Pascale Marthine Tayou

Born in 1967 in Cameroon

Works and lives in Yaoundé, Cameroon and Brussels, Belgium.

Pascale Marthine Tayou gave himself two first names: Pascale and Marthine that he feminized. He studied law, hoping it would lead to a kind of purity, but fled the profession when he realized that the system was corrupt. He then turned to art, despite his suspicision that “it didn’t exist”. Tayou’s work is based on the premise that art cannot be separated from life. His site-specific installations recycle every kind of material, object, and image to testify to the continuous circulation of people throughout the world, their personal history and their culture. He refers to these projects as “collective works,” the result of that which he notices, of what happens to him in everyday life, a sum total of journeys, encounters, energy, chance and spontaneity.

Tayou has commented, “I leave to others the possibility of saying it all. For me, art is just a simple vector of communication.”

In the mid 1990s, much of Tayou’s work was based on drawing. In 1995 he created an extended series of sketches, beginning with a sequence based on Das Kapital. Using chalks, coloured felt tip pens, ink and ballpoint pens on the back of recycled posters, Tayou executed these works very rapidly, in freehand, almost mechanically. Without ever stopping, thinking, or looking back, Tayou could only see the whole once he had finished. Even though they seem formless and out of control, viewed together they are like a series of interconnected dynamic networks that have been infiltrated by a form of energy which seeks to dismantle them. As Tayou has stated, “When I was young, I wrote and I drew. It was my way of rebelling.”

More recently he has used a similar method to create site-specific works and video installations. The words and the rhythm of his texts, the recycled objects that he literally nails on to frames and strews around exhibition spaces, the incidental and purposeful footage picked up by his video camera, regard with equal intensity both the evil and grace of the world we share.

pascalemarthinetayou.comSELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Jungle Fever, St Regis Rome Hotel, Roma, Italy

Michelangelo Pistoletto & Pascale Marthine Tayou. Una cosa non esclude l'altra, Galleria Continua / San Gimignano, Italy

Morceaux Choisis au C.E.PE, Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon

Tornado, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium

Black Forest, Fondation Clément, Le François (Martinique)

Semences, KU Leuven (Belgium)

2018

Fresh Kiss, Galleria Bottegantica, Milano, Italy

Chapitres, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium

Colorful Line, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA

NYLONGKONG Dreams, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2017

Voodoo Child, Galleria Continua / Les Moulins, France

Kolmanskop Dream, IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Berlin, Germany

Love city, Varbergs Konsthall, Varberg, Sweden

CARNAVAIS/ CARNAVAL(S), A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Welcome back again !!, Galleria Continua / Les Moulins, France

Summer Surprise, Special projet 1:54 Contemporay African Art Fair, London, UK

Beautiful, Bass museum, Miami, USA

2016

Sunrise Surprise, Les ateliers PM Tayou, Gand, Belgium

Miracle !!!, CAC Malaga, Spain

Chroniques d’une renaissance, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France

2015

Paradis(e), Galerie Aveline, Paris, France

Exposition d’ouverture, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France

Pascale Marthine Tayou : BOOMERANG, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London

Boomerang, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

Gri-gri, VnH Gallery, Paris, France

Plastic Tree, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2014/2015

Fast and Slow, Musée Africain de Lyon

World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles

2014

Pascale Marthine Tayou, Akwaba, Assinie mon amour, Cécile Fakhoury Gallery Abidjan, Ivory Coast

I Love You, Kunsthalle, Bregenz, Austria

Tayouwood, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Update !, Galleria Continua / San Gimignano, Italy

2012

Collection privée, Parc de la Villette, Paris

Secret Garden, MACRO, Rome, Italy

Intramoulins, Le Chemin Lumineux, Lille, France

Plastic Bags, Gare Saint Lazare, Paris, France

Le Chemin du Bonheur, Castello di Ama, Ama, Italy

2011

Black Forest, MUDAM, Luxembourg

Always all ways - Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, France

2010

Tansgression, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

LOoObHy n•50, Goethe-Institut - Johannesburg, South Africa

Traffic Jam - Gare Saint sauveur-Lille 3000 - Lille, France

Always All Ways. Omnes Viae Malmö Ducunt, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Liaisons Courtes, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Nethederlands

