Kader Attia

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Kader Attia
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Attia in 2015
Born (1970-12-30) 30 December 1970 (age 53)
Dugny, France
Known forVisual art

Kader Attia (born 30 December 1970) is an Algerian-French artist. [1] [2] [note 1]

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Early life

Attia was born in Dugny, France to Algerian parents and was raised in Paris and Algeria. [4] [5] He studied at the l'école Duperré de Paris, l'école des arts appliqués La Massana de Barcelone and graduated from the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs Paris, in 1998. [6] [7] [8]

Work

Attia's work often examines social injustice, marginalized communities and postcolonialism. [9] [10] [11]

In 2016, Attia founded La Colonie , a gallery near Paris' Gare du Nord train station. [12] [13] [14] In March 2020, La Colonie closed permanently due to the coronavirus pandemic. [15] In March 2021, Attia was announced as the curator for the 12th Berlin Biennale. [16] He is the first artist to curate the biennale since New-York based collective DIS, who presented the 9th edition in 2016. [15] In November 2021, he had an exhibition entitled "On Silence" at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha. [17]

Collections

Attia's work is included in the permanent collections of:

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ "This multicultural background is something that belongs to my work and to my history. I feel myself as both French and Algerian. I’m definitely in between." [3]

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  6. ↑ Project Europa: Imagining the (im)possible. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. 2010. ISBN   978-0-9762552-9-1.
  7. ↑ Mansour Abrous (1 February 2011). Algérie : Arts Plastiques: Dictionnaire biographique (1900-2010). Editions L'Harmattan. pp. 74–. ISBN   978-2-296-45164-3.
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