Peres Projects

Marc PADEU (b. 1990 in Melong, CM)

• Lives and works between Douala and Nkongsamba, CM

Current Solo Exhibition

• the world is Ours, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021

• All the Light on Me, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK

2020

• The Blue Man of Njombe, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK

2018

• Credo in unum Deum, Doual’art - Centre d’art contemporain, Douala, CM

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

• what fruit it bears, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2018

• Urbanitudes, Galerie d’Art Contemporain de Yaoundé, Yaounde, CM

2017

• Art 2017, Doual’art Centre d’Art Contemporain, Douala, CM
• Mémoires libérées, des origines aux héritages de l’esclavage, Musée National de Yaoundé, Yaounde, CM
• Cheminements, art contemporain du Cameroun, Galerie d’Art Contemporain de Yaoundé, Yaounde, CM

2016

• Cameroun: une vision contemporaine Acte VI, au siège de la banque mondiale à Yaoundé, Yaounde, CM
• Dialogue, Bandjoun station, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bandjoun, CM

2014

• Art Prize, Jack Bell Gallery, London, UK

Selected Bibliography

2021

• Contreras, Ayana, Nothing But Sweet Potato Pie, Oxford American, issue 112, Spring 2021

2020

• Lang, Colin, New Fauves, Spike Art Magazine, December 19, 2020
• Gerlis, Melanie, Art world proceeds with caution as galleries start to reopen, Financial Times, May 7, 2020
• Gerlis, Melanie, African Art Gallery Celebrates 10 Years, February 8, 2020
• Gerlis, Melanie, Art Basel Hong Kong cancelled after spread of the coronavirus, Financial Times, February 6, 2020
• Marc Padeu: Marc Padeu : The Blue Man of Njombé, Contemporary And, February 2020
• The Blue Man of Njombé, Artland, February 2020

2019

• Marc Padeu: a tight bridge between the West and Africa, Piasa, December 23, 2019
• Amendah, Hanou, Young Cameroonian Artist Marc Padeu Sets Surprising Records at Piasa Contemporary African Art Auction, Obatala, November 18, 2019
• Rantrua, Sylvie, L’art contemporain africain explose tous les plafonds à la maison Piasa, Le Point, November 9, 2019

2018

• Emalé, Matthias, Arts plastiques: Marc Padeu interroge les croyances religieuses et ancestrales, July 25, 2018