Goddy Leye

**Goddy Leye** ( nyɛla bɛ ni dɔɣi so silimiingoli  November bɛɣu pishi ni anahi dali, yuuni  1965 tiŋyuli booni  Mbouda, n- be tingbanni yuli booni  Cameroon ka o kani silimiingoli  February bɛɣu pinaawei dali, yuuni 2011 tiŋyuli booni  Bonendale, n-be Cameroon tingbanni ) ka o nyɛ ŋun daa nyɛ Cameroon nucheeni tuun tumda.

O tuma nim pam nyɛla din jendiri sinii nim yaɣili, ni  installations, ni conceptual art n-ti pahi taarihi tira . Ŋuni n nyɛ ŋun kpa nucheeni tuma duu yuli booni  ArtBakery n - be Bonendale, Cameroon tingbanni .

## O pilli mini bɔm'ma sɔli taarihi
Goddy Leye ( yumaŋli n nyɛ  Godfried Kadjo) ka bɛ daa dɔɣi o silimiingoli November bɛɣu pishi ni anahi dali, yuuni 1965 tiŋyuli booni  Mbouda, n-be Cameroon tingbanni . O nyɛla ŋun deegi o shɛhira gbaŋ din yuli booni  diploma la silimiingi zinli zuɣu la shikuru yuli booni  bilingual high school yuuni 1989 ka daa bɔhim  African literature mini  philology mi shikuru yuli booni University of Yaoundépuuni binshɛɣu din daa gbaai yuuni 1986 hali ni yuuni  1991 ni.

Yuuni 1990 o.daa deela o master's shɛhira gbaŋ din jendi  African literature  bɔhimbu yaɣili. O nucheeni bee o yila tuma nyɛla din pili yuuni  1987 o mini yili yiini ŋun zali taarihi pam ka o yuli booni Pascal Kenfack  ŋun daa be Yaoundé tingbani ni lala hali ni yuuni  1992. O daa nyɛla ŋun tuɣi o bɔhimbu yuuni 1994  bɔhimbu tuma shee yuli booni National Art Institute n-be tiŋyuli booni Bamako, yuuni  1997 yaɣili yuli booni ZKM Karlsruhe Centre for Art and Media in Germany, yuuni  1999 at 18th Street Arts Complex fɔŋ yuli booni  Santa Monica, n-be California tingbani ni n-ti pahi binshɛɣu din gbaagi yuuni  2002 hali ni yuuni  2002 yaɣili yuli booni Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten n-be Amsterdam. 

Netherlands tingbani ni,  o daa nyɛla ŋun pahi ka bɛ kpa  Rijksakademie International Network (RAIN), n-ti pahi  network of artists ŋun sɔŋdi kaya ni taada bɛ tingbanni.  

## O tuma
Leye nyɛla ŋun daa pili o nucheeni tuma yuuni 1992.  O tuma dim pam daa nyɛla din jendi  memory, African postcolonialism n-ti pahi taarihi sabbu. 

### Videos and installations
* *Na Lingi Yo*,  yuuni 2007
* *Sankofa River*, yuuni 1997
* We Are the World, video, yuuni 2006
* *Elections, UCA project*, yuuni 2007
* *Honey Moon*
* *Avis sur Visage*, video installation, yuuni 2007
* *The Beautiful Beast*, video installation
* Stickers and Wall, Alexandria, Egypt, yuuni 2004
* *Dancing With the Moon*, video installation, yuuni 2003
* *Reel Location*, video, yuuni 2002
* *The Walking Mirror*, video, yuuni 2001
* Visa-je, video installation, yuuni 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 yuuni 2007.

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

### Bɛ zaɣi bɔbigu exhibition nima
Goddy Leye tuma nim pam nyɛla bɛ ni  exhibite shɛŋa churi puhibu shee mini  international exhibition nim puuni pam.

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

### Theoretic contributions and curatorial work

## Kundivihira

## Karimbu nim yaha
* Lucia Babina, Dunja Herzog, Dominique Malaquais, *Losing Goddy Leye, 1965–2011* in "African Arts", Autumn 2011, vol. 44, n. 3, pp.&nbsp;12–13.
* *ArtealCentro 2010 – Visible. Where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else*, Cittadellarte, Biella, 2010.

## External links

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