MIZAHA PARIS

Mizaha Paris is a residency and exhibition program dedicated to artists from the African continent and its diaspora that takes place at the parisian space of Fondation H in the heart of the Marais.

Each year, three artists are invited to take part in the Mizaha Paris program and to develop their projects during residencies at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris or at the parisian space of Fondation H. A two-month solo exhibition always follows the residency period.

With a genuine experimental dimension, the program gives considerable flexibility on the format of collaboration with guest artists, who are always invited on an individual basis, never as a group. This approach enables Fondation H’s team to provide genuine support to individual projects. The space can host in-situ installations (Hyacinthe Ouattara, M’barka Amor, Christian Sanna, Temandrota).It is also regularly transformed into a studio by artists who take up residence there for a few months at a time (Maya Inès Touam, Adelaide Damoah, Johanna Mirabel, Roxane Mbanga).

The four artists invited to Paris in 2024 are Cynthia Colney, Roxane Mbanga, Magalie Grondin and Sènami Donoumassou.

CYNTHIA COLNEY
‍January - February

Cynthia Colney, a French-Malagasy artist, was born in 1991. She studied plastic arts and design in France, where she discovered various drawing techniques that she would develop further a few years later. Femininity and identity are omnipresent in the artist’s work, whose luminous colors, symbols and dreamlike imagery celebrate feminine beauty and nature. She oscillates between painting and digital illustration and is familiarizing herself with the practice of ceramics.

ROXANE BANGAApril - May

Born in 1996, Roxanne is a multidisciplinary Cameroonian and French artist, originally from Guadeloupe. Roxanne is a storyteller working at the intersection of fashion, film, graphic design, photography, writing and performance. Her research revolves around the relationship between the lived, intimate body and the perceived body, which becomes a social receptacle for the projections of the exterior. Through her installations, she questions, listens and transcribes the voices of women with plural identities.

MAGALIE GRONDINJune - July

Magalie Grondin is a French multidisciplinary artist from La Réunion. Magalie Grondin’s research metaphorizes social and historical events of Reunion Island, particularly those linked to exile. She explores the meanders of her multiple identities, both individual and collective, of exile, and of sensitive relationships to the body(ies) in painting, volume, installation and photography.

SÈNAMI DONOUMASSOUSeptember - November

Born in 1991, Sènami Donoumassou is an artist from Benin. Her artistic practice explores notions of identity, heritage and history. Through her creations, which oscillate between photograms, protean installations and drawings, she experiments with the technical and poetic potential of light.

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