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Mwangi Hutter
Facing Gold 2 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce the second solo show with artist duo Mwangi Hutter, Facing Gold. The exhibition will be on view in Paris from February 2 to March 18, 2023. Mwangi Hutter (live and work in Germany) fused surnames in 2005 to become one artist. Together they create... Read more -
Patrick Eugène and Ziad Kaki
Cinematic Expressions 9 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce the gallery’s second dual exhibition in Paris entitled, Cinematic Expressions, featuring new works by Patrick Eugène and Ziad Kaki, marking their inaugural exhibitions in France and with the gallery. Both emerging from an initially abstract practice, Patrick Eugène and Ziad Kaki advanced to figuration,... Read more -
Maïmouna Guerresi
The Fall: Awa and Adama 5 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Italian-Senegalese artist Maïmouna Guerresi, entitled The Fall: Awa and Adama. The exhibition will be on view in Chicago from November 5 – December 23, 2022. In Maïmouna Guerresi's works the viewer is nudged toward a metaphysical realm; A suspended reality,... Read more -
Yukimasa Ida
Now is Gone (Maintenant n’est plus) 15 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Japanese artist Yukimasa Ida, “ Now is Gone.. Maintenant n’est plus”. The show will be on view in Paris from October 15 to November 26, 2022. Yukimasa Ida reconnoiters the borders between the abstract, the representational, and the natural.... Read more -
Ian Mwesiga
Theater of Dreams 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce Ian Mwesiga’s first solo exhibition, Theater of Dreams, on view in Chicago from September 17 – October 29, 2022. Mwesiga’s works are abjectly peaceful scenes that appear simple in their composition but upon close observation subtly suggest questions whose responses only engender more questions.... Read more -
Jerrell Gibbs
Entre Nous 8 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition with Jerrell Gibbs, entitled, “Entre Nous”. The show marks the artists’ first in Europe and will be on view in Paris from September 8 – October 8, 2022. In the work of Jerrell Gibbs, one encounters the sprawling vision of... Read more -
Ian Micheal
Stills 16 Jul - 13 Aug 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to present 'Stills,' a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ian Micheal. The show will be on view in Chicago until August 13 , 2022. The new body of work attests to Micheal's keen observations of e veryday life as it unfolded in the late 80s... Read more -
Raphaël Barontini
Blue Lewoz 10 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present Blue Lewoz, Raphaël Barontini’s second exhibition with the gallery and first in the Parisian space, on view from June 10th to July 23rd, 2022. Invoking European art history and period portraits from the Caribbean, Barontini appropriates cultures to compose his own narratives and figures,... Read more -
Shannon T. Lewis
The Softness of Much Handled Things 28 May - 2 Jul 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Shannon T. Lewis, entitled, The Softness of Much Handled Things, marking the artists debut show with the gallery, in Chicago. On view from May 28 to July 2, 2022, the new work explores the notion of how... Read more -
Amoako Boafo
Inside Out 28 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to present Inside Out, Amoako Boafo’s debut solo exhibition in Europe, on view from April 28 to June 4, 2022 in the Paris gallery. In this exhibition, each portrait is a site of tender imaginings, Boafo seeks to animate his interior world by painting visual characters... Read more -
Zohra Opoku
I Have Arisen... 8 Apr - 14 May 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present I Have Arisen..., the gallery’s second exhibition with Zohra Opoku and first in Chicago. The Myths of Eternal Life is Zohra Opoku’s latest body of work—an art practice that sought to be both healing and transformative. I Have Arisen will unveil Part One of... Read more -
M. Florine Démosthène
In the Realm of Love 9 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim is delighted to present In the Realm of Love, featuring new works by M. Florine Démosthène. The exhibition in Paris marks the artist’s first solo show in Europe, on view from March 9 to April 16, 2022. Across a series of figurative collages and small sculptures, Démosthène traverses... Read more -
La Vie en Rose
Group Exhibition 5 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Chicago Exhibiting Artists: ruby onyinyechi amanze, Raphaël Barontini, Amoako Boafo, M. Florine Démosthène, Jerrell Gibbs, Maïmouna Guerresi, Mwangi Hutter, Yukimasa Ida, Ayana V. Jackson, Clotilde Jiménez, Shannon T. Lewis, Sergio Lucena, No Martins, Ian Mwesiga, Ferrari Sheppard, Zohra Opoku and Peter Uka. Mariane Ibrahim announces La Vie en Rose, a celebratory... Read more -
Clotilde Jiménez
Un Nouveau Monde 28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim presents Un Nouveau Monde, the gallery's second solo exhibition with Clotilde Jiménez and the artists first in Europe. On view in Paris from January 28 – March 5, 2022, the show marks the first chapter of the gallery's 10-year anniversary celebration. The exhibition unveils Jimenez’s new body of... Read more -
Carmen Neely and Ferrari Sheppard
Where to begin... 11 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Paris Mariane Ibrahim presents “ Where to begin…” the gallery’s second group exhibition in Paris following the inaugural opening in September 2021. The show highlights significant new and large scale works by Carmen Neely and Ferrari Sheppard. The two artists share the power to transfix the spaces they hold, evoking intimacy... Read more -
Peter Uka
Longing 13 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim announces Longing, the gallery's inaugural exhibition with Peter Uka. On view in Chicago from November 13, 2021 – January 15, 2022, the show marks the artist's first show with the gallery and in the United States. Novelist Zadie Smith commented that “historical nostalgia” was a sentiment not “available”... Read more -
No Martins
Encontros Políticos (Political Conversations) 21 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Paris Mariane Ibrahim presents the first solo exhibition of Afro-Brazilian artist No Martins, featuring recent works. No Martins produces a polymorphic art form and has been gaining increasing public recognition in the last few years. Brazil is home to the second largest Black population after Nigeria; however, racism and inequality... Read more -
J'ai Deux Amours...
