Malala Andrialavidrazana
Born and raised in Madagascar before settling in Paris at the age of twelve, Malala Andrialavidrazana fuels her practice by moving from one land to another. By way of the photographic medium, she interrogates barriers and interactions within cross-cultural contexts, thoughtfully shifting between private spaces and global considerations to explore social imaginaries. Over time, she has invented a language whose approach is resolutely turned toward history, while simultaneously evidencing a profound engagement with contemporary issues and developments. Based on extensive in situ as well as bibliographic and archival research, her visual compositions open up the possibility of alternative forms of storytelling and history-making.
Exhibitions & Awards
AWARDS, EDUCATION & PATRONAGE
-
Ambassador of the Parisian gallery space of the Fondation H – dedicated to the African continent’s culture, 2020.
-
Jury member, Terra Foundation for American Art, Summer Residency in Giverny, France, 2019.
-
Senior Artist Advisor, Terra Foundation Summer Residency in Giverny, France, 2018.
-
BodyCake Research & Production residency, Kalmar Konstmuseum / Designarkivet / The Glass Factory, Sweden, 2018.
-
Patron of the Prix Célimène – Creativity Award for Women, Reunion Island, 2018.
-
Jury member of democraSEE 2, Award for Contemporary Southern African Photography, South Africa, 2018.
-
Jury member of the Francophonie Award for Photography, Ivory Coast, 2017.
-
Artist mobility grant, IFAS, 2014.
-
Artist residency, Institut Français / National Art Council of South Africa, 2012.
-
Mobility grant, Culturesfrance / Institut Français of Tel-Aviv, 2007.
-
Nominated for the KLM Paul Huf Award, 2007.
-
Prize winner of the HSBC Foundation for Photography, 2004.
-
Grant for installation from the DRAC IDF, 2004.
-
Architect DPLG, Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, 1996.
EXHIBITIONS, FAIRS & FESTIVALS
2022
-
EUROPA Oxalá, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Portugal ; Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium
2021
-
EUROPA Oxalá, MUCEM, Marseille, France
-
Un.e Air.e de Famille, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Saint Denis, France
-
Promenades dans la clairière d’Eza Boto, Chapitre III, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
-
Rhizomes, Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, France
-
Zone Franche, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
-
1-54 Paris at Christie’s / Galerie Dominique Fiat, France
2020
-
disCONNECTED, Motorenhalle / riesa efau. Lultur Forum, Dresden, Germany
-
A Beast, A God and A Line, MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand
-
Collections d’automne, un été indien, FRAC Normandie Caen, Caen, France
-
Figures, Forum Arte Braga / 30°s. Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
-
Collector #4 : Dix artistes femmes, Dilecta, Paris, France
-
Les Echos du Monde, Fondation H in partnership with Cité des Arts, Paris, France
-
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
-
A Beast, a God, and a Line, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
-
Mappa Mundi – Contemporary cartographies, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
-
Mitady ny tsy hita, ADMC-CRAAM in partnership with Paris La Sorbonne University, Antananarivo, Madagascar
-
En Couleurs – Collection FRAC Normandie Caen, Centre Culturel des Fosses d’Enfer, Saint-Rémy-sur-Orne ; Médiathèque André Malraux, Lisieux, France
2019
-
A la croisée des chemins, parfois les rêves s’envolent, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France
-
A Beast, A God and A Line, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
-
HERstory, Maison Bédier, FRAC Réunion, Reunion Island
-
Carte blanche à Malala Andrialavidrazana à la Cité de l’économie, Citéco, Paris, France
-
Solo show, Caroline Smulders at Paris Photo, Grand Palais, France
-
Group show – artists of the gallery, Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano, Italy
-
Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France
-
Liberté, Egalité, Diversité, Abbaye de Daoulas, France
-
Aperture, Photo London, Sommerset House, London, UK
-
Aperture Pop Up at 1-54, Industria, New York, US
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
-
A Gaze at Women Artists in France, Caroline Smulders at ArtParis, Grand Palais, France
-
L’Espoir, Musée Urbain Cabrol, Villefranche de Rouergue, France
-
Ex Africa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
-
La part de l’autre, Institut Français de Maurice, Mauritius
-
Togeth’ Her – Artistes à la UNE, La Monnaie de Paris, France
-
Aperture Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, US
-
Décoloniser les corps #2, Eternal Network, Tours, France
2018
-
50 Golborne at Untitled, Miami Beach, US
-
C-Gallery at AKAA Art Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
-
50 Golborne at Artissima, Torino, Italy
-
Time has gone, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
-
