Andrianomearisoa is always on the edges. He does not approach his work in a direct way, but places it at the edges of the desires of whomever discovers it. His work comes down to a question of posture. He listens to the pulses of life with more generosity than they are given, and finds a way to be present in the world dans le nu de la vie, in the nude of life.
Urban space is a primary interest as well. The noises, smells, images, lights and incessant movement that generate city life compose his universe without imprisoning him in a specific geographical space. His images take viewers to places even the artist does not expect to be. « I need to be surprised by images. The situation has to be completely staggered. I do not consider myself as a photographer ; I am someone who makes images, » he says.
To compose a work, the artist needs a basic frame. Then the experiments begin, the manipulations that outline the project. « The work arises from various manipulations that lead me to the final result. When I set up an installation, I do not imagine its finality. I know the elements that compose it, but in the intant I set them up I discover something else. And that is when the work makes sense, » Andrianomearisoa says. His poetic virtuosity lies in his capacity to seize this moment of signification, when nobody can tell beginning from end.
Virginie Andriamirado
Joël Andrianomearisoa was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in 1977. He lives and works between Antananarivo and Paris. Andrianomearisoa has participated in a number of group shows, including Africa Remix, Rencontres Africaine de la Photographie in Bamako (2009); the Havana Biennale (2006); The progress of love, Menil Collection, Houston (2012); and Divine Comedy (2014) among others.
His solo shows include Bir Gece, a one-night performance and installation in Istanbul (2004) ; Habillé – Deshabillé, a performance/video piece in Stockholm Moderna Museet and Saint-Brieuc (2009); Sentimental at la Maison Revue Noire Paris (2013).
Education
Architecte Desa 2003 – Ecole Speciale d’Architecture – Paris – France.
Solo shows (selected)
2019 I have forgotten the night. Madagascar Pavilion. 58th Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy.
2019 Cartography of desires, the space between us. Encounters Art Basel. Hong Kong, China.
2019 Blue take me to the end of all loves. Primo Marella Gallery. Milan, Italy.
2019 Tomorrow, tomorrow. Those are words. You love flowers. How about tomorrow? Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2019 Le printemps. Muse. Monaco.
2018 No habíamos terminado de hablar sobre el amor. Centro de Arte Alcobendas. Madrid, Spain.
2018 Le Pli. Fundaçao Leal Rios. Lisbon, Portugal.
2018 The Geometry of the Angle as point of no Return to Dress the Contemporary. Primae Noctis Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland.
2018 Iarivo traduit de la nuit. Galerie Rx. Paris, France.
2018 Le Vent Souffle Sur Votre Coeur. Château d’Assier. Curated by Annabelle Teneze. Assier, France.
2017 Sur un horizon infini se joue le théâtre de nos affections. Fondation Zinsou & Musée Ouidah. Cotonou, Bénin.
2017 Ausência. Uma Lulik Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal.
2017 Les saisons de mon coeur. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2017 Va et vient. Boat in Canal du Midi. France
2017 A L’horizon de mes jours troubles. Joël Andrianomearisoa. Galeries Lafayettes. Toulouse, France.
2017 BIENALSUR, International Contemporanean Art Bienal in South America. (project）
2017 Le La Tour du Monde. Solo project for the cupola of the Galeries Lafayette Haussman Paris at the occasion of the Africa Now Season. Paris, France.
2017 Chanson de ma terre lointaine Joël Andrianomearisoa. Primo Marella Gallery. Milan, Italy.
2017 Sentimental Products by Joël Andrianomearisoa . Solo project at the occasion of the Nouveau Réalisme Show. Musée les Abattoirs Toulouse. Toulouse, France.
2016 Last year in Antananarivo. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2016 The labyrinth of passions, Kaunas in Art. Contemporary Art Festival. Mykolas Žilinskas Art Museum. Kaunas, Lithuania.
2016 La maison sentimentale, Dak’Art. Biennale d’Art Africain Contemporain. Dakar, Senegal. (solo Project)
2016 Accrochage. Rx. Ivry sur Seine, France.
2015 De Profundis. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2015 Parlez-moi. Institut Françcais. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2014 Carte blanche to Joël Andrianomearisoa. Vendôme Luxury. Le Meurice & Hôtel D’Evreux. Paris, France.
