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05.09-31.10 | Hervé Yamguen
15.10-18.10 | 1-54 London
07.11-02.01 | Mouhcine Rahaoui
02.12-06.12 | Untitled Miami
10.12-13.12 | Art Antwerp
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NOW ON VIEW | Hervé Yamguen Nos géographies intimes | through October 31st On the occasion of his second solo exhibition at AFIKARIS gallery, Hervé Yamguen presents “Nos géographies intimes” (Our Intimate Geographies), a body of drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures, and wooden masks that extends a central reflection in his work: that of the visible and invisible forces involved in shaping who we are and the way we inhabit the world.   The exhibition emerges from a question that is at once intimate and universal: what are we made of? For Hervé Yamguen, a human being can never be reduced to what the eye can perceive. Each of us carries within us landscapes, memories, wounds and dreams. The places we have passed through remain within us, as do family histories, singular experiences and collective upheavals that often silently shape the way we perceive reality. Identity thus appears as a shifting cartography, made up of layers and correspondences, where the intimate resonates with what surrounds it. • Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes 📆 5 September — 31 October, 2026 📍7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris • 📷 Exhibition views: ©Hafid Lhachmi taken in Afikaris by @afikaris_
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Excited to announce that these works will be showing this week at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair @154artfair London, by @afikaris_ gallery. booth E16. From 15—18 October, 2026. If you’re in London, kindly come out! #154artfair #mattheweguavoen #painting by @afikaris_
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✨ 1-54 London | 15—18 October | Booth E16 We’re happy to return to London for the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair featuring works by Nasreddine Bennacer, Matthew Eguavoen, Jean David Nkot, Eva Obodo, Ozioma Onuzulike, Mouhcine Rahaoui, Géraldine Tobe and Hervé Yamguen. • For this year’s edition of the fair, we propose a booth where material experimentation becomes a vehicle for exploring spiritual and cultural narratives. Through smoke, coal, clay, bronze and pastel, the artists translate intangible systems of belief into powerful visual forms. • 📍Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom 📷 Mouhcine Rahaoui - Mineur, 2025. 150x150 cm @mouhcinerahaoui @154artfair taken in Somerset House by @afikaris_
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🎥Artist Spotlight🎥 Presenting at 1-54 London with AFIKARIS, @mattheweguavoen_art depicts his figurative and portrait subjects using a combination of oil, acrylic, charcoal, and graphite. Through his compositions, he addresses the societal, economic, and political realities across the complex intersectionalities facing contemporary Nigerians in different facets of life. Eguavoen’s work is held in collections across West Africa, Europe, and North America. He has exhibited in numerous gallery showcases and art fairs worldwide, and has completed artist residencies in London as well as at Black Rock Senegal in Dakar. 🎟️Get your tickets for 1-54 London 2026 via the link in our bio. 📍Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom    🗓️VIP and Press Preview:  Thursday 15 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠   ⁠  🗓️Public and VIP Opening:  Friday 16 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠  Saturday 17 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠  Sunday 18 October, 11 am - 6 pm⁠    #154artfair⁠ #ContemporaryAfricanArt by @afikaris_
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Salifou Lindou is part of the group exhibition “Africa Legacy” currently presented at Espace Vanderborght in Brussels, through 1 November, 2026. In “Politiciens 73”, (2024) the white silhouettes emerging against the black canvas mark a turning point in Lindou’s emblematic series, begun in 2020. More cinematic than ever, the work evokes the language of silent cinema, recalling the expressive gestures of Charlie Chaplin. Nothing can be heard, yet the figures seem to speak. Their gestures suggest exchanges, debates and promises, giving voice to what remains unspoken. Yet beneath this apparent dialogue lies a tension between words and action. The figures speak but remain suspended in the same silent space. Their eloquence becomes almost theatrical, raising the question of what remains when words do not translate into action—and of those who are left waiting beyond the scene. The duality of human beings is at the heart of the artist’s practice: between strength and weakness, immobility and movement, peace and chaos, promise and action. • 📷 Salifou Lindou - Politiciens 73, 2024 Pastel on canvas 150x200 cm • 📍Africa Legacy 4 September - 1 November, 2026 Rue de l’Ecuyer 50 - 1000 Bruxelles taken in Brussels, Belgium by @afikaris_
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AFIKARIS is delighted to announce that Jean David Nkot @jeandavidnkot has been selected to participate in 16th edition of @biennale_de_dakar_officiel, « (Anti)Fragility : Arts of Repair and Counter-Shock Stratégies », curated by Morad Montazami. Taking place from 19 November to 19 December 2026, the Biennale brings together 54 artists whose practice open spaces for reflection on repair, memory and transformation. • 16th edition of Dakar Biennale 📆 19 November - 19 December, 2026 📍Dakar, Sénégal taken in Dakar Senegal by @afikaris_
