Benin artist Meschac Gaba pinpoints manufactured cultural hybridization, as one of the signs of capitalism run macroeconomics. Therefore, Gaba’s artworks correlate cultural forms to economics’ standard exchange items, i.e. money, industry – manufacture, trade, labour work; manifesting with irony and charm these trade-offs (between exchange of goods and human values) through the notions of cultural alteration, creolization of cultures. Behind though, his works express a sensitive support for human life, richness and local creation.
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Tate Shots: Every month, a different artist is featured. Meshac Gaba launches the series, with a tour around the streets of his home town of Cotonou, Benin, which he considers his working space and inspiration.
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Meschac Gaba’s large scale project called Museum of Contemporary African Art, which is currently presented at the Kunsthalle of Kassel, is the most representative and achieved vision of the artist in this matter (see the book Library of the Museum vol. 1, published by Artimo Foundation, 2001).
It was at the Rijksmuseum, Leiden, in 1997 that Gaba inaugurated his major work, the Museum of Contemporary African Art, a project in which the artist installed 12 'rooms' of a nomadic museum in various institutions over a period of five years, culminating with his presentation of a 'Humanist Space' at Documenta 11. Other 'rooms' include the Museum Restaurant (shown at W139, Amsterdam, in 1999), the Games Room (shown in Besançon, France, in 1999 and in Brussels and Gent in 2000), the Library of the Museum (Witte de With, 2001, and published in 2001), and the Salon (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2002).
The Museum of Contemporary African Art (1997-2002) was acquired by Tate and exhibited at Tate Modern, London, in 2013. The Library of the Museum was donated by Gaba to the city of Cotonou as part of his project Musée de l'Art de la Vie Active (MAVA). Gaba's survey exhibition Museum for Contemporary African Art & More showed at the Museum de Paviljoens in Almere, the Netherlands; the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany; and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in 2009/10.
Notable group shows include African Metropolis. An Imaginary City at MAXXI, Rome (2018); Enchanted Bodies / Fetish for Freedom at Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2018); The Red Hour, 13th Dakar Biennale (2018); More for Less at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2018); Their Own Harlems at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2017); Afrique Capitales at La Villette in Paris (2017); Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2015); Atopolis, Mons 2015 - European Capital of Culture; Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg (2015); The Theatre of the World, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2014); When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes: A Restoration / A Remake / A Rejuvenation / A Rebellion, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2013); Benin Biennale (2012); La Triennale - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2011); Touched, the 2010 Liverpool Biennale; Port City at Greenland Street Gallery, Liverpool (2008); Africa Remix (2004-2007) and, in 2006, the São Paolo, Gwangju, Sydney and Havana biennales.
It was at the Rijksmuseum, Leiden, in 1997 that Gaba inaugurated his major work, the Museum of Contemporary African Art, a project in which the artist installed 12 'rooms' of a nomadic museum in various institutions over a period of five years, culminating with his presentation of a 'Humanist Space' at Documenta 11. Other 'rooms' include the Museum Restaurant (shown at W139, Amsterdam, in 1999), the Games Room (shown in Besançon, France, in 1999 and in Brussels and Gent in 2000), the Library of the Museum (Witte de With, 2001, and published in 2001), and the Salon (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2002).
The Museum of Contemporary African Art (1997-2002) was acquired by Tate and exhibited at Tate Modern, London, in 2013. The Library of the Museum was donated by Gaba to the city of Cotonou as part of his project Musée de l'Art de la Vie Active (MAVA). Gaba's survey exhibition Museum for Contemporary African Art & More showed at the Museum de Paviljoens in Almere, the Netherlands; the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany; and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in 2009/10.
Notable group shows include African Metropolis. An Imaginary City at MAXXI, Rome (2018); Enchanted Bodies / Fetish for Freedom at Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2018); The Red Hour, 13th Dakar Biennale (2018); More for Less at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2018); Their Own Harlems at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2017); Afrique Capitales at La Villette in Paris (2017); Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein (2015); Atopolis, Mons 2015 - European Capital of Culture; Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg (2015); The Theatre of the World, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (2014); When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes: A Restoration / A Remake / A Rejuvenation / A Rebellion, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2013); Benin Biennale (2012); La Triennale - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2011); Touched, the 2010 Liverpool Biennale; Port City at Greenland Street Gallery, Liverpool (2008); Africa Remix (2004-2007) and, in 2006, the São Paolo, Gwangju, Sydney and Havana biennales.