2014 Perfection the grave of our own existence. Mikael Andersen. Berlin, Germany.
2013 Sentimental. Maison Revue Noire. Paris, France.
2012 Waiting for the seventh day that will bring us together. Jack Bell Gallery. London, UK.
2011 0621146952. L’inlassable Galerie. Paris, France.
2011 En l’attente de l’aube qui nous surprendra aux rives du sommeil. Nomad Gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
2011 Le temps d’une rencontre ou pour toujours. Galerie Béatrice Binoche. Saint Denis, La Reunion, France.
2011 Performance - Multi/ Attitudes. Sarah Khan Contemporary Art. Schaan, Liechtenstein.
2011 Hôtel des Rêves. Hôtel du Louvre. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2010 A perfect kind of love. Goodman Gallery. Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 Smatesh Remix. Comme Il Faut. Tel Aviv, Israel.
2009 I don´t know how to begin, I don´t know how it will end. Aksent. Gent, Belgium.
2008 Une Histoire. CCAC. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2007 Black our. :mentalklinik project space. Istanbul, Turkey.
2004 Bar. CCAC. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2004 Bir Gece (One night). Maçka Gallery - : mentalklinik - Infist. Istanbul, Turkey.
Group Shows (selected)
2019 Racing the galaxy. Astana. Kazakhstan.
2019 Incarnations. Bozar. Brussels, Belgium.
2019 Group show. Grieder Contemporary. Zurich, Switzerland.
2019 Oeuvres choisies. Galerie RX. Paris, France.
2019 Kubatana. Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium. Vestfossen, Norway.
2019 Focus. Galerie RX. Paris, France.
2018 African Metropolis. An Imaginary City. Maxxi. Rome, Italy.
2018 Ravelled threads. Sean Kelly Gallery. New York, USA.
2018 Hello World. Hamburger Bahnhof Museum. Berlin, Germany.
2018 Ici la Limite du Royaume est la Mer. Galerie Analakely. Curated by Rina Ralay-Rnaivo. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2018 DIY. Galerie Joseph Paris. Contempo Arts. Paris, France.
2018 A Beast, A God, A Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas. Dhaka Art Summit. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2018 A Beast, A God, A Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas. Parasite. Hong Kong.
2018 The Black Sphinx II. Primo Marella Gallery. Milano, Italy.
2018 A Beast, A God, A Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas. TS 1. Yangon, Myanmar.
2018 Tissage Tressage Quand la Sculpture Defile. Fondation Villa Datris. L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France.
2018 A Beast, A God, A Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas. MoMA Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland.
2018 La Sfinge Nera II. Primae Noctis. Lugano, Switzerland.
2018 Joël Andrianomearisoa & Abdoulaye Konaté. Duo Show. Richard Koh Fine Art. Kuala Lumpur, Malasia.
2018 Le commerce de la parole. L’Atelier Blanc & Le Moulin des Arts. Curated by Annabelle Ténèze. Villefranche de Rouergue & St Rémy. Paris, France.
2017 All things been equal. Inaugural show. Zeitz Moca. Cape town, South Africa.
2017 Quart d’heure américain. Mains d’oeuvres. Saint Ouen, France.
2017 Le la tour du monde, curated by Diana Wechsler. BIENALSUR, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2017 Le la tour du monde, curated by Diana Wechsler. BIENALSUR, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2017 The black sphinx. Primo Marella Gallery. Milan, Italy.
2017 NB. RX Gallery. Paris, France.
2017 Untitled. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2017 Vers le Cap de Bonne Esperance. Curated by Simon Njami. Gare Saint Sauveur. Lille, France.
2017 Dalonaz II. Royal. Brussles, Belgium.
2017 The White Hunter. Curated by Marco Scotini. Frigoriferi Milanesi Art Center For Contemporary Art. Milano, Italy.
2017 Afriques Capitales. Curated by Simon Njami, at the occasion of the 100% Afrique Festival at la Villette Paris, France.
2017 100% Afriques. La Villette. Paris, France.
2017 Autour du nouveau réalisme - Les Dadas des Daniel. Curated by Anabelle Teneze. Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi-Pyrénées. Toulousse, France.
