Born 1942 in Cotonou, Rep. of Benin, Georges Adéagbo studied law in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and business administration in Rouen, France in the late 1960s. He began his assemblage practice when he returned to Benin after his father’s death in 1971. After he was discovered incidentally by a French curator he was invited 1994 to his first exhibition near Besançon. In 1999 Harald Szeemann chose his assemblage in public space for his Venice Biennale exhibition "Dappertutto" for which the jury gave him a Honorable Mention.