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Selected Solo Shows:
2010 Museum of contemporary African art & more, Centro Atlantico de Arto Modero- CAAM- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2009 The Street, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town South Africa
Sweetness, Ullens centre for contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2008 Gluck, artistic display-scenography for the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
Trace, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Tresses and other recent projects, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Tresses, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Tresses, inIVA, London, (street) performance, United-Kingdom
Défilé de perruques, City of Paris, (street) performance, France
Glue Me Peace, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2005 Library of the Museum, BiblioNova, Geleen, Netherlands
Glue Me Peace, Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom
Le Pain Migrateur, Artra Gallery, Milano, Italy
Meschac Gaba: Tresse, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY, USA
Peace Maker, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Peace Maker, Ernest G. Welch School of Arts & Design, Gallery of the Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Atlantique, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 Library of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Falaki Gallery, American Univerisity of Cairo, Egypt
Museum Shop for Sale and Museum Living Room for Sale - Museum of
Contemporary African Art, Artra Gallery, Milan and Geneva, Italy
Le Discothèque du Musée - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
SBK Tramremise (Stichting Beeldende Kunst), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Le Salon du Musée - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris France
2001 Marriage Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Library of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Der Inforaum /The Info-room, Kunsthalle Bern, witzerland
2000 Meschac Gaba: Salle de Jeux- Museum of Contemporary African Art, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
Game Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Spielregeln/ Rules of the Game, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
1999 Summer Collection - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Salle de Jeux - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon, France
Museum Restaurant - Museum of Contemporary African Art, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vente en gros et detaille, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Missing Links: Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Meschac Gaba, SBK knsm-eiland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Moneta Exotica. Oorspronkelijk geld uit de hele wereld: Draft Room -
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Rijksmuseum Het Koninklijk
Penningkabinet, Leiden, The Netherlands: in conjunction with the exhibition Bazar Bizar, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Art festival Pour la FrancophoniePalace of the President of Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
1993 Biennale de Dakar, Galerie Ife, Dakar, Senegal
1991 Meschac Gaba, Centre Culturelle Français de Cotonou, Benin
Selected group exhibitons
2009 Sweetness, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Esposizione Universale, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
2008 Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Port City, A Foundation, Greenland Street, London, United-Kingdom
Sonsbeek 2008, Arhnem, The Netherlands
Carried away – Procession in art, Museum of contemporary art in Arhnem, The Netherlands
2007 Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
Port City, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Arnolfini, Bristol, United- Kingdom
Brocken Memory, Ghana National art Museum, Accra Residents, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France
Suitcase Illuminated #5 Parallel Economies, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
2006 Meschac Gaba/Hermann Pitz: Tresse,Galerie Fernand Leger, Ivry, Paris, France
Sweetness and Museum Shop, São Paolo Biennale, How to Live Together, Brazil
Fever Variations,6th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
La Maison, Sydney Biennale Contact Zones, Sydney, Australia
Qui Veut Cajoux, Je Veux Cajoux, second edition of 'De Kleine Biënnale' (The Little Biennial for children) Fort op de Ruigenhoeksedijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Boulangerie Africaine, in Africa Remix (traveling exhibition), Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tresses, Biennale of Havana, Cuba
Global Tour: Tresses, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Respect! Formes de cohabitation : Peace Maker, Musée Dar Si Saïd, Marrakech, Morocco
Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Biennale de La Habana, Cuba
2005 Ouvertures - on Water: Water Village,City of Munich, Art Circolo
Kunstprojekt, Munich, Germany
