BIOGRAPHY
Born 21/10/1983 in Ivory Coast
- 1997: First price in school design contest “Paint your dream”
- 2002 – 2005: Art studies in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- 2006 – 2007: One year internship at l’Academie des Arts, Abidjan
- 2007 – 2008: One year internship as interior designer, Abidjan
Exhibitions
- 2007: Group exhibition at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Palais de la Culture
- 2008: Stage set design for the play “Îles de tempête” de Bernard Dadié, Abidjan
- 2009: Group exhibition at Centre Culturel Français, Abidjan, “Arkadi”, 12ème edition
Solo exhibition at Centre Culturel Franco-Guinéen, Conakry, Guinea
Group exhibition “Pinceaux d’Afrique”, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2010: Group exhibition at the Centre Culturel Français, Abidjan, “Arkadi”, 13ème edition
Group exhibition “Lion’s Art”, Abidjan
Group exhibition at the BICICI bank headquarters, friends of art, edition 6, Abidjan
Group exhibition as part of the Ivorian 50th independence celebrations
- 2011: February: Aboudia is mentioned in a German TV ZDF documentary about the post
election crisis in Ivory Coast (ZDF Infokanal)
March: Moving to Villa Kaïdin as residence artist
April: International press attention for his crisis and war paintings
June 22 – Sept. 1: Solo exhibition at Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK
July: First visit to London
August: Saatchi Gallery, UK bought two canvases from Aboudia
Sept. 7 – 9: Invitation of German Culture Centre Goethe Institute Johannesburg,
South Africa for the conference “Über(W)unden – Art in troubled times”
Sept. 9 – Oct. 10: Solo exposition at Goethe-Institute, Johannesburg
September: Saatchi Gallery, UK bought two more canvases from Aboudia
Sept. 22 – Oct. 29: Group exposition at Jack Bell Gallery, London (Les Fantomes)
Sept. 29 – Dec. 29: Group exposition at Rotonde des Arts, Abidjan
“Revue de l’Art Modern et Contemporain en Côte d’Ivoire”
November: Solo exposition “New works” at Lab 2.0, Abidjan
Dec. 1 – 10: Group exposition “Salon International des Arts Plastiques d’Abidjan”
Public purchases:
- Permanent collection of the Saatchi Gallery, UK
- Permanent collection of Jean Pigozzi
- Olympic Games 2012
- Palais de la Culture, Abidjan
- Centre culturel Franco-Guinéen, Conakry, Guinea
- Embassy of Ivory Coast, Conakry, Guinea
- Governor of Abidjan
- City hall of Bingerville, Abidjan
- Permanent collection of the BICICI bank
The work of Aboudia is also mentioned in several art catalogues.
PRESS
20.12.2010 Demotix, News agency
http://www.demotix.com/news/556645/ivory-coast-civil-war-drawings-artist-aboudia
12.02.2011 ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen / German TV); Report about Aboudia in a documentary about the political situation in the Côte d‘Ivoire
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/1256092/Das-gelaehmte-Land#/beitrag/video/1256092/Das-gelaehmte-Land
4.03.2011 France Actu net
http://franceactu.net/30395-Cote-d-039-Ivoire-Can-The-Calls-for-Peace-be-Heard?lang=fr
19.04.2011 AlertNet / Reuters
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/multimedia/pictures/detail.dot?mediaInode=a362a416-3c13-47be-ad0e-c8239954163a
19.04.2011 News ageny Reuters / Photoblog Finbarr O‘Reilly
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/19/6498181-as-fighting-raged-in-ivorycoast-painter-captured-the-upheaval-on-canvas
20.04.2011 The Telegraph, UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/8463144/Pictures-of-theday-20-April-2011.html?image=25
21.04.2011 L’Express, France
http://www.lexpress.fr/diaporama/diapo-photo/actualite/monde/aboudia-peintre-de-la-guerrecivile-ivoirienne_984777.html?p=2
23.04.2011 Der Standard, Austria
http://derstandard.at/1303291203813/Der-Basquiat-der-Cote-dIvoire-Ivorischer-Kuenstlerverarbeitet-juengste-Gewalt-um-Praesidentenamt-in-seinen-Bildern
28.04.2011 BBC Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13215834
6.05.2011 ARTE TV
German: http://www.arte.tv/de/3890942.html
French: http://www.arte.tv/fr/Comprendre-le-monde/arte-journal/nav/3890942.html
11.05.2011 France 24, Interview with Aboudia by Ségolène Maltere
http://observers.france24.com/fr/content/20110511-aboudia-raconte-guerre-civile-toilespeinture-abidjan-onuci-art-cote-ivoire
21.06.2011 Designweek, UK
http://www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/the-battle-for-abidjan/3027672.article
July 2011 Dazed Digital, Interview
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/10857/1/the-battle-for-abidjan
26.08.2011 African Colours
http://www.africancolours.com/african-artnews/937/c%C3%B4te%20d%27ivoire/political_and_social_dysfunction_without_borders_%E2%80%93_the_battle_for_abidjan_in_london.htm
2.09.2011 South African Art Times
http://www.arttimes.co.za/news_read.php?news_id=4816
21.09.2011 African Art in London
http://africanartinlondon.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/les-fantomes-jack-bell-gallery
Saatchi Gallery, UK
http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/artists/aboudia_abdoulaye_diarrassouba.htm?section_name=paint_artist
The work of Aboudia is also mentioned in several art catalogues.
