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Pélagie Gbaguidi at the Triennale Art & Industry, Dunkirk

CHALEUR HUMAINE – TRIENNALE ART & INDUSTRIE

FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
June 10, 2023 - January 14, 2024

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at the Triennale Art & Industry, Dunkirk

Pélagie Gbaguidi at Mimosa House, London

DE-FOSSILIZATION OF THE LOOK

Mimosa House, London, United Kingdom
June 23 - October 15, 2023

 

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at Mimosa House, London

Pélagie Gbaguidi at Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart

FAIS QUE TON RÊVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT

Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
March 3 - June 11, 2023

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart

Pélagie Gbaguidi: new acquisition

Work by Pélagie Gbaguidi is now part of the collection of KANAL-Centre Pompidou. The museum recently acquired two major works by the artist: Care (2019 - 2020) and The Missing Link. Dicolonisation Education by Mrs. Smiling Stone (2017 - 2021) which was on view at dOCUMENTA 14.

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi: new acquisition

Pélagie Gbaguidi: new acquisition

Pélagie Gbaguidi is now part of the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett. The Hüni-Michel-Stiftung acquired ten works on paper from her series "Chaine Humaine".

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi: new acquisition

Pélagie Gbaguidi at Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp

CONGOVILLE

Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
May 29 - October 3, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp

Pélagie Gbaguidi: new publication

PÉLAGIE GBAGUIDI

Published by Zeno X Books, Hannibal & Koenig Books, 2022

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi: new publication

Pélagie Gbaguidi: new video

Pélagie Gbaguidi speaks about her exhibition 'Le jour se lève' at Zeno X Gallery.

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout, Belgium
March 12 - May 29, 2022

 

Pélagie Gbaguidi at Centre Pompidou, Metz

ÉCRIRE, C'EST DESSINER

Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
November 6, 2021 - February 2022

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at Centre Pompidou, Metz

Pélagie Gbaguidi at the Berlin Biennale

BERLIN BIENNALE 2020: THE CRACK BEGINS WITHIN

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
September 5 - November 1, 2020

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at the Berlin Biennale

Pélagie Gbaguidi at dOCUMENTA 14, Kassel and Athens

dOCUMENTA 14

Hansa Häuser, Kassel, Germany
June 10 - September 17, 2017

Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece
April 8 - July 16, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Pélagie Gbaguidi at dOCUMENTA 14, Kassel and Athens

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Pélagie Gbaguidi speaks about her exhibition 'Le jour se lève' at Zeno X Gallery.

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout, Belgium
March 12 - May 29, 2022

 

Pélagie Gbaguidi
Biography

Pélagie Gbaguidi, b. 1965 in Dakar (SN), lives and works in Brussels (BE).

Pélagie Gbaguidi calls herself a contemporary ‘griot’, which she defines as someone who functions as an intermediary between individual memory and ancestral past. Her work is an anthology of the signs and traces of trauma and is centred on colonial and postcolonial history. She draws attention to the ways in which legacies of oppression are circumvented – and thus preserved – in official histories. She aims to reveal the process of forgetting by recontextualizing archives and histories. Her works are not direct representations of a traumatic past but rather transmit embodied knowledge. Her paintings and drawings have a performative character: she often uses parts of her body to apply paint or pigment to the canvas. The images created by Gbaguidi through painting, drawing, performance and installation seek to break out of binary thinking, archetypes and simplifications.

In 2017 she participated in documenta 14 in Kassel with 'The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs. Smiling Stone'. This installation consisted of school desks, photographs and drawings on long scrolls hanging from the ceiling. The notebooks on the desks were the result of a workshop that Gbaguidi held over the course of documenta 14 with pupils from a local school. The installation puts forward education and knowledge transmission as the antidote to collective amnesia.

For her important series 'Naked Writings' she investigated the archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. The title 'Naked Writings' refers to the importance of un-learning, of shedding prior beliefs and consequently decolonizing the mind.

Pélagie Gbaguidi has participated in the Berlin Biennale (2020), documenta 14 (2017), the Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and the Dakar Biennale (2004, 2006, 2008, 2014 and 2018). Her work has featured in group shows at Centre Pompidou-Metz, WIELS (Brussels), Musée Rochechouart, Middelheimmuseum (Antwerp), Stadtmuseum (Munich), MMK (Frankfurt), National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.).

Pélagie Gbaguidi joined the gallery in 2021.

