Written by Mysa Kafil-Hussain “We can discuss many things but there are some things that cannot be named, nor described and that is what I am trying to show in my work.” Mounir Fatmi[1] An...
MOUNIR FATMI, Morocco (1970)
Bio
Written by Mysa Kafil-Hussain
“We can discuss many things but there are some things that cannot be named, nor described and that is what I am trying to show in my work.” Mounir Fatmi[1]
An award-winning multimedia artist, Mounir Fatmi is known for his evocative and delicate explorations of contemporary history, modern society and consumerism through the power of discarded media and technology. Born in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1970, Fatmi spent a great deal of time during his childhood at local flea markets with his mother, who was both a housewife and also sold children’s clothing. Fatmi himself sees that environment – full of objects and waste – as his first artistic lesson, seeing the flea market now almost akin to a museum in ruin, influencing much of his later work. [2] He and his family soon moved to Casablanca, and at a very young age he was inspired by his uncle, a house painter, to embark on an artistic path, much to his family’s dismay.[3] Fatmi, without the blessing of his family, decided to pursue his dream to become a painter, and left Morocco for Rome at the age of 17 to study at the Scuola Libera del Nudo (“Free School of the Nude"), part of the Accademia di Belle Arti.
In 1989, Fatmi returned to Morocco and enrolled into the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca for a short time and also spent time back in Tangiers, where he met artist Mohamed Choukri, who introduced him to American novelist Paul Bowles, through whom Fatmi discovered American literature, which became a source of inspiration later in his career. Later, Fatmi was offered a job as a graphic designer at an advertising agency in Casablanca, an experience which enabled him to explore the possibilities of product design.[4] However, he still continued to produce his own art outside of his work. Following six years in his job, he was promoted to Artistic Director, and shortly afterwards left this role to become a full-time artist.[5] In 1999, Fatmi travelled to France for an artist’s residency, and it was during his time there that he began reading the work of a range of contemporary philosophers, which forced him to interrogate his practice and influenced much of his work, also contemplating vast questions of identity and culture, commenting in 2008 that this period enabled him to transform and focus: “out of exile, I created glasses so I could see.”[6] After returning again to Morocco, Fatmi was offered a government scholarship in 2006, which enabled him to study at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Fatmi’s work tackles a range of subjects: from religion and identity, to language and memory, often drifting into confrontations with aspects of consumerist societies and what he considers as “the role of the artist in a society in crisis.”[7] Using machinery, architectural structures and obsolete cables, parts and objects, he explores all of these themes with a raw, stark intensity, creating an occasionally uncomfortable reflection of the world we live in.[8] The objects he finds and utilises form the architecture of his vision, creating fragile landscapes, whilst the objects themselves become reappropriated in a multitude of creative ways – a way for Fatmi to question our commercialist and capitalist identities. Religion, spirituality and its confluence with politics are topics he considers often, and he is especially drawn to conflicting ideas and cultures, examining how different societies diverge and converge.[9] Ultimately, Fatmi is trying to understand the world, and chooses to do that through art.
