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Africains Everywhere
The Margaux and Raphaël Blavy Collection | Château de Montgoger – Musée de Saint Épain October 19, 2024Contemporary African art in the 21st century embodies contemporary consciousness by directly, uniquely, and universally confronting the major challenges of our society. By redefining portraiture...Read more -
Marvellous Realism curated by Ekow Eshun and project led by Lucy MacGarry
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou included in the first and largest exhibition of African photography in Asia August 30, 2024Proudly presented by Fotografiska in partnership with the KT Wong Foundation, the exhibition is founded on an awareness of how the rich and diverse contemporary...Read more -
FAD Magazine
Paul's Gallery of the Week: Larkin Durey May 17, 2024If the name is unfamiliar, that’s because the Jack Bell Galler y, which ran 2010-24, has just been relaunched under the direction and ownership of...Read more -
Financial Times
Article featuring Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou: 'The Future of African Photography' by James Barnor, 15 July 2023 July 18, 2023Pioneering Ghananian photographer James Barnor names Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou in his highlights of the exhibition 'A World in Common' at Tate Modern. In conversation with...Read more
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Tate Modern, London
'A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 6 July 2023 - 14 January 2024 June 30, 2023We are pleased to annouce that works from Leonce Raphael Agebodjelou's 'Egungun Series' will be featured in the upcoming show A World in Common: Contemporary...Read more -
Tate Etc. Magazine
Leonce Raphael Agebodjelou's "Egungun Series" featured in A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography at Tate Modern June 1, 2023We are pleased to annouce that works from Leonce Raphael Agebodjelou's 'Egungun Series' will be featured in the upcoming show A World in Common: Contemporary...Read more -
Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
Featuring Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 10 September 2022 - 14 May 2023 October 12, 2022'A Defect of Colour', a group exhibition curated by Amanda Bonan, Marcelo Campos and Ana Maria Goncalves, including work by Leone Raphael Agebodjelou. A historiographical...Read more -
Cairns Art Gallery, Australia
Showing Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 17 June to 2 October 2022 April 22, 2022'Faceless: Transforming Identity', a group exhibtion including work from Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou's 'Egungun' Series. Running 17 June to 2 October.Read more
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Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
'Coming of Age', featuring work from Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 13 to 27 April 2022 April 14, 2022Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou is featured in 'Coming of Age', a group exhibtion at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Running from 13 to 27 April 2022, the...Read more -
Hotshoe Magazine
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou featured in A West African Portrait issue January 3, 2022Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou features in the lastest issue of Hotshoe Magazine: A West African Portrait. The new issue features a full length interview with Leonce...Read more -
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021, London
September 9, 2021Work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, curated by Yinka Shonibare.Read more -
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou X Elle US Feature
September 9, 2021'Off the Wall', a special collaboration between Elle US and artist Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Agbodjelou was commissioned to shoot an editorial story for the magazine's...Read more
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
New acquisition of work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou September 9, 2021We're pleased to announce that the National Gallery of Canada have made a new acquisition of work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou from the Code Noir...Read more -
Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
'Ex Africa', group exhibition including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, runs through to 27 June 2021 March 22, 2021In an original visual dialogue designed by critic and art historian Philippe Dagen, Africa Reborn attempts to decipher relations that have united the contemporary world...Read more -
Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami
'Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection', group exhibition including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Nov 30, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021 March 11, 2021El Espacio 23 presents its highly anticipated second exhibition, Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. Guest curated by Zimbabwean curator Tandazani Dhlakama,...Read more -
Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. October 2, 2020The Tang Teaching Museum collection is central to the museum’s mission of object-based learning and a stimulus for interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Our collection, which...Read more
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WePresent
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou: A person’s soul can live on within a photograph September 29, 2020Growing up as the son of one of West Africa’s most renowned photographers, it was never in much doubt what line of work Leonce Raphael...Read more -
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
'Through an African Lens: Sub-Saharan Photography from the Museum’s Collection', 27 February - 8 November 2020. Includes works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Hamidou Maiga. February 27, 2020Dynamic images from the MFAH photography collection take you to sub-Saharan Africa. Travel from Benin to Zimbabwe and beyond with artists who are linked by...Read more -
Financial Times
'African art gallery celebrates 10 years', Melanie Gerlis, 8 February 2020 February 12, 2020Read more -
Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou X Louis Vuitton
Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to announce that Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou has collaborated with Louis Vuitton on the Men's Spring-Summer 2020 Campaign by Virgil Abloh. Click through image to see full campaign. January 29, 2020Read more
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Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia
Upcoming group exhibition entitled 'Fashioning Black Identity: Africa and the African Diaspora', 23 November 2019 - 9 February 2020. Including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. October 18, 2019FASHIONING BLACK IDENTITY Africa and the African Diaspora explores ways in which contemporary black African artists are using fashion, photography and portraiture to redefine personal...Read more -
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario
Upcoming group exhibition entitled 'Abadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel', 8 November 2019 - 5 April 2020. Includes work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. October 18, 2019Read more -
Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. October 18, 2019One of the museum’s principal missions is to enrich the collections. New acquisitions strengthen the museum’s collections from different cultural zones as well as the...Read more -
Artforum
'African Spirits' at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York: Joseph Akel, July 2019 August 6, 2019From the time of its introduction to the continent, portrait photography has remained a central part of African photographic history. By the early 1900s, practitioners...Read more
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21c Museum Hotels, Kentucky, USA
Group exhibition entitled 'Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Runs through to May 2020. July 10, 2019Superheroes and celebrities, totems and toys: the imagery of manufactured fantasy is reframed in the visual language of historical iconography in this multi-media exploration of...Read more -
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Group exhibition entitled 'African Spirits', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou and Hamidou Maiga, 10 July - 23 August 2019. July 10, 2019Read more -
Art Exchange, University of Essex
Group exhibition entitled 'Fuel For Thought', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 3 May - 1 June 2019 April 24, 2019An MA Curating student exhibition that draws on the complexities of relationships between people and the environment in the Niger Delta. Oil companies have operated...Read more -
Cairns Art Gallery, Australia
'Fashioning Black Identity: Africa and the African Diaspora', group exhibition including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 8 February - 5 May 2019. January 30, 2019Fashioning Black Identity : Africa and the African Diaspora explores ways in which contemporary black African artists are using fashion, photography and portraiture to redefine...Read more
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Gerd Bornheim Municipal Gallery of Art, Caxias do Sul, Brazil
11 Bienal O Triângulo Atlântico, traveling exhibition including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Curated by Alfons Hug, runs 8 November - 8 December 2018. November 7, 2018Read more -
Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo
Group exhibition entitled 'Africa Revisited', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Curated by Alfons Hug, runs through to 12 January 2019. November 7, 2018Read more -
The Art Newspaper
'Contemporary African Art Lands In Brazil', Gabriella Angeleti, April 2018 April 14, 2018Read more -
The Mint Museum, North Carolina
Group exhibition entitled 'Africa-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 6 October 2018 - 28 April 2019. February 26, 2018Read more
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Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Touring group exhibition entitled 'Making Africa', including work by Goncalo Mabunda & Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 14 October 2018 – 6 January 2019. February 26, 2018Read more -
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. January 16, 2018Read more -
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
Group exhibition entitled 'Africa-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style', 24 February - 12 August 2018. January 16, 2018Read more -
11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Group exhibition entitled 'The Atlantic Triangle', curated by Alfons Hug, 6 April - 3 June 2018. Including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. January 16, 2018Read more
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Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Nationwide touring group exhibition entitled 'Ex Africa', curated by Alfons Hug. Includes works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, October 2017 - October 2018. September 8, 2017Read more -
Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
Touring group exhibition entitled 'Making Africa', including work by Goncalo Mabunda & Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 3 February - 6 May 2018. September 8, 2017Read more -
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
New acquisition of work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. May 30, 2017Read more -
Brooklyn Museum, USA
New acquisition of works from the Egungun series by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. February 7, 2017Read more
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Group exhibition entitled 'Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Gonçalo Mabunda, 15 October 2017 - 7 January 2018. February 7, 2017Read more -
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
Group exhibition entitled 'Making Africa: Continent of Contemporary Design', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Gonçalo Mabunda, through to 15 January 2017. January 12, 2017Read more -
Artforum
'Making & Unmaking' at the Camden Arts Centre, Gilda Williams, 1 October 2016 October 1, 2016Read more -
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
'Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and the Afro-Futuristic Connection', group exhibition including work by Jack Bell Gallery artists Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Aboudia, 8 December 2016 - 22 April 2017. September 2, 2016Read more
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Fowler Museum at UCLA, USA
