Maurice Mboa
b. 1983, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 THE SHOWROOM @Xavier Fischer, 35 Rämistrasse, Zurich, Switzerland (Curated by Samuel Gross) April
2023 Tiger Gallery, Art Intelligence Global, London, UK
2022 "Resilience", Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 "Superlife", Foreign Agent, Lausanne, Switzerland
2021 “The Viral Epidemic in South Africa”, Under the direction of the African People’s Union (UPAF), Musée de Neuchatêl, Neuchatêl, Switzerland
2019 "Transitions", Galerie 27 Concept, Paris, France
2018 "Revealing", Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 "Rebirth", Galerie Andata Ritorno, Laboratoire d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2017 Unforgotten Land, Listrik, Montreux, Switzerland
2017 "Autres Naissances", ArtGenève, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 "Chroniques Urbaines", Fondation APCd, Fribourg, Switzerland
2016 "Transitions", Institut Français du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2016 "Âmes-preintes : La Peinture de l’Âme", Dakar Biennale, Résidence Culturelle: Lamp Fall, Dakar, Senegal
2015 "Âmes-preintes", GIZ, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2011 "Chroniques", Djega Palace, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2007 "Clichés", Salsa, Bastos, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2006 "Clichés", Espresso House, Bastos, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2004 "Racontes-moi l’Espagne", Centre d’art contemporain Africréa, Bastos, Spanish Embassy, Yaoundé
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 “Tropic of Cancer” Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
2021 “High Voltage II”, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israël
2020 "True To Self", Galerie des Bains, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 "Paths of Infinity", Galery Esfandiary, Lüneburg, Germany
2019 "Feu Sacré", 5ème Biennale des Artistes de Kugler, Usine Kugler, Geneva Switzerland
2019 Exposition Presse(censure), OmarBa, Harold Bouvard, Rudolf Gergard Bunk, Eugenio Cornejo, Marissa Cornejo, Mael Denegri, Igor Denegri, Hadrien Dussoix, Mounir Fatmi, Angela Marzullo, Barbara Polla, Zenawi Rezene, Association pour le Patrimoine Industriel, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 "Cameroon Meets Switzerland", Kulturraum Alter Werkhof, Brig, Switzerland
2018 "Talking About A Revolution", Adel Abdessemed, Andrei Molodkin, Arnaud Cohen, Bruno Serralongue, Burak Arikan, Diana Righini, Elena Kovylina, Filip Markiewicz, Frank Perrin, Gerard Fromanger, Gianni Motti, Jean-Claude Jolet, Jimmie Durham, Joseph Beuys, Michaela Spiegel, Michel Journiac, O’maurice Mboa , Oksana Shachko / Petr Pavlenski / Shadi Alzaqzouq / Véronique Bourgoin, curated by Paul Ardenne, Galerie 22 Visconti, Paris, France
2018 "Our Africa: There and Here", Centre des arts, Genève, Switzerland
2017 "Frozen feet under dried torrent / Sunset without its own dawn / Let the wind crack the frosted stone", Listrik, Montreux, Switzeland
2017 "Exposición de artes plásticas 2016" Homenaje a José Maria Sert, Spanish Permanent Mission of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 "Melting-Pot", Nest Gallery Geneva, Switzerland
2016 "Exposición de artes plásticas 2016" Homenaje a José Maria Sert, Spanish Permanent Mission of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2007 Group exhibition, Musée National, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2006 Group exhibition, Musée National, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2006 "Raconte-moi l’Espagne", Centre d’art contemporain « Africréa », Yaoundé, Cameroon
2006 "Cameroun connexion", Africréa, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2004 Les antennes des Alliances Franco-Camerounaises (AFC) de Buéa et de Dschang à l’Espace Culturel Oyenga, Yaoundé, Cameroon
2004 Le Ministère de la Culture au Musée National, Yaoundé, « The last pictures show», exposition collective au « bo’ojeg », Douala, Cameroon