Growing up in Morocco surrounded by the Arabic language and living within a traditional society, he was acutely aware of the power of the written word. “The only cultural objects in my childhood home were a calligraphic verse of the Qur’an in one frame, and in another, a black and white photograph of the King of Morocco,” explained Fatmi in an interview in 2015.[10] Verses from the Qur’an, and many other phrases and sayings beautifully transcribed in delicate calligraphic forms are prized across the region and it’s no surprise that Fatmi has internalised its aesthetic and spiritual importance throughout his life. One of his main inspirations is Brion Gysin, a British artist, poet and writer who lived and worked in Tangier in the 1950s, and who Fatmi was made aware of by Choukri and Bowles in the early 1990s. Gysin’s approach – called the “cut-up” technique – resonated deeply with Fatmi, specifically finding Gysin’s deconstruction of language particularly powerful.[11] In Fatmi’s two works in the Dalloul Collection – ‘Ceux qui savent et ceux qui ne savent pas’ (2008) and ‘Between the Lines’ (2009) – Fatmi explores both the structural and the spiritual, using script in new and innovative ways. ‘Ceux qui savent et ceux qui ne savent pas’, meaning ‘those who know and those who don't know’ is an intricately assembled large calligraphic composition made from reclaimed antenna cables and ties, with an almost-endless maze-like form, coming together to form sacred words. ‘Between the Lines’ uses three stainless steel saw blades, from afar resembling decorative stamps or seals, with the blades acting as the surfaces for Qur’anic inscriptions, visually manipulated and repurposed, losing much of the words’ original meaning and ultimately functioning as a complex image.[12] He also enjoys the contrast between the intense sharpness, capable of hurting and cutting, and the delicate beauty of the calligraphy and the word of God, claiming that “what I was interested in was how the Quran can be interpreted by different people in both violent and beautiful ways,"[13] truly – as the name of the piece suggests – inviting all to read between the lines. His exploration of language is not only a commentary on religion and materiality, but also a journey into themes of distance, displacement, and a loss of cultural identity, feeling both at home and abroad in his environment: “all these questions speak of exile, of separation, of the impossibility of language, and how difficult the meeting is.”[14]
Fatmi’s work has not been free of controversy, as expected from any artist dissecting religious scripture. In 2012, his works were removed from display in Toulouse, France, when religious groups took issue with his use of Qur’anic verses. Around the same time, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris also censored a video Fatmi created depicting Salman Rushdie.[15] However the artist maintains that controversy isn’t his goal: “when I use the Qur’an in my work, what I’m trying to say is that this isn’t just a religious book, it’s a history book. It’s a book which affects everything.”[16]
Over the last twenty years, Fatmi has exhibited his work internationally, including the 52nd and 54th Venice Biennales as well as countless other biennales and festivals across the world. He has also been short-listed for the Jameel Prize (2013) and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in which his work has been met with both admiration and fascination. Fatmi lives and works between Paris and Tangiers.
[1] Elena Stanciu, “A Struggle with Meaning: The Art of Mounir Fatmi”, PETRIe, N.d., http://www.petrieinventory.com/the-art-of-mounir-fatmi/
[2] Mounir Fatmi: “Statement”, MounirFatmi.com, N.d., http://www.mounirfatmi.com/statement.html
[3] Leaders Afrique: “Mounir Fatmi”, Leaders Afrique, N.d., http://www.leaders-afrique.com/mounir-fatmi/
[4] Brittney, “Fragiliy and the Machine: Morocco’s Mounir Fatmi”, ArtRadarJournal, November 23, 2015, http://artradarjournal.com/2015/11/23/fragility-and-the-machine-moroccos-mounir-fatmi-artist-profile/
[5] Leaders Afrique: “Mounir Fatmi”
[6] Brittney, “Fragiliy and the Machine: Morocco’s Mounir Fatmi”
[7] Mounir Fatmi: “Statement”
[8] Brittney, “Fragiliy and the Machine: Morocco’s Mounir Fatmi”
[9] Ben East, “Mounir Fatmi's art without prejudice”, The National – Arts & Culture, April 30, 2013, https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/mounir-fatmi-s-art-without-prejudice-1.459851
[10] Brittney, “Fragiliy and the Machine: Morocco’s Mounir Fatmi”
[11] Ibid
[12] Stanciu, “A Struggle with Meaning: The Art of Mounir Fatmi”
[13] East, “Mounir Fatmi's art without prejudice”
[14] Mamco: “Mounir Fatmi, Permanent Exiles”, Mamco, 2015, http://www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/F/fatmi.html
[15] East, “Mounir Fatmi's art without prejudice”
[16] Ibid
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East, Ben. “Mounir Fatmi's art without prejudice”. The National – Arts & Culture. April 30, 2013. Accessed February 2021. https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/mounir-fatmi-s-art-without-prejudice-1.459851
Fatmi, Mounir. “Statement”. MounirFatmi.com. N.d.. Accessed February 2021. http://www.mounirfatmi.com/statement.html
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CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Mounir Fatmi: Whispered Stories of Forgotten Wires, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2022
Mounir Fatmi: While the Storm Arrives, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Mounir Fatmi: The Point of No Return, Wilde, Basel, Switzerland
Mounir Fatmi: How Much Is Enough, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint Etienne, St. Etienne, France
2021
Tribute To Beirut: Mounir Fatmi: Propaganda, Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, France
Mounir Fatmi: The Observer Effect, ADN Galería, Barcelona, Spain
