Joël Andrianomearisoa

born in 1977 in Antananarivo (Madagascar)

« The work arises from various manipulations that lead me to the final result. When I set up an installation, I do not imagine its finality. I know the elements that compose it, but in the intant I set them up I discover something else.» JA

Andrianomearisoa is always on the edges. He does not approach his work in a direct way, but places it at the boundaries of the desires of whomever discovers it. His work comes down to a question of posture. In every piece he aims to find various shades of colors as well as various attitudes of them. Each color and its attitude do not exclude the rest: if every color can embody a wave of emotions, it also gives the artist freedom to deconstruct the structure of the work. Black, milestone in the work of the artist, is the link between this accumulation of variety and overlapping. Black is handled by the artist as a color of infinite possibilities and shades. This color is designed, tested, constantly challenged, reinterpreted and renewed to become one and, at the same time, a thousand different colors.

Born in 1977 in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Joël Andrianomearisoa studied at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, France. His works have been recently exhibited for "The White Hunter", at Frigoriferi Milanesi Art Center For Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy and for "Le la tour du monde" at Galeries Lafayette (Dome), Paris, France both in 2017, then for "The Divine Comedy" at the National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, US (2015) as for many other shows. In 2019 he represents Madagascar to the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Andrianomearisoa is currently living and working between Paris and Antananarivo.

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2022

The five continents of all our desires, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape-Town, South-Africa
Our land just like a dream, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Random desires for a certain kind of architecture, Sabrina Amrani, Madrid, Spain
Les prémices d’une mélancolie infinie, Standing Pine gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Les rêves et les nuits, Art Absolument space, Paris, France
Les herbes folles du vieux logis, Primo Marella gallery, Milano, Italy
Au rythme de nos désirs dansons sur la vague du temps, Project, Villers-Cotterêts, France

2021
Brise du rouge soleil /Tours et remparts d’aigues-mortes,, France
Les Herbes Folles du Vieux Logis / Salon d’art 2021 / Domai- ne de Chaumont-Sur-Loire
Translations Of All Our Lost Passions and Our Future Desires / Kunsthalle Praha

2020

We Were So Very Much in Love / Musée d’art Roger Quilliot / Clermont- Ferrand, France
This evening the night doesn’t want to end, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Ici nous portons tous les rêves du monde, Fdd HY ArtPlatform Antananarivo, Madagascar
Un artiste, un monument,Cmn Tours et remparts Aigues-mortes, France
Tba, Musée d’Art Roger Quillot, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2019

I have forgotten the night, Madagascar Pavillon, 58th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Cartography of desires, the space between us, Encounters Art Basel, Hong Kong

Blue take me to the end of all loves, Primo Marella gallery, Milan, Italy

2018
The Geometry Of The Angle As Point Of No Return To Dress The Present, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, CH

Solo Exhibition, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, MAL
Title TBA, Centro de Arte Alcobendas. Madrid, SP
Title TBA, Fundaçao Leal Rios- Lisbon, PT

2017
Bienalsur, International Contemporanean Art Biennal in South America (project)
Sur un horizon infini se joue le theatre de nos affections. Fondation Zinsou & Musée Ouidah. Cotonou, BPB
Chanson de ma terre lointaine, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Sentimental Products, Solo project, Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
Le La Tour du Monde, Solo project for the cupola of the Galeries Lafayette, Paris, FR

A L’horizon de Mes Jours Troubles. Joël Andrianomearisoa, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, FR
Va et vient. Boat in Canal du Midi. FR

2016
Last year in Antananarivo, Tyburn Gallery, London, GB
The labyrinth of passions, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Museum, Kaunas, LT
La maison sentimentale, Dakar Biennale, SN

2015
De profundis, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, ES
Parlez-moi, Institut Français, Antananarivo, MG

2014
Carte blanche to Joël Andrianomearisoa, Vendôme Luxury, Paris, FR
Perfection the grave of our own existence, Mikael Andersen, Berlin, DE

2013
SENTIMENTAL, Maison Revue Noire, Paris, FR

2011
0621146952, L’inlassable Galerie, Paris, FR

2010
Smatesh Remix, Comme Il Faut, Tel Aviv, IL

2009
I don’t know how to begin, I don’t know how it will end, Aksent, Gent, BE

2008
Une histoire, CCAC, Antananarivo, MG

2007
Black out: mentalklinik project space, Istanbul, TR

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2022
Labyrinth, Kristin Hjellegjerbe Gallery, London, GB
Kosmogonie, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Imagine !, FITE, Basilique de Notre Dame du Port, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Peripheral Sun, Vin Vin Gallery, Vienna, Austria
History in fragments, Sabrina Amrani gallery, Madrid, Spain
Imagine !, Palais Ducal, Guimaraes, Portugal
Miniartextil, Beffroi, Montrouge, France

2021
Africa Universe - Part 2, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Dear Summer, Standing Pine, Nagoya, JP

2020
Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway Encounters Art Basel, Hong Kong

2019

Africa Universe, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano, CH

Africa Universe, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT

2018
A Beast, A God, A Line, MoMA Warsaw, PL

A Beast, A God, A Line, TS 1, Yangon, MM
A Beast, A God, A Line, Para Site, HK
A Beast, A God, A Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, BDS

2017
Project for BIENALSUR, International Contemporary Art Biennale in Buenos Aires, AR
All things been equal, Inaugural show, Zeitz Moca. Cape Town, ZAVers le Cap de Bonne Esperance, Gare Saint Sauveur. Lille. FR
Quart d’heure américain. Mains d’ouvres. Saint Ouen, FR
Le la tour du monde, BIENALSUR, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporàneode América del Sur, Porto Alegre, BR / Buenos Aires, RA
The Black Sphinx: from Morocco to Madagascar, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Autour du nouveau réalisme, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR
The White Hunter, Frigoriferi Milanesi Art Center for Contemporeary Art, Milano, IT
Afriques Capitales”, La Villette, Paris, FR

2016
Essentiel paysage, Macaal, Marrakech, MA
White surfaces, Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, CH
Not really really, Frederic de Goldschmidt collection, Bruxelles, BE
Comme sur du papier, Frac Réunion, RE

2015
Rencontres photographiques, Bamako, ML
Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, BR
Divine Comedy, Smithsonian, Washington, US

2014
Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Divine Comedy, SCADMOA, Savannah, US
Divine Comedy, MMK, Frankfurt, DE

2013
Periféeriques, Jacmel, HT
L’échappée belle, Grand Palais, Paris, FR

2012
The progress of love, Menil Collection, Houston, US

2010
In Context, SA National Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts & Design MAD, New York, US
Africa assume Art Position!, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT

Off the wall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Stockholm, SW
A Collective Diary, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL

2009
Regard special sur la Turquie, Ecole spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, FR
20 ans et encore à la mode, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cholet, FR

2008
Revue Noire Collection, NAAC Atelier, Nantes, FR
Africa now!, World Bank, Washington, US
Flow, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, US

2007
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, ZA
Gooood Food bis, Maison Descartes, Amsterdam, NL
Paris Black, Museum der welt kulturen, Frankfurt, DE