Tisser une nouvelle histoire 3 (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Coulisses de la féminité 3 (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Coulisses de la féminité 4 (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Avant l'envol 1 (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Couronne en dentelle 2 (2020)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Vert majesté (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Renaissance florale (2019)
Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame
Born in Douala, Cameroon in 1962, Angèle moved to France at the age of 10. She graduated from the Amsterdam School of Photography. City in which she
still lives.
Angèle Etoundi Essamba is an artist engaged in a eeflection on the African woman identity.
Her vision is at the same time aesthetic, idealistic, realistic and societal. She joins the spirit of humanist
photography with a strong attachment to the values of communion.
With colourful, tangled, and intertwined threads, she speaks of filial, matrimonial, and transmission relationships. Beauty, symbolism, and realistic utopia are illustrated by sculptural headdresses and a control of
colours including black and white.
For nearly thirty years, she has observed the world through the women she photographs. Her images
are marked by an absolute desire to know and understand.
Since her first exhibition in 1985 at the Maison Descartes in Amsterdam, her work has been frequently exhibited in museums, institutions, biennales, fairs and galleries in the whole world.
In 2022, her works entered the permanent collection of three notable museums in the US: the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Boca Raton Art Museum.
1-54 London x 10, 2022
AKAA, Art & Design Art Fair, Paris 2022
AKAA Art and Design art fair, Paris 2021
AKAA Art and Design art fair, Paris 2021
1-54 Art Fair, London 2021
SOLO SHOWS
2022:
2020: Galerie 23 Amsterdam (NL)
2018:
2017:
2016: Musée Théodore Monod Dakar (Sénégal)
2015:
2014:
2013:
2012: LI-SPACE Beijing (China)
2011:
2010:
2009:
2008:
2007:
2006:
2005: Delta Lloyd Mondriaan Toren Amsterdam (NL)
2004:
2003:
2002: Goethe-Institut Kamerun - Yaoundé (Cameroon)
2001:
2000: Noorderlicht Fotografie - Leeuwarden (NL)
1999:
1998: IFAL - Mexico
1997: Indigo Galleries Inc. - Boca Raton (USA)
1996: Erasmus University - Rotterdam (NL)
1995: Omni Gallery - Uniondale, N.Y (USA)
1991: University of Bremen - Bremen (Germany)
1990: Melkweg gallery - Amsterdam (NL)
1989: Focus Gallery - Amsterdam (NL)
1987: Studio Ethel - Paris (France)
1985: Maison Descartes - Amsterdam (NL)
GROUP SHOWS
2022 :
2021 :
2020: Art X Lagos Art fair Lagos (Nigeria)
2019: Musée national de Yaoundé (Cameroon)
2018:
2017: Provincial Center of Plastic Arts & Design Havana (Cuba)
2016: FENAC (Festival National des Arts du Cameroun) Yaoundé (Cameroon)
2015: Museo Bardini Florence (Italy)
2014: BOZAR Brussels (Belgium)
2012: Li Space, Culture & Art Center Beijing (China)
2011:
2010: Lagos Photo project Lagos (Nigeria)
2009:
2008:
2007: National Museum Zanzibar (Tanzania)
2004:
2003: UNESCO Paris (France)
2002:
2001: Les Rencontres Photographiques Bamako (Mali)
2000: In Focus Galerie Cologne (Germany)
1998:
1997: The H.Johnson museum of Art Ithaca (USA)
1996: ‘Festival des 3 continents’ Nantes (France)
1995:
1994:
1988: Rochdale Art Gallery London (UK)