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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.
2024
Gadjo Museum / Stiftung Kai Dikhas, Berlin
Yda y Vuelta – ARTAG -médiathèque St Genis
Yda y Vuelta – Conseil général du Puy de Dome
De noir, De blanc / Kai Dikhas Foundation – Berlin, Germany
Mobil’ Home / University of Nancy – Nancy, France
Rio Loco / City of Toulouse – Festival – Toulouse, France
Welcome en Gitanie / Maison Hospitalière – Cergy, France
Porque somos Gitanos / Casa de cultura – Girona, Spain
Mairie de Paris/International Gypsy Day / Hotel de ville de Paris – Paris, France
Gabi Jimenez / Permanent Representation to the Council of Europe – Strasbourg, France
Mais où sont passés les gitans? / Interministerial Delegation/Prime Minister – Paris, France
First International Romani Art Congress / Cultural Institute – Caceres, Spain
Rue Tsigane / Grande Halle de la Villette – Paris, France
Mémoire de Gitans / Cergy – Le Carreau – Cergy, France
Forbach Manouche Festival – Forbach / France
azz Caravan – Multimedia Library Groslay – Groslay / Paris / France
Trajectories Gitanes / Conservatory Slavic – Paris / France
GYPSY DADA, 59Rivoli Paris, FR
Le Musée du Gadjo” / MUCEM, Marseille, France
WE ARE HERE! 2nd Roma Biennale, Berlin (DE)
Voilà comment c’est chez-nous / Goethe-Institut – Nancy, France
Schwarz & Weiß, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / Germany
Rio Loco /Rumba Colors, Toulouse / France
Art et Résistance, ERIAC, Berlin / Germany
De Noir, De Blanc, Livre illustrations, Nomade In France / Paris
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
Welcome en Gitanie, Cergy / France
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / Kleinsassen – Berlin, Germany
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / Museum – Madrid, Spain
Tratado de Paz / San Telmo Museoa – San Sebastian, Spain
Akathé te beshen/J’y suis, j’y reste! / 59 rue de Rivoli – Paris, 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
Journée internationale des Tsiganes, Mairie de Paris / France
Porque somos Gitanos, avec La Casa Musical/Setmana de la Rumba, Catalana
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
Stopping Place III, Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin / Germany
En passant par la Bohème, document vidéo/Grand Palais, Paris / France
Stopping Places I – Galerie Kai Dikhas – Berlin / Germany
ACASEV 61- Solo exhibition – Alençon / France
Bann’art – Singular Arts Festival – Basket / France
Eragny “The Challe” – Solo exhibition “Gypsies your papers! “. Eragny / Paris / France
Gypsies your papers! / ARTag / Lyon Hall 8th – Solo exhibition – Lyon – France
1st International Congress of Roman art – Solo exhibition – Caceres – Spain
La Grande Halle de la Villette / Gypsy Road – Solo exhibition – Paris – France
Gallery Taoka Marines – Solo exhibition – Marines – Paris – France
Vous avez dit Roms? – Bruxelles / Belgium
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 “- City of Paris IV / Paris / France
Balkan Trafik / Roma Touch -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 – Groslay / Paris / France
Kölnischen Stadtmuseum-Kunst der Roma – Roma in der kunst – Cologne / Germany
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) / 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
“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
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
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
