Kader Attia (Algerian/French, born )

Timeline

1970
Born in Dugny, Seine Saint-Denis, France
1991–1993
Attended Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués 'Duperré', Paris, France
1993–1994
Attended Escola de Artes Applicades 'La Massana', Barcelona, Spain
1997
Awarded The Leica Special Prize / " Une Algérie d 'Enfance”, Paris, France
1996–1998
Attended Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris, France
2005
Became a nominee for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris, France
2008
Residency at JCVA, Jerusalem, Israel
2008
Residency at Had a residence at IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2008
Residency at Institute of Cotemporary Art, Boston
2008
Awarded Prize of the Biennale,Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
2010
Residency at The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
2010
Awarded Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, Banff, Canada
2010
Awarded Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship Program, Washington DC
2010
Awarded Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubai, UAE
2014
Residency at Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2014
Awarded Kunstpreis Berlin Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 by Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in Paris, France

Exhibitions

2017
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (solo exhibition)
2016
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Kader Attia: Sacrifice and Harmony, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo exhibition)
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Lines of Flight, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
EVA International Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City, Ireland
Marrakech Biennale 6, Marrakech, Morocco
3rd Edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2015
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Complimentary Conversations, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Ghost, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway (solo exhibition)
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo, The Palazzo Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
ICA Collection: Transcending Material, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
History Lesson, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
La vie moderne, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Theorem, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Invisible Violence, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Streamlines, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Chercher le garcon- Exposition collective d’artistes homes, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Centre Pompidou-Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Catcontent, Stadtpalais Stadt Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Concrete, Tophane-I Amire Culture and Arts Center, Mimar Sinan Guzel Sanatlar Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Michel Leiris & Co: Picasso, Miro, Giacometti, Bacon…, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Le Corbusier dans l’Art Contemporain, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, France
La vie moderne, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Pugatory and Hell Revisited, The Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
2014
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Show your injuries, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Beginning of the World, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China; travelled to Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France (solo exhibition)
Culture, natural recovery, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Contre Nature, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon (solo exhibition)
Continuum of the Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom; travelled to BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
The Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Garden of Everyday Errors, Alternativa 2014, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
Whorled Explorations, curated by Jitish Kallat, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
Rainbow in the Dark, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
Notes on the Start of the Short 20th Century: Contemporary Art of the First World War, Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany
When Nowhere Becomes Here, Poznan Biennale, Poznan, Poland
Il delitto quasi perfetto, Pac, Milan, Italy
The Sensory War 1914-2014, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb and Maghrebi Diaspora, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
The Reluctant Narrator: A survey of narrative practices across media, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Time Present- Contemporary Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Cut, Paste, Repair: A Hundred Years of Collage, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Invisible Violence, Artium, Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art, Álava, Spain
Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, NY
The Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo-UNAM, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Art Histories, MdM Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Transfigurations, Curatorial and Artistic Research in an Age of Migrations, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
Project Hlysnan: The Notion and Politics of Listening, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Invisible Violence, Artium, Basque Museum-Centre of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Double Jeu, Les Turbulances – FRAC Centre, Orleans, France
Dak'Art 2014, 11éme Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
Precarious Imaging, Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal
Hajj, le pèlerinage à La Mecque, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Where are we now?, 5th Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, Morocco
Tranka Episode #1 - Sextant et plus, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Repair, 5 Acts, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Unstable Territories: Borders and Identity in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Conemporanea Strozzina Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
After year Zero, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
43 Salón (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Medellin, Colombia
La Méditerranée n’est pas seulement une géographie – Collection Société Générale, Marseille, France
Aqua Vitalis - Acte 2, Palais Ducal Impasse du Duc Rollon - Artothèque de Caen, Cannes, France
Aqua Vitalis - Acte 1, Hôtel d'Escoville - Artothèque de Caen, Cannes, France
Kader Attia, Jorge Macchi, Jose Antonio Suarez Londono, 43 Salon (inter) Nacional de Artistas, Medellin, Colombia
Museum Off Museum. Erster Teil, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Altérité, Je est un Autre, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 44, Basel, Switzerland
Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, Marseille, France
Relaunch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Terms and Conditions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Every day matters, Farschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Le CAPC a 40 ans, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Modernity ? Perspective from France and Turkey, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Here, Elsewhere / Ici, ailleurs, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2012
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire: Le Corps Utopique, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Collages, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Essential, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo exhibition)
Documenta (13), Fridericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany
Performing Histories, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
10 ans du Projet pour l’Art Contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Mirages d’Orient, grenades et figues de barbarie, Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
The Far and the Near: St Ives and International Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives, United Kingdom
Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Liverpool Biennial 2012, Tate Liverpool Collection Exhibition: Tresholds, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Cartographies of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
The Rituals of Chaos, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Glissement de terrain: impertience-Resistance-Survivance, Le musée lanchelevici, La Louviére, Belgium
Where is the time?, Foundation Izolyatsia, Donetsk, Ukraine
Raüme der Erinnerung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf / Germany
Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravità, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times, 1st Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Chkoun Ahna, National Museum of Carthage, Carthage, Tunisia
Unheimliche Reisen, Archiv trifft Gegenwart, Dienstgebäude, Zurich, Switzerland
In Other Words, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Vivement demain, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Hajj, Journey to the heart of Islam, the British Museum, London, United Kingdom
2011
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Ghost, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium(solo exhibition)
Beijing Online Inlive - 10 Hands 100 Fingers, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
After the Rage, Beton7, Athens, Greece
J'ai Deux Amours, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Collector, Collection of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Drift – an exploration of urban and suburban landscapes, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Walls That Divide Us, Apexart, New York, NY
Magreb: Dos Orillas, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
SPHERES 2011, 7 énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’exposition, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
4th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Wunder. Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Global Contemporary. Art World after 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dublin Contemporary, Biennale of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea
The Future of a Promise - Collateral exhibition, Venice Biennale 2011, Magazzini del Sale, Venice
Evergreen, Crédit Agricole de Montrouge, France
Paris-Delhi-Bombay, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Entre-Temps, Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
PAX, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
French Window, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Strike Oppose, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Living Room Exotica, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
De leur Temps (3), FRAC d’Alsace – Sélestat, Grenoble, France, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2011
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Ghost, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium(solo exhibition)
Beijing Online Inlive - 10 Hands 100 Fingers, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
After the Rage, Beton7, Athens, Greece
J'ai Deux Amours, Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Collector, Collection of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Drift – an exploration of urban and suburban landscapes, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Walls That Divide Us, Apexart, New York, NY
Magreb: Dos Orillas, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
SPHERES 2011, 7 énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’exposition, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
4th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Wunder. Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Global Contemporary. Art World after 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Dublin Contemporary, Biennale of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea
The Future of a Promise - Collateral exhibition, Venice Biennale 2011, Magazzini del Sale, Venice
Evergreen, Crédit Agricole de Montrouge, France
Paris-Delhi-Bombay, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Entre-Temps, Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
PAX, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
French Window, Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Strike Oppose, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Living Room Exotica, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
De leur Temps (3), FRAC d’Alsace – Sélestat, Grenoble, France, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2010
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Holy Land, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo exhibition)
Told/Untold/Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Lo spazio del sacro, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
SUD 2010, Salon Urbain de Douala, festival triennal d'art public, Espace doual'art centre d'art contemporain Place du Gouvernement Bonanjo, Douala, Camerun
SPHERES 2010, 7 énergies autour d’une nouvelle expérience d’exposition, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin / France
La Route de la Soie, New Chinese, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
PICHA festival, Lubumbashi Image Encounters, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo
Utopia and Monument II. On Virtuosity and the Public Sphere, Graz, Austria
FotoGrafia IX Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO Testaccio, Rome / Italy
Centenary of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Make Yourself at Home, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, Busan / Korea
Street & Studio – >From Basquiat to Séripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien / Austria
Geo-graphics, A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
The Flower of May, Kunsthalle Gwangju and City Museum, Gwangju / Korea
Unerwartet. Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum / Germany
