Walid Raad
Walid Raad (* 1967 in Chbanieh , Lebanon ) is a Lebanese-American photo artist and university professor.
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His work includes photography , video art , text and performance and is particularly dedicated to the contemporary history of his home country. Raad is a lecturer at Cooper Union and lives in New York City .
Walid Raad is the 2011 Hasselblad Prize Winner. Raad has been a founding member of the Academy of Arts in Cologne since October 2012 .
The Atlas Group
The Atlas Group was founded in 1999 by Walid Raad and shown at documenta11 and the Whitney Biennial in 2002 and at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in 2007 .
“It is an imaginary foundation that researches and documents contemporary Lebanese history. The Atlas Group goes public with lectures, films, photo exhibitions, videos and a wide variety of documents from the group's own archives. The archives contain a wide range of materials, including notebooks by the Lebanese historian Fadl Fakhouri, videos with the ex hostage Souheil Bachar and with Zainab Hilwé, the victim of a car bomb, and a number of anonymous documents, such as the photo series Secrets in the Open Sea . [ ...] His [Walid Raads] goal is to build an archive whose fictional nature calls into question the supposed objectivity of historical discourses and at the same time dismantles the supposed autonomy of artistic work. "
Video works
- 2002/2006: The Bachar Tapes
Exhibitions
- 2002: The Atlas Group , Documenta11 , Kassel.
- 2015/2016: Walid Raad , Museum of Modern Art , New York City, USA; then Institute of Contemporary Art , Boston , Massachusetts , USA and Museo Jumex , Mexico City , Mexico.
- 2016: Walid Raad & SITU Studio - project for the Stommeln synagogue. Those that are near. Those that are far. , Stommeln Synagogue
Awards
- Art Prize Aachen (2018)
- Hasselblad Foundation Award (2011)
- Alpert Award for Visual Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation (2007)
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007)
- Rencontres d'Arles (2006), “Lauréat d'Aide au projet”, Arles
- Camera Austria Prize of the City of Graz for Contemporary Photography (2005)
- Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival (2002)
- Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico (2002)
- Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (2002)
- Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2002 (Special Prize)
- Black Maria Festival, 2002. (Juror Citation Award)
- Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland (2001)
- Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany, 2001 (Rhineland Award)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA, 2000 (Certificate of Merit)
- 5th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2000 (Special Jury Prize)
- VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland (2000)
- 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland (1999). (Grand Prize)
- Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, 1999. (Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film)
- Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, 1999. (Director's Citation)
- Missouri Video Festival, St. Louis, MO, 1998. (Award of Accomplishment Experimental)
- New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA, 1997. (Best Conceptual Innovation Award)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walid Raad in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the artist (en.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Walid Raad - Conflict in the Middle East
- ↑ Homepage Akademie der Künste der Welt Cologne ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 30, 2012
- ^ Nafa's art magazine The Atlas Group (1989-2004). A project by Walid Raad accessed on January 3, 2019
- ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 26, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
- ^ Exhibition website. In: MoMA. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Let's first listen to the artist in FAZ on January 5, 2016, page 12
- ↑ The Aachen Art Prize 2018 goes to Walid Raad , in: Der Tagesspiegel from August 14, 2018
- ↑ Hasselblad Foundation Award ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Camera Austria
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| SURNAME | Raad, Walid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lebanese photo artist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chbanieh , Lebanon |