"Trace of a Structure of Ideas: Archaeology of a Utopia in the Hardau", City of Zurich, Switzerland: proposal Embassy, competition project
Boulangerie Africaine, Hayward Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Africa Remix: Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Africa Remix: Boulangerie Africaine, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
San Francisco, Monuments for the USA: Peace Mountain, Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Dressing Ourselves, Meschac Gaba, La Triennale di Milano, Italy
2004 Horizons: Rules of the Game, Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg, Sweden
Economies, Art and Gallery, Milano, Italy
Strange Planet: Peace Maker, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery of the Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA
Contemporary Archeology, The Fiction of Authenticity, Miller Gallery of the
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Money Bed, Lustwarance 04, City Park project, Fundament Foundation, Netherlands
Africa Remix: Boulangerie Africaine, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Visa For Thirteen, International Studio Program exhibition: Peace Maker, PS1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
Les Afriques: Poulet Morgue, Le Tri Postal, Lille/Cultural Capital of Europe, France
We Are The World/Rotterdam Edition of Dutch Pavillion at Venice Biennale
Ginger Bar, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Open Studios, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
2003 Contemporary Archeology, Fiction of Authenticity, Forum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Water, Water Village, Amsterdamse Duinwaterleidingen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Democracy Game, Exhibition of Exhibitions, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
We Are The World: Ginger Bar, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy: Dutch Pavillion
Plasticiens en Mouvement/Kunstenaars in Beweging: Origine du Monde, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Artists' Games, Public's Games, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Library of the Museum, Museum Shop and Humanist Space, Documenta11, Kassel, Germany
Geld und Währung / Das letzte Tabu: Museum Shop, EXPO, Switserland
2001 Ensemble : Michel François & Meschac Gaba, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Democracy Game, Helsinki, Finland
International Art Fair: Museum Shop, Art /32/ Basel, Switzerland
Locus/Focus: Palace of Eternity, Sonsbeek 2001 (9), Arnhem, The Netherlands
Geldlust: ModellBanking: Money Tree, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria
Design for National Slavery Monument, Slave Route, City Hall Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Réalité Revisitée: Expérimenter le Réel : Atlantique,
Cimaise & Portique centre departmental d'art contemporain, Albi, France
Mirror's Edge, Museum of Contemporary African Art
The Architecture of the Museum, curated by Okwui Enwezor, travelling exhibition:Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Red Ribbon Art: Money Box, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 Mirror's Edge, Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin Italy
For Real: Marriage Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Sky is the Limit, Meschac Gaba Made in Taiwan, Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Biennale
L'Art dans le Monde : Pain et Marteaux, Paris Musées/Revue des Beaux Arts, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
East/International: Museum of Contemporary African Art - Draft Room, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United-Kingdom
Play-use: Game Room, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
A Casa Di: Art and Religion Room -Museum of Contemporary African Art,
Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Continental Shift. A voyage between cultures: Le Discothèque du Musée -
Museum of Contemporary African Art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
ARCO, Art fair, Dialogues, Museum Shop presented by Lumen Travo Gallery, Spain
Worthless (invaluable). The concept of value in contemporary art: Draft
Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, lovenia
NoTitle, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mirror's Edge, Architecture of the Museum -Museum of Contemporary African Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Chess Game, part of Game Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, presented by Galerie Gebauer, Berlin. Kunstmesse, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Mirror's Edge: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
South Meets West: Museum Shop - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
National Museum of Ghana, Accra
Waardige Zaken. Wonderkamers: Summer Collection, De Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Casino, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon, France
TroubleSpot.Painting: Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
NICC and MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Trafique: Museum Shop - Museum of Contemporary African Art, S.M.A.K.