Art Unlimited, Art Basel 41, Basel / Switzerland
Entre Temps, LoftProject ETAGI, Saint Petersburg / Russia
THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Dreamlands, Beaubourg - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
PROJECT EUROPA: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2009
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Po(l)etical, Krinzinger gallery, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
As a fold, Horizon is not a space, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Kasbah, Centre de Création Contemporaine de Tours, Tours, France (solo exhibition)
Failures, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo exhibition)
Mehr als ein T-Shirt, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Gagarin the Artists in their Own Words – The first Decade, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Disorientation II, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Los de arriba y los de abajo, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico DF, Mexico
FIAC, Musée national d'art moderne et contemporain, Algiers, Algeria
Frontières, 8th African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali
Sphères, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Dispositifs optiques, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Pulisoni Performative Nell’Arte Contemporanea, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy
Entre-Temps, Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, SAR
Time out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Praxis, Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
Collection 10, IAC - Institut d´art contemporain - Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne / France
La Force de l’Art, Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Tuileries Gardens, FIAC 2009, Paris / France
Entre-Temps, MIS - Museu da Imagem E Do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Integration and resistance in the global era,10th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Nation State, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Looking Inside-out, Kunstnernes, Oslo, Norway
Unveiled: New Art from the middle east, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2008
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Signs of Reappropriation, The Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA (solo exhibition)
Black & white: signs of times, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Huarte, Huarte, Spain (solo exhibition)
Kader Attia – New Works, Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (solo exhibition)
The Other, Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
Crossings Traversees, Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt Travesia, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Réfléchir le Monde, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium
In the Desert of Modernity, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Defense, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
Pontevedra Biennale, Pontevedra, Spain
Representations of the artist as an intellectual, D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig, Germany
Traversée, Art Paris, Paris, France
Elefante Negro, Diego Rivera Museum, Mexico DF, Mexico
2007
Kader Attia Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Momentum 9, ICA, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Square Dreams, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, United Kingdom (solo exhibition)
Do what you want but don’t tell anybody, Christian Nagel gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Suite Française, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
The Big Easy, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
The Big Easy: Relocating the Myth of the "West", Stiftung Federkiel - Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Temporally, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel
De leur Temps (2), Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Sculpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom
Equatorial Rhythms, Sternersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, New York, USA
Signes d’Existence, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
New Economy, The Artists Space, New York, NY
Dialogues méditerranéens, St Tropez, France
Accélération, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
L ‘Emprise du Lieu #4, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2006
Tsunami, MAGASIN - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble - CNAC, Grenoble, France (solo)
2006
Kader Attia, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
2006
Sweet Sweat, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2006
Other Families, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
2006
1st Art, Landscape & Architecture Biennial, Canary Islands, Spain
2006
Take a walk on the wild side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
Infinities, Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, Switzerland
2006
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
2006
Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005
The Sketch London, UK (Curator: Alexandre Polazzon) (solo)
2005
Big Bang, Jewish History and Art Museum, Paris, France (solo)
2005
Meeting Point (Point de rencontre), Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
2005
Lyon Biennale Lyon, France (Curator: Jérôme Sans & Nicolas Bourriaud)
2005
The Loop, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 36
2004
HALLAL, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2004
The sweatshop, Art Basel Miami, Art Position Miami, USA
2004
Videozone – Video Art Biennale, Herzliya Museum Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman & Dalia Levin)
2004
Near East Project, Schirn Kunsthalle Francfort, Germany (Curator: Martina Weinhart)
2004
Continental Breakfast, Belgrade, Serbia (Curator: Anda Rottenberg)
2004
Shake, Ok Center for Contemporary Art Linz, Austria; Villa Arson Nice, France
2003
Correspondance, Art Basel 34, Statement Area Basel, Switzerland
2003
The 50th Venice Biennale, Fault Lines, Venise, Italy (Curator: Gilane Tawadros)
2003
Voyages d’artistes, Fondation Electra, Paris, France (Curator: Jean-Louis Pradel)
2003
Ouvertures Algériennes :Créations vivantes, La Criée Rennes, France (Curator: Larys Frogier)
2002
Alter Ego, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France (cat.) (solo)
2002
Les vertus sont des titres, les souffrances sont des droits, Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème, France (Curator: Olivier Chupin)
2001
Photostories, Martine et Thibault de la Châtre Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2001
L 'Alchimie de la rencontre, Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France (Curator: Francois Quintin)
2001
L 'état des choses part.1, KUNST- WERKE Berlin, Germany (Curator: Catherine David)
2000
La Piste d 'Atterrissage, slide show, l 'Atelier,CNP Paris, France (solo)
1997
Instants Urbains, L’oeil du Huit Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
1996
Humanistes au Congo, Centre culturel Français de Brazzaville, Brazzaville, Congo (solo)

