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Gabi Jiménez is a French painter and artist… and Gitano. A citizen dedicated to the memory of the tragedy of the Gitano 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 International Biennale d’Art Contemporain in Venice, a milestone and a turning point in the perception of contemporary art by Sinti and Roma. There are numerous collective and solo exhibitions in which the artist represents the Roma and Traveller community and, through these works, activates the French and Europeans to open their eyes to a situation that worsens year after year: discrimination in expulsions.
In 2013, following his personal exhibition at the DIHAL – Interministerial Delegation for Housing and Access to Housing – in Paris, the French state bought him two canvases depicting ‘Le Grand Paris’. In 2014, Gabi Jiménez was nominated by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and was awarded the ‘Painting and Visual Arts’ prize for all his militant and committed works. In the same year, the President of the European Court of Human Rights acquired one of his works, which is now on display in the judge’s chamber.
In 2016, the work ‘Caravan under two cypresses’, already exhibited at the 2007 Venice Biennale, is exhibited in San Sebastian (Spain), the European capital of art, during the exhibition ‘Tratado de Paz’ On the representation of peace and among more than 300 works by artists such as Goya, Rubens, Murillo, Picasso, Ribera, Sophie Ristelhueber.
Gabi Jiménez’s paintings are painted in bright, singing colours, drawings with traces surrounded by black, stylising the culture of the travellers 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 story that has remained relevant since the aftermath of the Second World War.
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Gabi Jiménez, La Maison du Parc, Jouy le Moutier (FR)
2024
Gadjo Museum, Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin (DE)
Yda y Vuelta – ARTAG -médiathèque St Genis (FR)
Yda y Vuelta – Conseil général du Puy de Dome (FR)
De noir, De blanc / Kai Dikhas Foundation – Berlin, (DE)
Mobil’ Home / University of Nancy – Nancy, (FR)
Rio Loco / City of Toulouse – Festival – Toulouse, (FR)
Welcome en Gitanie / Maison Hospitalière – Cergy, (FR)
Porque somos Gitanos / Casa de cultura – Girona, (ES)
Mairie de Paris/International Gypsy Day / Hotel de ville de Paris – (FR)
Gabi Jimenez / Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe – Strasbourg, (FR)
Mais où sont passés les gitans? / Interministerial Delegation/Prime Minister – Paris, (FR)
First International Romani Art Congress / Cultural Institute – Caceres, (ES)
Rue Tsigane / Grande Halle de la Villette – Paris, (FR)
Mémoire de Gitans / Cergy – Le Carreau – Cergy, (FR)
Forbach Manouche Festival – Forbach / (FR)
azz Caravan – Multimedia Library Groslay – Groslay / Paris / (FR)
Trajectories Gitanes / Conservatory Slavic – Paris / (FR)
GYPSY DADA, 59Rivoli Paris, (FR)
Le Musée du Gadjo” / MUCEM, Marseille, (FR)
WE ARE HERE! 2nd Roma Biennale, Berlin (DE)
Voilà comment c’est chez-nous / Goethe-Institut – Nancy, (FR)
Schwarz & Weiß, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / (DE)
Rio Loco /Rumba Colors, Toulouse / (FR)
Art et Résistance, ERIAC, Berlin / (DE)
De Noir, De Blanc, Livre illustrations, Nomade In France / Paris (FR)
Montmagny, terre des arts, Prix du jeune public, Montmagny-Paris / France
Les Affamés du Cabaret » Cergy / (FR)
KHAMORO 2017 World Roma Festival, exposition collective, Prague / Czech Republic
Inauguration Ecole «Gabi Jimenez», Avignon / (FR)
European Roma Cultural Fondation, Budapest /(HU)
Akathe te Beshen, Galerie Kai Dikhas/Fondation Fédérico Garcia Lorca, Grenade / (ES)
European Roma Cultural Fondation, Berlin / (DE)
Welcome en Gitanie, Cergy / (FR)
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / Kleinsassen – Berlin, (DE)
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / Museum – Madrid, (ES)
Tratado de Paz / San Telmo Museoa – San Sebastian, (ES)
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / 59 rue de Rivoli – Paris, (FR)
Tratado de Paz, San Sebastian / Spain -Akathé te beshen – J’y suis, j’y reste! », Berlin, Kleinsassen, Paris, Madrid
2Journée internationale des Tsiganes, Mairie de Paris / (FR)
Porque somos Gitanos, avec La Casa Musical/Setmana de la Rumba, Catalana
Have a look into my life, Strasbourg / (FR)
Prix de Peinture et Arts Plastiques, Ministère de la culture Espagnole, Madrid, (ES)
Cours Européenne des Droits de l’Homme, Strasbourg , (FR)
Mais où sont passés les gitans?, Délégation Interministérielle/Premier Ministre, Paris , (FR)
Représentation Permanente auprès du Conseil de l’Europe, Strasbourg , (FR)
Stopping Place III, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / (DE)
En passant par la Bohème, document vidéo/Grand Palais, Paris / (FR)
Stopping Places I – Galerie Kai Dikhas – Berlin / (DE)
ACASEV 61- Solo exhibition – Alençon / (FR)
Bann’art – Singular Arts Festival – Basket / (FR)
Eragny “The Challe” – Solo exhibition “Gypsies your papers! “. Eragny / Paris / (FR)
Gypsies your papers! / ARTag / Lyon Hall 8th – Solo exhibition – Lyon – (FR)
1st International Congress of Roman art – Solo exhibition – Caceres – (ES)
La Grande Halle de la Villette / Gypsy Road – Solo exhibition – Paris – (FR)
Gallery Taoka Marines – Solo exhibition – Marines – Paris – (FR)
Vous avez dit Roms? – Bruxelles / Belgium
Le art au fil de l’air – Group exhibition – Marines / Paris / (FR)
Mémoires Tsiganes “the internment of Gypsies during the Second World War – 1939/1946 “- City of Paris IV / Paris / (FR)
Balkan Trafik / Roma Touch -Brussels / Belgium
Exhibition Romale! – Akademie Graz Gallery – Graz / (AT)
Fête de l’été – Exhibition tent – Paysac / Ardeche – (FR)
Festival des Bidonvilles – Photographs and Pictorial works / Shari Vari-Solo exhibition – Cergy / Paris /(FR)
Les Ogres De Barback – Album 2011 – Participation in the illustrations (gypsies caravans)
Voyageurs d’hier et d’aujourd’hui /Travellers from yesterday and today – Groslay / Paris / (FR)
Kölnischen Stadtmuseum-Kunst der Roma – Roma in der kunst – Cologne / (DE)
Verloren Paradijs – International Gipsy Festival – Tilburg / Holland
Embassies of Romania and Hungary – collective exhibition-Roma Pavilion – Brussels / Belgium
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation “Distance and Proximity Gulbenkian Programme”
Tentures – Lisboa (Lisbon) / (PO)
Gallery METISSE-permanent exhibition – La Rochelle / (FR)
League of Human Rights / Gypsy culture week – Domont / Paris / (FR)
Hungarian Institute in Paris-Collective exhibition “Paradise Lost – Paris / (FR)
“The First Roma Pavilion” International Art Biennale of Venice “La Biennale di Venezia / Italia” – – 52. International Art Exhibition, Venice / (IT)
Semaine Culturelle Tsigane (with Bireli Lagrene & Nouka Maximoff) – Ermont / Paris / (FR)
Itinérances tsiganes – Lyon / (FR)
City of Ermont – Ermont / Paris / (FR)
Les mille et une … Cultures du monde – Villeuneuve d’Ascq / Lille / (FR)
Furia Sound Festival – Pontoise / Paris / (FR)
12th National Exhibition of Art – Franconville / Paris / (FR)
Itinéraires Citoyens – Bessancourt / Paris / (FR)
Itinéraires Citoyens – Ermont / Paris / (FR)
Traversées Tsiganes / Gypsy Crossings – Dijon / (FR)
Les gens du voyage / The Travellers – Pontoise / Paris , (FR)