2009

Le Grand Cheval Belge 2009, Benedengalerie Culturcentrum, Kortrijk, Belgium

2008

Kiosk, Louis pasteurlaan 2 +, Godshuizenlaan, Gent, Holland

"Sphères", GALLERIA CONTINUA / Le Moulin, France

Matiti Elobi, Château de Blandy Les Tours, Blandy Les Tours, France

Jungle Fever, Galleria Continua / San Gimignano (Italy)

2007

Zigzag Zipzak!, Galleria Continua Beijing, Pechino, China

Plastik Diagnostik, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, UK

Plastic Bags, MK Dons Football Stadium, Central Milton Keynes, UK

Plastic Bags, Kunstalle Wien, spazio pubblico Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria

2005

Rendez-vous, Martha Herford, Herford, Germany

2004

Pascale Marthine Tayou: Young Collector, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano - Italy

S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. Gent)

Gent - Belgium

Le menu familial, Espace Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon

Omnes viae Romam ducunt, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2003

Transferts, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

2002

Brazilisme, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA

Erection, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

Qui Perd Gagne, Inaugural exhibition Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Le Menu Familial, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

Pascale Marthine Tayou, INOVA (Institute of Visual Art), Milwaukee, USA

2001

Islands, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

Ici Maintenant, Tour & Taxi, Brussels, Belgium

Kunst & Zwalm 2001, Zottegen, Belgium

2000

After Shave, Damasquine Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Somewhere, der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

1999

Crazy Nomad, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA

Trafique, Stedelijk Museum voor actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

1997

Looobhy, performance, Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon

Le Déballage, Goethe Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Le Tronçonnage, Performance, Paris, France

1996

Détripations, Centre of French Culture, Yaoundé,Cameroon

Transgressions Majeures, Goethe Institute, Berlin, Germany

1995

Art of our Time, Museum of Art of Setegaya, Tokyo, Japan

La Chaise à Doual'Art, Centre of French Culture of Douala, Cameroon

Looobhy, performance, Goethe Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

1994

Transgressions, Centre of French Culture, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Jazz sous les manguiers, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Atelier la Rencontre, Goethe Institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Art is the Antidote, 2022, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (Netherlands)

Subterranean, 2022, Amos Rex, Helsinki (Finlande)

Glass Exchange, 2022, National Glass Centre, Sunderland (UK)

Forever is Now II, 2022, Pyramids of Giza, Cairo (Egypt)

2021

Congoville, 2021, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (Belgium)

Look! Exposing Art and Fashion, Marta Herford Museum, Herford (Germany)

Truc à faire, curated by JR, Galleria Continua, Paris (France)

2020

L'heure bleue, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerpen (Belgium)

Daily Nightshift, Kunstal Extra City, Antwerpen (Belgium)

re-cyclage sur-cyclage, Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France)

Utopie Fantastiche, Castello di Rocca, Angera (Italy)

Leaving and Returning, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (Jerusalem)

Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)

Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, Moody Art Center, Houston, Texas (USA)

2019

Feast of Fools. Brueghel Rediscovered, Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek (Belgium)

Sustainable Thinking, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence (Italy)

100 artistes dans la ville - ZAT 2019, MOCO, Montpellier (France)

Banque Mondiale, Yaoundé (Cameroon)

The Warmth of Other Suns, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC (USA)

POUVOIR & POUVOIR, Galleria Continua / Les Moulins, Boissy-Le-Châtel (France)

Savoir Faire Savoir, Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris (France)

IncarNations, BOZAR, Brussels (Belgium)

Nous sommes contemporains, l'Ar(t)senal, Dreux (France)

N'GOLA Biennale, São Tomé & Principe

15 artists x 15 years in China, Galleria Continua / Beijing (China)

ETNOS - Faces of diversity, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (Brasil)

Nos années de solitude, Biennale d'architecture, Orléans (France)

Nuit Blanche 2019, Paris (France)

Romaeuropa 19, Roma (Italy)

2018

Art of the treasure hunt, Castello di Broglio (Italy)

Etnos - Faces of Diversity, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (Brazil)

KAB18, Kampala Art Biennale, Kampala (Ouganda)

Sanguine, MUHKA - Musée d'art contemporain d'Anvers (Belgium)

PARTcours, La Médiatine, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Belgium)

Tissage, Tressage, Villa D'Atris, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France)

African Mētrópolis, MAXXI, Roma (Italia)

Habitarium, La Condition Publique, Roubaix (France)

Contemporary White, Protestant Church - Robilant + Voena Gallery, Zürich (Switzerland)

Dak'art, Biennale de Dakar, Dakar (Sénégal)

Material Politics, Redwood Library & Athenaeum, Rhode Island (USA)

Democracy A-New ?, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (Ukraine)

Wunderkammer, Museum Hof Van Busleyden Mechelen, Malines (Belgium)

Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, MASP, São Paulo (Brazil)

2017

METROPOLIS, AFRIQUES CAPITALES, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris(France)

Plain / Purl, Design Museum, Gent (Belgium)

Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier. Les Initiés, un choix d’œuvres (1989 – 2009) dans la collection d’art africain contemporain de Jean Pigozzi. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (04/26/17 to 09/04/17)

2016

Chroniques d’une renaissance, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France

2015

L’invitation au voyage, église Saint-Loup, Namur, Belgium

Glasstress 2015, Venice, Italy

Global Imaginations, Flour Factory, Leiden, The Netherlands

Plastic Tree, Unlimited, Basel

Les Mondes Inversés, Art Contemporain et Cultures Populaires, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Belgium

The Importance of Being ... Contemporary art from Belgium in Latin-America, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Havana, Cuba

2014/2015

Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy: From the Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection, Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2014

The Divine Comedy, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany

Ici l’Afrique/Here Africa - L’Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Musée des Suisses dans le Monde,

Château de Penthes, Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland

Art Eco, Museum Cultuur Strombeek Gent, Belgium

One Torino – Shit and Die, Artissima, Torino, Italy

Projet pour un monument à l’Anthropocène, Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

De Zee - salut d’honneur Jan Hoet, Ostende, Belgium

Behind Beauty, Festival “C’est comme ça!”, L’Echangeur CDC Picardie, Château-Thierry, France

African Artists, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA

“Made by... Feito por Brasileiros”, a creative invasion, Sao Polo, Brasil

KRASJ 2014, Ninove, Belgium

Fast & Slow, Musée Africain, Lyon, France

Art Festival Watou, Watou, Belgium

Text-Île, Palais d’Egmont, Bruxelles, Belgium

CONI, Rome, Italy

Painting biennale, Roger Raveelmuseum, Ravel, Belgium

One Shot! Football e Arte Contemporanea, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Polo, Brasil

Icastica 2014, Museo archeologico, Arezzo, Italy

African Way, Chapelle de la Visitation - Espace d’art contemporain, Thonon-les-Bains, France

La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France

Art Dubai 2014, Dubai, Emirates

Hémisphères vodous : un parcours d’art contemporain à Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Des hommes, des mondes, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France

Avec motifs apparents, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Paris, France

Heaven, Hell, Purgatory – The Divine Comedy from the Perspective of Contemporary

African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2013

Michelangelo Pistoletto’s & Pascale Marthine Tayou’s exhibition, CONtemporarySULER, La Punt (Switzerland)

Nuit Blanche, Toronto (Canada)

Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2013, Abu Dhabi (Emirates)

Perpetual Travellers, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (Germany)

Middle Gate Geel’13, Cultuurcentrum, Werft (Belgium)

Rives de Saône, Au fil de l’eau, Lyon (France)

Triennale Fellbach, Stuttgart (Germany)

Les Nouvelles Folies Françaises, Domaine National de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)

My Little Paradise, Middelheim museum, Antwerp (Belgium)

OpenArt, Orebrö (Sweden)

Artzuid, Amsterdam (Netherland)

Chinafrique, Paris (France)

Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah Art Foundation (United Arab Emirates)

Love is Colder Than Capital, Kunsthaus Bregenz (Austria)

2012

Unfinished Journeys, GL Strand, Copenhague (Danemark)

Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London (England)

Homo Faber, Castello Sforzesco, Milano (Italy)

Les artistes et le tramway de Paris, Paris (France)

Pont culturel - Les Flâneurs d’Edéa, Douala – Institut français, Goethe Institut - Edéa (Cameroun)

Facing Walls, Opening Windows, Galleria Continua, Beijing (China)

«Pommery : 10 ans d’Expériences. Expérience Pommery #10», Domaine Pommery, Reims (France)

Masques Passeport, Au fil de l'eau, Rives de Saône, Lyon, (France)

9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, (China)

Terres Sacrées, Nuit des Bains, Quartier des Bains, Genève (Switzerland)

Unfinished Journeys, GL Strand, Copenhague (Danemark)

Where is the time? Fondation Izolyatsia, Donetsk (Ukraine)

Art et Nature, Jardin du Hauvel, Saint Hymer, Calvados (France)

NEON La materia luminosa nell’arte, MACRO, Rome, Italy

The World Falls Apart, We face Forrward, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (UK)

TRACK a Contemporary city invitation, S.M.A.K, Citadelpark, Gent, Belgium

4th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech (Maroc)

2011

Le Musée - Monde, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Evento-Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

Barely There, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, U.S.A

Terre Vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

30 et Presque Songes, Chambre de Commerce et d’industrie, Antananarivo (Madagascar)

3ème Festival International d’Art Contemporain d’Alger, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain d’Alger (Algeria)

Arken Price, Museum of Modern Art, Arken (Denmark)

After Shave, Maison de la Revue Noire, Paris (France)

TRA Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia, (Italy)

2010

The New Décor, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

21st century Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern art, Brisbane, (Australia)

SUD 2010, Salon Urbain de Douala, festival triennal d'art public, Espace doual'art centre d'art contemporain Place du Gouvernement Bonanjo, Douala, (Camerun)

Éclaircies, Le Quai Forum des Arts Vivants, Angers, (France)

Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua / Beijing, (China)

Who Knows Tomorrow, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, (Germany)

ART FOR THE WORLD (THE EXPO), Expo 2010 Shanghai, Expo Boulevard, Shanghai,(China)

One Shot! Football and contemporary art, B.P.S.22 space for contemporary creation of the

Province of Hainaut, Charleroi (Belgium)

ATTRACTION !, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, (France)

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Gemeenteplein, Strombeek-Bever, (Belgium)

The New Décor, The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, (Russia)

TERRE VULNERABILI a growing exhibition, HangarBicocca, Milano, (Italy)

Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, (Denmark)

Trasparenze. L’arte per le energie rinnovabili, Macro, Roma, (Italy)

2009/2010

Africa? Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy

2009

Un certain état du monde: Sélection de la collection de la Fondation François Pinault, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

Fare mondi / Making worlds, 53. Biennale di Venezia, Venice (Italy)

Open Source Amsterdam, Bridge of Groesbeekdreef, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Dream Time 2009, Les Abattoirs - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse (France) - Grotte du Mas d’Azil (France)

Altermodern, 4th Triennial, Tate Britain, London

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (Russia)

Solo al buio, Ai Mercati di Traiano, a cura di Andrea Viliani e Cecilia Canziani, Roma (Italy)

2006

100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Commitment, bkSM project (beeldende kunst Strombee/Mechelen), several museums (Belgium)

Venice-Istanbul, Selections of the 51th International Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy) - Istanbul (Turkey)

Testigos witnesses, NMAC Foundation, Cádiz (Spain)

La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais, Paris (France)

Human Game, Stazione Leopolda for Pitty Immagine, Florence (Italy)

9th The Havana Biennale, La Havana (Cuba)

2005/2006

Museum der Weltkulturen Frankfurt

Frankfurt - Germany

2005

Arts of Africa, Grimaldi forum, Monaco

African Art Now : Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA

Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth Bayreuth, Germany

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Museum der Weltkulturen Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Africa Screams, Kunstverein Aalen, Aalen - Germany

Rencontre Photographique, Bamako (Mali)

51th Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy)

Senza Confine (15th year), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (Italy)

L’expérience de la durée, 8th Lyon Biennale (France)

Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing (China)

Museum of World Culture, Gothenborg (Sweden)

Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA)

Interessi Zero!, Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento (Italy)

Delicious, Sint-Truiden (Belgium)

Super, Hasselt Triennale (Belgium)

2004-2006

Africa Screams – Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult

The Evil and the Uncanny in Cinema and Art

2004

Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth – Germany

2004/2005

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna – Austria

2004/2005

Africa Remix, Art contemporain d’un continent

24 July 2004 – 7 Nov 2004: Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf - Germany

10 Feb 2005 – 17 April 2005: Hayward Gallery, London – England

25 May 2005 – 8 Aug 2005: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – France

27 May – 30 August 2006: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

24 June – 30 Sept 2007: Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

Spread in Prato 2004, Prato (Italy)

Place m’as-tu vu, Knokke con Gallery Beaulieu (Belgium)

Museum of World Culture, Gothenberg (Sweden)

Instructions, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria)

Once Upon a Time, MuHKA, Antwerpen (Belgium)

Working Ethics, Krinzinger Projekte Vienna (Austria)

Camuflaje, Celarg Foundation, Caracas (Venezuela)

2004

Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille - France

Lilles 2004, Lilles, France

Galeria Continua, San Gimignano

Espace Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon

Pascale Marthine Tayou With 4 other artists, MACRO (Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma), Rome - Italy

Je m’installe aux abattoirs, La collection d’art contemporain d’agnès b., Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2003

The American Effect

Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York - Etats-Unis,

Transferts

Palais des Beaux Arts

Bruxelles, Belgique

Correspondances Afriques

Iwalewa-Haus

Afrikanzentrum der Universität Bayreuth

Bayreuth - Allemagne

Der Rest der Welt

Neuffer am Park

Pirmasens - Germany

Le colloque des chiens

Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles

Brussels - Belgium

Happiness

Mori Art Museum

Tokyo - Japan

Münsterland Sculpture Biennial

Münsterland - Germany

Next flag, B.P.S 22, Charleroi (Belgium)

8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (Turkey)

2002 - 2003

Africa Apart,

NBGK

Berlin - Germany

2002

Documenta 11_Platform 5

Kassel - Germany

Biennal of Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo - Brazil

Tutto Normale

Villa Medicis

Rome - Italy

Game of Power

Galerie Alain Legaillard

Paris - France

Sonic City

Arc en Rêve, Centre d’architecture

Bordeaux – France

Galerie TN Probe

Tokyo - Japan

Pressing, Objectif, Antwerp (Belgium)

In Honor of, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2001-2002

The Short Century

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

and Museum of Modern Art.

New York – Etats-Unis

Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago - Etats-Unis

House of World Cultures in the

Martin-Gropius-Bau.

