Atelier Viking
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Atelier Viking is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala
, Cameroon
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Artist Viking Kanganyam André founded atelier Viking in March 1976 to promote contemporary art in Cameroon. The paucity of art galleries in Douala encouraged Kanganyam to create a space where artists could be trained and exhibited. Viking taught visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawing and serygraphy) to small groups of students. Viking encouraged his students to explore the potentialities of all media and specifically the possibility of transforming and re-using materials found in loco. Concurrently to their activity of visual artists, they worked in advertising. Since 2001, Viking decided to devote his space mostly to exhibitions.
Atelier Viking is located in the neighbourhood of Bessengue, Rue Jamot face Garage Technique Auto, 100mt from Mobil Bonakouamuang. It collaborates with Art Wash
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Douala
Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country...
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Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
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Artist Viking Kanganyam André founded atelier Viking in March 1976 to promote contemporary art in Cameroon. The paucity of art galleries in Douala encouraged Kanganyam to create a space where artists could be trained and exhibited. Viking taught visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawing and serygraphy) to small groups of students. Viking encouraged his students to explore the potentialities of all media and specifically the possibility of transforming and re-using materials found in loco. Concurrently to their activity of visual artists, they worked in advertising. Since 2001, Viking decided to devote his space mostly to exhibitions.
Atelier Viking is located in the neighbourhood of Bessengue, Rue Jamot face Garage Technique Auto, 100mt from Mobil Bonakouamuang. It collaborates with Art Wash
Art Wash
Art Wash is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon.The name of the art space is related to the fact that Art Wash is situated close to the river and it wishes to be a “laundry for art”, transforming and promoting hand-made art...
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Exhibitions and Events Organised by Atelier Viking
- Squat'art, Patrice Kemplo (2003) in collaboration with Art WashArt WashArt Wash is a studio and an artist-run initiative based in Douala, Cameroon.The name of the art space is related to the fact that Art Wash is situated close to the river and it wishes to be a “laundry for art”, transforming and promoting hand-made art...
; - Sweet Again, Koko KomégnéKoko KomégnéKoko Komégné is a visual artist based in Douala and he is a promoter of the contemporary art scene in Cameroon.- Life and career :Koko Komégné was born in 1950 in Batoufam. In 1956 he moves to Yaoundé where he attends school and he starts drawing and listening to all sorts of musics...
(18 December 2002 - 4 January 2003); - Musoula Mo, Guy Wouete and Daniel Seppo exhibiting 26 paintings and installations (2002);
- Round table on selected themes: conviviality, solidarity and fraternity (2002);
- Lecture Café with Alioum Moussa, reading and debate on the art magazines and literature (March 2002);
- Yann and Co: Yanne Queinnec, Koko KomégnéKoko KomégnéKoko Komégné is a visual artist based in Douala and he is a promoter of the contemporary art scene in Cameroon.- Life and career :Koko Komégné was born in 1950 in Batoufam. In 1956 he moves to Yaoundé where he attends school and he starts drawing and listening to all sorts of musics...
, Kanganyam Viking, Kouo Eyango, Nyah Delord, Massong Victor, Bernarnd Baïfang, Alium Moussa (May 2001).