Yves Xavier Ndounda Ndongo

Yves Xavier Ndounda Ndongo is a curator, author and publisher who lives in Cameroon. He co-founded ARTOPIA with Francine Abada in 2022, a Cameroonian company specialising in the publishing of art books, graphic and web design, but also in the production of curatorial projects. Within this institution, he is General Director in charge of editorial policies, administration, financing and accounting. As a curator, his practice revolves around the contextuelogy of art.. He has carried out numerous curatorial projects with important artists from the Cameroonian scene. We can go through some of them in a row.

Subsequently in 2019, he created the digital magazine Critiques d’Arts and is the manager of the visual arts exhibitions of the project The Burden of Memory organized by the Goethe-Institut Kamerun. In 2020, he won the Madrassa 2020 museum and curatorial program in Morocco, organized by L'Atelier de l'Observatoire. In 2021, he is the curator of the multi-site retrospective of Salifou Lindou Fouanta. The same year, he was the scenographer of the “Prospective” exhibition which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut Kamerun. He is also the Curator of the exhibition "Fractale" by Mohamed Ngoupayou, "Goethe-Découverte" 2021 in visual arts. In collaboration with "Les Ateliers Lindou", ARTOPIA will co-publish the book SALIFOU LINDOU FOUANTA in 2022. In 2023, he is co-editor with Jospeh Omoh Ndukwu of the book ANTHOLOGY: ART FROM AFRICA, ITS PLACE IN OUR LIVES AND TIME. This project is funded by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria.