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Romuald Hazoumè | ( Benin )
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 Winner of the Arnold Bode prize at documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, Romuald Hazoumè is one of Africa's leading visual artists. He has worked with many media throughout his career, from discarded petrol canisters, oil paint and canvas, to large-scale installation, video and photography.
Romuald Hazoumè was born in 1962 in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin, and now lives in Cotonou and works in Porto Novo. His work has won widespread critical acclaim, and he has recently exhibited his major installation "La Bouche du Roi, a re-creation of a slave ship made from petrol canisters, in solo shows at the British Museum, London, the Menil Collection, Houston, the Musée Quai Branly, Paris, and participated in the exhibitions "100% Afrique" at the Guggenheim Bilbao and in "Uncomfortable Truths", an exhibitions which addresses the ways in which the legacy of slavery informs contemporary art and design, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Exhibitions
Made in Porto-Novo
Angaza Afrika - African Art Now
From Courage to Freedom
ARTicle 14
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Romuald Hazoumè
| Selected solo exhibitions |
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Made in Porto-Novo, October Gallery, London, |
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Exit Ball, Galerie Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium |
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La Bouche du Roi, The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry, UK. |
| 2008/9 |
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La Bouche du Roi, Horniman Museum, London, UK |
| 2007 |
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La Bouche du Roi, The British Museum, London, touring to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Merseyside Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museums, Newcastle, UK |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2006 |
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Romuald Hazoumè: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France |
| 2005 |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Republic of Benin |
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Romuald Hazoumè: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France |
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ARTicle 14 - débrouille-toi, toi- même!, October Gallery, London, UK, touring to the World Museum, Liverpool, UK (2006) |
| 2002 |
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Romuald Hazoumè: La Bouche du Roi, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Centre Culturel Français, Turin, Italy |
| 2001 |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon, France |
| 1999 |
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Romuald Hazoumè: La Bouche du Roi, Centre Culturel Français, Cotonou, Republic of Benin |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz, Austria |
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Romuald Hazoumè: Vor-Sicht, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich; travelled to Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany; and The Project, New York, USA |
| 1998 |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| 1997 |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Galerie 20 x 2, Arnhem, Netherlands |
| 1996 |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Gelbe Musik Galerie, Berlin, travelled to Dany Keller Galerie, Munich and Firma Harlekin Art, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Selected group exhibitions |
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3rd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia |
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Africa Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
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PERSONA, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels, Belgium |
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Bénin 2059, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Republic of Benin |
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“Who’s betting on the 47?” NKV Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany |
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Art Dubai with October Gallery, Dubai, UAE |
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Joburg Art Fair with October Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2008 |
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U-TURN, Quadriennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Angaza Afrika – African Art Now, October Gallery, London |
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Art Dubai with October Gallery, Dubai, UAE |
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Joburg Art Fair with October Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2007/8 |
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Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy |
| 2007 |
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documenta 12, Kassel, Germany |
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UN/FAIR TRADE, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria |
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Uncomfortable Truths – the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art & design, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; touring to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK |
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From Courage to Freedom, October Gallery, London, UK |
| 2006/7 |
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100% Africa, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2006 |
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De ida y vuelta. África, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain |
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Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA. - Miami Art Central, Florida, USA touring to Mexico, Canada and Europe |
| 2005/6 |
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African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA |
| 2005 |
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Arts of Africa, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco |
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Africa Remix, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf,Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2003 |
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Armour: The Fortification of Man, Biennale de Fort Asperen, Netherlands |
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Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; travelled to Musée Bellerive, Zurich; and Musée d’Art de Lausanne, Switzerland |
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African Market, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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40Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 2001 |
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TRADE, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam & Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland |
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XXXV Prix International D’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Salle des Arts, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
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Œil pour œil, Le Rectangle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, Franc |
| 2000 |
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Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France. |
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Sieben Hügel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany |
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Romuald Hazoumè, Paul Pfeiffer, Duke University Museum of Art Durham, North Carolina, USA |
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Partage d’exotismes: 5e Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France |
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Man + Space, Kwangju Biennale, Korea |
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Dinge in der Kunst des XX Jahrhunderts, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
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Construction in Process VII: This Earth Is a Flower, The International Artists Museum, Bydgoszcz, Poland |
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Art Basel 2000, Galerie Art & Public, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1999 |
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Spaceship Earth, Art in General, New York, USA |
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Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York, USA |
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Liverpool Biennial: International Festival of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK |
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Out of Africa: Contemporary African Artists from the Pigozzi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| Awards and Prizes |
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Prize of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2007 |
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Arnold Bode Prize, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany |
| 1996 |
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George Maciunas Prize, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Collections |
| Barbier Muller Collection, Geneva Switzerland |
| Collection Agnès b, Paris, France |
| Collection David Bowie |
| Jean Pigozzi Collection, Geneva, Switzerland |
| La Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin |
| Museumslandschaft Hessen - Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany |
| The British Museum, London, UK |
| Selected biography |
| 2009 |
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3rd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion. Moscow, Russia. Exhibition catalogue. |
| 2008 |
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Angaza Afrika- African Art Now (Chris Spring). Published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd., London, UK. pp.124-131 |
| 2007 |
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UN/FAIR TRADE Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit. Exhibition catalogue. Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria. pp. 250,251 |
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Romuald Hazoumè: An Intinerant Artist (interview with John Picton). Freedom and Culture, published by Moving Worlds, University of Leeds, Leeds UK. |
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documenta12. Exhibition Catalogue. Kassel, Germany. pp. 142,143 |
| 2006 |
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Romuald Hazoumè: La Bouche du Roi, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Flammarion |
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100% Africa (André Magnin), Exhibition catalogue. Published by TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum |
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Romuald Hazoumè. Exhibition catalogue. Published by Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Benin |
| 2005 |
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African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection (André Magnin). Exhibition catalogue. Published by Merrell in association with the MFAH |
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La Bouche du Roi. Exhibition catalogue. Published by the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA |
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African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by André Magnin. Published by Merrell |
| 2004 |
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Afrika Remix. Exhibition catalogue. |
| 1999 |
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Romuald Hazoumè "Vor-Sicht" by Peter Volkwein. Exhibition catalogue, Städtische, Galerie Ingolstadt. Bilingual text: German, French |
| 1998 |
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7.Triennale der Kleinplastik: Zeitgenössische Skulptur. Europa Afrika. Exhibition catalogue : Romuald Hazoumè by André Magnin. Text in German |
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Benin-Benin, Tussen Gisteren Morgen |
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Romuald Hazoumè by Frits Bless. Exhibition catalogue, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn. Text in Dutch |
| 1996 |
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Contemporary Art of Africa. Edited by André Magnin and Jacques Soulilou. Text in English. Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. |
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