vendredi 16 janvier 2009

BIOGRAPHIE


BIOGRAPHIE


Name: Serge Olivier FOKOUA
Profession: artist / cultural manager
Date of birth: 06 September 1976 in Douala
Training: training at Renc’art Studios by the CCE and the Alphonso Gonzales Foundation in 2003 on painting and art installation.

 Training on cultural management at Institut fur Kulturkonzepte, Hamburg, Germany, 2011

Contact information

Name: Serge Olivier Fokoua
Address: BP 513 Yaoundé Cameroon
Telephone: 00237 96 02 60 50
Nationality: Cameroon


Exhibitions

• Collective exhibition at the Foyer Ducc of Dschang, Cameroon(2000)
• solo Exhibition at west Arcades, City Hall Bafoussam, Cameroon (2001)
• solo exhibition in the pilot library of Bafoussam , Cameroon(2002)
• solo exhibition at Bamendjou village, Cameroon (2002)
• Collective Exhibition at contemporary Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa (2003)
• solo exhibition at the French Cultural Centre of Yaoundé, Cameroon (2004);
• Collective exhibition at Arteda space at Saint Paul Trois Chateaux in France (2006).
* Solo Exhibition at the French Cultural Centre of Yaoundé, Cameroon (2009)
*solo exhibition at Doual’art space, Douala, Cameroon (2009)
* Collective exhibition at French cultural centre, Yaoundé, Cameroon (2010)
* Duo exhibition at the Goethe institute, Yaoundé, Cameroon (2011)
* Duo exhibition at SAVVY Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2011)
* Duo exhibition at Pro-Afrika, Berlin, Germany (2011)
* solo exhibition at Le GRAVE, VictoriaVille, Canada (2011)
* Duo exhibition at L e LIEU Actual Art, Québec, Canada (2011)
* Performance show at Mind pirate gallery, Berlin Germany (2012)



Festivals
• project "les battements de Coeur du monde" at Grenoble in France (2003)
• Participates with sixty artists on project TISSAGES at Antibes in France (2004)
• Participates to the summer festival of the arts in Auxois-Morvan in France. (2006)
* Participates to the DUTA Biennial Bonapriso center of the art, Douala, Cameroon (2007)
* Participating to the performance festival AIZU Art College at Fukushima in Japan. (2008)
* Participating to the MAAC Festival at Tokyo in Japan (2008)
* participate to ETE DES ART EN AUXOIS MORVAN France (2010)
* participates to LUSVANDEN at Mica Moca space, Berlin, Germany (2011)
* participates to the festival Berlin del mar, Berlin, Germany (2011)
* participate to the festival New Art Contact, at Augusta gallery, Helsinki, Finland (2012)
* participate to the Art Ii biennale of environmental art, Ii, Finland (2012)
* participate to the festival “Floting garden” in Fiskars, Finland (2012)


Interventions
• Worked as set designer and decorator on the film "Earth burning" (2005)
• participates to a large video collection with ITINEART in Marseille, France (2006)
• Managed a workshop with children of the MJC of St Paul Trois Chateaux in France (2006)
* Workshop of street art with the students of Our Lady College, Yaoundé, Cameroon (2009)


Residencies
• Residency of six months at Banengo Studio, Bafoussam, Cameroon (2001-2002)
• Residency of one month at Arteda space of St Paul Trois Chateau in France.(2006)
* Residency at the African Artists Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria (2011)
* Residency of one month at Le GRAVE, Victoriaville, Canada (2011)
*Residency of two months at Kultturikauppila centre, Ii, Finland (2012)


Prices
 * Grand Award for best artist of the western province, Bafoussam, Cameroon (2002);
* Advisor of International Research Board ABI, USA (2003)
* The World Medal of Freedom ABI, USA (2006)


More activities
President of the artists collective KAMER PALLETS (Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Director of the International visual art Festival RAVY (Yaoundé, Cameroon)


Motto
"Everything in life is the pursuit of simplicity"

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