Yeanzi

From 12 March to 25 May 2024, the 400 m2 Melbye-Konan Gallery will host the group exhibition 'Persona' – Latin for mask. It brings together several contemporary artists who use...

African painting has boomed in recent years. It reflects the self-awareness with which artists on the continent look at themselves and their position in the world. In this period, collectors...

Under the title "PERJECIUM", Galerie Melbye Konan is delighted to exhibit the works of Yeanzi, a contemporary and multi-award winning artist born in Katiola, Ivory Coast, from 30 July to 17 September 2022 on 400 sqm. Yeanzi was given the great honor to represent the Ivory Coast at the 2022 Venice Biennale. In the current exhibition, Melbye-Konan Gallery is also showing two works by the artist that were selected for the Biennale.

Fourteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale: 59 artists and artists' collectives to forge a new common destiny Create, imagine and invent. It is around this triptych that the official...

The Hamburg Galerie Melbye-Konan is delighted to announce the participation of Yeanzi and Aron Demetz, the artists they represent, in this year's Biennale. Yeanzi and Aron Demetz have been selected...

The gallery is celebrating its first year of existence and its growing success over the last year, extending into the international sphere with an extraordinary solo exhibition of the renowned Ivorian artist Lanin Saint-Étienne Yeanzi. The exhibition "ID - Illusions Identitaires" (False Illusions), shows new works by the artist Yeanzi in the Melbye-Konan Gallery from 30th September to 30th November 2021.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the French Institute in Hamburg, Melbye-Konan Gallery is presenting three paintings by young artists from Hamburg and the Ivory Coast as part of its current exhibition HERITAGE. The Hamburg gallery represents African artists as well as artists from all over the world with a connection to Africa. The exhibition, which can be seen at the gallery on Jungfernstieg until July 14th 2021, shows paintings by the first generation of Ivorian artists as well as current works by the younger generation that deal with the theme of cultural heritage.

From 14 May to 14 July 2021, Melbye-Konan Gallery presents the group exhibition HERITAGE, featuring paintings by first-generation Ivorian artists alongside works by contemporary international artists exploring the theme of cultural and colonial heritage in Africa. In particular, the exhibition pays tribute to the artist Michel Kodjo (1935-2021), one of the greatest of the first generation of Ivorian painters, who passed away in March of this year. As early as 1957, three years before Côte d'Ivoire's independence, his works were shown in a solo exhibition at Abidjan City Hall, marking the beginning of a new era in art.

The exhibition IDENTITY is about identity as a life-long process, shaped by norms, culture, origin, role patterns, and experiences. In this exhibition, the four artists work on identity and cultural...

Women Power - the new exhibition at Melbye-Konan Gallery deals with the theme of femininity and its various aspects. The strength of women, the obstacles and challenges they face in...

Akwaba, the title of the opening exhibition, shows African painters of their generation or artists with a connection to Africa from September 4th, 2020 to October 3rd, 2020.

«Akwaba» means «welcome» in the African Twi language spoken by the Akan people in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The term "Akwaba" also has a creative meaning. In the ancient Akan mythology, the fertility figure Akwaba is revered as the creator mother of the earth. The works reflect about Africa as the origin of the world, but also question the creative power of humans and the gap between modernity and tradition that meet in the big cities of Africa.