De-Colonization of the body

Congoville MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM,

The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone

Both the Middelheim Museum and the University of Antwerp are situated where the Colonial College was founded in 1920. A hundred years later, this is the occasion for the Middelheim Museum to examine and unfold the traces of the (post)colonial history of the site. Participating artists: Sammy Baloji (DRC/BE), Bodys Isek Kingelez (DRC), Maurice Mbikayi (DRC/SA), Jean Katambayi (DRC), KinAct Collective (DRC/BE/FR), Simone Leigh (US), Hank Willis Thomas (US), Zahia Rahmani (FR), Ibrahim Mahama (GH), Ângela Ferreira (PT/MZ/SA), Kapwani Kiwanga (CAN/FR), Sven Augustijnen (BE), Pascale Marthine Tayou (CAM/BE), Elisabetta Benassi (IT), Pélagie Gbaguidi (BEN/BE)   Curators : Sandrine Colard (BE/US) is curator and assistant professor of African Art History at Rutgers University, Newark. Thanks to All the team of the Middelheim and Sanrine Colard  

representation by Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South

You are cordially invited to contact the gallery for requests, thanking you in advance. With my best wishes   Pélagie Gbaguidi

"Congoville", MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM,

The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone

"Congoville", MIDDELHEIM MUSEUM, Antwerp (Belgium) 29 of May 3 of October 2021 historical talk in this building filled with ghosts since 1920.Thanks to the Middelheim team and Sandrine Collard and all the guests for this special day https://www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl/pagina/catalogus-tentoonstelling-congoville  

BXL UNIVERSEL II - multipli.city

The Missing Link Dicolonisation Education by Mrs Smiling Stone

La CENTRALE presents BXL UNIVERSAL II: multipli.city, a multidisciplinary exhibition/forum and event project in collaboration with 11 artists and 6 Brussels-based citizen organisations. Curators ; Carine Fol and Tania Nasieslski Installation Praxis Decolonial  A collaboration and group exhibition with students in a group exhibition at al Centrale 23 of March - 12 of Sptember 2021  

Raupenimmersattism Invocations Nettelbeckplatz Cleansing We are a new sun

OPENING of the new SAVVY Berlin Space with RAUPENIMMERSATTISM 25.09.2020 Raupenimmersattism Invocations // Nettelbeckplatz Cleansing https://www.savvy-contemporary.com/en/projects/2020/raupenimmersattism/ Ritual With Poem We are a new sun Concept : Pélagie Gbaguidi Collective Performance with Cejjad, Isu, Nuur, Thiago Rosa, Igo      

NFINITE VILLAGE MANIFESTA 13 PARALLELES DU SUD

Somewhere in the world

Manifesta 13/ Parallelles du Sud 28.08.2020-29.11.2020 INFINITE VILLAGE MANIFESTA 13 PARALLELES DU SUD By CORA VON ZEZSCHWITZ & TILMAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT/ORGANISATION/PRESENTATION   THE(HE)ARTFOR(HE)ARTPROAMM, NICE CURATORS: CORA VON ZEZSCHWITZ&TILMAN, FRANCISCA VIUDES                                                                                         

11th Berlin Biennale

Barter Zone , Zone de Troc

  11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The Crack Begins Within 5 September - 1 November 2020   Curators: María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Lisette Lagnado, Agustín Pérez Rubio   Installation Barter Zone 2020   98 drawings from new series Care, colored pencils, dry pastel and wool on paper; embroidery on tarpaulin from Congo and flour sack from Morocco ( Residency Ifitry, Morocco/artist’s studio, Belgium); taxidermied hyena Crocuta Crocuta ; taxidermied Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia ; shipping wooden crates “Mandeveille , Poste de pêche Kingabwa” and “Musée Ethnographique” sound Sound Xù  ( sea fongbe) with Mikatsiu and Pelagie Gbaguidi Architectural consulting Lydia Antoniou Poem Translation Sofia Dati  Dimensions variable Taxidermied animals and shipping crates Collection Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren Commissioned and coproduced by the 11th Berlin Biennial for contemporary Art with the support of Flanders State of the Art; Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Tervuren Assistant Project Clara Guixer Borell Team Berlin Biennial Edwige Baron Curator Lisette Lagnado and Associated Curators María Berríos, Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio Courtesy Pelagie Gbaguidi Taking part in this biennial is a human adventure made of long conversations, the story of a shared experience to be carried together, a collective excavation. thank you all.          

Drawing In Practice By Philippe Vandenberg Foundation

The Sysmograph

Drawing in Practice By Philippe Vandenberg Foundation January 20-24 2020 Special week to celebrate Philippe Vandenberg's legacy with researchers, art critics, professors, students and artists.  

Ultrasanity

The Sysmograph

Ultranasinty until 26.01.2020 Savycontemporary Berlin The different chapters (San Servolo, Lubumbashi, Berlin current exhibition) of this moving work on bodies and madness Ultrasanity On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance curators : Dr Elena Agudio and Dr Bonaventure Ndikung with Kelly krugman, Anna Jäger co curators

Udji Kinge Sauve-toi

Echo Musuem, Body Archiv

©pelagiegbaguidicollectif-photo Joseph Kasau