Goddy Leye

Goddy Leye (24 Ɔbɛnem 1965 wɔ Mbouda, Cameroon – 19 Ɔpɛpɔn 2011 wɔ Bonendale, Cameroon)https://africanfilmny.org/directors/goddy-leye/ yɛ Cameroonni adwumfo ne onyansafoɔ.

N’adwuma no twe adwene si video ahorow, installations, conceptual art ne theoretical contributions so. Ɔno na ɔhyehyɛɛ adwinni beaeɛ ArtBakery a ɛwɔ Bonendale, Cameroon na na ɔyɛ adwinni ne amanaman ntam nnwuma a ɛfa beaeɛ pɔtee bi ho no sohwɛfoɔ ne nea ɔhyɛ ho nkuran. Na ne dwumadi no yɛ ade titiriw wɔ amammerɛ ne adwinni mu wɔ Cameroon ne amanaman ntam.

 Asetra ne adwuma 
Wɔwoo Goddy Leye (edin ankasa Godfried Kadjo) wɔ 24 Ɔbɛnem 1965 wɔ Mbouda, Cameroon. Onyaa ne adansedi krataa wɔ ntoaso sukuu bi a wɔka kasa abien mu wɔ 1989 mu na osuaa Afrika nhoma ne kasa ho adesua wɔ Yaoundé Sukuupɔn mu wɔ 1986 ne 1991 ntam hɔ. Wɔ afe 1990 mu no, onyaa ne master’s wɔ Afrika nhoma mu. N’adwinni ntetee fii ase wɔ 1987 mu wɔ mfoniniyɛfo ne adwinni ho abakɔsɛm kyerɛwfo Pascal Kenfack nkyɛn wɔ Yaoundé kosii 1992.https://web.archive.org/web/20110723180604/http://goddyleye.lecktronix.net/favorite_links_1.html Ɔtoaa ne nteteeɛ so wɔ afe 1994 mu wɔ Ɔman Adwini Asoɛeɛ a ɛwɔ Bamako, wɔ afe 1997 mu wɔ ZKM Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media wɔ Germany, wɔ afe 1999 mu wɔ 18th Street Arts Complex wɔ Santa Monica, California ne afe 2002 ne 2002 ntam wɔ Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten wɔ Amsterdam.https://18thstreet.org/artists/goddy-leye/http://www.galerie-herrmann.com/arts/leye/2009/index_engl.html Wɔ Netherlands no ɔne obi bom de sika boa na ɔbɛyɛ Rijksakademie International Network (RAIN), adwumfo kuw bi a wɔboa nnɛyi amammerɛ nneyɛe wɔ aman a wofi mu no muni.http://www.r-a-i-n.net/ Titiriw esiane n’anigye a ɔwɔ sɛ ɔbɛboa adwinni nneyɛe nti, Leye san kɔɔ Douala wɔ afe 2002 mu kɔyɛɛ adwinni beae ArtBakery wɔ Bonendale, a wɔde wɔn ho ama titiriw sɛ ɛbɛma adwinni ntetee ne nsakrae a ɛba adwumfo ntam no ayɛ mmerɛw na wɔaboa multimedia, installations, video ne digital art.http://www.r-a-i-n.net/projects/art+bakery/

Wɔ afe 2002 mu no na ɔyɛ adwuma no sohwɛfo Bessengue City, adwumayɛbea ne adwinni adwuma ahorow a ɛfa beae pɔtee bi ho wɔ Bessengue mpɔtam hɔ wɔ Douala; adwuma no fa Goddy Leye, James Beckett, Hartanto, Jesus Palomino ne mpɔtam hɔfo ka ho. Wɔ afe 2006 mu no ɔhyɛɛ Exit Tour ho nkuran na ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ mu. Wɔ afe 2007 mu no ɔboaa Ars ne Urbis Adwumayɛbea a wɔhyehyɛɛ wɔ Douala denam doual'art so de siesiee SUD Salon Urbain de Douala na na ɔwɔ tenabea wɔ Blachère Foundation wɔ Apt, France. Wɔ afe 2008 mu no na ɔwɔ tenabea wɔ Gasworks amammerɛ beaeɛ a ɛwɔ London;https://web.archive.org/web/20101204223257/http://www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=356 wɔ afe 2009 mu no ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ adwuma a ɛne Image Art After mu wɔ nkɔmmɔdie mu ne Florence Ayisi na ɔboaa wɔ Cairo Residency Symposium.https://web.archive.org/web/20110724190346/http://www.crs.nu/Cairo_Residency_Symposium/Info_art_bakery.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110726173217/http://imagineartafter.org/dialogues/dialogues-2009/goddy-leye-and-florence-ayisi/

