Born in M’Balmayo,
Cameroon.
Barthélémy
Toguo began his studies at the Abidjan School of Fine Arts, Ivory Coast, and
pursued his studies in Europe, first at the Grenoble’s Graduate School of Art
and at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He is Knight in the Order of Arts and
Literature, France. His first artistic apprenticeship was focused on sculpture
and in Grenoble Toguo discovered photography and video, before his encounter
with German Realism in Düsseldorf, where he also started Performance Art. He
also practices drawing and water colour. He was the founder of the first
artistic institution in Cameroun, the Institute of Visual Arts of Bandjoun
(1999).
