Kader Attia Biography
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
Kader Attia
Contemporary
Ceramic, film, installation, new media, mixed media
Artist born in Dugny (Seine Saint-Denis), France.
- Localisation
- Berlin, Germany
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