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25 JULY 2016 | Angalia will participate to AKAA's first edition
AKAA - Also Known As Africa is the first art fair devoted to contemporary art and design from Africa to be organized in Paris, France. AKAA’s first edition will be held November 11-13, 2016, at the Carreau du Temple, in parallel with a Parisian cultural calendar that features photography in its...
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22 APRIL 2016 | "Tambola malembe" (Slow progress): a lightning-quick success
Amani Bodo’s first solo exhibition at the Texaf-Bilembo Cultural Centre in Kinshasa has proved a resounding success. All of the paintings, bar two still on display at the cultural centre, had been purchased by 22 April, the exhibition’s closing date. Apart from the paintings in the "Tous sapeurs!"...
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1 MARCH 2016 | Amani Bodo solo exhibition
Amani Bodo’s first ever solo exhibition will be held, in partnership with Angalia, on 11 March – 22 April 2016 at the Texaf-Bilembo Cultural Centre in Kinshasa. The artist will unveil 25 artworks; including an exhilarating series of 10 canvases entitled "Tous sapeurs !" in which international...
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Highlight | 13 JANUARY 2016
Tsham’s exhibition at Bilembo Cultural Centre in Kinshasa ended in December and proved to be a resounding success for the artist. Most of the artworks on show were purchased at the official opening reception. The next Texaf-Bilembo exhibition in partnership with Angalia will be devoted to Amani...
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Highlight | 19 NOVEMBER 2015
Angalia will be exhibiting at the very first AKAA (Also Known as Africa) Contemporary Art and Design Fair to be held on 3-6 December at the Carreau du Temple in Paris. AKAA is the first art fair devoted to contemporary art and design from Africa to be held in France and will play...
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Interview with Steve Bandoma
EBC: When we met in Paris in June you explained to me that your style — this fusion of different techniques that allows you to arrange surprising images — has been perceived as something extremely new when you presented your work, for the first time, in Kinshasa. Why, according to you? SB:...
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Highlight | 20 OCTOBER 2015
Tsham will showcase his new works at a solo exhibition at Texaf-Bilembo Cultural Centre in Kinshasa on 23 October – 6 December. And a milestone has occurred in the black ballpoint pen artist’s career: colour now appears in his works! In fact, colour is making a comeback, as Tsham used colour in the...
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Highlight | 13 September 2015
Angalia will be taking part in the Swab International Contemporary Art Fair on 1-4 October in Barcelona. The gallery will be showcasing Steve Bandoma’s work in the Swab Gate section. Swab Gate consists of solo presentations of the works of four African and Caribbean artists selected by the curator...
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Highlight | 6 SEPT 2015
Come on a trip with Angalia to the artists’ studios in Kinshasa! Three videos are already online: in the first video, Tsham talks about one of his black biro on paper artworks, in the second, following his first solo exhibition in Kinshasa and just a few months before the madness of the Beauté...
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Highlight | 17 JULY 2015
The ambitious step taken by the Cartier Foundation and the curator André Magnin has been highly praised by the media, with comments including “a vibrant and shimmering wave”, a "highly-coloured and musical” exhibition, “on the edges of modernity, humour and pop culture”, a reflection of a “bubbling...
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Highlight | 25 MAY 2015
A big exhibition entitled Beauté Congo – 1926-2015 – Congo Kitoko will be held at the Fondation Cartier in Paris from 11 July to 15 November 2015. The exhibition, with André Magnin as chief curator, is set to be unique as it will retrace 80 years of artistic production in the...
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Highlight | 16 APRIL 2015
Following the success of the JP Mika! exhibition which closed on 22 March, the Texaf-Bilembo Centre and Angalia are now preparing two new solo exhibitions: the ball-point pen virtuoso Tsham will be showing his works from November to December 2015 and then the centre will host Amani Bodo’s...
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Tribute
It was with great sorrow that we learned of the death of Pierre Bodo on Thursday 5 March 2015. We are losing a friend and we will miss him a great deal. The deprived children of the district of Nzadi Kingabwa will miss him even more: he wanted to give them an opportunity in life by offering them...
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JP MIKA ! A JP Mika solo exhibition at the Texaf-Bilembo Cultural Centre in Kinshasa in collaboration with Angalia 29 January – 22 March 2015 For his first solo exhibition, JP Mika is showcasing some 30 artworks that are representative of his...
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The Bilembo Cultural Centre (Kinshasa), working with Angalia, is hosting from 29 January to 22 March 2015 the solo exhibition JP Mika! It covers the artist’s various artistic universes. 30 artworks are presented. The official opening reception will be held on January 29 at 6:30 pm. See more...
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A contemporary art biennial takes place in Kinshasa from 21 November to 19 December. 35 artists from all the continents of the globe have been selected, of whom 17 will be representing Africa. Seven Congolese visual artists are part of the selected group, including Francis Mampuya and Kura Shomali....
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A Contemporary Art sale is organized by Millon & Associés auction house on November 19, 2014 at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. 231 artworks will be on sale, including 81 from African artists. Angalia presents ten works from seven artists: Steve Bandoma, Amani Bodo, Francis Mampuya, JP Mika, Moke...
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The Cité des Voyageurs in Nantes (France) is hosting the Angalia gallery for the Congo eye na Nantes (“Congo comes to Nantes”) exhibition to be held from 4 November 2014 to 9 January 2015. The exhibition is part of the city’s annual African festival called Casa Palabres. Nine artists (Chéri Benga,...
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Two auctions of contemporary African art are set to take place in Paris this autumn. African stories, Art contemporain africain will be held at PIASA on Tuesday 7 October and will be followed by Art contemporain - Scène africaine at Drouot under the hammer of Millon & Associés on...
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Amani Bodo makes his return with a half-man half-animal sapeur set against one of his famous backgrounds of sparkling colours. A surrealist, unsettling and highly inspired work!
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Steve Bandoma
Chéri Benga
Amani Bodo
Pierre Bodo
Chéri Chérin
Francis Mampuya
Gaël Maski
JP Mika
Papa Mfumu’Eto 1er
Kura Shomali
Tsham
Freddy Tsimba
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