2016 Winter. RX Gallery. Paris, France.
2016 Essentiel paysage. Al Madeen art Gallery. Marrakech, Morocco.
2016 White surfaces. Primae Noctis Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland.
2016 Between structure and matter: Other Minimal Futures. Curated by Murtaza Vali. Aicon Gallery. New York, USA.
2016 Not really, really. Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection. Brussels, Belgium.
2016 Comme sur du papier. FRAC Réunion. Piton Saint-Leu, Reunion Island.
2016 Virage. Galerie de Roussan. Paris, France.
2016 Tropicália. L’Inlassable Museum. Paris, France.
2015 Something else. Off Biennale Cairo. Cairo, Egypt.
2015 Les Rencontres de Bamako. Biennale Africaine de la Photographie. Bamako, Mali.
2015 Broken english. Tyburn Gallery. London, UK.
2015 Africa Africans. Museu Afro Brasil. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
2015 The Divine Comedy. National Museum of African Art. Washington DC, USA.
2015 You Love Me, You Love Me Not. Curated by Bruno Leitão. Municipal Gallery Almeida Garrett. Porto, Portugal.
2015 A to Z. White proejct. Paris, France
2015 Lugano mostra bandiera. Lugano, Switzerland.
2014 Schwerelos. Arthohler Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland.
2014 Destination…1:54: Contemporary African Art. Prima Marella Gallery. Milan, Italy.
2014 African Contemporary Art. Galerie Mikael Andersen. Copenhagen, Denmark.
2014 A bitter sweet legacy. Galerie de Russian. Paris, France.
2014 Warm Heart Of Africa. Prime Noctis Art Gallery. Lugano, Switzerland.
2014 Political Patterns. Seoul Museum of Art. Seoul, South Korea.
2014 The Divine Comedy. SCADMOA. Savannah, USA.
2014 Textile languages. Thalie Art Project. Brussels, Belgium.
2014 The Divine Comedy. MMK. Frankfurt, Germany.
2014 Biennale de Dakar 2014. Dakar, Senegal.
2013 Periféeriques. Jacmel. Haiti.
2013 Epures. 7.5 club. Paris, France.
2013 Sur la mauvaise pente. Galerie de Roussan. Paris, Francia.
2013 Nouvelles vagues. Slmp. Palais de Tokyo. Galerie de Roussan. Paris, France.
2013 L’échappée belle. Grand Palais. Paris, France.
2012 The progress of love. Menil Collection. Houston, USA.
2012 Sericum Graphein. Glassbox Gallery. Curated by Kaiserin. Paris, France.
2012 21X29,7. Galerie de Roussan. Biennale de Belleville. Paris, France.
2012 Drive My Car. Galería Tagomago. Barcelona, Spain.
2012 MiniArtextil. Montrouge, France.
2011 MiniArtextil 2011. Milano & Como, Italy.
2011 VideoBuro #4. Curated by Julie Crenn. Paris, France.
2011 Eat Me. Goodman Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
2011 Africa !. Galerie Hussenot. Paris, France.
2010 In Context. SA National Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
2010 The Global Africa Project. Museum of Arts & Design MAD. New York, USA.
2010 Africa, Assume Art Position !. Primo Marella Gallery. Milan, Italy.
2010 12th Cairo Biennale. Cairo, Egypt.
2010 Docks en ciel. curated by Adrien Pasternak. Paris, France.
2010 3rd Sinopale Biennal. Sinop, Turkey.
2010 Winter Show. Goodman Gallery. Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 In Context. Goodman Gallery – Arts on main. Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 Off the wall. Gustavsbergs Konsthall. Stockholm, Sweden.
2010 A Collective Diary. Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv, Israel.
2009 Sphères 2009. Galleria Continua. Goodman Gallery. Le Moulin, France.
2009 Regard special sur la Turquie. Ecole spéciale d’Architecture. Paris, France.
2009 Panaf. Relectures. Algiers, Algeria.
2009 20 ans et encore à la mode. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire. Cholet, France.
2009 Africa now !. World Bank. Washington, USA.
2009 Black Paris – Black Brussels. Musée d’Ixelles. Brussels, Belgium.
2009 Revue Noire Collection. NAAC Atelier. Nantes, France.
2008 Flow. Studio Museum Harlem. New York. USA.
2007 L’invention de la mémoire. Saint Denis, La Réunion.
2007 Africa Remix. Johannesburg Art Gallery. South Africa.
2007 Gooood Food bis. Maison Descartes. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2007 Bidibidibidiboo. Ecole des beaux-arts Le Port, Reunion Island.
