Goddy Leye

**Goddy Leye** (24 Ugushyingo 1965 i Mbouda, muri Kameruni - 19 Gashyantare 2011 i Bonendale, muri Kameruni) [1] yari umuhanzi n'umunyabwenge wa Kameruni.

Ibikorwa bye byibanze kuri videwo, kwishyiriraho, ubuhanzi bwibitekerezo nintererano. Niwe washinze ikigo cy’ubuhanzi ArtBakery i Bonendale, muri Kameruni kandi yari umuyobozi ushinzwe guteza imbere ibihangano byihariye n’imishinga mpuzamahanga. Uruhare rwe rwabaye ingenzi mu muco n’ubuhanzi muri Kameruni no ku rwego mpuzamahanga.

## '''Ubuzima bwe n'umwuga we'''
Goddy Leye (izina nyaryo Godfried Kadjo [2]) yavutse 24 Ugushyingo 1965 i Mbouda, muri Kameruni. Yabonye impamyabumenyi ye mu mashuri yisumbuye y’indimi ebyiri mu 1989 yiga ubuvanganzo n’ubuvanganzo nyafurika muri kaminuza ya Yaoundé hagati ya 1986 na 1991. Mu 1990 yabonye impamyabumenyi ihanitse mu buvanganzo nyafurika. Amahugurwa ye y’ubuhanzi yatangiye mu 1987 n’umuhanzi n’amateka y’ubuhanzi Pascal Kenfack i Yaoundé kugeza mu 1992. Yakomeje imyitozo ye mu 1994 mu kigo cy’igihugu cy’ubuhanzi i Bamako, mu 1997 mu kigo cya ZKM Karlsruhe gishinzwe ubuhanzi n’itangazamakuru mu Budage, mu 1999 i Inzu y’ubuhanzi ya 18 i Santa Monica, muri Californiya no hagati ya 2002 na 2002 kuri Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten i Amsterdam. Mu Buholandi afatanya gutera inkunga maze aba umunyamuryango wa Rijksakademie International Network (RAIN), ihuriro ry’abahanzi bashyigikira umuco w’iki gihe mu bihugu bakomokamo. [3] By'umwihariko kubera ko ashishikajwe no gushyigikira ibikorwa by'ubuhanzi, Leye yasubiye i Douala mu 2002 ashinga ikigo cy’ubuhanzi ArtBakery i Bonendale, cyita cyane cyane ku koroshya amahugurwa y’ubuhanzi no kungurana ibitekerezo mu bahanzi no gushyigikira multimediya, kwishyiriraho, amashusho n’ubuhanzi.

Mu 2002 yabaye umuyobozi ushinzwe umushinga Bessengue City, amahugurwa hamwe nuruhererekane rwimishinga yihariye yubuhanzi mu gace ka Bessengue muri Douala; umushinga warimo Goddy Leye, James Beckett, Hartanto, Jesus Palomino n'abaturage baho. Muri 2006 yazamuye mu ntera kandi yitabira gusohoka. Mu 2007 yagize uruhare mu mahugurwa ya Ars & Urbis yateguwe i Douala na doual'art mu rwego rwo gutegura SUD Salon Urbain de Douala kandi yari atuye muri Fondasiyo ya Blachère i Apt, mu Bufaransa. Mu mwaka wa 2008, yari atuye mu muco wa Gasworks i Londres;

Ibikorwa bya Leye byahawe ibihembo na UNESCO, Fondasiyo ya Rockefeller na Minisiteri y'Ububanyi n'Amahanga y'Ubuholandi. Nkumuhanzi numunyabwenge, yagize uruhare muri komite zinzobere nyinshi; yari umunyamuryango wibitekerezo byikigo cya Afrika Centre muri Cape Town kandi yari ambasaderi wa CAN (Creative Africa Network).

## '''Imirimo yakoze'''
Leye yatangiye gukora nk'umuhanzi mu 1992. [11] Ibikorwa bye byibanze ku kwibuka, ubukoloni bwa Afurika no kubaka amateka. By'umwihariko yerekanaga ibikorwa bya multimediya, amashusho n'amashusho. Nyuma yigihe, yatangiye kugira uruhare runini mu gukora imishinga haba muri Kameruni ndetse no ku rwego mpuzamahanga. Yatanze umusanzu mubitabo, akora kandi atunganya ibihangano byihariye byurubuga ashinga ikigo ArtBakery. Ikigo gitanga ibikoresho nibikorwa remezo kubahanzi bashishikajwe nibikorwa bya multimediya kandi birangwa nuruhare rugaragara mumahugurwa. Leye yafatwaga nkumuhanzi wingenzi nubwenge nabahanzi bo muri Kameruni bo mu gisekuru cye na bato.

Leye yerekanye ko yitaye ku buryo amateka avugwa kandi ubumenyi bukwirakwizwa kandi bukibagirana binyuze mu bihangano bye, inyandiko ndetse no kugira uruhare rugaragara mu nama no mu bitekerezo. Umusanzu we w'amahame yibanze ku miterere y'ibigo ndangamuco, kuri sisitemu y'urusobe, ku bikorwa by'ubuhanzi n'umuco [12] no guhindura imijyi.

### '''Amashusho Yashyize hanze'''
* Na Lingi Yo, 2007[13]
* Sankofa River, 1997[14]
* We Are the World, video, 2006[15]
* Elections, UCA project, 2007[16]
* Honey Moon[17]
* Avis sur Visage, video installation, 2007[18]
* The Beautiful Beast, video installation[19]
* Stickers and Wall, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004[20]
* Dancing With the Moon, video installation, 2003[21]
* Reel Location, video, 2002[22]
* The Walking Mirror, video, 2001[23]
* Visa-je, video installation, 2000[24]
* The Voice of the Moon, video installation[25]
* 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.

### '''Imurikagurisha kugiti cye'''
* 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

### '''Imurikagurisha Rusange'''
* Goddy Leye's work is exhibited in numerous festivals and international exhibitions.[27]

* Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant'Agostino, * * Modena, 2010
* SUD PARIS, Maison Revue Noire, Paris, 2010[28]
* 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)[29]
* 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, São 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

### '''Umusanzu wa Theoretic nakazi ko kugenzura'''
Goddy Leye yagize uruhare mu bitabo n'ibinyamakuru nk'ikinyamakuru Chimurenga. Yashyigikiye byimazeyo ishyirwaho ryikinyamakuru DiARTgonale cyashinzwe numuhanzi Achilleka. Yashinze akaba n’umuyobozi w'ikigo ArtBakery, yatangiye mu 2002. Yabaye umuyobozi w’umushinga Bessengue City yateguye mu gace ka Bessengue muri Douala mu 2002 kandi yari umu promoteri mu 2006 muri Exit Tour.