Berlin - Germany

Museum Villa Stuck

Munich - Germany

Arte all'Arte,

Galleria Continua

San Gimignano - Italy

Kunst & Zwalm

Zwalm - Belgium

2001

Berlin Biennal

Berlin - Germany

Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet

Umea – Sweden

Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, USA

Musée d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France

2000

Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver - Canada

Oct 5, 2000 - Jan 14, 2001

Castello Di Rivoli, Turin

March 2, 2001 - April 15, 2001

Tramway

Glasgow - Scotland

The sky is the limit

Taipei Biennial

Taipei - Taiwan

Sharing exoticisims

5th Lyon Biennial

Lyon - France

Voilà. Le Monde dans la tête

ARC Musée d’art moderne de la ville

Paris - France

Syndrome

Museum of Contemporary Art (Kiasma) Helsinki, Finland

2000

New South Wales Gallery, Sydney - Australia

Büro Friedrich, Berlin - Germany

Nagaoya City Art Museum, Japan

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Mirrors Edge, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

New French Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Zeitwenden, Museum moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria

South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

1999

Trafique , S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England

Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

Around & Around, Zeitgenossiche Kunst aus Afrika, Europa und den USA, Berlin, Stuttgart

Un Matin du Monde, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France

Galerie Peter Hermann, Stuttgart, Germany

1999

New French Art

Setagaya Art Museum, Toky, Japan

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan

Nagoya City of Art, Nagoya, Japan

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1999-2000

South Meets West

November 10-December 5, 1999

National Museum, Accra, Ghana

April 6-June 25, 2000

Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

1998

Galerie Bernard Dulon, Paris, France

Construction in Process: Briding the Gap, The Bridge, Melbourne, Australia

L'art dans le Monde, Passage de Retz, Paris - France

Cet été-là, CRAC, Sète - France

Bridging the Gap, Geneva, Switzerland

Personal Touch, Presence and Absence, Art in General, New York, ,USA

La ville dans tous ses ètats, Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon

1998

Sept 11-Nov 24

Africa Africa: Vibrant New Art from a Dynamic Continent. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

11th Biennale de Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Galerie Lucien Durand

Galerie Bernard Dulon

Paris - France

Triennale der Kleinplastik (7): Afrika-Europa, Les Écoles philosophiques

Stuttgart, Germany

La Laiterie

Strasbourg - France

Paris Maintenant

Casino Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Gare de l'Est

Casino Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Art'Sénik

Reunion Island

Bernard Dulon Gallery, Paris (France)

Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo (Japan)

Europa-Afrika, 7th Triennal of Kleinplastik, Stuttgart (Germany)

La Laiterie, Strasbourg (France)

East Station, Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

1997

Looobhy Doual'Art

Performance

Douala, Cameroon

De Rode Poort

Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

Bonnefanten Museum

Maastricht - Netherlands

Völkende Museum

Zürich

Suites Africaines

Revue Noire

Couvent des Cordeliers

Paris

Le Dèballage

Performance comique et dramaturgique avec Hèlene Beleck, Modestine Mekuete Eteke, Rigobert Tamwa et Richard Pipa de la Compagnie Looobhy

Goethe Institut

Yaoundé - Cameroon

Le Tronconnage

Performance-techno

Couvent des cordeliers

Paris - France

Universitè de Pau, France

6th Biennale de la Havana,

Cuba

La vigne en Fumèe ou la Chambre Noire,

Château de Tanlay, France

SITE

Santa Fe Biennale

Santa Fe - New Mexico

2nd Biennale de Kwangju,

South Korea

2nd Biennale de Johannesburg,

South Africa

1996

Campo 6

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per l'Arte,

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea

Turin, Italy

Galerie du jour, Agnès B

Paris - France

Atelier et performance

Berlin - Germany

Around and Around,

Doual'Art

Douala - Cameroon

Biennale de l'Art contemporain Africain,

Dakar, Senegal

1996

09/03 – 05/05

Neue Kunst Aus Afrika

Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt.

Berlin, Germany.