2007 Paris Black. Museum der welt kulturen. Frankfurt, Germany.
2007 Propos libres. La passerelle. Saint Brieuc, France.
2006 Biennale du design. Saint Etienne, France.
2006 Dressing the contemporary. Bern, Switzerland.
2006 Africa Remix. Moderna Museet. Stockholm, Sweden.
2006 Africa Remix. Mori Art Museum. Tokyo, Japan.
2006 Paris Black. Iwalewa Haus. Bayreuth, Germany.
2006 9th La Habana Biennale. Havana, Cuba.
2005 Africa Remix. Centre Pompidou. Paris, France.
2005 Africa Remix. Hayward Gallery. London, England.
2004 Africa Remix. Museum KunstPalast. Düsseldorf, Germany.
2004 Du Bosphore à la Moine. Musée d’Art et d’Histoire. Cholet, France.
2004 Lille 2004. Roubaix phare textile. Musée d’Art et d’industrie la Piscine. Roubaix, France.
2001 Archicouture. Chapelle de la Sorbonne. Paris, France.
2001 Sand und seide. Ifa. Stuttgart, Germany.
2000 Paris pour escale. Arc - Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris. France.
2000 Fun five fun story. New South Art Gallery. Sydney, Australia.
Art fairs
2019 ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal.
2019 Art Basel Hong Kong. Encounters. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Hong Kong, China.
2019 ARCOmadarid. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2018 Artissima. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Turin, Italy.
2018 ARCOlisboa. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal.
2018 Cape Town Art Fair. Cape Town, South Africa.
2018 ARCOmadrid. Sabrin Amrani Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2018 1-54 Art Fair. Marrakech, Morocco.
2018 Dhaka Art Summit. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2017 Artissima. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Turin, Italy.
2017 Art Brussels. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
2017 ArtParis ArtFair. Lettera27 Foundation. Paris, France.
2017 ArtParis ArtFair. Magnin-a. Paris, France.
2017 The Armory Show. Sabrina Amrani Gallery. New York, USA.
2017 ARCOmadrid. Sabrina Amrani. Madrid, Spain.
2017 Cape Town Art Fair. Sabrina Amrani. Cape Town, South Africa. (solo show, Mascarade)
2017 Cape Town Art Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. Cape Town, South Africa.
2017 India Art Fair. Sabrina Amrani. New Delhi, India. (solo project)
2017 Artefiera, Bologna Art Fair. Primo Marella Gallery. Bologna, Italy.
2016 ArtBo. Sabrina Amrani. Bogota, Colombia.
2016 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London, Sabrina Amrani. London, UK.
2016 ARCOLisboa. IV Audemars Piguet ARCOmadrid Prize project. Sabrina Amrani. Lisboa, Portugal.
2016 1:54 Contemporary Africa Art Fair New York, Sabrina Amrani, New York, USA. (solo show)
2016 Art Brussels, Sabrina Amrani, Brussels, Belgium.
2016 Art Dubai, Sabrina Amrani, Dubai, EAU.
2016 ARCOmadrid, Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain.
2016 India Art Fair, Sabrina Amrani, New Delhi, India.
2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Sabrina Amrani, London, UK.
2015 ArtInternational, Sabrina Amrani, Istanbul, Turkey.
2015 Art 15, Sabrina Amrani, London, UK. (solo show)
2015 ARCOmadrid, Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain.
Awards
IV Audemars Piget ARCOmadrid Prize. Madrid, Spain.
Public collections (selected)
Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse. Toulouse, France.
Zeitz MOCAA. Cape Town, South Africa.
Leal Rios Foundation. Lisbon, Portugal.
National Museum of African Art. Washinton D.C., USA.
Macaal. Marrakech, Morocco.
Studio Museum - Harlem. New York, USA.
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain - Frac. La Réunion, France.
Médiathèque du Tampon. La Réunion, France.
Art in Embassies. Embassy of the US in Antananarivo. Madagascar.
Koç Fondation. Istanbul, Turkey.
Sindika Dokolo Fondation. Luanda.
Fondazione Golinelli. Bologna, Italy.
Collection Revue Noire. Paris, France.
Fondation Zonsou. Cotonou, Bénin.
Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection. Brussels, Belgium.
Bibliography
I HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NIGHT – Revue Noire – 2019.
NO HABÍAMOS TERMINADO DE HABLAR SOBRE EL AMOR – Centro de Arte Alcobendas – 2018.
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CHANSON DE MA TERRE LOINTAINE - Primo Marella Gallery – 2017.
LAST YEAR IN ANTANANARIVO – Tyburn Gallery – 2016.
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