Driss Ouadahi

Driss Ouadahi (* 1959 in Casablanca , Morocco) is a contemporary Algerian painter. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Paris . Ouadahi's works combine abstract architectural design language with real living structures that he finds in Europe and Africa. In his works he also deals with questions of class, religion and ethnicity that relate to the individual's sense of boundaries and otherness.

Career

From 1979 to 1982, Ouadahi studied architecture in Algiers. 1984–1987 he received training at the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Algiers and from 1988–1994 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His exhibition “Systems of Demarcation” opened on February 25, 2018 in the Heydt Museum in Germany. His work is exhibited internationally, including in Dubai, New York, North Africa and Europe. In Paris in 2018 he took part in the exhibition “L'un et l'autre” at the Palais de Tokyo .

Scholarships

2013 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
ETANENO, Museum im Busch, Kalkfeld, Namibia

Exhibitions (selection)

2019 REZ-DE-CHAUSSEE, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions, Düsseldorf
2018 Systems of Demarcation, Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal-Barmen
2018 class ratio, u. a. with Monica Bonvicini , Thomas Hirschborn, Anna Witt, Tobias Zielony , Kunstverein in Hamburg
2018 L'un et L'autre, Palais de Tokyo , Paris (France)
2018 Dessinez vos dessins, Musée public national d'art moderne et contemporain, Algiers (Algeria)
2017 Beautiful stranger, Museum de Wieger, Deurne, Holland
2016 breach in the silence, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, (USA)
2016 Transposition, Caroline Pages Galley, Lisbon (Portugal)
2015 Walls and margins, Barjeel Art Foundation, (UAE)
2014 Inside Zenith, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai (UAE)
2014 Memory, Place, Desire, The Cantor Fitzgerald gallery, Haverford College, PA., (USA)
2013 La Route Bleu, Villa Emapin-Boghassian Foundation Brussels, (Belgium)
2011 Future of a promise, 54th Biennale di Venezia , (Italy)
2010 Densité, Hosfelt Gallery, New York (USA)
2009 Looking inside, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo , (Norway)
2009 Périfériks, Center d'art de Neuchatel, (Switzerland)
2008 Art entre quatre murs, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse , (France)
2005 Artists' Association Malkasten , Düsseldorf
2003 Center d'art Contemporain d'istres, Marseille (France)
2003 Réverbération, Center d'art Chateau de Servières, Marseille (France)
1990 ISMA Gallery, Algiers (Algeria)
1989 Alger. Hommage à Pablo Picasso , Musée national des beaux-artes, Algiers (Morocco) and Musée Picasso , Antibes (France)

Publicly owned works

Modern Forms, London (England)
Musée national des beaux-arts. Algiers (Algeria)
Collection of Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, (UAE)
FRAC Orléans, Center Val de loire, (France)
Kamel Lazar Foundation, Geneva (Switzerland) and Tunis (Tunisia)
Nadour Collection, Düsseldorf (Germany) and Paris (France)
Museum Kunstpalast Foundation , Düsseldorf
Herbert-Wiesenburger Foundation, Rastatt (Germany)

Publications (selection)

2018 Driss Ouadahi, Systems of Demarcation, Ed. Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal-Barmen, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89202-100-1
2017 Thomas Hirsch, Driss Ouadahi, General Artist Lexicon, Vol. 94

Individual evidence

↑ Bertram Müller: Atelier visit: “Painting started for me in Düsseldorf”. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
↑ Jessica Zack: Driss Ouadahi takes on fences in latest exhibit. July 13, 2016, accessed May 25, 2019 .
↑ PRESS. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Ouadahi, Driss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Algerian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Casablanca , Morocco

[1] Bertram Müller: Atelier visit: “Painting started for me in Düsseldorf”. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .

[2] Jessica Zack: Driss Ouadahi takes on fences in latest exhibit. July 13, 2016, accessed May 25, 2019 .

[3] PRESS. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .