Catch Meshac Gaba at the JAG
Wonderful Benin artist Meshac Gaba will be exhibiting at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (aka JAG) from the 7th November 2007 through to the 31st January 2008. The public are invited to join Meshac for a walkabout of the exhibition on Wednesday at 2pm – Go go go!
Date: Wednesday 7 November 2007
Venue: Johannesburg Art Gallery
Time: 14:00
m e s c h a c g a b a
Born in Cotonou, Benin, 1961
Lives and works in the Netherlands and Benin
EDUCATION
1996-7 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Tresses, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Tresses, inIVA, London, UK
Défilé de perruques, Paris, France
Glue Me Peace, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2005 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, BiblioNova,
Geleen, Netherlands
Glue Me Peace, Tate Modern, London, UK
Le Pain Migrateur, Artra Gallery, Milan, Italy
Meschac Gaba: Tresses, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Peace Maker, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Peace Maker, Ernest G Welch School of Art & Design, Gallery of the Georgia State
University, Atlanta, USA
2003 Atlantique, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, Falaki Gallery,
American University of Cairo, Egypt
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Museum Shop for Sale and Museum Living
Room for Sale, Artra Gallery, Milan and Genoa, Italy
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Music Room, SBK (Stichting Beeldende Kunst)
Tramremise, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Living Room of the Museum, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris, France
2001 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Marriage Room, Inova, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, USA
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Library of the Museum, Witte de With,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Der Inforaum/The Info-room, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
2000 Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Spielregeln/Rules of the Game, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
1999 Vente en gros et detaille, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Summer Collection, Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Game Room, Le Pavé Dans La Mare,
Besançon, France
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Museum Restaurant, W139,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Missing Links/Museum of Contemporary African Art: Draft Room, Praterinsel,
Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Nederlandsche Bank,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Architecture of the Museum, Gate Foundation,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Meschac Gaba, SBK knsm-eiland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997 Moneta Exotica. Oorspronkelijk geld uit de hele wereld/Museum of Contemporary
African Art: Draft Room, Rijksmuseum Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet,
Leiden, Netherlands
Bazar Bizar, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 Palace of the President of Benin, Pour la Francophonie festival, Cotonou, Benin
1991 Meschac Gaba, Centre Culturel Français de Cotonou, Cotonou, Benin
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 Meschac Gaba/Hermann Pitz: Tresses, Galerie Fernand Leger, Ivry, Paris, France
2001 Ensemble: Michel François & Meschac Gaba, Galerie Lumen Travo,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
