Exhibitions

2011

Incongruous, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010

Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Adel Abdessemed: Silent Warriors, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (solo) [catalogue forthcoming]

Nomadic Resident: Adel Abdessemed, Onsite [at] OCADU Gallery, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto Canada (solo)

2009

David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA (solo)

Mixed Bathing World, Beppu Contemporary Art Festival, Japan

2008 - 2009

Medium Religion, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Transmission interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

Gods & Goods: Spiritualy and mass confusion, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy

God is Design, Gallery Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Disobedients, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Nederlands

In Geneva No One Can Here You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Service, Geneva, Switzerland

Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Always Begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland

Nuit des Musées, Musée Rodin, Paris, France

Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

L'Argent, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Ile-de-France, Paris, France

The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, NY

Can Art Do More?, Art Focus 5, Jerusalem, Israel

Drawing for Human Park, Magasin, Grenoble, France (solo)

2008

The Need for Uncertainty, Modern Art Oxford, UK (solo)

Gwangju Biennale, Gwanju, South Korea

1st Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece

Provokation ?, Fotogalerie, Wien, Austria

Trans Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Cartoons-Fantasmagories, Madrid, Spain

Power play, Artpace, San Antonio, USA

La sagesse du jardiner, biennale d'art contemporain de Melle, France

L'emprise du lieu, Pommery, Reims, France

Sao Paulo Biennial, in Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Chile

Sudeley Castle, Reconstruction

Rue Montgrand, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France

Silence, listen to the show, Fondazione Sandretto, Turino, Italy

Nuit Blanche, Versailles

An Atlas of events, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Passage du temps, Lille (François Pinault collection)

Her (his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Arts, Athens, Greece

French Kiss, The Moore Space, Miami, USA

Global multitude, Luxembourg 2007

Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

Venice Biennial, Italy

The street is my heart, Libreria Borges Contemporary Art Institute, Canton, China (solo)

Dead or Alive, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (solo)

2007

Poursuite/Redifa, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)

Geopolitics of Animation, Centre Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain

Practice Zero Tolerance, Le Plateau, Paris (solo)

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (solo)

La force de l’art, le Grand Palais, Paris

Sao Paulo Biennial, Brasil

Each from his own side, the same destiny, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Between body and object, MARTA Herford Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Germany

Choosing my religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

Accumulation - Canton Express, the Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China

Witnesses, NMAC Fundacion, Càdiz, Spain

Practice Zero Tolerance, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (solo)

5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzen, China

Transitions, Biarritz

Dak’art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal

Notre Histoire, le Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Taste, Biennale de l'encre, China

Sonambiente Berlin

TINA B., Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague

Beppu Biennial, Japan

Between L'Image révélée, de l'orientalisme &aagrave; l'art contemporain, Tunis

Hot/Cold? Summer Loving, Varsovie, Poland

1st Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries

The Brighton Photo Biennial

Wherever we go, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy

Art France BERLIN, Germany

2006

Conversation, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (solo)

Sonia Rykiel, Paris

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (solo)

Holidays - God is infinity, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (solo)

Gott sehen, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Switzerland

2005

Art Basel Miami

Tirana Biennial, Albania

Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai

Movimento / Movimenti, Baghera, Italy

Shake, OK Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz, Autriche + Villa Arson, Nice, France

Le Citron et le Lait, MAMCO, Genève (solo)

Habibi, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims (solo)

White Spirit, FRAC Lorraine, France

Arte del mediterraneo, MACRO Mattataio, Roma

Dimension folly, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany

IL periplo del mediterraneo, Accademia Liguistica, Genova

Prosismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris

2004

Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

Por total, in collaboration with Sislej Xhafa, La Caixa fundacio, Barcelona

Blood lines and connections, MCA, Denver, USA

Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano, Italy (solo)

2003

Z.O.U., Venice Biennale

Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2002

Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, USA (solo)

Centre National d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivière, France (solo)

Art Chicago

Videotraffic, London, Buenos Aires

Cosi Lontano Cosi Vicino, Baldi Foundation, Pelago, Italy

Puerto Rico biennial

Nos troubles, Centre d'Art de Sète, France

Le Ludique, Musée du Québec, Canada

Yokohama Triennial, Japan

Projectroom Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (solo)

2001

Een lege plek om te blijven, Poeziezomer, Watou, Belgium

Tirana Biennial, Albania

Uniform - Order and Disorder, PS1, New York

Galleria Laura Pecci, Milano, Italy (solo)

Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Juste au corps, de la peau au vêtement, La Criée, Rennes, France

Carnet d'adresses, Musée de Louviers, France

Busan Biennial, Korea

Paris pour escale, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Galerie Michel Rein

2000

Finale di Partita, End Game, Fin de partie, Florence, Italy

Galerie Chez Valentin

1999

Carnet d'adresses, Musée de Louviers, France

Biennial of young artists from Europe and Mediterranea, Roma

1998

Josselyne Naef Art Contemporain, Lyon

1997

Carte Blanche, La Maison, Douai

Negotiation – Today’s Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Wystawa, The Museum of Modern Art Warsaw

Twenty-First Century, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia [catalogue forthcoming]

Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland [catalogue]

Sacred Spaces, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy

Rough Draft/Brouillon, Musée de la danse, Rennes, France

Perpetual Battles, BAIBAKOV art projects, Moscow

Les Mutants, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medici, Rome [catalogue]