Kader Attia — Biographie — Slash Paris

STUDIES

1996-98 — École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1993-94 — Escola de Artes Applicades « La Massana », Barcelona, Spain
1991-93 — École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré, Paris, France

SOLO SHOWS

2014

• Beginning of the world, Galleria Continua /Beijing
• Beirut Art Center, Beirut / Lebanon
• Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York / USA

2013

• Continuun of Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• REPAIR. 5 ACTS, Kunst Werke Museum, Berlin, Germany
• Les Terrasses, Public Commission, outdoor work, La Digue du Large, Marseille, France

2012

• Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire : Le Corps Utopique, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
• Collages, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
• Essential, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2011

• Ghost, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium

2010

• Holy Land, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2009

• Po(l)etical, Krinzinger gallery, Vienna, Austria
• As a fold, Horizon is not a space, galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
• Kasbah, Centre de Création Contemporaine de Tours, Tours, France
• Signs of Reappropriation, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
• Failures, Noga gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008

• Signs of Reappropriation, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, USA
• Black & white : signs of times, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Huarte, Huarte, Spain
• Kader Attia — New Works, Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

2007

• Momentum 9, ICA, Boston, USA
• Square Dreams, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
• Who cares ?, Haïfa Museum of Art, Haïfa, Israel
• Do what you want but don’t tell anybody, Christian Nagel gallery, Berlin, Germany

2006

• Tsunami, Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble, France
• Kader Attia, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
• Sweet sweat, Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2005

• The Gallery @ Sketch, London , UK

2004

• HALLAL, Kamel Mennour gallery, Paris, France

2002

• Alter Ego, Kamel Mennour gallery, Paris, France

2001

• Photostories, Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris, France

2000

• La Piste d’Atterrissage, l’Atelier, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France

1997

• Instants Urbains, Galerie L’œil du huit, Paris, France

1996

• Humanistes au Congo, Centre culturel Français de Brazzaville, Brazzaville, Congo

GROUP SHOWS

2014

• The Crime was almost perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Nederlands
• The Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo-UNAM, Mexico DF / Mexico
• Dak’Art 2014, 11ème Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar / Senegal
• Where are we now ?, 5th Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech / Morocco

2013

• After Year Zero, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
• 43 Salón (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Medelin, Colombia
• Territori instabili / Unstable Territory, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
• Museum off Museum, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
• Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
• The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam / Netherlands
• Terms and Conditions, the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore / China
• Altérité, Je est un Autre, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris / France
• Art Unlimited, ArtBasel 44, Basel / Switzerland
• Every day matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen — Denmark
• Le CAPC a 40 ans, CAPC, Bordeaux / France
• Rethinking Modernity, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul / Turkey
• Ici, ailleurs, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille / France

2012

• Fruits de la Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Performing Histories (I), Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures, Fridericianum Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
• Newtopia. The state of Human Rights, Menchelen, Belgium
• Liverpool Biennial, Thresholds, works from the Tate Collection, Liverpool, UK
• Glissement de terrain: impertience-Resistance-Survivance, Le musée lanchelevici, La Louviére, Belgium
• Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravità, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Usa
• Where is the time ?, Foundation Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ucraina
• Spaces of Remembrance, Kunsthalle of Dusseldorf, Germany
• The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
• Biennale Kiev, Kiev
• Hajj, Journey to the heart of Islam, the British Museum, London, UK

2011

• Beijing Online Inlive — 10 Hands 100 Fingers, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
• 4th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
• Wunder. Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• The Global Contemporary. Art World after 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Dublin Contemporary, Biennale of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
• Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London,UK
• Evergreen, Crédit Agricole de Montrouge, France
• French Window, Mori Museum, Tokyo / Japon
• PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY…, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Miracles, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Living Room Exotica, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
• PROJECT EUROPA: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA

2010

• Told/Untold/Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
• PastPresentFuture — Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Centro Culturale Yapı Kredi, Istanbul
• SUD 2010, Salon Urbain de Douala, festival triennal d’art public, Espace doual’art centre d’art contemporain Place du Gouvernement Bonanjo, Douala, Camerun
• SPHERES 2010, 7 énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’exposition, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin / France
• Lo spazio del sacro, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
• La Route de la Soie, New Chinese, Indian and middle eastern art from the Saatchi Gallery, Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille, France
• PICHA festival, Lubumbashi Image Encounters, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Living in Evolution, Busan Biennal 2010, Busan Yacht Center, Gwangalli Beach, South Corea
• Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Geo-graphics, A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
• THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Dreamlands, Beaubourg — Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Told/Untold/Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
• The Future of Tradition — The Tradition of Future, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• Busan Biennale, Busan, Corea
• Centenary of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
• PROJECT EUROPA: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art — University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

