San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
1991-93 Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués "Duperré", Paris, France
1993-94 Escola de Artes Applicades "La Massana", Barcelona, Spain
1996-98 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
2018
The Field of Emotion, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton, MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain de Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Kader Attia. Premio Joan Miró, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2017
Reflecting Memory, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Reason's Oxymorons, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, US
Reparing the Invisible, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Kader Attia, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Kader Attia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Reflecting Memory, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, US Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Narrative Vibrations, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Kader Attia. Architektur der Erinnerung, Museum Ludwig, Koblenz, Germany
Reason’s Oxymorons, Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, US
Dispossession, mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
2016
Sacrifice and Harmony, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2015
The Injuries are Here, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Scarification, Self Skin’s Architeture, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
Ghost, Stiftelsen3,14, Bergen, Norway
Beginning of the world, Galleria Continua-Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Complementary Conversations, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2014
Kader Attia, Galleria Continua , Les Moulins, Paris, France
Continuum of Repair : The Light of Jacob’s Ladder, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
Culture, Another Nature Repaired, Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium
Beginning of the world, Galleria Continua /Beijing
Contre Nature, Beirut Art Center, Beirut / Lebanon
Show your Injuries, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
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
2018
L'Un et l'Autre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
THE SHYNESS OF THE CROWNS, Sogn Og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norway
Anche le statue muoiono / Statues Also Die, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo / Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie, Torino, Italy
2017
THE WHITE HUNTER, African Memories and representations, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
A look at the French scene, Centre d’Art Hangar H18, Bruxelles, Belgium
VIVA ARTE VIVA– La Biennale di Venezia, 57. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venezia, Italy
Kader Attia e Daniel Buren, Spazio 22, Milano, Italy
HIGH-TENSION – A look at the French scene, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
HIGH-TENSION – A look at the French scene, Times Museum, Canton, China
Sharjah Project, Dakar
Utopia/Dystopia Part II, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Citynature: From Vilnius Further On, National Gallery of Art of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
La Terra Inquieta/The Restless Earth, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Contemporary Locus, Ex Albergo Diurno, Bergamo, Italy
2016
Historycode Scarsity and Supply, Nanjing International Art Festival, Bajia Lake Museum, Nanjing , China
Ein Knacks im Leben Wir scheitern… und wie weiter? , Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
IMPERMANENCIA. La mutación del arte en una sociedad materialista, XIII Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
Para tibi, Roma, nihil, Roma, Italy
Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City, UK
2016 : Not New Now, The Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Finnish Landscape, Contemporary Art at Seurasaari Open-Air Museum, Checkpoint Helsinki, Finland
Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Foreign Gods, Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria
La fine del mondo, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2015
Streamlines, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg / Germany
A fendre le coeur le plus dur, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Paris / France
Boundary Objects, CA2M, Madrid / Spain
DEMONSTRATING MINDS, Disagreements in Contemporary Art, Kiasma – Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki / Finland
The Body into Pieces, Centre Pompidou de Malaga, Malaga / Spain
La vie moderne, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
After Picasso: 80 Contemporary artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus / USA
A story within a story…, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg / Sweden
Sortir du Livre – Suspended Spaces, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris / France
History Lesson, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / Canary Islands
Springer, nochmals, Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Dahlem / Germany
Boundary Objects, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden / Germany
After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Sweden
EUROPA, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich / Switzerland
After year Zero, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw / Poland
A fendre le coeur le plus dur, FRAC Alsace, Strasbourg / France
IN/VISIBLE, ikob – Museum for contemporary art, Eupen / Belgium
Catcontent, Stadtpalais Stadt Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Michel Leiris & Co: Picasso Mirò, Giacometti, Bacon…, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Concrete, Tophane-I Amire Culture and arts Center, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istambul, Turkey
The body into pieces, Centre Pompidou de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Le Corbusier dans l’Art Contemporain, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, France
Chercher le garçon – Exposition collective d’artistes homes, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Invisible Violence, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburger, Austria
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
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 Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Usa
Where is the time? , Foundation Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ucraina
Spaces of Remembrance, Kunsthalle of Dusseldorf, Germany Biennale Kiev, Kiev
Hajj, Journey to the heart of Islam, the British Museum, London, UK
10 ans du Projet pour l'Art Contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Mirages d'Orient, grenades et figues de barbarie, Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
The Far and the Near: St Ives and International Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
The Rituals of Chaos, The Bronx Museum, New York, USA
Erinnerungsräume, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Chkoun Ahna, National Museum of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
In Other Words, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Vivement demain, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
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, IIreland
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
Collector, Collection of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Drift- an exploration of urban and suburban landscapes, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Entre-Temps, MIS - Museu da Imagem E Do Som, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
PAX, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
French Window, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Strike Oppose, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2010
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
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
SUD2010, Douala, Cameroon
Utopia and Monument II. On Virtuosity and the Public Sphere, Exhibition for the public space, Graz, Austria
Street & Studio – From Basquiat to Séripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
The Flower of May, Kunsthalle Gwangju and City Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 41, Basel, Switzerland
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
Sculpture 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
2017
Stealing From The West. Kulturelle Aneignung als postkoloniale Vergeltung, Pluriviale VII, Akademie der Kuenste der Welt, Cologne, Germany
Round Table: Artists, Museums, and Future Collections, Goethe Institut, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The Ready-Made Century, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
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
Kader Attia : Void’s Geometries, The British Museum, in collaboration with the Tate, London, UKAfter 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
2017
Winner of Joan Miró Prize, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
2016
Winner of Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Georges Pompidou
2014
Kunstpreis Berlin Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948, Akademie der Künste, Berlin / German
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
2014
artpace, San Antonio / USA
2010
The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2008
JCVA, Jerusalem, Israel
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden