96:, Anna Mendieta, Eva Esse, Gina Pane, Renée Green. Michèle Magema artworks are at the intermediary mental zone between individual histories, history and art history. She tries to establish a permanent dialogue between her own stories and souvenirs with the collective memory of the spectators by approaching different themes such as feminism, sociology, politics, and mythology. The presence or the absence of the body is always at the center of her work.
68:, Zaire in 1977. She emigrated to Paris, France in 1984. In 2002 Michèle Magema received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy. After her graduation, she travels to South Korea for a post diploma residency, followed by an Ifritry residency in Morocco. In addition to being a resident artist at the
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With a background in plastic art Michèle Magema started her career as a painter. Then she followed experimenting with video, performance, photography and finally mixing video with drawing and text. Nowadays she is a multimedia interdisciplinary artist expressing herself mainly through video
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Michèle Magema earned several art awards and professional achievements among which the first prize of the Dakar
Biennale 2004 and the Yango Biennale IFAA prize 2014. Some of her works are stored within private contemporary art collections including
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performance, where she overlaid different medias such as photography with drawing, drawing with video, photo on lace. The art of Michèle Magema has been influenced by many disciplines and artists: in literature and poetry by
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Muller, Dena (Winter 2008). "Reviewed Works: Global
Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin".
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92:; from the experimental cinema she has been inspired by Antonioni, Fellini, Rossilini, Wim Wenders, Ingmar Bergman, as well as from women artists like Pipilitorist,
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Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban
Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses.
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Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin". Signs. 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560. JSTOR 10.1086/521560.
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L’AFRIQUE A DU GENIE, curated by Ghitha Triki- 3 th
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THE CINEMA EFFECT (Illusion
Reality and the Moving Image) 19/06- 07/09, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington/ USA
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AFRICATTITUDES 04/02- 19/03, Michèle Magema & Cheikh Niass, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne / France
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A COLLECTIVE DIARY AN AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY JOURNEY, Janvier-Avril 2010, Contemporary Art Museum of
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Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy Vidéo art from Africa curated by Kisito Assangni - Pori museum/ Finland
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SELLING THE SHODOWS to support the subsistence - curated by Ingrid La Fleur and Ayana V Jackson- Cgallery – Milan/ Italy
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5th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE / DIFFUSION PROJECT 27/04- 04/05, - Cultural Center of
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4th LUBUMBASHI BIENNAL « Réalités
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YOUNG CONGO Nouvelle Génération d’Artistes Congolais- By Kin Arts Studio- Institut Français- Kinshasa/ DRC
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TOILES DE LUMIERES / collection Saro Leon, curated by Orlando Britto Casa Africa Las Palmas - Canary
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SUREEL CONGO Kinshasa la ville des images/ Art Museum of History and Cultur – Dortmund- Germany
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DAKAR BIENNAL « LA CITÉ DANS LE JOUR BLEU » curated by Simon Njami- Dakar / Senegal
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AN AGE FOR YOUR OWN MAKING curated by Bonaventure Soh Ndikung- Roskilde / Copenhagen/ Denmark
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LES AFRIQUES 31/03- 18/08, coproduction Tri Postale and Espace 251 Nord, Lille/ France
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