2009

• Disorientation II, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Los de arriba y los de abajo, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico DF, Mexico
• FIAC, Musée national d’art moderne et contemporain, Algiers, Algeria
• Frontières, 8th African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali
• Sphères, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
• Dispositifs optiques, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
• Cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
• Pulisoni Performative Nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy
• Entre-Temps, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• ART TEL AVIV 09, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, SAR
• Nation State, The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Time out of Joint : Recall and Evocation in Recent Art, The Kitchen, New York, USA
• Praxis, Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
• La Force de l’Art, Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France
• Entre-Temps, MIS — Museu da Imagem E Do Som, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
• Integration and resistance in the global era,10th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
• Nation State, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
• Looking Inside-out, Kunstnernes, Oslo, Norway
• Unveiled: New Art from the middle east, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

2008

• The Other, Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
• Crossings Traversees, Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt
• Travesia, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
• Réfléchir le Monde, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
• In the Desert of Modernity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• Defense, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
• Pontevedra Biennale, Pontevedra, Spain
• Representations of the artist as an intellectual, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
• Traversée, Art Paris, Paris, France
• Elefante Negro, Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico DF, Mexico

2007

• Suite Française, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
• The Big Easy, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
• The Big Easy: Relocating the Myth of the “West”, Stiftung Federkiel — Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
• Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
• Temporally, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel
• De leur Temps (2), Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
• Sulpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
• Equatorial Rhythms, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
• Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, USA
• Signes d’Existence, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
• New Economy, The Artists Space, New York, USA
• Dialogues méditerranéens, St Tropez, France
• Accélération, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• L’Emprise du Lieu #4, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
• Politics of Fear, Albion, Londres, UK

2006

• 1st Art, Landscape & Architecture Biennial, Canary Islands, Spain
• BLACK PARIS. Kunst und Geschichte einer schwarzen Diaspora, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany
• Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
• Infinities, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland
• Take a walk on the wild side, de Pury & Luxembourg gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
• Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2005

• Meeting Point, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
• In between times, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
• Regards des photographes arabes contemporains, Institute of the Arab World, Paris, France
• Big Bang, Jewish Art and History Museum, Paris, France
• Expérience de la durée, 8th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
• Living for the City, J. Shainman gallery, New York, USA
• The Loop, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 36, Basel, Switzerland
• SingulierS, Guangdong Museum of Art, Canton, China

2004

• The Sweatshop, Art Position, Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
• Videozone, Video Art Biennale, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Near East Project, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfort, Germany
• Continental Breakfast, Belgrade, Czech Republic
• Shake, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
• Shake, Villa Arson, Nice, France

2003

• Correspondance, Statement Area, Art Basel 34, Basel, Switzerland
• Fault Lines, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
• Voyages d’Artistes, Foundation Electra, Paris, France
• Ouvertures Algériennes : créations vivantes, La Criée, Rennes, France

2002

• Les vertus sont des titres, les souffrances sont des droits, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

2001

• L’Alchimie de la rencontre, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
• L’état des choses part.1, Kunst-werke, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Berlin, Germany

SYMPOSIUMS / LECTURES / OTHERS

2013

• Suspended Spaces — Discover / Uncover Modernism, Paris, France
• Whitechapel, London, UK
Document, fiction et droit, Wiels, Bruxelles, Belgium
• After Year Zero, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

• Inventions et réinventions des arts primitifs, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
• The Culture of Fear : An Invention of Evil, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• HomeWorks, Ashkal Awan, Beirut, Lebanon

• Curatorial/Knowledge seminar, Goldsmiths, London, UK

2012

• 
Matters of Collaborations, Collaboratoire 3, Dakar, Senegal

• Modern Monday, MoMA, New York, USA
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

2011

• Suspended Spaces, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Interface, Université La Sorbonne, Paris, France
• Un Temps de l’Art, Université Rennes 2, Ecole supérieure européenne d’art de Bretagne, Rennes, France

• Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, Fontainebleau, France

• Kunst Afrikas, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2010

• The Serpentine Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
• Warsaw Under Construction II, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland
• The British Museum, in collaboration with the Tate : Kader Attia : Void’s Geometries, London, UK

• After Post-colonialism: Transnationalism or Essentialism?, panel discussion, Tate Modern, London, UK

• The Falmouth Convention, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, UK
• SITAC VIII, International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico DF, Mexico
• Clinicas symposium, Mexico DF, Mexico

2009

• Eastwards = westwards, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
• Artistic Design of the ballet « Comedy of Change » by Rambert Dance Company, UK

RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

2014

• artpace, San Antonio / USA

2010

• The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

2008

• JCVA, Jerusalem, Israel
• IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / PRIZES

2014

• Kunstpreis Berlin Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948, Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Germany

2010

• Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, Banff, Canada
• Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship Program, Washington DC, USA
• Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubai, UAE

2008

• Cairo Biennale, Prize of the Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

2005

• Nominee for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris, France

1997

• The Leica Special Prize / " Une Algérie d ’Enfance”, Paris, France

PUBLIC AND PRVATE COLLECTIONS

• MoMA, New York, / USA
• Marguliès Collection, Miami / USA
• Tate Modern, London / UK
• Boston ICA, USA
• Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE
• Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
• MAHTAF, Qatar
• Jumex Collection, Mexico
• Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
• Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, France
• Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
• Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
• Société Générale, Paris, France
• Fondation Francès, France
• Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France
• Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Centre — Orléans, France
• Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charente, France
• Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire, France