Sergine ANDRE

Sergine Andre (alias ‘Djinn’), born in the Artibonite region of Haiti, is a Haitian-Belgian artist, who has lived and worked in Brussels since 2010.

Sergine Andre was born in the Artibonite Valley, in a still fertile region of an eroded land.
In that region, as everywhere in Haiti, human beings are less populous than spirits, especially during the frightful night.
Sergine Andre walks at night. She goes where others fear the worst. She sees what puts them in terror of their lives, and she shows us what it is.
Audacious Sergine! Each of her paintings makes a disquieting presence felt, makes the invisible visible.
It is as though the spirits, those on the other side, breathe upon the other side of the canvas. Their breath goes through it. The canvas reveals, touched by strange beauty, the strangeness of all beauty.
The non-figurative figure of an ungraspable being appears in pictorial space.
For those who know how to see, there is more to love than to fear.

text by Michael Norton, Associated Press, October 2004

At the end of the 94s, dazzled by the beauty of the post - impressionist works of the Barnes collection exhibited in Toronto, Djinn had the revelation of her vocation as a painter.
After three months of intensive classes at the Ottawa School of the Arts, she returned to Haiti where, encouraged by Tiga, she signed her first paintings.
In 1995, she befriended Pascale Monnin and set off with her on sloping paths populated by shadows and impure dreams. Disguised as a guede, she penetrates ever more "deep" inside her private garden. By the flickering light of a single small bòbèch lamp, she searches the belly of colors in search of her protective loa, crosses paths with all kinds of "criminals" who covet her ...

In May 1997, Djinn's first exhibition at the Galerie Monnin.

Exhibitions

2024 National Palace of Art and Culture, Warsaw, Poland (up-coming, May 2024); 150th Anniversary of the historical Mommens Studios (curator), Brussels, Belgium (up-coming, May, 2024)
2022 'Vives'' collective exhibition, Maison Dufort, Centre d'Art and the Musée d'Art Haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti // Atlantic World Art Fair 2022, Gallery Monnin
2021 : Les Raras de Sergine André, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels // 2021 Atlantic World Art Fair, Gallery Monnin
2020 Les Rencontres Transfrontalières Francophones, Hôtel de Ville de Saint-Louis, France // Map Danse Anba Lapli, Galerie de la Rage, Lyon, and at Studio Boissière, Montreuil, Paris // Solo exhibition, Balthazar, Brussels
2020 : "Map Danse Anba Lapli", collective exhibition. Galerie de la Rage. Lyon, France
2019 : "L’amitié dans la Diversité d’Horizon et de Culture II", curator of collective exhibition. Private show, Brussels, Belgium
2019 : "Commemoration de la Bataille de Vertières", Embassy of Haiti to the Benelux countries, Brussels, Belgium
2019 : ′′Exposicion Colectiva: Celebracion para Maryse Conde" (curated by Delia Blanco) Embajada de Francia, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
2017 : « L’amitié dans la diversité d’horizon et de culture », Ateliers Mommen, Brussels, Belgium
2015 : « Célébration des mondes sensibles, 141 ans de la cité », Ateliers Mommen, Brussels, Belgium
2014 : « Regards sur la peinture haïtienne », Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
2013 : « Haiti Royaume de ce monde », Institut Français, Jacmel, Haïti
2012 : « Haiti, un futur pour son passé », Musée Art Moderne et Art Contemporain de Liège, Liège Belgium
2012 : Centre culturel de Rencontre Fonds Saint-Jacques, Martinique
2011 : Global Caribbean III, Art Basel, Miami, United States
2011: 6th Annual Haitian Art Exhibit, Casa de Campo, Santo Domingo Republica Dominicana
2011: Haiti Pavillion, 54th Edition of Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2011: Galerie 16, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2011: "Haïti Royaume de ce Monde", Agnès B., Paris, France
2011: "Haïti l'art contre l'oubli", Centre Culturel du Lièvre d'Or, Dreux, France
2010: "Femmes en mythologie, mythologie de femmes", Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France
2009: "Make Art like Voodoo", Patchworldverlag, Berlin, Germany
2009: "Dialogue 1: Haïti Art Now", Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2009: Galerie 16, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2009: "Courant chaud", Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2008: "Cultur'Elle" Institut français, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2007: Private Show, Casa de Campo, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
2007: Private Show, Residence of US Amassador to Haiti, Washington, DC, United States
2006: Bag Factory (guest artist), Johannesburg, South Africa
2006: "Méandres de la mémoire", Tohu (fr), Montreal, Canada
2005: "Haitian Experience", Absolute Americana Art Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida, United States
2004: "Kafou" Institut français, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2004: "Femmes en production II", Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2004: FONDAM, Haitian art sale and celebration, Washington, DC., United States
2004: "Three Women Show", Galerie Monnin, Pétion-Ville, Haiti