Transgressions Majeurs

Goethe Institute

Berlin - Germany

Detripations

Centre Culturel Français

Yaoundé - Cameroon

Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

1995 - 1996

An Inside Story : African Art of our Time Beyong Art

Setagaya Art Museum

Tokyo - Japon

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

Tokushima - Japon

Himeji City Museum of Art

Himeji - Japon

Koriyama City Museum of Art

Koriyama - Japon

Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro

Museum of Contemporary Art

Marugame - Japon

The Museum of Fine Arts

Gifu - Japon

1995

Beyond the borders

Kwangju International Biennal

Kwangju, South Korea

La Chaise à Doual'Art,

Centre Culturel Français

Douala - Cameroon

La Performance Looobhy avec la Compagnie Looobhy

Goethe Institut

Yaoundé - Cameroon

Art of our Time, Museum of Art of Setegaya, Tokyo, Japan

1994

Les Artistes africains et le Sida. Emotions profondes avec Titi

Doual’Art

Douala - Cameroon

Douala Art Festival

Douala, Cameroon

Atelier la Rencontre

Goethe Institut

Yaoundé - Cameroon

Transgression

Centre Culturel Français

Yaoundé - Cameroun

Jazz sous les manguiers

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Festival des Arts et de la Culture

Douala, Cameroon

ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark

BANDJOUN STATION, Bandjoun, Cameroon

CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS PLASTIQUES, Paris, France

CENTRE POMPIDOU, Paris, France

FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France

Fundación NMAC, Spain

Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

MAC Lyon, France

MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy

MARTa Herford, Germany

MUDAM, Luxembourg

SINDIKA DOKOLO FOUNDATION, Angola

SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium

1993

Salon du mai

French Culturel Center

Yaounde - Cameroon

FILMS

2010

L’Art et la Manière - Pascale Marthine Tayou, Arte F, réalisé par Pascal Hendrick, 2010

2005

Snapshotafrica, 2005

1998

Productio-Arte-Berlin, Paris,

1998

Looobhy

Written and directed by Pascale Marthine Tayou, avec Jean Loup Pivin et Simon Njami, 40', RN Production-Arte-Berlin, Paris.

1997

La Porte Rouge

Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.

1997

Lumière Noire

Nicolas Cornut, Paris.

1997

Les suites africaines

Revue Noire, Paris.

1996

Les Artistes Africains et la Sida

Production Revue noire, Paris.

1995

9 Crèations de Pascale Marthine Tayou

Nicolas Cornut, Paris.

1995

Les objets problématiques de Pascale Marthine Tayou

Yaoundé - Cameroun

1995

Les Artistes Africains et le Sida

Revue Noire, Paris – France

1994

La tête dans les Nuages

Jean-Marie Téno, Paris - France

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

2013

Tabourets points d’eau, Porte de Montreuil, Paris, France

Au fil de l’eau, Lyon, France

2012

IntraMoulins : le chemin lumineux, Place du Carnaval, Lille, France

Le Chemin du Bonheur, Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

Make up… Peace !, Foundation IZOL YATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine

The challenge / Le Défi, Ghent, Belgium

2010

L’Autel Sacré, Collezione Calabresi, Tenimenti d’Alessandro, Manzano, Italy

Colonne Pascale, Douala Cameroon

Shanghai Tree – Mikado Tree, Shanghai, China

Le Pont culturel – Les Flâneurs d’Edéa, Edéa, Cameroon

2009

Reverse City, Matsudai Joyama ,Japan

Tayouken Piss (Les pisseurs d’Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021

Ex Africa - Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac - Sous la direction de Philippe Dagen - Gallimard, Paris

2012

Pascale Marthine Tayou, Collection privée, Pavillon Paul-Delouvrier du Parc de la Villette, Exhibition catalogue

2009

Nicolas Bourriaud/Pier Luigi Tazzi, Pascale Marthine Tayou: Le grand sorcier de l'utopie, Pistoia 2009

2008

Pascale Marthine Tayou: Matiti Elobi, San Gimignano 2008

2006

100% Africa

Exhibition catalogue. Published by TF Editores & FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.

2006

ART+AUCTION - May

« Continental Shifts »

2005

Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi

Exhibition catalogue. Published by Skira Edition & Grimaldi Forum Monaco.

2005

African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection

Exhibition catalogue. Published by Merrell.

2005

L’art africain contemporain

Christophe Domino, André Magnin. Editions SCALA.