ANGELE ETOUNDI ESSAMBA

Tisser une nouvelle histoire 3 (2019)

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    Coulisses de la féminité 3 (2019)

    Black & white photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, dibond and baroque frame


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    Coulisses de la féminité 4 (2019)

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    Avant l'envol 1 (2019)

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    Couronne en dentelle 2 (2020)

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    Vert majesté (2019)

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    Renaissance florale (2019)

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Portrait de Angèle Etoundi Essamba

Three key words define Angèle Etoundi Essamba's work:

pride, strength and self-awareness.


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.


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    1-54 London x 10, 2022

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    AKAA, Art & Design Art Fair, Paris 2022

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    AKAA Art and Design art fair, Paris 2021

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    AKAA Art and Design art fair, Paris 2021

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    1-54 Art Fair, London 2021

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SOLO SHOWS


2022:

  • Montague Contemporary, New York
  • Galerie Les Arts Du Soleil, Geneva, (Switzerland)

2020: Galerie 23 Amsterdam (NL) 

2018:

  • MB Hotel Ganvié (Bénin) 
  • Fondation Claudine TALON Cotonou (Bénin) 
  • Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich (DL) 
  • Fondation Claudine Talon Cotonou (Bénin) 

2017:

  • Musée de l’Eau Pont en Royans (France) 
  • ACP Culture Brussels 
  • Galerie Didier CLAES Brussels 

2016: Musée Théodore Monod Dakar (Sénégal) 

2015:

  • AUC-ECA – Conference Center Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) 
  • Pavillon de l’Eau Paris (France) 
  • African Union Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia) 

2014:

  • Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Paris (France) 
  • Orangerie du Sénat Paris (France) 
  • Institut Français Cotonou (Bénin) 
  • Afrika Museum Berg en Dal (NL) 
  • Hotel Hilton Transcorp Abuja (Nigeria) 

2013:

  • Galeria Arte Contemporana Benasque (Huesca, Spain) 
  • Kunst & Auktionen Essen (Germany) 

2012: LI-SPACE Beijing (China) 

2011:

  • La Cuidadela Pamplona (Spain) 
  • National Museum Nairobi (Kenya) 
  • Fototeca de Cuba Havana (Cuba) 
  • Spitäle Würzburg (Germany) 
  • ‘Latitudes’ Fund. Caja Rural Huelva (Spain) 

2010:

  • Esp. Cult. Brasília-DF (Brasil) 
  • Musée du Montparnasse Paris (France) 
  • Stopera Square Amsterdam (NL) 
  • I-dentity/ EYE-dentity portraits of Afrocolombian women - touring exhibition in different cities in Colombia : Bicentennial of the Independence Bogotá (Colombia) 
  • Town Hall Cali Quibdó Cali (Colombia) 
  • From the Guggenheim Museum up until the Euskalduna Palace Bilbao (Spain) 
  • La Feria de Valencia - Meeting of Spanish and African Women for a Better World. Valencia (Spain) 

2009:

  • TEA, Tenerife Esp. de las Artes Tenerife (Spain) 
  • Territorios Sevilla Sevilla (Spain) 
  • AFD (Agence Française de Développement) Paris (France) 

2008:

  • Musée Dapper Paris (France) 
  • Photo España, Annta Gallery Madrid (Spain) 
  • Casa Africa Las Palmas (Spain) 
  • Centre d’Art, Fond. Blachère Apt (France) 

2007:

  • Contemporary Art museum Puebla de Cazalla (Spain) 
  • MUA Museum University Alicante (Spain) 
  • Kulturhuset Stockholm (Sweden) 
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid Madrid (Spain) 
  • Sasol Art Museum Stellenbosch (South Africa) 

2006:

  • Galerie In Focus Fotografie Cologne (Germany) 
  • UNESCO Paris (France) 

2005: Delta Lloyd Mondriaan Toren Amsterdam (NL) 

2004:

  • Museet For Fotokunst Odense (Denmark) 
  • Galerie Safia Barcelona (Spain) 
  • Gallerie Marktschlößchen Halle (Germany) 

2003:

  • Musée National - Yaoundé (Cameroon) 
  • Museum Schloß Moritzburg - Zeitz (Germany) 
  • World Trade Center - Amsterdam (NL) 

2002: Goethe-Institut Kamerun - Yaoundé (Cameroon) 

2001:

  • Museum of Modern Art - Arnhem (NL) 
  • Doual’Art - Douala (Cameroon) 

2000: Noorderlicht Fotografie - Leeuwarden (NL) 

1999:

  • Van Reekum Museum - Apeldoorn (NL) 
  • Institut Français - Cologne (Germany) 

1998: IFAL - Mexico 

  • Michaelis Collection - Cape Town (South Africa)

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 :

  • “We Contain Multitudes”, NYC Culture Club in collab. w Montague Contemporary, New York (USA)
  • SCOPE Miami Beach, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, Miami (USA) group show
  • Art X Lagos Art fair, SMO Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria)
  • AKAA Art & Design Art Fair - Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
  • 1-54 Art Fair London x 10 - Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
  • BAD+ Bordeaux - Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
  • Biennale de Venise, Pavillon de la République du Cameroun, Italie
  • Photo London, Doyle Wham, Londres

2021 :

  • emPReINTe(s), Galerie Carole Kvasnevski
  • AKAA, Paris
  • 1-54 London

2020: Art X Lagos Art fair Lagos (Nigeria) 

  • Arti et Amiticiae Amsterdam 
  • Musée des Civilisations Noires (MCN) Dakar (Sénégal) 

2019: Musée national de Yaoundé (Cameroon) 

2018:

  • The ZAC - Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa Palermo (Italy) 
  • World Bank Yaoundé (Cameroon) 

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:

  • Gallery AcquestARTE Ascona (Switzerland) 
  • The Mojo Art Gallery Dubai (UAE) 
  • Musée des beaux-arts Dunkerque (France) 

2010: Lagos Photo project Lagos (Nigeria) 

2009:

  • Les Rencontres Photographiques Bamako (Mali) 
  • PANAF Algiers (Algeria) 
  • Royal Museum Tervuren (Belgium) 
  • Los Angeles Art show L.A. (USA) 

2008:

  • World Bank Art Program Washington D.C. (USA) 
  • Dak’ART 2009 Dakar (Sénégal) 
  • Mercat Vell. Sitges (Spain) 
  • Skoto Gallery New York (USA) 

2007: National Museum Zanzibar (Tanzania) 

2004:

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia (USA)
  • University of New England Portland (USA)

2003: UNESCO Paris (France) 

2002:

  • La FNAC Etoile Paris (France) 
  • Spazio Oberdan Milan (Italy) 
  • Biennial Dak’Art Dakar (Senegal) 
  • Museum Rijswijk Rijswijk (NL) 

2001: Les Rencontres Photographiques Bamako (Mali) 

2000: In Focus Galerie Cologne (Germany) 

1998:

  • Center for the Visual Arts Denver (USA)
  • Ministry of foreign trade affairs The Hague (NL)

1997: The H.Johnson museum of Art Ithaca (USA) 

1996: ‘Festival des 3 continents’ Nantes (France) 

1995:

  • Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Art Orlando Orlando (USA) 
  • Street Level Gallery Glasgow (Scotland) 
  • Biennial South-Africa Johannesburg (South Africa) 

1994:

  • Biennial Havana Cuba 
  • Biennial Venice Venice (Italy) 

1988: Rochdale Art Gallery London (UK)


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