Annabelle Agbo Godeau

Annabelle Agbo Godeau (b. 1995, Paris, France) is a French-German-Beninese contemporary artist living and working between Düsseldorf and Paris. Her practice explores race, identity, and representation, examining how cultural narratives and stereotypes shape collective memory and social perception. Drawing from cinema, literature, archives, and popular culture, she investigates the intersection between personal history and broader cultural frameworks. Working across painting, works on paper, and installation, Agbo Godeau constructs fragmented narratives that resist fixed interpretation. Through layered processes of concealment and recontextualization of archival imagery and film stills, she creates compositions where clarity and ambiguity coexist. Her installations with transparent waxed paper generate immersive environments that emphasize presence and absence, familiarity and estrangement. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and former guest student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, she has exhibited internationally in museums, kunstvereins, and galleries across Europe and the United States. Her work is included in collections such as Sammlung Philara (Düsseldorf) and Fondazione Bonollo Arte Contemporanea (Vicenza).