Driss Ouadahi (born 1959 in Casablanca,
Morocco
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) is a contemporary Algerian painter and architect who trained, works, and lives in
Düsseldorf
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, Germany. Ouadahi's work features abstracted architectural forms found in real Algerian housing structures. Themes in Ouadahi's works surround politics of class, religion, and ethnicity relating to ideas of boundaries and otherness. ''Systeme der Abgrenzung (Systems of Demarcation)'', opened at the
Heydt Museum in Germany on February 25, 2018
Education
*
Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (1988–1994)
* École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Algiers (1984–1987)
* Architectural Study, Algiers (1979–1982)
Public Collections
Ouadahi's works are included in the publication collections of
Barjeel Art Foundation
Barjeel Art Foundation is a non-profit arts organisation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The foundation was established in 2010 by Emirati commentator Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi to manage and exhibit his personal art collection. There are ov ...
(Sharjah, UAE),
FRAC Centre (Orléans, France), Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung (Rastatt, Germany), Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland),
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf.
History
The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmus ...
(Germany), Nadour Collection (Germany), Stadtsparkasses Baden-Baden (Germany)
Awards
* Grand Prix Léopold Sédar SENGHOR, Dakar, Senegal (2014)
* Cité International de Arts Paris, (Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler) (2013)
* Artist Residency, Etaneno Museum im Busch, Namibia (2011)
* Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, Marseille (2003)
[http://hosfeltgallery.com/app/uploads/2017/04/OuadahiBio-2018.pdf ]
Publications
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# "Driss Ouadahi, Systeme Der Abgrenzung." Von Der Heydt Kunsthalle Wuppertal-Barmen. 2018.
# "Driss Ouadahi Takes on Fences in Latest Exhibit.
San Francisco Chronicle (Jul. 13, 2016).
#"Driss Ouadahi, 'Breach in the Silence' at Hosfelt Gallery.
Art Enthusiast (Aug. 4, 2016).
# "Driss Ouadahi: Meeting with an International Style Painter.
Global Art Daily. (Nov. 14, 2014).
# Viladas, Pilar. "Now Showing: Driss Ouadahi"
The New York Times Style Magazine (Oct. 1, 2010)
# Levin, Kim. "Gridded Tyrannies," Catalog Essay from ''Driss Ouadahi: Densité.'' (Hosfelt Gallery, New York). 2010.
External links
Driss Ouadahi at Hosfelt GalleryArt works of Driss Ouadahi at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow
References
Living people
1959 births
People from Casablanca
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
Algerian artists
20th-century Algerian painters
21st-century Algerian painters
Algerian contemporary artists
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