representation
193 Gallery (Paris, Venice)
Solo exhibitions
2025
NOIRES, La Salle à Manger et La Terrasse, 193 Gallery, Paris (FR)
NOIRES, Le Grand Salon, Maison des Mondes Africains (inaugural Exhibition), Paris (FR)
2024
NOIRES, La Salle de Bain, FondationH, Paris (FR)
2022
NOIRES, Le Balcon, La rue et Le Salon, San Mei gallery, London (UK)
Monday dinners at NOIRES, Eight Cubic Meters, Amsterdam (NL)
Monday dinners at NOIRES, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
NOIRES, Le Salon, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Selected group exhibitions
2026
(ongoing) Soul Frequencies, 193 Gallery, Venice (IT)
2025
Untitled Miami Art Fair, 193 Gallery, Miami (US)
1-54 Art Fair, 193 Gallery, London (UK)
Afrotopos, Galerie Stewart Hall, curated by Diane Gistal, Montréal (CA)
2024
Say My Name, Metro54 curated by Amal Alhaag, Amsterdam (NL)
2023
Mémoria: récits d’une autre Histoire, curated by Nadine Hounkpatin & Céline Seror, National Museum of Cameroon, Yaoundé (CMR)
2022
OSCAM 5 YRS Retrospective, curated by Marian Duff & Noukhey Forster, OSCAM Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Stowage & What not' by B.O.O.K (Building Our Own Knowledge), Birmingham (UK)
I am because you are, curated by Iriée Zambé, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Amsterdam Fashion Week & Lichting, Capital C, Amsterdam (NL)
NOIRES Gatherings
Performances & works
2025
Monday dinners, 193 Gallery, Paris (FR)
Spill The Tea, 193 Gallery, Paris (FR)
2024
Live modeling, Fondation H, Paris (FR)
2023
Performance HDF 1, Fashion For Good Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
Collective reading NOIRE.S with Tabara Korka Ndiaye and Anna Diop Dubois, AWU Library, Dakar (SN)
2022
Performance Where are you from?, San Mei Gallery, London (UK)
Theater play Histoires de femmes, Amsterdam Fashion Week, Amsterdam (NL)
Workshop Play it safe (or not), San Mei Gallery, London (UK)
Workshop Play it safe (or not), Troppenmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Performance, Where are you from?, Pre-Reserved, Amsterdam (NL)
NOIRES talk, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
Hosted activations
2026
In Time and Quiet led by Rambi, 193 Gallery, Paris (FR)
2025
Les Murmures de l’eau with Émilie Berry – Immersive storytelling connecting presence and memory, journeying to the Caribbean, Maison des Mondes Africains, Paris (FR)
Initiation et tournois d’Awalé with Collectif My Afro Week, Maison des Mondes Africains, Paris (FR)
2022
Collective reading with melissandre varin , San Mei Gallery, London (UK)
Spoken Word, My Place: Home in a Changing World, Minet Library x San Mei Gallery, London (UK)
Intergenerational listening party, Vinyl Memories, San Mei Gallery, London (UK)
Film & Documentary Work
As Director
2024
Traverser la Tempête, short film, Dakar (SN), Abidjan (CI)
2019
Naked Underneath or How to Use Clothing to Assert Oneself?, documentary series, Lagos (NG), Dakar (SN)
As Artistic Director
2023
The Story of Ne kuko, short documentary, Kinshasa (DRC)
2019
Supreme Higher Entity, short film, IAMISIGO, Lagos (NG)
Conferences & workshops
2025
Workshop Open Palais #14, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Workshop Batik à la main: Création textile collective, Marmite Collective, Ô Léonie, Paris (FR)
2022
Conference Wearing your nudity, TEDx, Amsterdam (NL)
Projects led by Studio Mbanga
Since 2019, I have been collaborating with the contemporary wearable art brand IAMISIGO as Artistic Director, contributing to the conceptual and artistic direction of their projects across the world.
Selected Projects with IAMISIGO:
2025
Artistic direction for Copenhagen Fashion Week SS26 show, Dual Mandate
2023
Artistic direction & creative consulting for Victoria’s Secret World Tour; óré ì sé àgbòn installation at Sharjah Architecture Triennale 02; IAMSIGO digital space (iamisigo.com); Lagos Fashion Week SS24 show Shadow.
Selected Projects:
2024
Artistic direction & film, Amuse Bouche, Rachel Marsil x Adidas Paris, Paris (FR)
Artistic direction & film, Freddy's Kitchen x Ban Café, Dakar (SN)
2020
Artistic direction & film, Réhabilitation du site historique de Nguiguiss Bamba, Mbacké Kadior (SN)
2018
Artistic direction, album cover Ntjen a mpo'o, Chorale la Sanaga, Mouanko (CMR)
book & publications
2026
Ô Cameroon! Modern and Contemporary Art and Artists (1925 to Now)
Renaissance : Sous la pierre, la Maison Noire, Atsaman #1 Salutation Is an Act of Visibility
2023
Inhabiting nudity: when the garment reveals the body to affirm it better, Landry Mbassi, catalog Mémoria
2021
NOIRE.S
Selected press
La Grande Galerie Francophone, TV5Monde, FR
Perspective, France 24, ENG
Guadeloupe la 1ère, FR
Eye on Africa, France 24, ENG
Vogue France, FR
Africa Fashion Tour, FR
Black Square, Rinse FM, FR
Vous m'en direz des nouvelles, RFI, FR
Fribari, OROKO radio, GHA
NATAAL media, UK
The Blackletter club, NL
Afri’can success stories, FR
prizes & awards
2021
Lichting award, Amsterdam (NL)
Rietveld Review(ed) award, Amsterdam (NL)
subsidies
2025
CNAP, FR
2022
Fluxus, UK
2021
M.C. de Visser Grants, NL
Bekker la Bastide Grants, NL
residencies
Ongoing
Studio at Ô Léonie, Paris (FR)
2025
Galerie Stewart Hall, Alliance Française Montréal, Montréal (CA)
2024
Fondation H, Cité internationale des arts, Paris (FR)
2023
Institut français du Cameroun, Yaoundé (CMR)
2022
Artwell, Amsterdam (NL)
Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam (NL)
education
2021
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fashion Design Department, Amsterdam (NL)