Mounir Fatmi: The Age Of Consequences, Officine dell'Immagine, Milan, Italy
Mounir Fatmi: Heavier Than Words, Galerie Conrads, Berlin, Germany
2019
The White Matter, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
A matter of perception, Skanstull Metro Station, Stockholm, Sweden
Keeping Faith - Keeping Drawing, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
The Process, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
180° Behind Me,
Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
The Human Factor, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
This is My Body, Analix Forever , Geneva, Switzerland
Holy Water, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
This is My Body, Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
The Day of the Awakening, CDAN Museum - Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
2017
Peripheral Vision, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Transition State, Officine dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy
Ghosting, Galerie des Multiples, Paris, France
Survival Signs, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, United States of America
(IM)possible Union, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Le Pavillon de l’exil, Galerie Delacroix, Tanger, Morocco
Fragmented Memory, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Under the Skin, Maison des Arts du Grütil, Geneva, Switzerland
Darkening Process, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Inside the Fire Circle, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2016
A Savage Mind,
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Index and the Machine, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Depth of Field, Labanque, Béthune, France
Darkening Process, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts,
El Badii Palace, Marrakech, Morocco
2015
Modern Times,
Miami Beach Urban Studios Gallery, Florida International
University, Miami Beach, Florida, United States of America
Art et Patrimoine: C’est encore la nuit, French Institute of Meknes/Institut
Français de Meknès, Prison Qara, Meknès, Morocco
Permanent Exiles, MAMCO, Genève, Switzerland
Constructing Illusion, Analix Forever, Genève, Switzerland
2014
The Kissing Circles,
Analix Forever, Genève, Switzerland
Walking on the Light, CCC, Tours, France
Light & Fire, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Art of War, ADN Platform, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain
They were blind, they only saw images, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2013
Spot On: Mounir Fatmi,
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
History is not mine, Paradise Row Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Le Voyage de Claude Lévi-Strauss, Institut Français de Casablanca, Morocco
La Ligne Droite, Galerie Fatma Jellal, Casablanca, Morocco
The Blinding Light, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Post Tenebras Lux, Festival A-Part, Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Intersections, Keitelman Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
2012
Oriental Accident, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, United States of America
Suspect Language, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Kissing Circles, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, United States of America
2011
Without Anesthesia, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Megalopolis, AKBank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
Architecture Now!, Espace Culturel Le Chaplin, Mantes La Jolie, France
Linguaggi Constituenti, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena, Italy
Between the Lines, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
The Angel’s Black Leg, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Art Dubai - Solo show (with Galerie Hussenot, Paris/Goodman Gallery, London), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2010
Seeing is believing, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
The Beautiful Language, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Underneath, Kiosque Raspail, Ivy-Sur-Seine, France
Art Dubai - Solo show (with Paradise Row Gallery, London), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2009
Fuck Architects: Chapter III, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
Hard Head, video works, Tank TV, web-based projects, International
Minimalism is Capitalist, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Art Amsterdam - Solo show (with Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Brussels - Solo show (with Conrads Gallery, Dusseldorf), Brussels, Belgium
2008
Fuck Architects: Chapter II, le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’art Contemporain, Thiers, France
Connexion 02, Galerie Delacroix, Tanger, Morocco
Fuck Architects: Chapter III, First Biennale of Brussels, Belgium
2007
Fuck Architects: Chapter I, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, United States of America
J’aime l’Amérique, La Maison Rouge- Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Without History, Musée National Picasso La Guerre et la Paix- Vallauris, Vallauris, France
Sans Histoire, Musée Picasso – La Guerre et la paix, Vallauris, France
Something is Possible, Shoshana Wayne gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America
2006
mounir fatmi, Digital & Video art fair, Miami Beach, United States of America
99 Names of God,
Galerie Saint Severin, Paris, France
Tete Dure / Hard Head, Bank Galerie, Paris, France
2005
Bad Connexion, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Black Screens, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, France
Evolution or Death, Centre Culturel Marcel Pagnol, Fos-sur-Mer, France
Commissariat projet le reste, Tour Eiffel, Bourges, France
2004
Survival Signs, Oeuvres video 1990-2004, Videokiosque 01, Pau, France
