Gonçalo Mabunda

Born in 1975, Maputo, Mozambique Lives and works in Maputo

Gonçalo Mabunda?s work is devoted to the memory of his country. Having known as his immediate environment the tragic civil war, which devastated Mozambique from the mid 70s up to recently, he uses, weapons as the media for his pieces. 7 million weapons were stockpiled and hidden throughout the country. Here, art becomes a duty; that of remembering. He works at the studio Núcleo de Arte and in 1984, he takes part in the project Transformation of weapons in art.

Gonçalo has been recurrently working on the motif of the Throne for a few years, alluding to the Western world?s interest in collecting the Chief Throne in traditional ethnic African art. The Throne also criticizes current African governments that too often tragically manipulate armed violence as a way to strengthen their power. The striking and beautiful ?objects? he creates also convey, however, a positive reflection on the transformative power of art and the resilience and creativity of African civilian societies.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 Cap Town Art Fair, Cap Town, South Africa

2017 Goncalo Mabunda Emperor of the Sands, Jack Bell Gallery, London, England O Aceitador do Medo, Museum Abilio de Mattos e Silva, International Festival of Literature, Obidos, Portugal

2016 Jack Bell Gallery, London, England

2015 1:54, Contemporary African Art fair, New-York, USA Biennale de Venise Gonçalo Mabunda : Game of thrones, Galerie du passage de Pierre Passebon, Paris

2013 Gonçalo Mabunda : When I get green, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK

2012 Gonçalo Mabunda, New Works, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK

2004/2005 Gonçalo Mabunda, Army Museum, Delft, Netherlands Gonçalo Mabunda, Collaboration avec Eugenio Saranga, Gallery 23/SBK Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Gonçalo Mabunda, Centro Dionysia, Roma, Italy Gonçalo Mabunda, Oxo Gallery, London, UK

2003 Gonçalo Mabunda, Felix Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Gonçalo Mabunda, Maison des cultures du monde, Paris, France

2001 Gonçalo Mabunda, Oxo Gallery, London, UK

1997 Gonçalo Mabunda, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Africa Tambien, galeria Tambien, Ibiza, Spain 2020 Power Figures, MAGNIN-A gallery, Paris, France Ex-Africa, Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France "What dreams are made of", galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris, France 2019 The Past, the Present and the In Between, 58° Biennale de Venise, Pavillon du Mozambique

2018 L'Un et l'Autre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (curator: Katell Jaffrès)

MAGNIN-A 118 bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris T. +33 1 43 38 13 00 / + 33 9 51 46 15 - [email protected] - www.magnin-a.com 2017 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England Gaia à travers ses miroirs, Villa des Arts, Rabbat, Maroc (for the event L'Afrique en Capitale) (curator: Brahim El Mazned) E-Mois, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco (curators: Othman Lazraq, Meriem Berrada) Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2016 Galeristes, Carreau du temple, Paris, France 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, USA

2015 Lumières d'Afrique, Chaillot Theater OFFICIELLE-FIAC, Paris, France 1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair, London, England 1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair, New-York, USA All The World's Futures, The Venice Biennale, Italy

2014 Une histoire, Art, Architecture et design des années 1980 à nos jours, nouvel accrochage, Centre Pompidou, Paris (permanent collection, 2014 - 2016) Africa Here / Ici l'Afrique, L'Afrique contemporaine à travers le regard de ses artistes, Château de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland (curator: Adelina von Fürstenberg)

2013 Caught in the Crossfire, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK (curators: The Herbert, Nicola Gauld) Private Choice, Atelier Rouart, Paris, France Mozambique : objets d'art, objets d'arme, French Center of Inmaterial Heritage, Vitré, France

2012 Africa/Africa, Abbaye Saint-André, Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France Museum of Modern and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Collection permanente, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France

2011 Riad Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco

2010 African Stories, Magnin-A, Ancienne Banque du Maroc, Marrakech, Morocco (curator: André Magnin)

2008 Second Lives, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (curators: David Revere McFadden, Lowery Stokes Sims, Brian Parkes) My new voice, Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Objets trouvés, Perimeter, Paris, France

2007 Afronism, Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Brothers in arms, Nùcleo de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique

2004/2007 Africa Remix (curator: Simon Njami) Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany Hayward Gallery, London, UK Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2004/2005 Arms into Art, exposition monographique itinérante, Alliance Française, Tanzania, Mauritius, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Burundi, Namibia, Ouganda

2002 Playtime Festival, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

2001 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2000 An artist, a gesture, Nùcleo de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique

1998 Transformação de Armas em Objectos de Arte II, Nùcleo de Arte, Maputo, Mozambique

1995 Ujamaa IV Workshop, exposition avec Andries Botha, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa

Collections Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Public Art Norway, Norway The province Government, Norway Army Museum, Netherlands Army Museum, Sweden

MAGNIN-A 118 bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris T. +33 1 43 38 13 00 / + 33 9 51 46 15 - [email protected] - www.magnin-a.com Vatican Museums, Vatican Projustitiae Fundation, Portugal International Sculpture Park, China National Museum of Uruguay, Uruguay Tempietto del Carmelo, Italy Museum of Saint Etienne, France Musée international des arts modestes,France Memorial de Caen, France National Museum, Mozambique Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), USA Brooklyn Museum, USA Parque da Davesa (Famalicao),Portugal African Artists for Development, France Victoria and Albert Museum (Purchase Grants fund), GB

MAGNIN-A 118 bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris T. +33 1 43 38 13 00 / + 33 9 51 46 15 - [email protected] - www.magnin-a.com