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Marie-Blanche Ouedraogo

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Prologue


Marie-Blanche Ouedraogo was born on 6th June 1971 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She lives and works there.

Marie-Blanche starts her search for a motive by living, what she feels, she should create on canvas, almost like a spiritual adventure. She considers an idea which she gets from nature and she lets it reap on canvas, almost like a woman carries her child and gives birth to it.

In workshops she studied the different techniques of painting from which she developed her own: By combining oil, pigment and acryl she creates pictures with smooth, round forms, like a symbolic writing, a projection of herself.

Her quiet temperament expresses her African femininity, following her emotions. With a rich opalescene of colours she gives her compositions cheerfulness. She is a pioneer in her country, opening up with remarkable enthusiasm the painter's profession for women in Burkina Faso.

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Biography


was born on 6th June 1971 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She lives and works there.

Marie-Blanche Ouedraogo received her training as an artist in several workshops und symposiums:

1994 -1997Workshop "Design" with Daria Keiss (Netherlands) at the National Center of Arts and Culture in Ouagadougou
International symposium of wall-painting in Ouagadougou under the auspices of the United States of America organized by the Foundation Olorun
Workshop "Painting " with Chantal Borremans (Belgium) and
Workshop "Design and Painting" with Pierre Leloup (director of the School of Arts in Chambéry, France) in Ouagadougou
  
Participation in exhibitions in Burkina Faso
1997"Art and Solidarity" Foundation Olorun, Ouagadougou
Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou
1998"Des Elles de Femmes" Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou
"Les grands frères et les petits frères" au Centre Culturel Français "Georges Méliés", Ouagadougou
"Woman and Art" Foundation Olorun, Ouagadougou
1999Gallery ZAKA, Ougadougou
  
Participations in exhibitions abroad
1997Gallery Arcane 21, Sauve (France)
1999La Venerie, Watermael-Boitsfort/Brussels (Belgium)
"Alte Papierfabrik" in Ebertsheim (Germany)
Citibank Duisburg (Germany)
2000Internationales Zentrum (IZ), Duisburg (Germany)
Hessian Parliament, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Tanzhaus nrw die werkstatt, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2001"Espace Noriac", Limoges (France)
Sparkasse Essen-Rüttenscheid (Germany)
Wohnstift Augustinum, Essen (Germany)
Citibank Krefeld (Germany)
2002KuBa Kunsthalle, Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
2003Orangerie, Grugapark Essen (Germany)
Viterra Energy Services GmbH & Co.KG, Münster (Germany)
  
Study Trips
1998Republic of Benin
Final exposition "Open Studio" in Cotonou
1999Swizzerland
Final exposition in Basel

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