Gabi Jiménez
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Biography
Gabi Jiménez is a French painter and artist... and Gitano. A citizen dedicated to the memory of the Gitano tragedy in France during and after the Second World War, he exhibits his paintings throughout France and Europe.
In 2007, he represented France in the first Roma pavilion at the Venice International Biennale d'Art Contemporain, a milestone and a turning point in the perception of contemporary Gypsy art. There are numerous collective and solo exhibitions in which the artist represents the Roma and Traveller community and activates through these works so that French and Europeans can open their eyes to asituation that worsens year after year: discrimination in expulsions.
In 2013, after his personal exhibition at DIHAL - Interministerial Delegation for Housing and Access to Housing - in Paris, the French state bought him two canvases representing "Le Grand Paris". Then, in 2014, Gabi Jiménez is nominated by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and receives the "Painting and Visual Arts" award for all his work, which is militant and committed. In the same year, the President of the European Court of Human Rights acquires one of his works, which is nowexhibited in the judge's chambers.
In 2016, the work "Caravan under two cypresses", which was already on display at the Venice Biennale in 2007, is exhibited in San Sebastian (Spain), the European capital of art, during the exhibition "Tratado de Paz" To represent peace and among more than 300 works by artists such as Goya, Rubens, Murillo, Picasso, Ribera, Sophie Ristelhueber.
Gabi Jiménez's paintings are done in bright, singing colours, drawings with traces surrounded by black, stylising the travellers' culture and never reducing it to simple clichés. Behind the raptures of detail and joy at first glance, however, lies a very different truth: that of a shameful history of discrimination, violence, hatred and displacement. A history that is still relevant since the time after the Second World War.
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Gabi Jiménez. Solo exhibitions
2021
Yda y Vuelta - ARTAG -médiathèque St Genis
Yda y Vuelta - Conseil général du Puy de Dome
2019
De noir, De blanc / Kai Dikhas Foundation - Berlin, Germany
Mobil' Home / University of Nancy - Nancy, France
2018
Rio Loco / City of Toulouse - Festival - Toulouse, France
2016
Welcome en Gitanie / Maison Hospitalière - Cergy, France
2015
Porque somos Gitanos / Casa de cultura - Girona, Spain
Mairie de Paris/International Gypsy Day / Hotel de ville de Paris - Paris, France
2014
Gabi Jimenez / Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe - Strasbourg, France
Mais où sont passés les gitans? / Interministerial Delegation/Prime Minister - Paris, France
2011
First International Romani Art Congress / Cultural Institute - Caceres, Spain
Rue Tsigane / Grande Halle de la Villette - Paris, France
2010
Mémoire de Gitans / Cergy - Le Carreau - Cergy, France
2009
Forbach Manouche Festival - Forbach / France
azz Caravan – Multimedia Library Groslay - Groslay / Paris / France
Trajectories Gitanes / Conservatory Slavic - Paris / France
Gabi Jiménez. Group exhibitions
2022
BARVALO, Mucem, Marseille / France
2019
Schwarz & Weiß, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / Germany
2018
Rio Loco /Rumba Colors, Toulouse / France
Art et Résistance, ERIAC, Berlin / Germany
De Noir, De Blanc, Livre illustrations, Nomade In France / Paris
2017
Montmagny, terre des arts, Prix du jeune public, Montmagny-Paris / France
Les Affamés du Cabaret » Cergy / France
KHAMORO 2017 World Roma Festival, exposition collective, Prague / Czech Republic
Inauguration Ecole «Gabi Jimenez», Avignon / France
European Roma Cultural Fondation, Budapest / Hungary
Akathe te Beshen, Galerie Kai Dikhas/Fondation Fédérico Garcia Lorca, Grenade / Spain
European Roma Cultural Fondation, Berlin / Germany
2016
Welcome en Gitanie, Cergy / France
Tratado de Paz, San Sebastian / Spain -Akathé te beshen - J’y suis, j’y reste! », Berlin, Kleinsassen, Paris, Madrid
Dans le regard de l’autr, Cergy / France
2015
Journée internationale des Tsiganes, Mairie de Paris / France
Porque somos Gitanos, avec La Casa Musical/Setmana de la Rumba, Catalana
2014
Have a look into my life, Strasbourg / France
Prix de Peinture et Arts Plastiques, Ministère de la culture Espagnole, Madrid / Spain
Cours Européenne des Droits de l’Homme, Strasbourg / France
Mais où sont passés les gitans?, Délégation Interministérielle/Premier Ministre, Paris / France
Représentation Permanente auprès du Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg / France
2013
Stopping Place III, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / Germany
En passant par la Bohème, document vidéo/Grand Palais, Paris / France
2011
Stopping Places I - Galerie Kai Dikhas - Berlin / Germany
Bann'art - Singular Arts Festival - Basket / France
Vous avez dit Roms? - Bruxelles / Belgium
2010
Le art au fil de l’air - Group exhibition - Marines / Paris / France
Mémoires Tsiganes "the internment of Gypsies during the Second World War - 1939/1946 "- Group Exhibition - City of Paris IV / Paris / France
Balkan Trafik / Roma Touch - Group exhibition - Brussels / Belgium
Exhibition Romale! - Akademie Graz Gallery - Graz / Austria
Fête de l’été - Exhibition tent - Paysac / Ardeche - France
Festival des Bidonvilles - Photographs and Pictorial works / Shari Vari-Solo exhibition - Cergy / Paris / France
Les Ogres De Barback - Album 2011 - Participation in the illustrations (gypsies caravans)
Voyageurs d’hier et d’aujourd’hui /Travellers from yesterday and today - Group exhibition - Groslay / Paris / France
2009
Kölnischen Stadtmuseum-Kunst der Roma - Roma in der kunst - Cologne / Germany
Forbach Manouche Festival - Solo exhibition - Forbach / France
Verloren Paradijs - International Gipsy Festival - Tilburg / Holland
2008
Embassies of Romania and Hungary -Roma Pavilion - Brussels / Belgium
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation "Distance and Proximity Gulbenkian Programme"
Tentures - Lisboa (Lisbon) / Portugal
Gallery METISSE-permanent exhibition - La Rochelle / France
League of Human Rights / Gypsy culture week - Domont / Paris / France
Hungarian Institute in Paris-Collective exhibition "Paradise Lost - Paris
2007
"The First Roma Pavilion" International Art Biennale of Venice "La Biennale di Venezia / Italia" - - 52. International Art Exhibition, Venice / Italia
Semaine Culturelle Tsigane (with Bireli Lagrene & Nouka Maximoff) - Ermont / Paris / France
2006
Itinérances tsiganes - Lyon / France
City of Ermont - Ermont / Paris / France
Les mille et une ... Cultures du monde - Villeuneuve d'Ascq / Lille / France
Furia Sound Festival - Pontoise / Paris / France
2005
12th National Exhibition of Art - Franconville / Paris / France
Itinéraires Citoyens - Bessancourt / Paris / France
Itinéraires Citoyens - Ermont / Paris / France
Traversées Tsiganes / Gypsy Crossings - Dijon / France
Les gens du voyage / The Travellers - Pontoise / Paris France
Original artwork card URAVIF / Regional Federation of Associations of Travellers in the Ile de France / Paris / France