2003: Atelier Eko, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
2003: Alliance Française, Jacmel, Haiti
2002: "Haitian art show", Friends of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

United States
2002: "Haitian Art in Bloom", New York, United States
2002: "Quand passent les chevaux", Galerie Monnin, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
2001: Ethno Galerie, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
2000: "Héritage de Couleurs", Ethno Galerie, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
2000: "Trio - Sergine Andre, Barbara Cardone, Pascale Monnin ", Galerie Monnin, Pétion-Ville, Haiti
2000: "Haïti: Anges and Démons", Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
1998: Paginkob association, Brussels, Belgium
1997: "Les femmes peintres d'Haïti", Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1996: "L'invisible", Sergine Andre and Pascale Monnin, Galerie Monnin, Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Prizes and awards

2006: Guest Artist, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa
1998: Guest Artist, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1997: Grand Prize of the Institut français, "Connaître les jeunes peintres"

Les Raras de Sergine André

https://www.lalibre.be/archives-journal/2021/06/21/les-raras-de-sergine-andre-OYRFRU6A45C55M5AFOLLOE7GQI/

Publications:

2023 Creation Plastique d'Haiti (a history of visual arts in Haiti), Carlo A. Celius, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France
2023 Casseus! (cover illustration Rara Artibonite), for album by Fareed Haque, Wahdude Music, Chicago, US
2022 Artist's Monograph 'Dialogue in One Voice' (Dialogue a une Voix'), Sergine Andre, CIDIHCA Editions, Montreal, Canada (2nd edition, CIDICHA France, 2023)
2020 Art review "IntranQu'illites" 5th edition on Eros (as Artistic Director), Ed. Passagers des Ventes, Paris, France.
2018 UNESCO Courier 'Welcome to the Anthropocene' (April-June edition), UNESCO Publications, Paris, France
Thomas C. Spear, Lettre à Sergine, in "Le Serpent à plumes pour Haïti", Ed. Le Serpent à plumes, Paris, France, 2010
"Haïti:avant l'orage", Éditions Riveneuve, Paris, France,2010, page 130 et 132
"Saisir l’âme de Haïti : Sergine André", Le Courrier, Édition N° IV, 2008 (pdf)
"Sergine André et l'Atelier Eko", Dieuvela Etienne, Le Nouvelliste, Haïti, 2003 (pdf)
"L'Art de Sergine André", Jobnel Pierre (pdf)
"Sergine André au-delà des sens", Gary Victor, Le Matin, Haïti (pdf)
"Haïti anges et démons", Ed. Hoëbeke/La Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, 2000
"Carnets de Voyage", Titouan Lamazou (fr), Ed. Nouveaux Loisirs 2000,
Couvertures des livres de Gary Victor: "A l'Angle des Rues Parallèles" (2003) et "Le Diable dans une

Tasse de Thé à la Citronelle" (2005)
Connaître les jeunes peintres, 1997 (pdf)