Born in 1967 in M'balmayo, Cameroon, Barthélémy Toguo lives and works between Paris and Bandjoun. He decided to become an artist at the age of 17 to "make people dream".
Barthélémy Toguo is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He completed his studies at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany.
As a multidisciplinary artist, he works in video, printmaking, photography, painting, design,...

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  Born in 1967 in M'balmayo, Cameroon, Barthélémy Toguo lives and works between Paris and Bandjoun. He decided to become an artist at the age of 17 to "make people dream".
  Barthélémy Toguo is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He completed his studies at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany.
  As a multidisciplinary artist, he works in video, printmaking, photography, painting, design, watercolour and sculpture, as well as installation and performance, often combining several different media in his exhibitions. By moving freely from one to the other, the artist creates works that are inspired by his experiences, his travels and his encounters. Toguo stages the contact zones between heterogeneous materials. He organizes passages between Western and African traditions and observes the resulting language and new identities. Barthélémy Toguo is inspired and nourished by his travels to create an atypical work in the field of contemporary art. In his work, he probes the meanders of the relationship to others and to the world through themes as diverse as identity, civic and political awareness, exile and sexuality.
  In 2008, he opened the "Bandjoun Station" art space in the Bamiléké country, where his cultural and social commitment can be found, a space dedicated to exploring solutions for Africa to reappropriate its contribution to international contemporary art and take its destiny into its own hands; he exhibited the installation "Road to Exile" at the opening.
  He has had numerous solo exhibitions in institutions including the Uppsala Art Museum (Sweden), the Musée d'art contemporain de Saint-Étienne, La Verrière par Hermès in Brussels, the Fundaçao Gulbenkian in Lisbon and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: Laughing in a Foreign Language at the Hayward Gallery in London in 2008, the 18th Sydney Biennial in 2011, A terrible beauty is Born at the 11th Lyon Biennial, the 11th Havana Biennial in Cuba in 2012, La Triennale : Intense Proximity at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2012, Body Language at the Studio Museum of Harlem in New York in 2013, All The World's Futures at the Venice Biennale in 2015 or Art/Africa - le Nouvel Atelier at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in 2017. In this year 2020, he has exhibited at the Mucem in Marseille, Singapore, Dakar and Daoulas Abbey.
  

  

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