Profile Category: <span>Contemporary African Art</span>

Emile Youmbi

Emile Youmbi

Buy a work of art by Emile Youmbi Born in 1969 in CAMEROON, Emile YOUMBI discovered painting in 1990 while studying Mathematics at the University of Yaoundé. When he co-founded the Prim’Art collective in 1993, he experimented with materials, was interested in avant-garde work, and explored memory through African Rites and Traditions. His characters are...

Koné Zié

Koné Zié

Biography The artist Jean Laurent Koné Zié lives and works in Bingerville, a suburb of the economic capital Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. The work of Koné Zie is strongly inspired by the African material and immaterial culture. The main theme of his work is the relationship of man to society, community, and spirituality in...

Alhassane Konté

Alhassane Konté

Biographie Born in Kodié, Mali, Alhassane Konté dit Lass lives and works in Bamako. He graduated from the National Institute of Arts and then from the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia, Bamako. He was the winner of the Mali/European Union cooperation competition in 2018 and exhibited at Casa Blanca, Bamako, during the open house...

Emmanuel Aziseh

Emmanuel Aziseh

Biography Born in Cameroon in 1992, Emmanuel Aziseh now lives and works in Marseille (France). Passionate about drawing from childhood, it was with his cousin Zunwa Eric that he had his first drawing lessons, which greatly influenced his artistic practice. Encouraged by his family, he joined an artistic training school “Académie Music’Art Euterpe” in 2009...