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Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 15.04 - 24.06 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Works on Paper
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 15.04 - 24.06 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 15.04 - 24.06 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Mounira Al Solh 

Mounira Al Solh produced the series 13 April, 13 April, 13 April in the context of her solo exhibition at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück in 2022. Like Jewish artist Felix Nussbaum, to whom the museum is dedicated, Mounira Al Solh’s life has been marked by war and forced migration. The title of the series refers to 13 April 1975, the first day of the Lebanese Civil War, a war which would continue into the 1990s and whose effects can still be felt today.

The series of drawings consists mainly of self-portraits she created during the Covid-19 lockdowns to reflect on identity and life in times of crisis. The Arabic texts present in many works consider the role of women in society, the 2020 explosion in Beirut, street protests and the Lebanese Civil War.

A new publication collects the complete series of drawings and the translated texts that Al Solh wrote in and alongside the works.

‘Why is it still all about a poor woman’s body? Why is it OK when a man paints a woman naked, as a muse, but when a woman paints herself it becomes insulting? What is insulting about looking at yourself? (…) I drew self-portraits facing the mirror, undressed. In a society where, as a woman, they think you’d better stay covered. I wanted to rebel. (…) I use my body, my blood is my ink, my ink is never finished. When my blood dries, I will stop the act of drawing.’

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Pélagie Gbaguidi created the new series Espace et Langage especially for this exhibition. For her, the works are as much a form of writing as of drawing. Through these drawings, she tries to create space to reflect on the current period of transition of political systems. She comments on the negative impact of monoculture on rural populations as well as the obsession of European museums with the African artefacts in their depots. 

Ielles sèment avec le vent refers to the important role of women in nature conservation, education and care. Gbaguidi’s choice to draw on sheets of a botanical encyclopedia also raises questions about care and recovery in a climate of great uncertainty.

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

Since 1974, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has been making drawings that emerge from her subconscious. She refuses to find logical meaning in her mindmaps. However, the drawings do enable her to make her perceptions and dreams more tangible. Kalligraphie was the first series of works Van Kerckhoven made upon her return home to Antwerp in 2007, following her residency at DAAD in Berlin and a stay in Shanghai.

‘I like to create series of drawings that are closely associated with the reading of books from different fields that inspire me or tie in with my evolution. I confront the information from the books – both form and content – with my intuitive act of drawing. The essence of the image appears on the paper, straight from my hand, without interference from my brain.’

The drawings in question came into being after consulting books on Giordano Bruno, the structures of atoms and molecules, and an article on Saturn. As the series progressed, certain laws imposed themselves, in terms of approach, method, colour, motifs and use of materials.

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s Kalligraphie series was first shown at Manifesta 7 in Trento in 2008. Subsequently, the full series was also presented at Museum M in Leuven in 2010 and at Kunstverein München in 2015.

Pélagie Gbaguidi, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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FINIS TERRAE
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Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium | 17.11 2022 - 26.02 2023
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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FINIS TERRAE
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Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium | 17.11 2022 - 26.02 2023
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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FINIS TERRAE
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Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium | 17.11 2022 - 26.02 2023
Pélagie Gbaguidi, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium | 17.11 2022 - 26.02 2023
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Le jour se lève
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 12.03 - 20.08 2022
Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Le jour se lève
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 12.03 - 20.08 2022
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 12.03 - 20.08 2022
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Le jour se lève is Pélagie Gbaguidi’s first solo exhibition at Zeno X Gallery. It brings together several series of works. In this first exhibition, the artist presents new paintings as well as works with textiles and drawings.
Gbaguidi has been represented by Zeno X Gallery since 2021.

Pélagie Gbaguidi calls herself a contemporary ‘griot’, which she defines as someone who functions as an intermediary between individual memory and ancestral past. Her work is an anthology of the signs and traces of trauma and is centred on colonial and postcolonial history. She draws attention to the way in which legacies of oppression are circumvented – and thus preserved – in official histories. She aims to reveal the process of forgetting by recontextualizing archives and histories. Her works are not direct representations of a traumatic past but transmit embodied knowledge. The images that Gbaguidi creates – through painting, drawing, performance and installation – seek to escape from binary thinking, archetypes and simplifications.

The paintings in the second room give their name to the title of the exhibition. Gbaguidi began this series by drawing the contours of her own body. She then applied pigment with water to the canvas in an almost performative manner – she also uses certain body parts to apply the paint or pigment to the canvas. The works can be read as an intimate diary, the body functioning both as an archive of information and as a seismograph that registers shocks. The presence of two books in Double Check underlines the importance of knowing the different systems of oppression which produce violence, tangible up to this day. The unlawful extraction of raw materials and the ensuing system of precarity are central to several works.

