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'''Michèle Magema''', born in [[Kinshasa]] in 1977, is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] in 1977. She emigrated to Paris, France in 1984, and currently resides in [[Nevers]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)|journal=Signs|date=Summer 2013|volume=38|issue=4|url=http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005/}}</ref>
'''Michèle Magema''' (born in [[Kinshasa]] in 1977) is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She currently resides in [[Nevers]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)|journal=Signs|date=Summer 2013|volume=38|issue=4|url=http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005/}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==


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 Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the ''Global Feminisms'' exhibition at the [[Brooklyn Museum]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Muller|first1=Dena|title=Reviewed Works: Global Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin|journal=Signs|date=Winter 2008|volume=33|issue=2|pages=471–474|jstor=10.1086/521560|doi=10.1086/521560}}</ref> the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.
'''Magema''' as born in [[Kinshasa]], 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 [[Cité internationale des arts]] in Paris, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the ''Global Feminisms'' exhibition at the [[Brooklyn Museum]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Muller|first1=Dena|title=Reviewed Works: Global Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin|journal=Signs|date=Winter 2008|volume=33|issue=2|pages=471–474|jstor=10.1086/521560|doi=10.1086/521560}}</ref> the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.


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
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 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 Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Maya Angelou, Senghor, Edouard Glissant, Franz Fanon; in music by Billie Hollydays; from the experimental cinema she has been inspired by Antonioni, Fellini, Rossilini, Wim Wenders, Ingmar Bergmanas well as from women artists like Pipilitorist, Cindy Sherman, Anna Mendieta, Eva Esse, Gina Pane, Renée Green.
video 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 [[Charles Baudelaire|Baudelaire]], Victor Hugo, Maya Angelou, Senghor, Edouard Glissant, Franz Fanon; in music by [[Billie Holiday]]; from the experimental cinema she has been inspired by Antonioni, Fellini, Rossilini, Wim Wenders, Ingmar Bergman, as well as from women artists like Pipilitorist, [[Cindy Sherman]], 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.
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.


Michèle Magema earned several art awards and professional achievements among which the first price of the Dakar Biennale 2004 and the Yango Biennale IFAA prize 2014. Some of her works are stored within private contemporary art collections including Sindika Dokolo Collection in Luanda (Angola), Tervuren Contemporary Collection (Belgium) and the Artothèque Villeurbanne (France).
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 [[Sindika Dokolo]] Collection in Luanda (Angola), [[Tervuren]] Contemporary Collection (Belgium) and the Artothèque Villeurbanne (France).


One of her most well-known works is ''Oyé Oyé'', (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michèle Magema|url=http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301|publisher=doual'art|accessdate=30 May 2015}}</ref>
One of her most well-known works is ''Oyé Oyé'', (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire's [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michèle Magema|url=http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301|publisher=doual'art|accessdate=30 May 2015}}</ref>


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==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist}}


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* Africultures, Michèle Magema. http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=personne&no=5261
* African digital art. The Video Artwork of Michèle Magema http://africandigitalart.com/2016/01/the-video-artwork-of-michele-magema/
* Signs journal (2005). Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa (2005). http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005/
* Julie Crenn. Michele magema /// without echo, there is no meeting(2013). https://crennjulie.com/2013/01/11/michele-magema-without-echo-there-is-no-meeting-n-paradoxa-vol-31-2013/
* BrooklynMuseum (2010). Global Feminisms: Michele Magema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QHF_1GVv0
* 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". Signs. 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560. JSTOR 10.1086/521560.
* Pensa, Iolanda (Ed.) 2017. Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: Metis Presses. {{ISBN|978-2-94-0563-16-6}}