extra muros, Ghent, Belgium
Nationaal Museum Weekend: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of
Contemporary African Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, TheNetherlands
Unlimited.nl-2: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary
African Art, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Copy Culture. 40 Jaar Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Meeting Point, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
1997 Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blueprint, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Virtual exhibition at africaserver.nl/virtual/exhibitions/gaba
1996 Rasa Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Ewole, Lome, Togo
German Embassy, Cotonou, Benin
1994 on the occasion of the top Africa/America, Libreville, Gabon
Biennale d'Abidjan 1994, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Centre Culturelle Chinois, Cotonou, Benin
Galerie GO, Cotonou, Benin
1993 Centre Culturelle Americain, Cotonou, Bénin
1992 Arts sur 7. S.O.S. Artistes, Halle des Sports, Cotonou, Benin
Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
2010 Museum of contemporary African art & more, Centro Atlantico de Arto Modero- CAAM- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2009 The Street, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town South Africa
Sweetness, Ullens centre for contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary African Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2008 Gluck, artistic display-scenography for the Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
Trace, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Tresses and other recent projects, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Tresses, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Tresses, inIVA, London, (street) performance, United-Kingdom
Défilé de perruques, City of Paris, (street) performance, France
Glue Me Peace, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
2005 Library of the Museum, BiblioNova, Geleen, Netherlands
Glue Me Peace, Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom
Le Pain Migrateur, Artra Gallery, Milano, Italy
Meschac Gaba: Tresse, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY, USA
Peace Maker, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Peace Maker, Ernest G. Welch School of Arts & Design, Gallery of the Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Atlantique, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 Library of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Falaki Gallery, American Univerisity of Cairo, Egypt
Museum Shop for Sale and Museum Living Room for Sale - Museum of
Contemporary African Art, Artra Gallery, Milan and Geneva, Italy
Le Discothèque du Musée - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
SBK Tramremise (Stichting Beeldende Kunst), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Le Salon du Musée - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris France
2001 Marriage Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Library of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Der Inforaum /The Info-room, Kunsthalle Bern, witzerland
2000 Meschac Gaba: Salle de Jeux- Museum of Contemporary African Art, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
Game Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Spielregeln/ Rules of the Game, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
1999 Summer Collection - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Salle de Jeux - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon, France
Museum Restaurant - Museum of Contemporary African Art, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vente en gros et detaille, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Missing Links: Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary African Art, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Meschac Gaba, SBK knsm-eiland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Moneta Exotica. Oorspronkelijk geld uit de hele wereld: Draft Room -
Museum of Contemporary African Art: Rijksmuseum Het Koninklijk
Penningkabinet, Leiden, The Netherlands: in conjunction with the exhibition Bazar Bizar, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Art festival Pour la FrancophoniePalace of the President of Bénin, Cotonou, Benin
1993 Biennale de Dakar, Galerie Ife, Dakar, Senegal
1991 Meschac Gaba, Centre Culturelle Français de Cotonou, Benin
Selected group exhibitons
2009 Sweetness, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Esposizione Universale, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
2008 Biennale Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Port City, A Foundation, Greenland Street, London, United-Kingdom
Sonsbeek 2008, Arhnem, The Netherlands
Carried away – Procession in art, Museum of contemporary art in Arhnem, The Netherlands
2007 Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
Port City, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Arnolfini, Bristol, United- Kingdom
Brocken Memory, Ghana National art Museum, Accra Residents, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France
Suitcase Illuminated #5 Parallel Economies, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana
2006 Meschac Gaba/Hermann Pitz: Tresse,Galerie Fernand Leger, Ivry, Paris, France
Sweetness and Museum Shop, São Paolo Biennale, How to Live Together, Brazil
Fever Variations,6th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
La Maison, Sydney Biennale Contact Zones, Sydney, Australia
Qui Veut Cajoux, Je Veux Cajoux, second edition of 'De Kleine Biënnale' (The Little Biennial for children) Fort op de Ruigenhoeksedijk, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Boulangerie Africaine, in Africa Remix (traveling exhibition), Mori Art
Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tresses, Biennale of Havana, Cuba
Global Tour: Tresses, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Respect! Formes de cohabitation : Peace Maker, Musée Dar Si Saïd, Marrakech, Morocco
Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Biennale de La Habana, Cuba
2005 Ouvertures - on Water: Water Village,City of Munich, Art Circolo
Kunstprojekt, Munich, Germany
"Trace of a Structure of Ideas: Archaeology of a Utopia in the Hardau", City of Zurich, Switzerland: proposal Embassy, competition project
