Yvette Walther Bas : Parcours et Réalisations d'une Artiste

Cet article explore la biographie et les réalisations artistiques d'Yvette Walther Bas, en mettant en lumière ses expositions, performances et publications.

Expositions Notables

Yvette Walther Bas a participé à de nombreuses expositions collectives et individuelles à travers le monde. Voici une sélection de ses expositions les plus marquantes :

2014 : Diaspore, 14 Rooms, Art Basel, Bâle, CH. Glimmer: Fragments, Landing Symposium: Confrontation and Confessions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2013 : Glimmer: Aurum. Das Jubiläumsfestival, 50 years of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1963 - 2013, Berlin, DE. Glimmer, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE. Face me, I Face you, Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE. Where Gist you, (avec Eunhye Hwang), Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki theatre, Berlin, DE. When all things flow, the bird sings, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, DE. Taste of a Stone: Itiat Esa Ufok, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, AE
2012 : Contained Measures of Shifting States, Across the Board: Politics of Representation, Tate Modern, The Tanks, Londres, UK. Sing, I will tell you who we be, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL. Contained Measures of a Kolanut, Tropicomania: The Social Life of Plants, Betonsalon, Center of Art and Research. Associated venue of La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity.
2011 : Don't/Panic, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, ZA. Connect, exposition collective avec Rijksakademie Alumni, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL. The Altered Landscape, Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, US. MarklinWorld, Kunsthalle KAdE, Amersfoort, NL. The Collectors Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL. L'inattendu du Tout Monde, Un Hommage a Goddy Leye, L'appartement 22, Rabat, invited by Art-O-Rama, Marseille, FR. All We Ever Wanted, Center of Contemporary Arts, Lagos, NG. Summer Show, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL. Outre Mesures et Programmes Radio (Maps, Timelines, Radio Programmes), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec, FR. Faites Comme Chez Vous, Raw Material Company, A center for art, knowledge and society.
2010 : Sentences on the Banks and Other Activities, Darat al Funun, Amman, JD. World Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Dakar, SG. Body Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL. The Production of Space, The Studio Museum Harlem, New York, US. Unfixed, CBK (Center for Contemporary Arts Dordrecht), Dordrecht, NL. There Is Always A Cup Of Sea To Sail In, 29th Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR. Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen, DK. Africa, Objects and Subjects, Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, ES. A Proposal For Articulating Works and Places (Part 2), Riso Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, IT. Whose Map Is It?
2008 : Re/Presentaciones: Ellas, Casa Africa, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, ES. This is Now 1, L'appartement22, Rabat, invited to the 1st Johannesburg Art Fair, ZA. Delight, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL. Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US. Snap Judgments, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL. Snap Judgments, Brooks Museum of Arts, Memphis, US.
2007 : Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA. Simmels Gelijk, Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam, NL. Allan Kaprow, Kunst Als Leben, Kunsthalle Bern, CH. Snap Judgments, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA. Snap Judgments, Tamayo Museum, Mexico city, MX.
2006 : 1st Architecture, Art & Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands, ES. Snap Judgments, Miami Art Central, Miami, US. De Grote Oversteek, Stedelijk Museum, Zwolle, NL. Shared History/Decolonising the Image, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL. Generique, Galerie 14, Paris, FR. There & Back, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES. One Game - Many Worlds, Football in inter-cultural comparison, Münchner Stadtmuseum.

Performances et Conférences

En plus de ses expositions, Yvette Walther Bas est également active dans le domaine de la performance et des conférences. Elle a participé à plusieurs événements, notamment :