Public Collections

Kader Attia Selected Public Collections:

Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE
Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
La Collection Uhoda, Belgium
Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany
Fondation Francès, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création, Paris, France
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Centre – Orléans, France
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Lorraine, France
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire, France
Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charente, France
Géotec Collection, France
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Irene Panagopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece
Jumex Collection, Mexico
Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
MAHTAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Marguliès Collection, Miami, FL
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany
Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Société Générale, Paris, France
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
UniCredit Art Collection, Austria
Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium

Literature

2015
Wallace-Thompson, Anna. “Arab Spring Revisited,” Canvas, November, p. 144-145.
2015
Luke, Ben. “Kader Attia lends gravitas to Art Basel’s Unlimited,” The Art Newspaper, 18 June.
2015
Gregory, Hannah. “Archival Impulse: an interview with Kader Attia,” Apollo, April.
2015
Gat, Orit. “Kader Attia: Show Your Injuries,” ArtReview, January/February 2015.
2014
Al-Abtah, Sawsan. “Algerian artist Kader Attia tackles conflicted identities in his latest exhibition,” Asharq Al-Awsat, 18 July.
2014
Duray, Dan. “Kader Attia joins Lehmann Maupin,” Gallerist, 25 April.
2014
Diawara Manthia. “All the Difference in the World,” Artforum, February, p. 160 – 167.
2013
Cumming, Laura. “Stairway to Heaven and Beyond,” The Observer, 15 December.
2013
Prince, Mark. “Kader Attia: KW- Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin,” Frieze, September- October, p. 141 – 142.
2013
Amado, Miguel. “Kader Attia,” Artforum, 23 August.
2013
Lankarani, Nazanin. “Exploring constructs of identity and repair,” The New York Times, Global Edition, 12 June, p. S3.
2013
Teixeira Pinto, Ana. “No Man’s Land,” Mousse, p. 232 – 239.
2000
Rosen, Miriam. “Centre National de la Photographie,” Artforum, September.

Performances

Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2009:
Eastwards = westwards, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Artistic Design of the ballet “Comedy of Change” by Rambert Dance Company, United Kingdom
Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2010:
The Serpentine Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
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, United Kingdom
The Falmouth Convention, University College Falmouth, Falmouth, United Kingdom
After Post-colonialism: Transnationalism or Essentialism?, panel discussion, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
SITAC VIII, International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory, Mexico DF, Mexico
Clinicas symposium, Mexico DF, Mexico
Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2011:
Suspended Spaces, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Interface, Université La Sorbonne, Paris 1, France
A bras le corps, Unités d’histoire de l’art et des études genre de l’Université de Genève (UNIGE), Haute école d’art et de design genevoise (HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland
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
Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2012:
Matters of Collaborations, Collaboratoire 3, Dakar, Senegal
Modern Monday, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2013:
Suspended spaces - Discover / Uncover Modernism, Paris, France
Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom
Document, fiction et droit, Wiels, Brussels, 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
Kader Attia Selected Lectures in 2014:
Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom
English (US)

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