Boulangerie Africaine, Hayward Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Africa Remix: Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte
Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Africa Remix: Boulangerie Africaine, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
San Francisco, Monuments for the USA: Peace Mountain, Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Dressing Ourselves, Meschac Gaba, La Triennale di Milano, Italy
2004 Horizons: Rules of the Game, Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg, Sweden
Economies, Art and Gallery, Milano, Italy
Strange Planet: Peace Maker, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery of the Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia USA
Contemporary Archeology, The Fiction of Authenticity, Miller Gallery of the
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Money Bed, Lustwarance 04, City Park project, Fundament Foundation, Netherlands
Africa Remix: Boulangerie Africaine, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Visa For Thirteen, International Studio Program exhibition: Peace Maker, PS1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
Les Afriques: Poulet Morgue, Le Tri Postal, Lille/Cultural Capital of Europe, France
We Are The World/Rotterdam Edition of Dutch Pavillion at Venice Biennale
Ginger Bar, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Open Studios, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
2003 Contemporary Archeology, Fiction of Authenticity, Forum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Water, Water Village, Amsterdamse Duinwaterleidingen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Democracy Game, Exhibition of Exhibitions, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
We Are The World: Ginger Bar, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy: Dutch Pavillion
Plasticiens en Mouvement/Kunstenaars in Beweging: Origine du Monde, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Artists' Games, Public's Games, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Library of the Museum, Museum Shop and Humanist Space, Documenta11, Kassel, Germany
Geld und Währung / Das letzte Tabu: Museum Shop, EXPO, Switserland
2001 Ensemble : Michel François & Meschac Gaba, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Democracy Game, Helsinki, Finland
International Art Fair: Museum Shop, Art /32/ Basel, Switzerland
Locus/Focus: Palace of Eternity, Sonsbeek 2001 (9), Arnhem, The Netherlands
Geldlust: ModellBanking: Money Tree, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria
Design for National Slavery Monument, Slave Route, City Hall Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Réalité Revisitée: Expérimenter le Réel : Atlantique,
Cimaise & Portique centre departmental d'art contemporain, Albi, France
Mirror's Edge, Museum of Contemporary African Art
The Architecture of the Museum, curated by Okwui Enwezor, travelling exhibition:Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Red Ribbon Art: Money Box, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
2000 Mirror's Edge, Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin Italy
For Real: Marriage Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Sky is the Limit, Meschac Gaba Made in Taiwan, Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan: Taipei Biennale
L'Art dans le Monde : Pain et Marteaux, Paris Musées/Revue des Beaux Arts, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France
East/International: Museum of Contemporary African Art - Draft Room, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United-Kingdom
Play-use: Game Room, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
A Casa Di: Art and Religion Room -Museum of Contemporary African Art,
Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Continental Shift. A voyage between cultures: Le Discothèque du Musée -
Museum of Contemporary African Art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
ARCO, Art fair, Dialogues, Museum Shop presented by Lumen Travo Gallery, Spain
Worthless (invaluable). The concept of value in contemporary art: Draft
Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, lovenia
NoTitle, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mirror's Edge, Architecture of the Museum -Museum of Contemporary African Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Chess Game, part of Game Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, presented by Galerie Gebauer, Berlin. Kunstmesse, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Mirror's Edge: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
South Meets West: Museum Shop - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
National Museum of Ghana, Accra
Waardige Zaken. Wonderkamers: Summer Collection, De Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Casino, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon, France
TroubleSpot.Painting: Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art,
NICC and MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Trafique: Museum Shop - Museum of Contemporary African Art, S.M.A.K.
extra muros, Ghent, Belgium
Nationaal Museum Weekend: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of
Contemporary African Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, TheNetherlands
Unlimited.nl-2: Architecture of the Museum - Museum of Contemporary
African Art, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Copy Culture. 40 Jaar Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Meeting Point, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
1997 Draft Room - Museum of Contemporary African Art, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blueprint, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Virtual exhibition at africaserver.nl/virtual/exhibitions/gaba
1996 Rasa Foundation, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Ewole, Lome, Togo
German Embassy, Cotonou, Benin
1994 on the occasion of the top Africa/America, Libreville, Gabon
Biennale d'Abidjan 1994, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Centre Culturelle Chinois, Cotonou, Benin
Galerie GO, Cotonou, Benin
1993 Centre Culturelle Americain, Cotonou, Bénin
1992 Arts sur 7. S.O.S. Artistes, Halle des Sports, Cotonou, Benin
Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
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