Exchange or barter is an important aspect of Gbaguidi’s oeuvre, both physical objects and individual knowledge being exchangeable. Disconnection and Care were created on a used and swapped sail from Lubumbashi and a flour sack, respectively. During a residency in Morocco, Gbaguidi collaborated with local women who taught her various embroidery techniques while she introduced them to painting. She later mastered the techniques, which in these works resulted in a patchwork of arms and bodies placed on top of each other as if they were drawn.

The drawings entitled Chaine Humaine form a chain of hands. They are a continuation of her recent Care series, which was shown at the Berlin Biennale in 2020. During her research into the archive of the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren, certain parts of the archive were discarded. Gbaguidi recovered a series of sheets from an encyclopedia on the flora of the Katanga region in the Congo. At the time, botanical research was not carried out to increase the knowledge of the Congolese, but mainly that of the Belgians. Gbaguidi confronts the colonial archive by drawing on the historical sheets of paper, transforming the violence in the process. The drawings show certain aspects of technological revolutions – such as the ubiquity of mobile phones or facial recognition – but also the many migration flows currently taking place. The perforations or holes visible in her drawings and paintings can be interpreted as openings onto another reality, but for the artist they are primarily an act of care.

In 2021 Pélagie Gbaguidi created a fresco at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, inspired by the writings and works of Etel Adnan. Currently, her work can also be seen at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris and at Z33 in Hasselt. At the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, she also recently developed two lithographs on the subject of global hunger. The (lithographic) stone, a material resource extracted from the earth, symbolizes issues concerning the distribution of resources and wealth.

In 2017 Pélagie Gbaguidi participated in Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens with her installation The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone. The installation consisted of school desks, photographs and drawings on long scrolls hanging from the ceiling. The notebooks on the desks were the result of a workshop that Gbaguidi held over the course of Documenta with pupils from a local school. The installation proposes education and knowledge transmission as the antidote to collective amnesia.

Pélagie Gbaguidi has participated in several international exhibitions, including the Berlin Biennale in 2020, the Lubumbashi Biennial in 2019 and the Dakar Biennale in 2018, 2014, 2008, 2006 and 2004. Her work has been displayed at the Centre Pompidou in Metz, Middelheimmuseum in Antwerp, WIELS in Brussels, Musée d’Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne in Rochechouart, the Stadtmuseum in Munich, MMK in Frankfurt and the National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

 

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Ecrire, c'est dessiner
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Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France | 06.11 2021 - 21.02 2022
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Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France | 06.11 2021 - 21.02 2022
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Ecrire, c'est dessiner
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Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France | 06.11 2021 - 21.02 2022
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Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France | 06.11 2021 - 21.02 2022
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Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France | 06.11 2021 - 21.02 2022
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Congoville
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Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium | 29.05 - 03.10 2021
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Congoville
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Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium | 29.05 - 03.10 2021
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Congoville
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Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium | 29.05 - 03.10 2021
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Congoville
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Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium | 29.05 - 03.10 2021
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Retour: À la rencontre de l’Afrique contemporaine
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l'Atelier, Nantes, France | 27.05 - 20.06 2021
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Retour: À la rencontre de l’Afrique contemporaine
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l'Atelier, Nantes, France | 27.05 - 20.06 2021
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Retour: À la rencontre de l’Afrique contemporaine
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l'Atelier, Nantes, France | 27.05 - 20.06 2021
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Retour: À la rencontre de l’Afrique contemporaine
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l'Atelier, Nantes, France | 27.05 - 20.06 2021
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BXL Universel II: Multipli.City
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CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium | 25.03 - 12.09 2021
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CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium | 25.03 - 12.09 2021
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BXL Universel II: Multipli.City
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CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium | 25.03 - 12.09 2021
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CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium | 25.03 - 12.09 2021
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CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium | 25.03 - 12.09 2021
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Berlin Biennale: The Crack Begins Within
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | 05.09 - 01.11 2020
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | 05.09 - 01.11 2020
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | 05.09 - 01.11 2020
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | 05.09 - 01.11 2020
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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany | 05.09 - 01.11 2020
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Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Documenta 14
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Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany | 10.06 - 17.09 2017
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Documenta 14
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Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany | 10.06 - 17.09 2017
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Documenta 14
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Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany | 10.06 - 17.09 2017
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Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany | 10.06 - 17.09 2017
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Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany | 10.06 - 17.09 2017
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Documenta 14
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Athens Conservatoire (Odeion) / Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece | 08.04 - 16.07 2017
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Athens Conservatoire (Odeion) / Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece | 08.04 - 16.07 2017
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Athens Conservatoire (Odeion) / Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece | 08.04 - 16.07 2017
Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Athens Conservatoire (Odeion) / Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece | 08.04 - 16.07 2017
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Mounira Al Solh, Pélagie Gbaguidi
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Athens Conservatoire (Odeion) / Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece | 08.04 - 16.07 2017
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Zeno X Gallery exhibitions