Group Exhibition 18 Sep - 13 Oct 2021 Paris Mariane Ibrahim presents J'ai Deux Amours... , the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new space in Paris on Avenue Matignon. On view from September 18 to October 13, 2021, the show marks the gallery's newfound physical duality with its presence in Chicago and in Paris and presents never before seen... Read more -
Jerrell Gibbs
Sounds of Color: Recorded Memories 4 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim announces Sounds of Color : Recorded Memories , the gallery's inaugural exhibition with Baltimore-based painter Jerrell Gibbs. On view in Chicago from September 4 – October 23, 2021, the show mark s the artist's first solo exhibition globally. Gibbs avails the new body of work as a point... Read more -
Yukimasa Ida
Here and Now 26 Jun - 14 Aug 2021 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim unveils the solo exhibition of Japanese artist Yukimasa Ida, entitled “Here and Now” on view, in Chicago, from June 26 – August 14, 2021. The show marks the artists debut in the United States. In the new body of work for “Here and Now”, Ida is focuses on... Read more -
ruby onyinyechi amanze
Thinghood 8 May - 19 Jun 2021 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim announces the first solo exhibition with ruby onyinyechi amanze, Thinghood. The show will be on view from May 7 – June 5, 2021 and will present seven new drawings. To make these works, over twenty-five different drawings were created, then cut and systematically reassembled into their finished form.... Read more -
Sergio Lucena
The Blue that embraces me... 12 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim announces the second solo exhibition with Sergio Lucena, The Blue that embraces me... The show will be on view from March 12 – April 10, 2021. The Blue that embraces me... highlights the silent essence that illuminates the memory of such things that, individually and intimately, bring us... Read more -
Raphaël Barontini
The Night of the Purple Moon 30 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim presents a solo exhibition with Raphaël Barontini, The Night of the Purple Moon, marking the gallery’s inaugural presentation with the artist and his first solo gallery show in the United States. The gallery is transformed into a Galerie des Illustres, an otherworldly environment with large scale portraits on... Read more -
Amoako Boafo
I Stand By Me 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Chicago I Stand by Me was Amoako Boafo’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features never before seen works, represented a moment of reflection during this time of crisis, emphasizing the notion of autonomy and self-reflection, a call to preserve one's integrity and independence. The large paintings using photo... Read more -
Clotilde Jiménez
The Contest 11 Jul - 22 Aug 2020 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim presents Clotilde Jiménez’s newest body of work, The Contest, his first solo show with the gallery. His practice is rooted in conceptions such as the fragmentation of queerness, and in this series, his relationship to his father and athleticism. Through these techniques, Jiménez examines the way the intersection... Read more -
The discovery of what it means to be Brazilian
Group Exhibition Curated by Hélio Menezes 1 Feb - 21 Mar 2020 Chicago The title was a homage to James Baldwin’s famous essay (1959), The discovery of what it means to be an American, uniting recent work of contemporary Black Brazilian artists Jaime Lauriano, No Martins, Aline Motta, Éder Oliveira and Tiago Sant'Ana. The exhibition reflected Baldwin’s views on race, identity traps, and... Read more -
Florine Démosthène
Between Possibility and Actuality 2 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Chicago Mariane Ibrahim presents Florine Démosthène’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, “Between Possibility and Actuality.” The show celebrates the second presentation at the gallery’s Chicago space. Démosthène lurs you into a phantasmagoric sphere with her sparkly surfaces and her amphibious marble-like figures adorned with aquatic accents. Démosthène ’s contemporary take... Read more -
Ayana V. Jackson
Take Me to the Water 20 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Chicago Take Me to the Water presents a holistic survey of Jackson’s work to date, a culmination of varied discursive elements present in Jackson’s more than a decade long career. These portraits and movement studies offers a sense of the breadth of her practice, while at the same time took her... Read more -
Alexandra Karakashian
in on itself 15 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Collapsed implosion concentrates matter and energy retracts monoliths into tightened crumpled bodies the core collapsed in on itself exceedingly quickly hole where they said they’d burn undyingly so empty it breathes becoming futures even god can’t see. The excerpt above is taken from Aromatic Achromatic, a poem written in collaboration... Read more -
