Roméo Mivekannin
- 1986
- Born in Bouaké, Ivory Coast
- 2025
- Lives and works between Toulouse, France and Cotonou, Benin
- 2017
- Doctorate in progress at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier, France
- 2015
- Graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2025
- "Roméo Mivekannin," Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen, Germany (forthcoming)
- "Roméo Mivekannin: Correspondances," Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- "O Avesso do Tempo," Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
- "Spleen," Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
- "Black Mirror," Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- 2024
- "L’Envers du Temps," Musée du Louvre Lens, France
- "Human in motion," Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
- 2022
- "Effractions," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- 2021
- "Hosties noires," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
- "Béhanzin," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
- 2020
- "Les Âmes du Peuple Noir," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- "Peaux noires, masques blancs," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
- 2016
- "Forêt de ville," Atelier A, Toulouse, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025
- "When We See Us," Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
- "Rois et Reines d’Afrique: formes et figures du pouvoir," Louvre Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- "Gillet et Compagnie," Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
- 2024
- "When We See Us," Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- "The True Size of Africa," Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany
- "15 Jahre Villa Schöningen," Villa Schöningen, Berlin, Germany
- "Exiles. Regards d’Artistes," Musée du Louvre, Lens, France
- "Dig Where You Stand," Fondation Zinsou Musée, Ouidah & Les Ateliers Coffi, Cotonou, Benin
- "Signifying the Impossible Song," Southern Guild, Los Angeles, CA
- "Mythologies," Ville de Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Raphaël, France
- "Révélation! Art Contemporain du Bénin," La Conciergerie, Paris, France
- 2023
- "Can You Feel The Space That Space Occupies," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Senegal
- "International Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles," Vilnius, Lithuania
- "Une autre Histoire du Monde," Mucem, Marseille, France
- "Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- "When We See Us," Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, South Africa
- "Senghor et les arts: Réinventer l’universel," Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
- "Picasso: Sin Título," La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
- 2022
- "Imagine!," Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- "Contextile," Paço dos duques, Saison croisée France-Portugal, Guimaraes, Portugal
- "ExodeS," Centre Culturel, Saint-Raphaël, France
- "Horizons d’eaux #6," Former paper mill site, Montech, France
- "Ce que le monde doit à la nuit," Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Paris, France
- "Regarde-moi," Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- "Biennale de Dakar, Official Selection," Ancien Palais de Justice, Cap Manuel, Dakar, Senegal
- "Prenez garde à la peinture!," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
- "Picasso Remix," Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Senegal
- 2021
- "Traversées Africaines," l’Enseigne des Oudin – Fonds de dotation, Paris, France
- "Magies-Sorcelleries," Muséum de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- "La déconniatrie," Musée des Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France
- "Zoo Humain: Au temps des exhibitions coloniales," Curated by Pascal Blanchard, AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, Belgium
- "ALEPH," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
- 2020
- "Dans la tête c’est Mexico," Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
- 2019
- "Confort des étranges," Hôtel de Pierre, Toulouse, France
- 2018
- "Habiller l’architecture," ENSA, Toulouse, France
- 2016
- Group show, La Chapelle de Villematier, Villematier, France
- "Replik’Art," Contemporary Art Fesival, Toulouse, France
Public Collections
- Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
- Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Musée National du Quai Branly, Paris, France
- Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
- Collection Leridon, Paris, France
- Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
- Fondation Zeitz, Cape Town, South Africa
- Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium
- Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany
- Galerie Nationale d’art contemporain du Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
- Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
- Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- The Bunker – Collection Beth Rudin Dewoody, Palm Beach, FL
- Verbund Collection Vienna, Austria
Exhibition Catalogues and Publications
- 2023
- Senghor et les arts: Réinventer l’universel, Exh. cat., Éditions du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris 2023
- When we see us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, Exh. cat., Zeitz MOCAA, Thames & Hudson, London 2023
- 2022
- Durand, Guillaume: Déjeunons sur l‘herbe – Prix Renaudot de l‘essai 2022, Éditions Robert Laffont, France 2022
- 2021
- Béhanzin, Exh cat., Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris 2021
- 2020
- Les Âmes du Peuple Noir, Exh. cat., Editions Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan 2020
- Peaux Noires, masques Blancs, Exh. cat., Galerie Éric Dupont, Paris 2020
Bibliography
- 2023
- Bouthors, Jean-François. "Mivekannin, transgresseur universaliste," Revue Esprit, May
- Blanchard, Pascal. "Roméo Mivekannin," Numéro Art, n°12, May
- 2022
- Serrell, Mathilde. "L’art ‘ultra contemporain’ prend le pouvoir," RadioFrance, October 22
- La Meslée, Valérie Marin. "Suites africaines à Paris+," Le Point, October 22
- Azimi, Roxana. "Foires Paris + et AKAA: les coups de coeur du‘Monde Afrique’," Le Monde Afrique, October 21
- Pierre, Lola. "Les oeuvres les plus spectaculaires à voir pendant Paris +," Vogue, October 19
- 2021
- Ardenne, Paul. “Roméo Mivekannin. Du blanc au noir,” ICTUS, n°1, September
- “Roméo Mivekannin plonge avec ‘Hosties noires’ dans l’archétype colonial à la Galerie Cécile Fakhoury de Dakar,” On Art, April 8
- Nayer, Farah. “A painter explores his royal roots,” The New York Times, January
- Forster, Siegfried. “La foire 1-54 à Paris, un vrai appel d’air’ pour le marché de l’art contemporain africain,” RFI, January
- 2020
- Kerner, Anne. “Roméo Mivekannin, interview, Béhazin’, Paris, galerie Eric Dupont,” Art Visions, June 20