2014 : Shifting States- Platforms for Experimentation, Dutch Art Institute, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL. Voice - Creature of Transition, Lecture performance, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL.
2013 : Hans Ulrich Obrist in converstion with Otobong Nkanga, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK. Facing the Opponen, Fieldwork at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt, DE Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max Planck Institut, Florence, IT. Artist Talk: with Otobong Nkanga, Institut für Raumexperimente, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, DE. Art Basel Salon, The Global Artworld, Focus Africa, Basel, CH. Think-Tank II: Persecuted, Mourned, Pitied, Admired/Collected and Photographed, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE. Art as a meeting point, with Andrea Buddensieg, Otobong Nkanga and Joanna Warsza, discussion organized by Antje Majewski, FF Temporary Autonomous Zone, Berlin, DE. Sharjah Biennial 11 panel discussion with Hoor-Al-Qasimi, Yuko Hasegawa and Otobong Nkanga, Sharjah, UAE. Think-Tank I: The administration of people and goods, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE. The Impossible Aesthetic: Situating Research in Arts and Social Sciences/Humanities, Artistic Research and Museum, Collections, Lessons from the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, DE.
2012 : Otobong Nkanga with Catherine Wood, Part of the series The Tanks: Art in Action, London, UK. Permeabilities, Presentation of works and workshop with participants at CEIA, 8th international event, Belo Horizonte, BR. When the stage hits you, workshop with the Dutch Art Institute students, DAI, Master program of ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL.
2011 : Art-iculate: A performative lecture by Otobong Nkanga, CCA, Lagos, NG. Tracks and traces of violences conferences, Lecture Performance by Otobong Nkanga, The University of Bayreuth, (BIGSAS), DE. Clark-Mellon Workshop: International Initiatives and Regional Collaboration, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, US. 6000 Collectors, Experimental Talks with Objects, Lecture by Otobong Nkanga, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, DE. Presentation of project at Outre Mesures et Programmes Radio (Maps, Timelines,Radio Programmes), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec, FR.
2010 : Workshop and project, Intituto Buena Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency Program, Curacao, NL. Workshop Unfixed, Photography and postcolonial perspectives in contemporary art, CBK Dordrecht, NL. Memory as a photographic process, presentation at Unfixed Symposium, CBK Dordrecht, NL. Otobong Nkanga's works on Land and Mapping, presentation at Crossing Boundaries Symposium, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK. Presentation of works in Whose Map Is It?, INIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK. Artist talk at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2009 : Workshop and project with the students of Haute École d'Art et de Design, Geneva, CH.
2008 : Lecture and Workshop State of Bodies/ Suffering, Mieke van de Voort, Generale Staten and Game/Performance.

Publications

Les œuvres et les idées d'Yvette Walther Bas ont été présentées dans plusieurs publications et catalogues d'exposition :

2014 : Foreign Exchange/Ware & Wissen (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger). exhibition catalogue. Diaphanes publishers. Clementine Deliss et Yvette Mutumba, 2014 p.
2013 : Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian, 2013. p. 178 - 180. Ja Natuurlijk/Yes Naturally : How art saves the world, Neit Normaal Foundation, Nai010 publishers, 2013. p. 88 -91 Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination, Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2013. p. 90 - 91. Sharjah Biennial 11. Re: Emerge Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 2013. p. 436 - 439. Anselm Franke. Animism, 2013. p.
2012 : Tropicomania, La vie sociale des plantes. Centre d'Art et de Recherche, 2012. p. 15. Clementine Deliss, Object Atlas-Fieldwork in the Museum, Weltkulturen Museum, Kerber Forum, p.
2010 : 29th Biennial of Sao Paulo, 2010. p. 194-195. Kunsthal Charlottenbourg Make Yourself at Home. 2010. p. 54-58, 98-99. Africa. Objetos y Sujeto. Cajastur, 2010. p. 286-287. Africa, Objects and Subjects. Palacio Revillagigedo, Gijon, Spain, 2010. p. 286-287.
2008 : Flow, The Studio Museum Harlem, 2008. p.
2005 : MIP, International performance manifestation CEIA, p. 132-133, 164-165.
2004 : Território Livre, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, national representations, 2004. p.
2003 : Transferts, Brussels, 2003. page 138-143, El arte con la vida. 8th Bienal de la Habana, 2003. p.
2002 : Classicism & Beyond, Fotofest, 9th International Biennal of Photography, p. 176-179. Dak'Art, V Biennale of African Contemporary Art, p. 50. Michela Manservisi (curator). Made in Africa_fotografia. Epicentro, Italy, 2002. p. 78-79.
2001 : Akinbode Akinbiyi. Memoires Intimes d'un Nouveau Millenaire. IV Biennale de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako, Mali, 2001 p.

Analyses et Critiques

Son travail a fait l'objet de nombreuses analyses et critiques dans des revues d'art et des publications spécialisées :

2013 : Zur Kunst. Susanne Leeb . Asynchronous Objects, Globalismus Globalism, Sep. 2013. p. 48, 52 - 53, 56. Elvira Dyangani Ose." Across the Board: Otobong Nkanga and Nástio Mosquito". Atlántica #53. Journal of Art and Though, 2013. p. 142-149. Jan-Philipp Possmann, "Jenseits der Vitrine/Beyond the Vitrine", Spike Art Magazine No 35, 2013. p. 50, 53.
2012 : Dorina Hecht. "Mich interessiert das wo, was und warum". Artmap Antwerpen, Winter 2012/13. p. 28-29. Dagmar Mundhenke. "Object Atlas - Feldforshung im Frankfurter Weltkulturen-Museum". Africa Positive N° 45, 2012. p. 42. Catherine Wood. "Re-make, Re-model" Frieze Masters, No 1, 2012. p. 38-39.
2010 : Social Consequences, de Philippe Pirotte, in: Art South Africa, Volume 09, Issue 01, Spring 2010, p. 66-69. Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu. Contemporary African Art since 1980. 2010. p. 280, 327. Animism. Anselm Franke Volume I, 2010. p. 211-212.
2008 : Sean O'Toole. Frieze Magazine, Issue 116, Jun-Aug. 2008. Le Monde Diplomatique,: 55e année - N° 653, Aug 2008 , p. 25. Vincent Solomon. "Seeing Africa through African eyes". Amsterdam Weekly, 17-30th Jul. 2008. p. 10. ZAM Magazine, Africa Magazine, no. 2, Summer 2008. p. 20-21. "New Talents". Blend NL Magazine n°31, July. 2008. p. 55.
2006 : Okwui Enwezor. Snap Judgements, New positions in contemporary African Photography. 2006. p. 34, 160-165, 367.
2004 : Zonder internationale uitwisseling geen kunst; De Stelling, een gesprek met Otobong Nkanga, by Saskia Monshouwer, in: Kunstbeeld, no. 9, p. 48-49. Africa Remix, Zeitgenössische kunst eines kontinents, Museum Kunst Palast, p. 214-215. Shifting Map, Artists' platform and strategies for cultural diversity, RAIN Artists' Initiatives Network, Nai publishers Rotterdam, p. 46. Epifyten, de klassieke hortus als voedingsbodem voor hedendaagse kunst!, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, p. 19-21.
2003 : Flash Art, Nov - Dec. 2003. p. 88. Christine Vuegen. "Mondiale Maalstroom". Kunstbeeld, n° 6, 2003. p. 10-11. Walter Sebastiao. "No Palco, Vitoria de Visibilade". Estada de Minas - Sexta Fiera, Brasil, 2003. Lars Kwakkenbos. "Kunst met Afrikaanse roots". De Standard, Belgium, 2003.
2002 : Flash Art International, Vol. XXXIV no. 225,July - Sep 2002. p. 49, 59. Simon Njami. Blink, 100 Photographers 10 Curators 10 Writers. Phaidon Press, London, 2002, p. 276-279. Robbert Roos. "PF fotographie (BLINK)" . Magazine voor fotographie en imaging, n° 6, 2002. p. 16-18.
2001 : N'gone Fall. "Anthologie de l'Art African du vingtieme siècle". Revue Noire, 2001 , p. 396-397. Telerama. n° 2702, 2001 p. 68-69. Jean Loup Pivin. "Nigeria". Revue Noire. n° 30, Paris, 2001 . p.