Un air de famille – parce que les fantômes disparaissent au lever du jour, H2M, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
-
C-Gallery at ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
-
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Sommerset House, London, UK
-
La part de l’autre, Cité des arts, Saint Denis, La Réunion
-
Total Anastrophes, Volcano Extravaganza / Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Italy
-
Collector #2 : Photographies ?, Dilecta, Paris, France
-
Sommarutställningen / Pukeberg Summer Exhibition, Designarkivet, Nybro, Sweden
-
Solo show, Alessandro Casciaro Gallery at VOLTA 14, Basel, Switzerland
-
Africanism beyond stereotypes, Galleria Civica, Bolzano, Italy
-
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, US
-
38th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, Ireland
-
Figures, Alessandro Casciaro Gallery, Bolzano, Italy
-
A Beast, A God and A Line, Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Touring at Para-Site, Hong Kong; TS1, Yangon, Myanmar; MoMA, Warsaw, Poland -
Afriques, Artistes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Fondation Clément (in partnership with Fondation Dapper), Martinique
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Touring exhibition at African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Eumetsat, Darmstadt, Germany
-
Ailleurs est ce rêve proche, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
2017
-
Aperture Foundation at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US
-
Decolonize This, First Karachi Biennale: KB17′ Witness, Karachi, Pakistan
-
Aperture Foundation at Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
-
50 Golborne at AKAA Art Fair, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
-
Echoes and Figures, 50 Golborne, London, UK
-
50 Golborne at 1:54 Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
-
Afronova at 1:54 Art Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
-
Figures, C-Gallery, Milano, Italy
-
Histoires brodées, Focus of the 14th Biennale de Lyon, Musée Africain, Lyon, France
-
Aperture Foundation, Special exhibitions, Expo Chicago, US
-
Africana, Kehrer Pop Up in Arles, Arles, France
-
Africa, Raccontare un mondo, PAC, Milano, Italy
-
Echoes–Fragments, Cape and Cape House, Paris, France
-
Making Douala, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
-
Rip it up, Changjiang Biennale of Photography & Video art, Chongqing, China
-
Aperture Pop Up, 1:54, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, US
-
Deep Memory (Djupt Minne), Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
-
Figures, Collectionair, Online exhibition, Worldwide
-
Collectionair at Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France
-
Figures, WeTransfer curated wallpapers, Online random exhibition, Worldwide
-
HERstory – des archives à l’heure du postféminisme, Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Musée Théodore-Monod / IFAN, Dakar, Senegal; Palais des Nations / UNOG, Geneva, Switzerland
-
Sommet de Bamako pour le Partenariat, la Paix et l’Emergence, Bamako, Mali
2016
-
Echoes (from Indian Ocean), Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
-
Studio Bamako, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
-
L’Autre Continent, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France
-
Origins and trajectories: Contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora, Piasa, Paris, France
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Fondation Donwahi, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
-
Doual’art, Cape Town Art Fair, CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa
-
That Art Fair’s Featured Artists, Palms Decor, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Ministère de l’Economie et des Finances, Paris, France
-
Où poser la tête ?, Collection du FRAC Réunion, Villa de la Région, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
-
Lumières d’Afriques, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France
-
Telling times, 10th Bamako Encounters, National Museum, Bamako, Mali
-
Memento – Petits arrangements, Mois de l’Art Contemporain, Cité du Volcan, Reunion Island
2014
-
No fixed abode, The New Church Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
-
Le mur / La Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
-
Kehrer Verlag, Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, USA
-
Echoes–Fragments, Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs, Porte 44/MC2A, Bordeaux, France
-
2014 Frames, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
2013
-
Kehrer Verlag, Paris Photo, Paris, France
-
By Night, Nuit des Arts Visuels / Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
-
Present Tense, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
-
baudoin lebon gallery, Art Paris, Paris, France
-
The City, Focus Mumbai Festival, Mumbai, India
-
From Birth to I-dentity, Afrikadaa, Lavoir Moderne Parisien, Paris, France
-
Video Lounge, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India
-
baudoin lebon gallery, India Art Fair, New Delhi, India