival des Arts et de la Culture, Douala, Cameroun
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