Eliane Aïsso is a remarkably talented artist on the contemporary scene in Benin. Attracted to artistic creation at an early age, she enrolled at the secondary school for arts and crafts at SOS Village d'enfant in Abomey-Calavi. She then went on to study art history at the University of Abomey-Calavi.
During these years of theoretical and practical study, she opened up to different media - painting, drawing and photography. Her curiosity for research has enabled her to move towards more contemporary techniques, installations and filmic research. In this way, she has succeeded in weaving together these different techniques and media, mixing and matching them to produce works that are more pictorialist than documentary, earning her a scholarship to the Studio National des Arts Contemporains du Fresnoy, in France, where she completed her training in 2020.
Eliane Aïsso has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 2012 through group and solo shows.
Solo exhibitions
2024
2020
2018
2016
2015
2012
La renaissance du monde | Institut français du Bénin | Cotonou, Bénin
Reversed Exploration | M. Bassy | Hamburg, Germany
Rêves de l’au-delà | Le Centre | Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Unité, online exhibition | Association RAPlaM | Bénin
Mon parcours | Café des Arts | Cotonou, Bénin
La trajectoire | Campus Numérique Francophone | Cotonou, Bénin
Selected group exhibitions
2024
AUTOPSIE D’UN MISANTHROPE | Off Biennale DAK’ART, Grand Théâtre | Dakar, Sénégal
REVELATION ! ART CONTEMPORAIN DU BENIN | Conciergerie | Paris, France
AFROTROPES des imaginaires en mouvement | Musée Théodore Monod d’art africain Cheikh Anta Diop | Dakar, Sénégal
2023
REVELATION ! ART CONTEMPORAIN DU BENIN | Fondation Clément | Martinique
Lagos photo festival | Fondation Zinsou | Ouidah, Bénin
ART DU BENIN D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI : de la restitution à la révélation | Musée Mohammed VI d’art moderne et contemporain | Rabat, Maroc
2022
Essence et résilience | OFF Biennale de Dakar | Sénégal
ART DU BENIN D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI : de la restitution à la révélation | Palais de la Marina | Cotonou, Bénin
2021
Talking Mirrors | M.Bassy | Hamburg, Allemagne
Une aire de famille | Musée d’art et d’histoire Paul Eluard | Saint-Denis, France
CONTEMPORARYBENIN | Galerie AMANI | Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
100% SORTIES D’ECOLES | La villette | Paris, France
2020
Panorama22 | Fresnoy (Studio Nationale des Art Contemporain) | Tourcoing, France
2019
Fascinant Bénin 80 ans de photographie en terre vaudou | Galerie Vallois | Paris
Panorama21 | Fresnoy (Studio Nationale des Art Contemporain) | Tourcoing, France
2017
Les ateliers sahm (Je te présente ma ville) | Institut Français du Congo | Brazzaville
