Group Exhibition
2005 Afrika Remix Hayward Gallery, Londra, Centre George Pompidou, Parigi; Dressing Ourselves, La Triennale, Milano; Op Hoogte Gedacht, Beeldende Kunst op Groninger Kerkhoven, Groningen; Overtures-on Water, Art Circolo, Monaco/ 2004 Horizon, voices from a Global Africa, Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg; Strange Planet Ernest Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta; We are the World, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Visa for Thirteen, PS1, New York; Afrika Remix, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf; The Fiction of Authenticity, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh/ 2003 Fiction of Authenticity, Forum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Exhibition of Exhibitions, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; We are the World, Dutch Pavilion, Venice Biennale / 2002 documenta 11, Kassel / 2001 réalité rèalisée, Albi, France, Institut of Visual Arts, University of Wisconin, Milw.; Locus Focus, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem Red Ribbon Art, Groninger Museum, Groningen / 2000 For Real, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Taipei Biennale,The sky is the limit “Meschac Gaba Made in Taiwan”, Fine Arts Museum, Taipei East/International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Play-use, Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam; A casa di, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Continental Shift. A Voyage between Cultures, Bonnefantnmuseum, Maastricht; Dialogues, ARCO, madrid; Worthless (invaluable). The concept of Value in Contemporary Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Chess Game, Kunstmesse, Basel/ 99-2000 Mirror’s Edge, BildMuseet, Umeå; Vancouver Art Gallery; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottemburg, Copenhagen/ 1999 South Meets West, National Museum of Ghana; Historisches Museum, Bern; Waardige Zaken, Wonderkamers, De Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem¸Trafique, S.M.A.K. Gent, Gent; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam/ 1998 Meeting Point, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NICC, Antwerp/ 1997 Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam; Blueprint, De Appel, Amsterdam/ 1995 German Embassy, Cotonou/1994 Biennale d’Abidjan, Abidjan/ 1993 Centre Culturelle Americain, Cotonou/ 1992 Musée des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Pa
Since 1991 the artist has had a number of international solo exhibitions. Among his most recent presentations are Meschac Gaba: Tresses at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005); Glue Me Peace at the Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery in London (2005) and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo (2006); and Tresses and other recent projects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (2007).
Meschac Gaba has taken part in a number of international group exhibitions since 1992. He was represented in the documenta 11 (2002) and in We Are The World in the Dutch Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale curated by Rein Wolfs. Furthermore, his work La Maison was shown at the Sydney Biennale: Zones of Contact and at the 6th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea (both in 2006), and his works Sweetness and Museum Shop were presented at the Bienal de São Paolo entitled How to Live Together (2006). In 2008, Meschac Gaba organised the exhibition Glück – Welches Glück (Luck, What Luck) at the Hygiene Museum in Dresden.