Barthélémy Toguo
Barthélémy Toguo
Born in 1967 in Mbalmayo, Cameroon
Lives and works between Paris (France) and Bandjoun (Cameroon)
Galerie Lelong & Co
Between 1989 and 1993, Barthélémy Toguo studied visual arts, first at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, then in Grenoble and finally at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Although he settled in Europe, becoming a French citizen, Barthélémy Toguo remains deeply rooted in Cameroon, to which he returns regularly. There, he created Bandjoun Station, a foundation inaugurated in 2013, designed to welcome artists and researchers from all over the world for residencies in studio housing, to develop proposals in tune with the local community. He is also developing agricultural projects in a spirit of healthy, sustainable development.
– Galerie Lelong & Co
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selecion)
2024 – Le monde pour horizon, Musée de la BnF, Paris, France
2021 – Désir d’Humanité, The worlds of Barthélémy Toguo, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
2020 – If not now, when? at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Paris, France
2020 – Bilongue, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa.
2019 – Urban Requiem, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, United States
2019 – A Road to Exile, Museo Mille Miglia, Brescia, Italy
2018 – Barthélémy Toguo: Heimatlos, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2018 – The Beauty of Our Voice, Parrish Art Museum, New York, United States
2018 – Secret Evidence, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, Germany
2017 – Fragile Body, HdM Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 – Strange Fruit, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
2016 – Sueurs de canne, Carte blanche with Barthélémy Toguo, Institut français, Mauritius
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2020 – Comme un parfum d’aventure, macLYON, Lyon, France
2020 – Paradise, Kleinervonwiese Gallery, Berlin
2020 – Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2020 – The IMA’s living collections | Colors of the world, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2020 – It’s urgent!, Parcs des Ateliers, Luma, Arles, France
2020 – Voyage Voyages, MuCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
2019 – Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation, New York, United States
2019 -Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Museum, Singapore, Singapore
2019 – Lend me your dream, Maison de l’Union, Casablanca, Morocco
2019 -A bottle in the sea, Aquarium de Paris, Paris, France
2019 – vLend me your dream, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Senegal
2019 – Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23 – Jorge M. Pérez
2019 – Disturbing Narratives, The Parkview Museum, Singapore, Singapore
2018 – Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2018 – Newwwar. It’s Just a Game? Bandjoun Station, Bandjoun, Cameroun
2018 – Afriques, Artists of yesterday and today, Fondation Clément, Le François, Martinique
2018 – Persona Grata, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, and Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
2018 – Paradise Is Now, Palm Trees in Art, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Barthelemy Toguo & Duncan Wylie, Hangar-Art Center Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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