Frédéric Bruly Bouabré

Biography

1923

Born in Zéprégüé, Ivory Coast

2014

Died in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where he worked and lived

Selected Solo exhibitions

2022

World Unbound, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2013

The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2012

Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen, Biennale Bénin, Cotonou

2011

The World of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and His Object Teaching, Kimmel Center Window Gallery, New York, United States

2010

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Tate Modern, London, England
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
African Stories, Ancienne Banque du Maroc, Marrakesh, Morocco

2007

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

2006

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée des Civilisations de Côtes d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

2003

Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée Champollion, Figeac, France

1995

Galerie des 5 continents: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Musée national des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, France

Selected group exhibitions

2020

Scrivere Disegnando, When Language Seeks Its Other, Centre d’art contemporain Genève in collaboration with Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, France

2019

The Doors of Perception, in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair, Frieze New York, United States

2018

Cahiers écrits, dessinés, imprimés, Fondation Bodmer, Geneva, Switzerland
Talisman in the age of difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
La Tempête, Centre régional d'art contemporain de Sète, France
Côte d'Ivoire: Identité et vitalité de l'art contemporain, Mattatoio, Roma, Italy

2017

Art/Afrique : le nouvel atelier _ Les Initiés : sélection d'œuvres (1989-2009) de la collection d'art contemporain africain Pigozzi, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
E-Mois, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
AFRICA. Raccontare un mondo, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy

2016

Vivre !! La collection agnès b. au musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism, Musée d'art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Xu Bing Worlds of Words / Goods of Gods, Triennale de Milano, Italy

2015

Rituels, répétitions, contraintes, tentations - Plateforme Roven, Musée régional d'art contemporain du Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
Un regard sur la collection Agnès B., le LaM de Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
The Untold Want, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2014

Hommage à Frédéric Bruly Bouabré et Okhai Ojeikere, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Une histoire, Art, Architecture et design des années 1980 à nos jours, nouvel accrochage, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ici l'Afrique / Here Africa, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland

2013

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, Biennale de Venice, 55th, Ivorian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Four Corners of the World, Hite Foundation, Seoul, South Korea

2012

The Imminence of Poetics, Sao Paulo Bienal, edition 30, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2011

Le monde vous appartient, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Fondation, Venice, Italy

2010

African Stories, Ancienne Banque du Maroc, Marrakech, Morocco

2009

Una nuova storia, Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma, Italy
Against Exclusion, 3ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

2007

Why Africa?, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

2006

100% Africa, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2005

Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA ; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. United States

2004

Africa Remix, traveling exhibition, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2002

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2000

Voici, 100 ans d'art contemporain, Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980 Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States; Miami Art Museum, Miami, United States

1996

Neue Kunst aus Afrika., Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
São Paulo Biennial (23): Universalis, São Paulo, Brasil
By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France

1995

World Envisioned: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré & Alighiero e Boetti, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, United States
Big City: Artists from Africa, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

1994

Worlds Envisioned: Alighiero e Boetti and Fréderic Bruly Bouabré. Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA ; American Center, Paris, France

1993

Trésor de Voyage, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy en Josas, France

1992

Out of Africa: The Jean Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection, Saatchi Collection, London, England

1991

Africa Now, Atlantic Center of Modern Art, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain

1989

Magiciens de la terre. Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou et Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
WAAA, A fAr African Art, Courtrai, Belgium

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Contemporary African Art Collection - Jean PIGOZZI Collection, Genève, Suisse
Musée National d'Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fond de dotation, Collection Agnès b, Paris, France
Fondation François Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venise, Italie
MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou en dépôt au Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Pays-Bas
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, Mexico
Galerie Tanya RUMPFF, Haarlem, Pays-Bas
Tate Modern, Londres, Grande-Bretagne
Musée d’Art Brut, Lausanne, Suisse
Collection Lambert (LAC), Genève, Suisse
Collection Madame et Monsieur David-Weill, Paris, France
Collection Gervane et Matthias Leridon, Paris, France