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| Born | 30 December 1970 Dugny, France |
| Known for | Visual art |
Kader Attia (born 30 December 1970) is an Algerian-French artist. [1] [2] [note 1]
Kader Attia | |
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| Attia in 2015 | |
| Born | 30 December 1970 Dugny, France |
| Known for | Visual art |
Kader Attia (born 30 December 1970) is an Algerian-French artist. [1] [2] [note 1]
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]
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]
Attia's work is included in the permanent collections of:
In 2016, Attia won France's Prix Marcel Duchamp . [23] [24] In 2018, he was awarded the Joan Miró Prize. [25] [26]
In 2019, Attia was a member of the jury that selected Arthur Jafa as winner of the Prince Pierre Foundation's International Contemporary Art Prize. [27] [28]
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