Kudzanai Chiurai
We Live in Silence 13 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Drawing from the previous series - Revelations (2011) and Genesis [Je n’isi isi] (2016) - as well as Mauritanian director Med Hondo’s seminal piece of cinema Soleil O (1969), the film-based works presents an introspective journey into colonialism at the dawn of independence. Incorporating religious and populist iconography, Chiurai’s work... Read more -
Sergio Lucena & Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
Common Place 19 Jul - 8 Sep 2018 Common Place, a two-artist exhibition featuring new works by Brazilian painter Sergio Lucena and South African pluridisciplinary artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. It starts with a gaze of an inescapable faith: solitude. The artist succumbs to the emptiness of the matter despite a perpetual struggle to fill a void. The image... Read more -
Maïmouna Guerresi
Aisha In Wonderland 19 Apr - 2 Jun 2018 Aisha in Wonderland is an allegorical journey that centers around themes dear to Guerresi and links to the charm and the value of the mystic and veiled body’s diversity. It is the representation of the spiritually strong woman who, through her own identity, is able to dissolve the distinctions present... Read more -
Zohra Opoku
Harmattan Tales 19 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 Harmattan Tales is a utopian exploration of the cityscape by connecting to Muslim women in Accra, Ghana and discovering life in the city through their lens. Opoku explores these women's personal beliefs and narratives, their acts of veiling and unveiling inherent to their daily rituals, movements in and out of... Read more -
Sofie Knijff
Tales 13 Sep - 13 Oct 2017 Tales features over a dozen photographs of new portraits and landscapes in various countries. The photographer looks at the stories and tales children grow up hearing. Fairy tales have been present throughout time and across cultural backgrounds. Stories that generally begin with ‘once upon a time’ and usually end with... Read more -
Mwangi Hutter
Falling in Love, Again 1 Jun - 21 Jul 2017 Believers in the existence of soul mates often say that individuals who maintain this connection share a soul split across a two bodies. Mwangi Hutter embodies this belief. The husband and wife duo maintain a joint artistic practice in the service of a single vision. This doesn't imply that they... Read more -
Ayana V. Jackson
Dear Sarah 6 Apr - 20 May 2017 Mariane Ibrahim presents Dear Sarah, which is inspired by the story of Sarah Bonetta Forbes, an African woman of Yoruba origin presented as a gift to the English Queen Victoria by the Dahomey King Ghezo. This series is a marked departure from Jackson’s previous works, which deconstruct the way in... Read more -
Group Exhibition
Back Stories 25 Jan - 25 Mar 2017 Back Stories is as much a celebration of the human form as it is an investigation into the ways in which these artists feel the body, particularly the back, can be used to tell a story. They investigate the back as its own entity and also as an integral part... Read more -
Sergio Lucena
ÆNIGMA 31 Jul - 1 Sep 2016 Featuring a dozens large abstract paintings, ÆNIGMA reflects the disenchanted expectations of an artist in introspective contemplation, in a world that makes no sense and looses its own values. The superposition of colors and geometrical forms highlight the duality of light and dark, proximity and distance, materiality and spirituality. The... Read more -
Mustapha Azeroual
Recording Structures 19 May - 19 Jun 2016 Azeroual’s work is an investigation around various photographic practices as well as the specific challenges raised by the variety of techniques. There is one question that guides his practice: how can we create conditions, using the camera and alternative printing methodologies, where the eye is forced to overrule its learned... Read more -
Ayana V. Jackson
Archival Impulse 17 Sep - 24 Oct 2015 Inspired by the South African Duggan Cronin photographic archive from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Archival Impulse re-enacts and confronts the historically, dehuman-izing modes of portraying people of African descent. The exhibition features a series of photographs that depicts the intricate ways in which the identities of Africans... Read more -
Maïmouna Guerresi
Light Bodies 20 Mar - 1 May 2015 'Light Bodies' features a series of photographs and mixed media installations articulated around the luminous and light weighted bodies. Through various medium of expressions, Guerresi explores the idealistic concept of religion and re-interprets its icons. In 1991, Guerresi travelled to various Muslim African countries. This journey marked her new identify... Read more