'African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style', group exhibition including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, March - July 2017. September 2, 2016Read more -
Financial Times
'Material World', Lily le Brun, 25 June 2016 June 25, 2016Read more -
Artsy
'The Brooklyn Museum’s African Mask Show Is a Complex, Powerful Exploration of Identity', Karen Kedmey, 3 May 2016 May 3, 2016Read more -
Financial Times
'This ship would set sail', Emma Crichton-Miller, 30 April 2016 April 30, 2016Read more
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Camden Arts Centre, UK
Group exhibition entitled 'Making & Unmaking', curated by Duro Olowu, 19 June - 18 September 2016. Including work by Jack Bell Gallery artists Hamidou Maiga and Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, alongside Glenn Ligon and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye among others. April 26, 2016Duro Olowu Making & Unmaking Camden Arts Centre Hamidou Maiga Leonce Raphael AgbodjelouRead more -
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
Group show entitled 'Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design', runs through to 28 August 2016. Includes work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Gonçalo Mabunda. April 22, 2016Making Africa CCCB Amelie Klein Okwui Enwezor Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou Goncalo Mabunda Vincent MicheaRead more -
Institut Français, Benin
Group exhibition entitled 'Mois de la photographie', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, February 2016. February 8, 2016Read more -
Des Moines Art Center, USA
Group exhibition entitled 'Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 14 February - 19 April 2015. February 26, 2015Read more
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Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain & Vitra Museum, Germany
Touring group exhibition entitled 'Making Africa; A Continent of Contemporary Design', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Gonçalo Mabunda, 14 March 2015 through to2016. December 12, 2014From March 2015, a major exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum sheds new light on contemporary African design. Showcasing the work of over 120 artists...Read more -
Seattle Museum of Art, Fowler Museum LA, Brooklyn Museum
A travelling group exhibition entitled 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 18 June through to 2016. December 12, 2014Disguise Masks Global African Art Contemporary MasqueradeRead more -
Grand Palais, Paris, France
Group exhibition entitled 'Picasso Mania', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Jeff Koons, David Hockney, Jasper Johns and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others, 7 October 2015 - 29 February 2016 December 12, 2014The twenty or so solo or group exhibitions since 1973 that have focused on the study of the posterity of Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre testify to...Read more -
Fleming Museum of Art, USA
Group exhibition entitled 'Staring Back: the Creation and Legacy of Picasso’s Demoiselles', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, February 3 through June, 21, 2015. June 5, 2014 Read more
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The Independent
'Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America', Zoe Pilger, 18 April 2014 April 18, 2014Read more -
Timeout
'Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America at Saatchi Gallery', Timeout, 27 March 2014 March 27, 2014Read more -
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Group show entitled 'Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America', including works by Aboudia, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou & Boris Nzebo. Show runs 2 April 2014 - 31 August 2014. February 19, 2014 Read more -
The Independent on Sunday
'The Flowers and the Glory', Robert Epstein, 10 November 2013 November 10, 2013Read more
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National Portrait Gallery, London
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 14 Nov 2013 - 9 Feb 2014. September 10, 2013Read more -
Museum of African Design, South Africa
Group exhibition entitled 'Native Nostalgia', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Nov 14 - Feb 9 2013. September 1, 2013Read more -
Samstag Museum of Art, Australia
Group exhibition entitled 'Revealed2', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, September 2013. September 1, 2013Read more -
Carnegie Museum of Art, USA
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. June 20, 2013Read more
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The Art Newspaper
'Something new out of Africa', Eddy Frankel, 14 June 2013 June 14, 2013Read more -
Modern Painters
'Flexing with Flowers', Coline Milliard, 16 April 2013 April 16, 2013Read more -
Ocula
Conversations Q&A: Jack Bell, 5 December 2012 December 5, 2012Read more -
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, UK
Group exhibition entitled 'Betwixt and Between: Contemporary African Photography', including work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. Show runs September 2012 - March 2013. September 1, 2012Read more
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Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Group exhibition entitled 'Out of Focus: Photography', including works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, 25 April - 15 July 2012. April 25, 2012Read more -
The Sunday Times Magazine
'Red Alert', Emma Broomfield, Spectrum, 22 April 2012 April 22, 2012Read more -
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow, UK
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. February 3, 2012Read more -
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
New acquisition of work by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. January 11, 2012Read more
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Another Magazine
'Egungun Project by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou', Lucia Davies, 31 October 2011 October 31, 2011Read more -
Museum of Modern Art, Equatorial Guinea
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. October 3, 2011Read more -
Financial Times
'Booming London', Gareth Harris, 1 October 2011 October 1, 2011Read more -
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
New acquisition of works by Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou. September 22, 2011Read more
