HELIO VOLANA
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Lamba, la mémoire habite le silence, La Teinturerie — Antananarivo, Madagascar
BIENNIALS & ACQUISITIONS
2026
Simple Poetry, Pattani Biennale — Pattani, Thailand
Les flammes de Rainitavy, acquisition by Fondation H — Antananarivo, Madagascar
Le dernier voyage de Gallieni, acquisition by Fondation H — Antananarivo, Madagascar
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2026
FIAP Martinique — Fort-de-France, Martinique
Le Fesses-tival — Geneva, Switzerland
En des lieux sans Merci, Maison des Arts de Malakoff — Malakoff, France
S’entre-tenir, La Maison Populaire — Montreuil, France
2025
Dildo’s Lament, Cérémonie pour un Mirage, Le Générateur — Gentilly, France
Fact Festival × Théâtre de l’Élysée — Lyon, France
Dildo’s Lament, A story of my skin, Péniche La Pop — Paris, France
2024
Nouveaux rêves, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière — Saint-Étienne, France
Munnezza : iel, queer, amour, Centre Tignous d’Art Contemporain — Montreuil, France
Dildo’s Lament, Études dildophoniques, Le Générateur — Gentilly, France
Instants Chavirés — Montreuil, France
2023
Feony'ala, La Teinturerie — Antananarivo, Madagascar
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2026
No-comment, print magazine & online article — Antananarivo, Madagascar
2024
Afrikadaa Magazine, Politics of Sound #2, article — launch at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
GRANTS & ARTISTIC SUPPORT
2026–2028
Artagon, Artist in residence — Pantin, France
2025
Des Plans sur la Comète, Cheville × Point Éphémère, supported artist — Paris, France
2024
FoRTE #7, Île-de-France Regional Grant — France
MIRA, Institut français Grant — France
Since 2024
La Muse en Circuit, National Centre for Musical Creation, delegated production of the Dildo’s Lament corpus — Alfortville, France
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2025–2026
Fondation H — Antananarivo, Madagascar
CRAAM — Antananarivo, Madagascar
Ménagerie de Verre — Paris, France
La Muse en Circuit, CNCM — Alfortville, France
Actoral — Marseille, France
Le Générateur — Gentilly, France
Point Éphémère — Paris, France
2024
Institut français — Antananarivo, Madagascar
Vohimana Reserve — Ambavaniasy, Madagascar
Ménagerie de Verre — Paris, France
Césaré, CNCM — Reims, France
Le BAMP — Brussels, Belgium
Centre d’Art La Tour à Plomb — Brussels, Belgium
SELECTED PERFORMANCES — COLLABORATIONS
2024–2026
Annabelle Guérédat, Carreau du Temple — Paris, France
Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, 3bisF — Aix-en-Provence | Fiminco — Romainville | CWB — Paris | Bozar — Brussels, Belgium
2020–2023
Antonija Livingstone & Emma Bigé, Musée du Louvre — Paris | Lafayette Anticipations — Paris | La Ménagerie de Verre — Paris, France
2018–2019
Carole Douillard, A Performance Affair — Brussels, Belgium | Musée d’Arts de Nantes — Nantes, France
Marcelo Evelin, Centrale for Contemporary Art — Brussels, Belgium
EDUCATION
2024
Studies in electroacoustic composition, Conservatoire Régional — Pantin, France
2018–2020
Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts — Brussels, Belgium
Erasmus, The School for New Dance Development (SNDO) — Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
Technical aptitude examination in contemporary dance, BNM — Marseille, France