==Exhibitions==
===individual===
*2015 : Michèle Magema CCF - 4 th Lubumbashi Biennal - Lubumbashi/ DRC
*2014 : Interstices - Galerie Saro Léon/ Las Palmas- Gran Canaria
*2011 : Michèle Magema The Triptych - Jean-Marc Patras Galerie / Paris- France
===Collective===
*Tramway Film Festival, Glasgow Slotland/United Kingdom
*Opening Africa Museum, Permanent Collection Tervuren (vernissage, opening of the museum, Belgium)
*Congo Stars, curated by Barbara Steiner- Kunsthaus Graz / Austria
*I'm What I'm, curated by Julie Creen- IciGallery- Paris 11/ France
*[[SUD Salon Urbain de Douala|SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala)]], curated by Cécile Bourne- Farell- Doual’art Art Space, Douala / Camerun
===Nordwind Festival===
*YOUNG CONGO Nouvelle Génération d’Artistes Congolais- By Kin Arts Studio- Institut Français- Kinshasa/ DRC
*AFIAC Des Artistes chez l’Habitant - FRONTIERES EFFRANGEES- FIAC/ FRANCE
*SELLING THE SHODOWS to support the subsistence - curated by Ingrid La Fleur and Ayana V Jackson- Cgallery – Milan/ Italy
*AFRIQUES CAPITALES curated by Simon Njami, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille / France
*LUCY’S EYE curated by Orlando Britto, CAAM- Las Palmas/ Gran Canaria
*SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala), curated by Cécile Bourne- Farell- Doual’art Art Space, Douala / Camerun
*AN AGE FOR YOUR OWN MAKING curated by Bonaventure Soh Ndikung- Roskilde / Copenhagen/ Denmark
*DAKAR BIENNAL « LA CITÉ DANS LE JOUR BLEU » curated by Simon Njami- Dakar / Senegal
*4th LUBUMBASHI BIENNAL « Réalités Filantes », curated by Toma Muteba- Museum of Lubumbashi-Lubumbashi / DRC
*L’AFRIQUE A DU GENIE, curated by Ghitha Triki- 3 th International African Development Forum, Attijariwafa Bank Foundation, Casablanca/ Morocco
*SENTIMENTAL FINAL ACT, curated by Elise Atangana Revue Noire Gallery- Paris/ France
*WHERE WE’ RE AT : OTHERS VOICES AND GENDER - Summer of Photography, curated by [[Christine Eyene]], Bozar Museum, Bruxelles/ Belgium
*TOILES DE LUMIERES / collection Saro Leon, curated by Orlando Britto Casa Africa Las Palmas - Canary
*Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy Vidéo art from Africa curated by Kisito Assangni - Pori museum/ Finland
*1st CASABLANCA BIENNAL – Casablanca/ Marocco
*SUREEL CONGO Kinshasa la ville des images/ Art Museum of History and Cultur – Dortmund- Germany
*Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy Vidéo art from Africa curated by Kisito Assangni :
** Contemporary Art Center /Moscou- Russia
** Art Museum Torrance– Californie- USA
**Lucca Museum - Italy
**Gallery Arena 1 – Los Angeles - USA
*COLOGNE OFF - Cologne International Video Art Festival, September, Cologne Germany
*UN CERTAIN CERCLE DE REGARD Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris/France
*ARCO MADRID 2010 with Arte Invisible, Madrid, Spain
*A COLLECTIVE DIARY AN AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY JOURNEY, Janvier-Avril 2010, Contemporary Art Museum of Herzliya, Herzliya ISRAEL
*PANAFRICAN FESTIVAL, curated by Nadira Laggoune, Alger, Algeria
*PARADE & PROCESSION here comes everybody, Parasol Unit, London UK
*16 th INTERNATIONAL ART VIDEO FESTIVAL OF CASABLANCA, Casablanca Morocco
*NOTES FROM THE EMPIRE, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresde Germany
*THE MESSENGER 10/10- 23/11, Cultur Center BRGGE - Bruge BELGIUM
*THE CINEMA EFFECT (Illusion Reality and the Moving Image) 19/06- 07/09, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington/ USA
*DISTRITO LA REGENTA curated by Orlando Britto, La Regenta Las-Palmas/ Gran Canaria
*ON PROCESSION, IMA Indiannapolis/ USA
*FLOW, Studio Art Museum in Harlem, New York/ USA
*SUD (Urban Salon of Douala), Space Doual’art, Douala / CAMERUN
*7th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE curated by Simon Njami, Bamako / Mali
*BLACK PARIS, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth / Germany
*AFRICA REMIX, curated by Simon Njami 24/06/07 - 18/08/O7 :
** National Art Gallery, Johannesburg / South Africa
** Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Sweden
**Mori Museum, Tokyo / Japan
**Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris / France
**Hayward Gallery, London / UK
**Kunst Palast Museum, Dusseldörf / Germany
*9th HAVANA BIENNALE, entitled « Urban Dynamic Culture », Havana / Cuba
*AFRICATTITUDES 04/02- 19/03, Michèle Magema & Cheikh Niass, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne / France
*5th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE / DIFFUSION PROJECT 27/04- 04/05, - Cultural Center of Teheran - Teheran / IRAN
*BEAUTES AFRIQUES@NANTES, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes / France
*LES AFRIQUES 31/03- 18/08, coproduction Tri Postale and Espace 251 Nord, Lille/ France
*6th DAKAR BIENNALE, Dakar / SENEGAL - First Prize
*5th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE, Bamako / MALI


=== Related articles ===
=== See also ===
* [[List of public art in Douala]]
* [[List of public art in Douala]]


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Michèle Magema
Michèle Magema
Michèle Magema

Michèle Magema (born in Kinshasa in 1977) is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She currently resides in Nevers.[1]

Biography

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Magema as born in Kinshasa, 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 Cité internationale des arts in Paris, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the Global Feminisms exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.

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 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 Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Maya Angelou, Senghor, Edouard Glissant, Franz Fanon; in music by Billie Holiday; from the experimental cinema she has been inspired by Antonioni, Fellini, Rossilini, Wim Wenders, Ingmar Bergman, as well as from women artists like Pipilitorist, Cindy Sherman, 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.

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 Sindika Dokolo Collection in Luanda (Angola), Tervuren Contemporary Collection (Belgium) and the Artothèque Villeurbanne (France).

One of her most well-known works is Oyé Oyé, (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)". Signs. 38 (4). Summer 2013.
  2. ^ 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". Signs. 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560. JSTOR 10.1086/521560.
  3. ^ "Michèle Magema". doual'art. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

Bibliography

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Exhibitions

[edit]

individual

[edit]
  • 2015 : Michèle Magema CCF - 4 th Lubumbashi Biennal - Lubumbashi/ DRC
  • 2014 : Interstices - Galerie Saro Léon/ Las Palmas- Gran Canaria
  • 2011 : Michèle Magema The Triptych - Jean-Marc Patras Galerie / Paris- France

Collective

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  • Tramway Film Festival, Glasgow Slotland/United Kingdom
  • Opening Africa Museum, Permanent Collection Tervuren (vernissage, opening of the museum, Belgium)
  • Congo Stars, curated by Barbara Steiner- Kunsthaus Graz / Austria
  • I'm What I'm, curated by Julie Creen- IciGallery- Paris 11/ France
  • SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala), curated by Cécile Bourne- Farell- Doual’art Art Space, Douala / Camerun

Nordwind Festival

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  • YOUNG CONGO Nouvelle Génération d’Artistes Congolais- By Kin Arts Studio- Institut Français- Kinshasa/ DRC
  • AFIAC Des Artistes chez l’Habitant - FRONTIERES EFFRANGEES- FIAC/ FRANCE
  • SELLING THE SHODOWS to support the subsistence - curated by Ingrid La Fleur and Ayana V Jackson- Cgallery – Milan/ Italy
  • AFRIQUES CAPITALES curated by Simon Njami, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille / France
  • LUCY’S EYE curated by Orlando Britto, CAAM- Las Palmas/ Gran Canaria
  • SUD (Salon Urbain de Douala), curated by Cécile Bourne- Farell- Doual’art Art Space, Douala / Camerun
  • AN AGE FOR YOUR OWN MAKING curated by Bonaventure Soh Ndikung- Roskilde / Copenhagen/ Denmark
  • DAKAR BIENNAL «  LA CITÉ DANS LE JOUR BLEU » curated by Simon Njami- Dakar / Senegal
  • 4th LUBUMBASHI BIENNAL «  Réalités Filantes », curated by Toma Muteba- Museum of Lubumbashi-Lubumbashi / DRC
  • L’AFRIQUE A DU GENIE, curated by Ghitha Triki- 3 th International African Development Forum, Attijariwafa Bank Foundation, Casablanca/ Morocco
  • SENTIMENTAL FINAL ACT, curated by Elise Atangana Revue Noire Gallery- Paris/ France
  • WHERE WE’ RE AT : OTHERS VOICES AND GENDER - Summer of Photography, curated by Christine Eyene, Bozar Museum, Bruxelles/ Belgium
  • TOILES DE LUMIERES / collection Saro Leon, curated by Orlando Britto Casa Africa Las Palmas - Canary
  • Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy Vidéo art from Africa curated by Kisito Assangni - Pori museum/ Finland
  • 1st CASABLANCA BIENNAL – Casablanca/ Marocco
  • SUREEL CONGO Kinshasa la ville des images/ Art Museum of History and Cultur – Dortmund- Germany
  • Still Fighting Ignorance & Intellectual Perfidy Vidéo art from Africa curated by Kisito Assangni :
    • Contemporary Art Center /Moscou- Russia
    • Art Museum Torrance– Californie- USA
    • Lucca Museum - Italy
    • Gallery Arena 1 – Los Angeles - USA
  • COLOGNE OFF - Cologne International Video Art Festival, September, Cologne Germany
  • UN CERTAIN CERCLE DE REGARD Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris/France
  • ARCO MADRID 2010 with Arte Invisible, Madrid, Spain
  • A COLLECTIVE DIARY AN AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY JOURNEY, Janvier-Avril 2010, Contemporary Art Museum of Herzliya, Herzliya ISRAEL
  • PANAFRICAN FESTIVAL, curated by Nadira Laggoune, Alger, Algeria
  • PARADE & PROCESSION here comes everybody, Parasol Unit, London UK
  • 16 th INTERNATIONAL ART VIDEO FESTIVAL OF CASABLANCA, Casablanca Morocco
  • NOTES FROM THE EMPIRE, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresde Germany
  • THE MESSENGER 10/10- 23/11, Cultur Center BRGGE - Bruge BELGIUM
  • THE CINEMA EFFECT (Illusion Reality and the Moving Image) 19/06- 07/09, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington/ USA
  • DISTRITO LA REGENTA curated by Orlando Britto, La Regenta Las-Palmas/ Gran Canaria
  • ON PROCESSION, IMA Indiannapolis/ USA
  • FLOW, Studio Art Museum in Harlem, New York/ USA
  • SUD (Urban Salon of Douala), Space Doual’art, Douala / CAMERUN
  • 7th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE curated by Simon Njami, Bamako / Mali
  • BLACK PARIS, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth / Germany
  • AFRICA REMIX, curated by Simon Njami 24/06/07 - 18/08/O7 :
    • National Art Gallery, Johannesburg / South Africa
    • Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Sweden
    • Mori Museum, Tokyo / Japan
    • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris / France
    • Hayward Gallery, London / UK
    • Kunst Palast Museum, Dusseldörf / Germany
  • 9th HAVANA BIENNALE, entitled « Urban Dynamic Culture », Havana / Cuba
  • AFRICATTITUDES 04/02- 19/03, Michèle Magema & Cheikh Niass, Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne / France
  • 5th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE / DIFFUSION PROJECT 27/04- 04/05, - Cultural Center of Teheran - Teheran / IRAN
  • BEAUTES AFRIQUES@NANTES, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes / France
  • LES AFRIQUES 31/03- 18/08, coproduction Tri Postale and Espace 251 Nord, Lille/ France
  • 6th DAKAR BIENNALE, Dakar / SENEGAL - First Prize
  • 5th BAMAKO AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE, Bamako / MALI

See also

[edit]