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Ozioma Onuzulike is part of the exhibition “Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa” presented at @princetonuniversityartmuseum until July 3, 2027 and curated by @perrinlathrop.  • This exhibition examines the ways in which African and African Diasporic artists use clay to sustain creative legacies from Africa. The exhibition brings together works by historical, modern, and contemporary artists who draw on and preserve intergenerational knowledge through their practices. Referencing the long history of ceramics in Africa, these artists harness the potential of craft traditions and the vitality of clay to establish new relationships to place and shared histories. • A ceramic artist and poet, Onuzulike’s work largely focuses on the historical and sociological roots of the political and socio-economic turmoil in Africa and their debilitating effects on daily living on the continent. He often explores the aesthetic, symbolic and metaphorical nature of clay (his basic material) and the clay-working processes – pounding, crushing, hammering, wedging, grinding, cutting, pinching, punching, perforating, burning, firing – in his making of the multiple units that characterise his mixed-media projects.  Exhibited artists: Ozioma Onuzulike El Anatsui Magdalene Odundo Ladi Dosei Kwali Adebunmi Gbadebo Theaster Gates Zizipho Poswa Leilah Babirye Kwabena Ampofo-Anti Etiyé Dimma Poulsen Demas Nwoko Jabulile Nala Madoda Fani Sana Musasama 📷 Installation views, "Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa." Princeton University Art Museum. Credit: Joseph Hu taken in Princeton University Art Museum by @afikaris_
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Don’t miss the opportunity to get your very own signed copy of Hervé Yamguen’s first monograph! Join us today, Saturday, 19 September, from 4–6 PM for an intimate encounter with the artist. The artist will also do a reading of his latest poem « La fenêtre de mes rêves » (The Windows of my dreams) which opens the book. We look forward to seeing you there! • The first monograph devoted to Cameroonian artist Hervé Yamguen offers an intimate portrait of his artistic journey, bringing together the evolution of his practice in recent years and accompanying his new solo exhibition, « Nos géographies intimes » (Our Intimate Geographies). • 📚BOOK SIGNING & POETRY READING 📆 Saturday 19 September | 4—6 PM 📍AFIKARIS Gallery 7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris taken in Afikaris by @afikaris_
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BOOK LAUNCH & POETRY READIING SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER | 4-6PM On the occasion of Hervé Yamguen's first monograph « Nos géographies intimes », published to accompany his eponymous solo exhibition at AFIKARIS gallery, we are delighted to invite you to a book signing with the artist. A poet and performance artist as well as a visual artist, Hervé Yamguen will also give a reading of his recent poem, « La fenêtre de mes rêves » (The Window of My Dreams). “It is from the window Of my dreams And from what happens to me When I travel The paths of our struggling breaths That I welcome and draw Signs and trees In the notebook of our intimate geographies.” • Link in bio to get your copy! • 📆 Saturday 19 September | 4 – 6 PM 📍AFIKARIS Gallery 7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris No RSVP needed. taken in Afikaris by @afikaris_
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Many thanks to @tv5monde @tv5mondeafrique and Nidhya Paliakara for inviting Hervé Yamguen to discuss his work and his solo exhibition, “Nos géographies intimes” (Our intimate geographies). On view until October 31st at AFIKARIS gallery. Link in bio to watch the full interview. • Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes 📆 5 September — 31 October, 2026 📍7 rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, 75003 Paris taken in Le journal Afrique sur TV5MONDE by @afikaris_
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Thank you all for joining us last week at the gallery for the opening of Hervé Yamguen’s second solo exhibition in Paris — “Nos géographies intimes”. Yamguen presents a body of drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures, and wooden masks that extends a central reflection in his work: that of the visible and invisible forces involved in shaping who we are and the way we inhabit the world. Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes 📆 5 September - 31 October, 2026 📍7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris taken in Afikaris by @afikaris_
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| Save the Date | AFIKARIS is pleased to invite you to the opening of Hervé Yamguen’s second solo exhibition in France, Nos géographies intimes (Our Intimate Geographies), on Saturday September 5, from 11 AM to 8 PM, in the presence of the artist. • On the occasion of the exhibition, the artist’s first monograph will also be published. • The exhibition emerges from a question that is at once intimate and universal: what are we made of? For Hervé Yamguen, a human being can never be reduced to what the eye can perceive. Each of us carries within us landscapes, memories, wounds and dreams. As the artist writes in « La fenêtre de mes rêves » (The Window of My Dreams): “Words raise Before us A great mirror Where faces, memories, And landscapes drift by.” • Hervé Yamguen | Nos géographies intimes 📆 5 September—31 October, 2026 🥂 Opening reception: Saturday 5.09, 11AM—8PM 📍7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris taken in Afikaris by @afikaris_
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