Kader Attia (born 30 December 1970) is an
Algerian-French artist.
Early life
Attia was born in
Dugny, France to Algerian parents and was raised in
Paris
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and
Algeria
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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
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, in 1998.
Work
His work often examines
social injustice
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,
marginalized communities and
postcolonialism.
In 2016, he founded ''
La Colonie'', a gallery near Paris' ''
Gare du Nord'' train station. In March 2020, ''La Colonie'' closed permanently due to the
coronavirus pandemic
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.
In March 2021, Attia was announced as the curator for the 12th
Berlin Biennale
The Berlin Biennale (full name: Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art exhibition, which has been held at various locations in Berlin, Germany, every two to three years since 1998. T ...
. He is the first artist to curate the biennale since
New-York based collective DIS, who presented the 9th edition in 2016.
In November 2021, he had an exhibition entitled "On Silence" at the
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in
Doha
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.
Collections
Attia's work is included in the permanent collections of:
* the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, New York,
* the
Sharjah Art Foundation
The Sharjah Art Foundation ( ar, مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون) is a contemporary art and cultural foundation based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, founded in 2009 by Hoor Al Qasimi, daughter of Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, a me ...
,
*the
Tate Museum
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,
* the ''
Centre Georges Pompidou'', Paris,
* the
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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, and
* the
Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Awards
In 2016, he won France's ''
Prix Marcel Duchamp''. In 2018, he was awarded the
Joan Miró Prize.
Notes
References
External links
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1970 births
21st-century French male artists
Artists from Paris
Living people
Algerian artists
Algerian contemporary artists
French people of Algerian descent
Decolonial artists