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Selected solo exhibitions

2023
De-Fossilization of the Look, Mimosa House, London, United Kingdom
2018
Pélagie Gbaguidi: Disclosed Traces and Triadic Apparitions, Sulger-Buel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016
El Mundo sans le corps, Sulger-Buel Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Selected group exhibitions

2023
Shōkakkō, TheMerode, Brussels, Belgium
Chaleur Humaine - Triennale Art & Industrie, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
Motel Corona. Resilience Acquisitions by the Flemish Community, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit, Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
2022
Parable of the Progress, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
Exiting the Vampire Castle, Lichtekooi Artspace, Antwerp, Belgium
Charging Myths by On-Trade-Off, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Traces de l'invisible, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France
2021
10e Triennale d'Art Contemporain d'Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
2020
2019
6th Biennale de Lubumbashi: Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line, Museum Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, Congo
Somewhere in the World: Afrikanisch-niederösterreichische Begegnungen, Forum Frohner, Krems an der Donau, Austria
I had a dream, Africa Center, New York, United States of America
Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Festival Désir... Désirs: Décoloniser les corps, Eternal Network, Tours, France
2018
Dak'Art 2018: La Biennale de L'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
2017
Afriques Capitales, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
El Iris de Lucy. Artistas Africanas Contemporáneas, CAAM - Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
HERstory -Feminist Archives, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Malakoff, France
2016
L'Iris de Lucy: Artistes Africaines Contemporaines, Musée de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Dakar-Martigny: Hommage à la Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland
The Lucy's Iris: African Contemporary Women Artists., MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castille-et-Léon, Castille-et-Léon, Spain
2015
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., United States of America
2014
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
2013
Asyl Stadtmuseum. Afrikanische Theaterfiguren in einer künstlerischen Installation von Pélagie Gbaguidi und Stefanie Oberhoff, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Traces de Femmes, ici & demain, Villa des Arts de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
2012
1st Casablanca Biennial, Casablanca, Morocco
2008
Écouter et Entendre, Galerie Kevin Conru, Brussels, Belgium
Dak'Art 2008: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
2007
Dockanema: 2e édition du Festival du Film Documentaire de Maputo, Maputo, Mozambique
Africa plural 3+3, Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2006
L'Homme est un Mystère: Exposition Art Contemporain d'Afrique, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc, France
Dak'Art 2006: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
2004
Dak'Art 2004: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal

Public collections

Artothèque, Saint-Denis, Réunion, France
Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
CNAP Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Holocaust Memorial Foundation, Chicago, United States of America
KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, permanent loan from the Hüni-Michel-Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art / City of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Memorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium

Press

“Pélagie Gbaguidi, ‘le jour se lève’ at Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp”
Mousse Magazine, article (online)
May 2022

“Adem is de eerste taal – Een gesprek met Pélagie Gbaguidi”
<H>ART Magazine, no.223, article by Kathleen Weyts
April 2022

“De kunstenaar als seismograaf”
De Standaard, article by Geert Van Der Speeten
March 2022

“Pélagie Gbaguidi: The Body as Archive”
Ocula, article by Jareh Das (online)
March 2022

“Pélagie Gbaguidi – Der scharfe Schnitt durch das Schaaf”
Kunstforum, no. 271, article by Heinz-Norbert Jocks (p.185-187)
November/December 2020

“documenta 14: Athens Conservatoire. Pélagie Gbaguidi”
Frieze.com, article by Harry Thorne (online)
April 2017

“The Parliament of Bodies: Black Athena Reloaded 2: A Trial of the Code Noir with Colin Dayan, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Tavia Nyong’o, David Scott, and Françoise Vergès”
dOCUMENTA14.com, article by Paul B. Preciado (online)
June 2017

“15 Documenta Artists with Staying Power. Pélagie Gbaguidi”
Artsy.net, article by Alexander Forbes (online)
June 2017

Pélagie Gbaguidi
Books
The Divine Comedy - Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists

Kerber Verlag
Bielefeld / Berlin, Germany, 2014
371 pages, ISBN 9783866789319

Kerber Verlag<br />Bielefeld / Berlin, Germany, 2014<br />371 pages, ISBN 9783866789319
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Books