Beya Gille Gacha represented by Keijsers Koning

Beya Gille Gacha, Orant 5, 2022

Glass Beads, Wax, Fiberglass, Concrete, Sage tree and earth
40 x 23 x 32 inches
Courtesy of Keijsers Koning

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Beya Gille Gacha was born in Paris in 1990 to a Cameroonian mother and a French father. After a high school diploma in applied arts and Art History studies at the Ecole du Louvre, she decided to pursue an artistic career and developed a self-taught practice in contemporary art. In 2016, she set up the DES GOSSES collective with Neals Niat and Rakajoo to question the lack of representation of Afro-Europeans in the French artistic landscape. To date, her work has been exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale in Rome curated by Simon Njami, the Grand Palais in Paris alongside Barthélémy Toguo, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, the Musée National du Cameroun, the Dakar Biennale, the MAIF Social Club curated by COAL, and Untitled Miami with Galerie Keijsers Koning. Her work is included in the collections of the WorldBank and the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington, the Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the Bunker Art Space in Florida, and several private collections such as the Leridon Collection and Lucian Bennetton’s Imago Mundi Collection. In 2023, she had her first solo show at the Tropiques Atrium in Fort de France, curated by Salimata Diop. In 2024, she will notably be taking part in the Dakar Biennial as part of Curator Choice, entitled On s’arrêtera quand la terre rugira (We’ll stop when the earth roars), the Beelden Op de Berg Biennial in Wageningen, Netherlands, entitled Decolonize Botany, and the exhibition Mémoires, Genève dans le monde colonial(Memories, Geneva in the colonial world) at the Musée d’Ethnographie in Geneva.

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