Born in 1970 in Dugny (France) ; Lives and works in Berlin and Algiers.
Kader Attia (b. 1970, France), grew up in both Algeria and the suburbs of Paris, and uses this experience of living as a part of two cultures as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that reflects on aesthetics and ethics of different cultures. He takes a poetic and symbolic approach to exploring the wide-ranging repercussions of Western modern cultural hegemony and colonialism on non-Western cultures, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from Tradition to Modernity, in the light of our globalized world, of which he creates a genealogy.
For several years, his research focuses on the concept of Repair, as a constant in Human Nature, of which the modern Western Mind and the traditional extra-Occidental Thought have always had an opposite vision. From Culture to Nature, from gender to architecture, from science to philosophy, any system of life is an infinite process of repair.
Residency Programs :
2015
Northwestern University Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Artist in Residency Award, USA
2014
artpace, San Antonio / USA
2010
The Banff Centre, Banff / Canada
2008
IASPIS, Stockholm / Sweden
Grants / Fellowships / Prizes :
2014
Kunstpreis Berlin Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948, Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Germany
2010
Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, Banff / Canada
Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship Program, Washington DC / USA
Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubai / UAE
2008
Cairo Biennale, Prize of the Biennale, Cairo / Egypt
2005
Nominee for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris / France
1997
The Leica Special Prize / ” Une Algérie d ‘Enfance”, Paris / France
Symposiums / Lectures / Others :
2015
TrAIN Open Lecture series, Artist Talk, CCW Graduate School, London / UK
Figurer/Exposer/Représenter le Corps du Refoulé Colonial, workshop, Collège d’Etudes Mondiales/FMSH, Paris / France
Abounaddara – The Right to the Images, Symposium, Vera List Center, New York / USA
Usages Géopolitiques des Images, Symposium, BAL – EHESS, Paris / France
Repair, Artist Talk, Stadtkuratorin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg / Germany
Home Works, Workshop, Ashkal Alwan Academy, Beirut / Lebanon
2014
Kader Attia – Special event, Whitechapel, London / UK
Kader Attia in conversation with Magnus af Petersens, Whitechapel, London / UK
Kader Attia in conversation with Koyo Kouoh, MMK Museum for Modern Art, Francfort / Germany
Kader Attia – Artist Talk, NICC, Brussels / Belgium
Collecting Geographies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / The Netherlands
2013
Suspended Spaces – Discover / Uncover Modernism, Paris / France
Whitechapel, London / UK
Document, fiction et droit, Wiels, Bruxelles / Belgium
After Year Zero, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / Germany
Inventions et réinventions des arts primitifs, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris / France
The Culture of Fear : An Invention of Evil, Witte de With, Rotterdam / The Netherlands
HomeWorks, Ashkal Awan, Beirut / Lebanon
Curatorial/Knowledge seminar, Goldsmiths, London / UK
2012
Matters of Collaborations, Collaboratoire 3, Dakar / Senegal
Modern Monday, MoMA, New York / USA
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
2011
Suspended Spaces, Beirut Art Center, Beirut / Lebanon
Interface, Université La Sorbonne, Paris / France
Un Temps de l’Art, Université Rennes 2, Ecole supérieure européenne d’art de Bretagne, Rennes / France
Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, Fontainebleau / France
Kunst Afrikas , Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin / Germany
2010
The Serpentine Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London / UK
Warsaw Under Construction II, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Warsaw / Poland
The British Museum, in collaboration with the Tate : Kader Attia : Void’s Geometries, London / UK
The Falmouth Convention, University College Falmouth, Falmouth / UK
After Post-colonialism: Transnationalism or Essentialism?, panel discussion, Tate Modern, London / UK
SITAC VIII, International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico DF / Mexico
Clinicas symposium, Mexico DF / Mexico
2009
Eastwards = westwards, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht / Netherlands
Artistic Design of the ballet « Comedy of Change » by Rambert Dance Company, UK
http://kaderattia.de/biography/
In the Framework of :
E.city – Europe : “Artecitya” : 15 November 2013 – 1 December 2013
- J’Accuse, 2016
- Chaos + Repair = Universe, 2014
- Reason’s Oxymorons, 2015 Video installation, 6 films each of the duration of 00:20:00
- Artificial Nature, 2014 Installation 2014