Squad Attia

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Squad Attia (2015)

Kader Attia (born December 30, 1970 in Dugny , Seine-Saint-Denis ) is a French installation artist and photographer .

Life

Attia was born to Algerian parents north of Paris . He grew up in France and Algeria. From 1991 to 1993 he received his first artistic training at the École Duperré in Paris before he went to Barcelona for further studies until 1994 at the Escola de Artes Applicades “La Massana” . From 1996 to 1998 he studied again in Paris at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris . During this time he had his first solo exhibitions in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo and in Paris.

Attia's work deals with the influence of western culture and capitalism on societies in North Africa and the Middle East. He is interested in the aftermath of the resistance to colonization on today's Arab youth, especially in the French suburbs.

Kader Attia lives and works in Berlin and Algiers .

Prizes and awards

Exhibitions

Childhood # 1 , 2005
  • 2000: La Piste de l'Atterrissge . Slide show, L'Atelier, Center National de la Photographie, Paris
  • 2001: L'État des choses, part. 1 . Art works Berlin , Berlin; Curator: Catherine David
  • 2002: Alter Ego . Camel Mennour Gallery, Paris.
  • 2003: Correspondence , Art Basel 34, Basel.
  • 2003: Fault Lines . 50th Biennale di Venezia , Venice; Curator: Gilane Tawadros
  • 2004: Hallal . Camel Mennour Gallery, Paris
  • 2005: Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon , Lyon
  • 2006: Kader Atta . Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
  • 2007: Do what you want, but don't tell anybody , Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin. Momentum 9 , ICA, Boston
  • 2008: Signs of Reappropriation . The Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; then in 2009 in Savannah, Georgia, USA. The Otherì , Cairo Biennale.
  • 2009: Kasbah . Center de Création Contemporaine de Tours (CCC), Tours, France. Signs of Reappropriation , Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Savannah.
  • 2010: Holy Land . Galleria continua , San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age , Sydney Biennale. Dreamlands , Center Georges Pompidou
  • 2011: The Future of a Promise . Venice Biennale . Contested Terrains , Tate Modern , London
  • 2012: dOCUMENTA (13) . Kassel. Collages . Christian Nagel Gallery, Berlin. Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire: Le Corps Utopique , Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Essential . Galleria continua, San Gimignano, Italy
  • 2013: Les Terrasses , Marseille
  • 2013: repair. 5 files , installation. Art works Berlin , Berlin.
  • 2014: The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Hell, Purgatory from the perspective of African artists . Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014: Installation: Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob's Ladder , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London, England; then BOZAR , Brussels, Belgium
  • 2015: Kader Attia: Les Blessures sont là , Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne , Switzerland.
  • 2016: Kader Attia. Sacrifice and Harmony , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main. Catalog. The same installation was shown at Dak'Art, the 2016 Dakar Art Biennale.
  • 2017: Repairing the Invisible. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Ghent, Belgium.
  • 2017: Kader Attia. Architecture of memory. , Ludwig Museum , Koblenz
  • 2018: Manifesta 12 Palermo: The Body's Legacies. The Post-Colonial Body, 2018; Untitled, 2018 video; sculpture

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Tim Ackermann: The vocabulary of vandalism. In: taz. April 1, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
  • Susanne Gaensheimer u. a. (Ed.): The Divine Comedy. Heaven, hell, purgatory from the perspective of contemporary African artists . Exhibition catalog. Kerber. Bielefeld, Berlin. 2014. ISBN 978-3-86678-920-3 , pp. 194-197, 339, 353.

Web links

Commons : Kader Attia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Susanne Gaensheimer u. a. (Ed.): The Divine Comedy. Heaven, hell, purgatory from the perspective of contemporary African artists . Exhibition catalog. Kerber. Bielefeld, Berlin. 2014. ISBN 978-3-86678-920-3 , p. 353.
  2. ↑ http://westfalium.de/2016/05/31/kader-attia-erhaelt-kunstpreis-ruth-baumgarte/
  3. ↑ Feathered chainsaw . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 26, 2013, p. 42.
  4. ↑ Splitter, patch and the new whole in FAZ from April 15, 2016, page 34
  5. ↑ The wounds of the world show and mend in FAZ of May 13, 2016, p. 9
  6. ↑ The Dakar Effect in FAZ of May 23, 2016, page 9
  7. ↑ Squad Attia | Repairing the Invisible. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Project description. In: Manifesta 12. Accessed August 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Attia, squad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French installation artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Dugny (Seine-Saint-Denis) , France