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New Exhibition Opening November 8, 2025
Harouna Ouédraogo: Spaces In Between
Colloquia art is thrilled to launch its 2025-2026 season with Spaces In Between, the first solo U.S. exhibition of Harouna Ouédraogo, a singular voice in contemporary African abstraction. This exhibition marks both the artist’s American solo debut and Colloquia art’s inaugural show of the year—an expressive pairing that embodies the gallery’s commitment to bold, boundary-crossing work.
For this exhibition, Ouédraogo brings a body of new work created specifically for Colloquia art. These paintings continue his exploration of urban density, personal myth, and collective memory—yet with a renewed intensity and clarity. The works are bold, physical, and emotionally precise, inviting viewers into a raw and intimate encounter.
The installation makes this restlessness visible. Rather than hung flat against the wall, the canvases are suspended slightly forward, hovering in space. They appear provisional and radiant, as if caught mid-process—paintings that are free and captured at once, between movement and stillness, process and permanence.
Colloquia art has curated Spaces In Between to highlight precisely this tension. Our perspective is that the most vital art is not fixed in meaning but alive in its capacity to remain open. This exhibition introduces an important contemporary voice to U.S. audiences and reflects our commitment to presenting work that resists easy categories, rewards slow looking, and sustains layered ways of seeing.
The exhibition will open on November 8, 2025 and run through the end of the month.
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Guests and prospective clients are invited to visit the virtual exhibition to view works, make inquiries, and download the exhibition brochure.
About the Artist
Born in 1981 in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, Harouna Ouédraogo is known for his emotionally charged, semi-figurative paintings that fuse raw gestural abstraction with deep psychological resonance. A graduate of INAFAC (Institut National de Formation Artistique et Culturelle) in Ouagadougou, Ouédraogo has exhibited internationally, but this show marks his most focused U.S. presentation to date.
Ouédraogo describes his practice as “noisy figuration”—paintings alive with interruption, rhythm, and energy. Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvas and paper, his visual language is immediate and improvisational: layering vibrant mark-making, erratic linework, and recurring symbolic figures that speak to identity, memory, and personal myth. His paintings are neither fully abstract nor comfortably figurative, dwelling in a charged in-between space that challenges interpretation and insists on feeling first.