San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Dubai
Born in Senna-Saint-Denis (France) in 1970. He lives and works in Berlin and Algiers
Kader Attia (b. 1970, France), grew up in both Algeria and the suburbs of Paris, and uses this experience of living as a part of two cultures as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that reflects on aesthetics and ethics of different cultures. He takes a poetic and symbolic approach to exploring the wide-ranging repercussions of Western modern cultural hegemony and colonialism on non-Western cultures, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from Tradition to Modernity, in the light of our globalized world, of which he creates a genealogy. For several years, his research focuses on the concept of Repair, as a constant in Human Nature, of which the modern Western Mind and the traditional extra-Occidental Thought have always had an opposite vision. From Culture to Nature, from gender to architecture, from science to philosophy, any system of life is an infinite process of repair.
He is the winner of 2017 Joan Miró Prize and in 2016 he won the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
Recent exhibitions include Reflecting Memory at Centre Pompidou, Sacrifice and Harmony, a solo show at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, The Injuries are Here a solo show at the Musée Cantonaldes Beaux Arts de Lausanne, Culture, Another Nature Repaired, a solo show at the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Contre Nature, a solo show at the Beirut Art Center, Continuum of Repair: The Lightof Jacob’s Ladder, a solo show at Whitechapel Gallery, London, Repair. 5 Acts, a solo show at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire: Le Corps Utopique, a solo show at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Biennale of Dakar, dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel, Performing Histories (1) at MoMA, New York.
1996-1998
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1993-1994
Escola de Artes Applicades "La Massana", Barcelona, Spain
1991-1993
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués "Duperré", Paris, France
2021
Kader Attia: On Silence, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar
Fragments of Repair, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
Kader Attia: The Museum of Repair, State of Concept, Athens, Greece
2020
Irreparáveis Reparos, Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
Kader Attia. Remembering the Future, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2019
Kader Attia, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA.
Kader Attia, Le BAL, Paris / France.
The Museum of Emotion, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
2018
Kader Attia. Roots Also Grow In Concrete, Culturgest Fundação Caixa Geral de Depòsitos, Lisbon, Portugal
Open your Eyes, Museo de Arte de São Paulo / Brasil
Mémoire de l'Oubli, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Kader Attia. Scars Remind Us That Our Past Is Real, Premio Joan Miró, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton, MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain de Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
The Field of Emotion, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Kader Attia. Reason’s Oxymorons, Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth College, Hanover, USA
2017
Reflecting Memory, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Kader Attia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Kader Attia. Architektur der Erinnerung, Museum Ludwig Koblenz, Germany
Repairing The Invisible, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Kader Attia, MCA, Sydney, Australia
Reason’s Oxymorons, Kemper Art Museum ; Washington University, St. Louis, USA
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
Reason’s Oxymorons, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
Scarification, Self Skin’s Architeture, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
The Injuries are here, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Complementary Conversations, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Ghost, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway
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
Show your Injuries, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Beginning of the world, Galleria Continua /Beijing
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
Signs of Reappropriation, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
As a fold, Horizon is not a space, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
Kasbah, Centre de Création Contemporaine de Tours, Tours, France
Po(l)etical, Krinzinger gallery, Vienna, Austria
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
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
2023
Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
2022
On Caring, Repairing and Healing, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Still Alive, AICHI Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
May 18 Democratization Movement, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Venice, Italy
Espressioni. Con frazioni, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Objets Migrateurs, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
2021
Mindbombs. Visuelle Kulturen politischer Gewalt, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
OIL. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Bon Voyage. Reisen in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Dance?, Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain
The 13th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
2020
Time Present. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Empört euch! Kunst in Zeiten des Zorns, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Transhuman. Von der Prothetik zum Cyborg, Museum Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS Dokumentationszentrum München, Germany
Mythologies – The Beginning and End of Civilizations, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Schall und Rauch. The Roaring 20s, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Image Wars. The Power of Images, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Down to Earth, Gropius Bau, Berlin
Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Participation Mystique, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
When Home Won’t let You Stay. Migration Through Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA
Daily Nightshift, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerpen, Belgium
2019
Phantom Limb, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
When Home Won’t let You Stay. Migration Through Contemporary Art, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
bauhaus imaginista, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
Love and Ethnology. The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Maske, in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Open Your Eyes, University of Essex, Colchester Essex, UK
This Skin of Ours, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA
10th Cinemigrante International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Zeig mir deine Wunde, DOM Museum, Vienna, Austria
how the light gets in, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
16e Momenta Biennale d’image, La vie des choses, Montréal, Canada
Xenos, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia
No, you won’t be naming no buildings after me, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Homeless Souls, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacements, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
Maske. Kunst der Verwandlung, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
History of Faces: Belting Variations, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Psyche and Politics, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
bauhaus imaginista, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Chennai Photo Biennial 2019, Chennai, India
2018
Mental Models: The psyche as political arena, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany.
Bauhaus Imaginista: Learning From, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA.
Proregress, The 12th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China.
Show Me Your wound, Dom Museum, Wien
Lydia Cabrera and Edouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking, Americas Society, New York, US
Survival Kit 10 Art Festival, Riga, Latvia
The 12th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
Trans-Justice: Paracolonial@technology, MoCA, Taipei, Taiwan
The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Migrant Bauhaus. Bauhaus Imaginista: Learning From, Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brasil
SeMA Bunker, Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
Il Giardino Planetrario. Coltivare la coesistenza - Manifesta 12, Forcella de Seta, Palermo, Italy
Blind Faith: Zeitgenössische Kunst zwischen Intuition und Reflexion, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Talismans, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
Re: Celebrating the Body, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Gegen die Strömung. Reise ins Ungewisse, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
L'Un et l'Autre, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Le Grand Ecart, 10 nommés du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Anche le statue muoiono, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo / Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie, Torino, Italy
THE SHYNESS OF THE CROWNS, Sogn Og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førde, Norway
Against the Current. Journey into the Unknown, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2017
Prospect 4, Triennial of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, US
Folklore. Eine Kontroverse mit Werken aus den Sammlungen, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
New Region of the World, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Cracow, Poland
Réparations, Les Turbulences, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
How To Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Beyond The Pleasure Principle, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Sharjah Art Biennial 13, Tamawuj, Sharjah
The Shyness of the Crowns, Fonds régional d’art contemporain Lorraine, Metz, France
The Flow Of Forms, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Jaguars and Electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
Doublethink/Doublevision, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
The Restless Earth, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Kathmandu Triennale, The Siddhartha Arts Foundation, Kathmandu, Nepal
Seht, da ist der Mensch, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
Sans bride, ni mors, ni rêne, PHAKT - Centre culturel Colombier, Rennes, France
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
Anozero - Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Where History Begins, Void Contemporary Art Centre, Derry, Ireland
VIVA ARTE VIVA– La Biennale di Venezia, 57. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venezia, Italy
L'Afrique des routes, Musée du quai Branley, Paris, France
Kader Attia e Daniel Buren, Spazio 22, Milano, Italy
Beautiful Stranger, Museum De Wieger, Deurne, Netherlands
HIGH-TENSION – A look at the French scene, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Utopia/Dystopia Part II, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
HIGH-TENSION – A look at the French scene, Times Museum, Canton, China
La Terra Inquieta / The Restless Earth, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
Réparations, Les Turbulences, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
Contemporary Locus, Ex Albergo Diurno, Bergamo, Italy
Citynature: From Vilnius Further On, National Gallery of Art of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016
Lines of Flight, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
Utopia/Dystopia Part II, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Atlas [of the ruins] of Europe, Centro Centro Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Le Palatin, Roma, Italia
The City in the Blue Daylight, Dak’Art 2016, 12th Dakar Bienniale, Dakar, Senegal
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City, Ireland
Not New Now, 6th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
Forum Expanded, 66th Berlinale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Traversing The Phantasm, Berlinale Berlin International Film Festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
La fine del mondo, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Foreign Gods, Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria
Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Finnish Landscape, Contemporary Art at Seurasaari Open-Air Museum, Checkpoint Helsinki, Finland
The City in the Blue Daylight, Dak’Art 2016, The 12th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Musee de l’Ifan, Dakar, Senegal
Lines of Flight, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, USA
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2016 : Not New Now, The Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
Still (the) Barbarians, EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City, UK
IMPERMANENCIA. La mutación del arte en una sociedad materialista, XIII Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
Ein Knacks im Leben Wir scheitern... und wie weiter? , Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Historycode Scarsity and Supply, Nanjing International Art Festival, Bajia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
2015
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, Museo Riso / Albergo di poveri, Palermo, Italy
After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Invisible Violence, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
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
Rainbow in the Dark, SALT Galata, Istanbul , Turkey
Fragments of Empire, Momentum, Berlin , Germany
On the beginning of the short 20th century, Recent European art on World War I , Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden , Germany
Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
When Nowhere becomes Here, Poznan Biennale, Poznan, Poland
The Reluctant Narrator: A survey of narrative practices across media, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Time Present- Contemporary Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Cut, Paste, Repair: A Hundred Years of Collage, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Il delitto quasi perfetto, Pac, Milan, Italy
Art Histories, MdM Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Transfigurations, curatorial and artistic Research in an Age of Migrations, MACBA, Barcelone , Spain
Concrete, MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne , Australia
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon , France
Project Hlysnan: The Notion and Politics of Listening, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg , Luxembourg
Invisible Violence, Artium, Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art, Vitoria , Spain, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Double Jeu, FRAC Centre - Orléans, Orléans, France
Precarious Imaging, Raw Material Company, Dakar , Senegal
Hajj, le pèlerinage à La Mecque, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Tranka Episode #1 - Sextant et plus, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vivement demain, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, Miami, USA
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
The Rituals of Chaos, The Bronx Museum, New York / USA
Räume der Erinnerung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Unheimliche Reisen, Archiv trifft Gegenwart, Dienstgebäude, Zurich, Switzerland2011
Beijing Online Inlive - 10 Hands 100 Fingers, Galleria Continua, Beijing / China
After the Rage, Beton7, Athens, Greece
J'ai Deux Amours, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Drift- an exploration of urban and suburban landscapes, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Walls That Divide Us, Apexart, New York, USA
Magreb: Dos Orillas, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
SPHERES 2011, 7 énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’exposition, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
Collector, Collection of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Rewriting Words, 4th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Wunder. Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds after 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dublin Contemporary, Biennale of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Entre Temps, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London / UK
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea
The Future of a Promise - Collateral exhibition, Venice Biennale 2011, Magazzini del Sale, Venice, Italy
Evergreen, Crédit Agricole de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
Paris – Delhi – Bombay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Entre-Temps, Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
French Window, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
PAX, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Strike Oppose, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
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
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
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
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
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
Utopia and Monument II. On Virtuosity and the Public Sphere, Exhibition for the public space, Graz, Austria
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
De leur temps (3), FRAC d’Alsace – Sélestat, Grenoble, France ; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
FotoGrafia IX Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France
Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg, Denmark
Unerwartet. Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Entre Temps, LoftProject ETAGI, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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
Pulsioni Performative Nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy
Entre-Temps, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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 02, 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
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
Looking Inside-out, Kunstnernes, Oslo, Norway
Unveiled: New Art from the middle east, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Collection 10, IAC - Institut d´art contemporain - Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
Gagarin the Artists in their Own Words – The first Decade, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
Mehr als ein T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Praxis, Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, SAR
Calling Forth, The Kitchen; New York, USA
FIAC 2009, Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France
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
2008
Traversées / Crossings, Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt
The Other, 11th Cairo Biennale, 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
Iaspis Open House, Autumn 2008, International Artist Studio Programme Sweden, 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
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
Suite Française, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Alles klar? Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, USA
New Economy, Artists Space, New York, USA
Suite Française, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Temporally, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel
De leur Temps (2), Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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
Sculpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Equatorial Rhythms, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Signes d’Existence, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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
Arabic views, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Notre histoire : une scène artistique française émergente, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / France, 2006
Infinities, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland
Take a walk on the wild side, de Pury & Luxembourg gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Regards des photographes arabes contemporains, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
In between times, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Expérience de la durée, 8th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
SingulierS, Guangdong Museum of Art, Canton, China
Big Bang, Jewish Art and History Museum, Paris, France
Living for the City, J. Shainman gallery, New York, USA
The Loop, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 36, Basel, Switzerland
2004
Near East Project, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Continental Breakfast, Belgrade, Serbia
Shake, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
Shake, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2003
Fault Lines, Contemporary African Art and shifting landscapes, 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
The State of Things, part.1, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin / Germany
2019
Restitution-Reparation?, Milstein Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, New York, Usa
Reflecting Memory with kader Attia, Cornell faculty and graduate students, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Gussman Wing Lecture room
Artist’s Talk: Kader Attia in Conversation with Stefania Pandolfo, BAMPFA, Berkeley, Uaa
Repairing the Invisible. Kader Attia, in conversation with Souleymane Bechir Diagne, Columbia University, Columbia University, Maison Française, Buell Hall, New York
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, 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
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
2013
Les Terrasses, outdoor work, La Digue du Large, Marseille, France.
2022
Curator, Berlin Biennale 12, Berlin, Germany
Ludwig Stiftung, Aachen / Germany
Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf / Germany
MOMA, New York / USA
Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
Tate Modern, London / UK
Boston ICA, Boston / USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Sweden Barjeel Art Foundation / UAE
Sharjah Art Foundation / UAE
MAHTAF / Qatar
Jumex Collection / Mexico DF, Mexico
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / France
Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris / France Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon / France
Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine / France Société Générale, Paris / France
Géotec Collection / France Fondation Francès / France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain / France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Centre - Orléans / France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charente / France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire / France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Lorraine / France
IAC Villeurbanne / France MMK Frankfurt / Germany
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg / Austria
Deutsche Bank / Germany
UniCredit Art Collection/ Austria
Vanmoerkerke Collection / Belgium
La Collection Uhoda / Belgium
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Germany
Deutsche Bank Collection / Germany
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création, Paris / France
Irene Panagopoulos Collection, Athens / Greece
S.M.A.K., Gent / Belgium
Vehbi Koc Foundation, Istanbul / Turkey