Leye adwuma no nyaa nkonimbo fii UNESCO, Rockefeller Foundation ne Dutch Amannɔne Nsɛm Ho Dwumadibea hɔ.https://www.lowave.com/en/search?searchword=goddy%20leye&searchphrase=all Sɛ́ mfoniniyɛfo ne onyansafo no, ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ animdefo boayikuw ahorow pii mu; na ɔyɛ Africa Center a ɛwɔ Cape Town no adwene kuw no muni na na ɔyɛ CAN (Creative Africa Network)https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Creative-Africa-Network-CAN-Design-Mediamatic-Community-Management_fig1_24113659 ananmusifo.

 Adwuma 
Leye fii ase yɛɛ adwuma sɛ mfoniniyɛfo wɔ afe 1992 mu. Na n’adwuma no twe adwene si nkae, Afrika atubrafo akyi ne abakɔsɛm a wɔkyekyee so. Nea ɛkɔ akyiri no ɔdaa ne ho adi denam multimedia adwuma, video ne video a wɔde ahyɛ mu so. Bere kɔɔ so no, ofii ase de ne ho hyɛɛ nnwuma ahorow a wɔyɛ mu kɛse wɔ Cameroon ne amanaman ntam nyinaa. Ɔboaa nhoma ahorow, ɔyɛɛ na ɔhwɛɛ adwinni ahorow a ɛfa beae pɔtee bi ho na ɔhyehyɛɛ mfinimfini ArtBakery. Mfinimfini no de nnwinnade ne nhyehyɛe ma adwumfo a wɔn ani gye multimedia productions ho na ɛyɛ nea ɛda nsow wɔ dwuma a ɛyɛ nnam wɔ ntetee mu. Na Cameroonfo mfoniniyɛfo a wɔtraa ase wɔ n’awo ntoatoaso mu ne nea ennu saa no bu Leye sɛ mfoniniyɛfo ne onyansafo titiriw.

Leye daa n’adwene adi wɔ akwan a wɔfa so ka abakɔsɛm ne nimdeɛ a wɔde ma na wɔn werɛ fi denam n’adwinni, nkyerɛwee ne ne ho a ɔde hyɛ nhyiam akɛse ne adwene ho akuw mu denneennen so. Ne nsusuwii mu mmoa no twee adwene sii amammerɛ ahyehyɛde ahorow nhyehyɛe so, nkitahodi nhyehyɛe ahorow, adwinni ne amammerɛ nneyɛe so ne nkurow akɛse mu nsakrae so.

 Video ahorow ne nneɛma a wɔde ahyɛ mu 

 Na Lingi Yo, 2007https://web.archive.org/web/20110723180617/http://goddyleye.lecktronix.net/photo3_1.html
 Sankofa River, 1997
 We Are the World, video, 2006
 Elections, UCA project, 2007
 Honey Moon
 Avis sur Visage, video installation, 2007
 The Beautiful Beast, video installation
 Stickers and Wall, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004
 Dancing With the Moon, video installation, 2003
 Reel Location, video, 2002
 The Walking Mirror, video, 2001
 Visa-je, video installation, 2000
 The Voice of the Moon, video installation
 Collaboration with Collectif Auto Da Fe, No Art on Two Dollars A Day, video. Video made from the performance made during SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2007.

 Nneɛma a wɔde kyerɛ obiakofo 

 Fiction ou realite?, Fri'Art, Fribourg, 2003
 Dancing with the Moon, doual'art, Douala, 2003
 Goddy Leye, Icba Gallery, Salvador de Bahia, 2001
 Sankofa Blues, doual'art, Douala, 2000
 Sankofa Blues, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1999
 Behind the Scenes, Electronic Cafe International, Santa Monica, US/on Internet, 1999
 Sankofa River, doual'art, Douala, 1999
 Sankofa, French Cultural Centre, Douala, Douala, 1999
 Sankofa Video, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1999
 Fouilles Sauvages, doual'art, Douala, 1996
 Bois Sacré, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1995
 Bois Sacré, Ifa, 1995

 Kuw mu nneɛma a wɔde kyerɛ 
Wɔde Goddy Leye adwuma no kyerɛ wɔ afahyɛ ahorow pii ne amanaman ntam ɔyɛkyerɛ ahorow mu.http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/goddy-leye-36662/profile.html

 Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant'Agostino, Modena, 2010
 SUD PARIS, Maison Revue Noire, Paris, 2010http://www.revuenoire.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3564%3Asud-paris-oct-2010&catid=9%3AExhibitions&Itemid=17&lang=en
 Cameroonian Touch.2 – doual'art, Douala, 2010
 This is now 1 & 2 – L'appartement 22, 1st Johannesburg Art Fair, 2088 and Rabat, 2009
 Prêt-à-pARTager, Mode-Fotografie-Workshop, curated by IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Dakar, 2008 (touring exhibition)https://web.archive.org/web/20110719043414/http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-abroad/bk/pret-a-partager/goddy-leye/
 Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 2007
 Ba Mama, Galerie Mam, Douala, 2007
 Contemporary Vision, The World Bank, Yaoundé, 2007
 Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006
 Exit Tour, Douala, Cotonou, Lomé, Accra, Ouagadougou, Bamako, Dakar, 2006, promoted by ArtBakery.
 Africa Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2004
 New, Netwerk galerij, Aalst, 2003
 Unesco laureates, 18th street arts complex, Santa Monica, USA, 2003
 Post-border land, SBK, Amsterdam, 2003
 Nuits métis, la Ciota, 2003
 Electromediascope, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2002
 Slow, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
 Rendez-vous at Xiamen, Chinese European Art centre, Xiamen, 2002
 Nuits métis, la Ciota, 2002
 Videoformes 2002, Clermont-Ferrand, 2002. Presentation of the video The Walking Mirror.
 Right 2 fight, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2002
 Sao Paulo Biennial, Blick Wechsel, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002
 Playtime, Johannesburg, 2002
 Bili Bidjocka / Goddy Leye, Espace Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon, 2001
 BlickWechsel, IFA-Galerie, Berlin, 2001
 Lucarne, Goethe-Institut, Yaounde, Cameroon, 2001
 BlickWechsel, Bonn and IFA-Galerie Stuttgart, 2000
 Total Global, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Bale, 2000
 Havana Biennial, Havana, 2000
 Dak'Art 2000, Biennale de l'Art contemporain africain, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, 2000
 South Meets West, Berne, 2000
 Boulev'Art, Cotonou, 2000
 Sept des cents derniers jours, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 2000
 Lille 2000, Lille, 2000
 South Meets West, Accra, 1999
 Dream, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1999
 Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, 1998
 Dak'art 98, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, 1998
 Fenac 98 Festival national de l'Art et de la Culture, Ebolowa, 1998
 L'Art entre Tradition et Globalisation, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé, 1997
 Le Kwatt, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1997
 Babil 2, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1997
 Resource Art Cameroon, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, 1996
 Cameroon Art, Galeria Arte Mondo, Sarrano, 1996
 Africa Unite, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, 1996
 Nouvelles Tendances de la Peinture camerounaise, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, 1996
 Babil, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, 1995
 Taxi-couleurs, ERBA Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Angers, 1995
 Fenac 94, Douala, 1994
 Taxi-Couleurs, CCF-INA, Bamako, 1994
 Festac 88 National Festival of Arts and Culture, Douala, 1988

 Nsusuwii mu ntoboa ne curatorial adwuma 
Goddy Leye boaa nhoma ne nsɛmma nhoma te sɛ Chimurenga nsɛmma nhoma. Ɔde nsi boaa nsɛmma nhoma DiARTgonale a mfoniniyɛfo Achilleka de sii hɔ no. Ɔno na ɔhyehyɛɛ ne kwankyerɛfoɔ wɔ mfimfini ArtBakery, hyɛɛ aseɛ wɔ afe 2002. Ɔno na ɔhwɛ adwuma a Bessengue City hyehyɛeɛ wɔ mpɔtam hɔ wɔ Bessengue wɔ Douala wɔ afe 2002 mu na ɔno na ɔhyɛɛ Exit Tour ho nkuran wɔ afe 2006 mu.

 Beaɛ a menyaa mmoa fii 

 External links 

 Goddy Leye's works online
 Goddy Leye's website
 an interview with Goddy Leye (2008)

Nkyekyεmu:1965 births
Nkyekyεmu:Cameroonian art curators
Nkyekyεmu:Multimedia artists
Nkyekyεmu:Conceptual artists
Nkyekyεmu:Cameroonian artists
Nkyekyεmu:2011 deaths