He who understands last understands longest, Centre d'art Contemporain le Parvis, Ibos, France
Until the end of dust, Espace des Arts, Colomiers, France
Dieu me pardonne, Bureau d'art et de Recherche, Roubaix, France
2003
Obstacles-next flag, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2002
Ovalproject, CAC le chaplin, Mantes la Jolie, France
1999
Connections and Displacements, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Taken Apart & Put Back Together Again, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Art Front Selection: Summer 2024, Art Front Gallery, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Tradition Interrupted, Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, USA
Cut Paste Create: The Art of Collage, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, USA
Normopathies. Works from the Es Baluard Museu Collection, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2023
Dystopia: Transition from Memory, Art Front Gallery, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Stayin' alive, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
I Don’t Know You Like That: The Bodywork Of Hospitality, UB CFA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Tradition Interrupted, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, USA
10 Years, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2022
African Voices, Officine dell'Immagine, Milan, Italy
Tradition Interrupted, Katonah Museum of Art (KMA), Katona, New York, USA
Tradition Interrupted, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, USA
Galerie de Multiples, GDM…, Paris, France
Flags, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Art Front Selection 2021 Spring, Art Front Gallery, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Under Construction, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Luttes et Utopies: 50 ans d'art engagé, Musée de Millau, Millau, France
Summer Selection：Drawing Nature, Art Front Gallery, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Under Construction Part II, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Memory of Defense: Physical and Mental Architectures, Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Icons, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
I Don’t Know You Like That: The Bodywork Of Hospitality, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska, USA
Art, a serious game, MACAAL, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
Les Orages, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium
30 ans + 30 jours...IS THE NEW PUNK, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Le Grand Tour, H2M, Bourg en Bresse, France
Rêves d’été en monochrome, Wilde Gallery, Geneva,Switzerland
#LMN'ART, Gallery Kent, Tanger, Morocco
Lady Dior As Seen By, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Winter Show, Wilde Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
Weatherproof, NDSM Fuse Wunderkammer, Amsterdam
Lady Dior As Seen As By, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow
Redefining the Trend-Histories in the making, Christie's London, London
I don’t know you like that, Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Tradition Interrupted, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA
In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Memory of Defence: Physical and Mental Architectures, Es Baluard Museu, Palma, Spain
Seeing & Perceiving , The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2020
How to Disappear,
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Our world is burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Pope, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Línies Vermelles - La Censura a la Col·Leció de Tatxo Benet, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
Prête-moi ton Rêve, Musée des cultures contemporaines Adama Toungara d’Abobo, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
RECYCLER / SURCYCLER, Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
The Light House, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
La Colère de Ludd, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
Traces du vivant, Musée des confluences, Lyon, France
Cut Up/Cut Out, Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock, California, United States of America
Colección A²: espacio de confluencias, Sala de la Provincia de la Diputación de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
Rock me Baby, CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Summer Collective Show, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Printemps Paris, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Supper Club, Wilde Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
La sombra de Goya en el arte contemporáneo, La Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain
Paris Weekend Gallery, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Taipei Connections : live-streaming, Ocula, online edition, International
…possibilité d’action, Métavilla, Bordeaux, France
United Artists - 1:54 Marrakech OFF, Hotel Movenpick, Marrakech, Morocco
La sombra de Goya en el arte contemporáneo, Kubo Kutxa, San Sebastián, Spain
La Vague Blanche, Galerie 38, Casablanca, Morocco
Fonction critique 2, Aperto, Montpellier, France
Cut Up/Cut Out, Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, United Kingdom
Touriste!, Espace d'Art Plastique, Mitry-Mory, France
Cut Up/Cut Out, Massilon Museum, Massilon, Ohio, United States of America
Glitch, Margo Veillon Gallery Tahrir Cultural Center, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
2019
Acts of Reading,
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Silent Narratives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China
Nous sommes contemporains, L'ar[T]senal, Centre d'art contemporain, Dreux, France
La sombra de Goya en el arte contemporáneo, Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
Al-Tiba9, MAMA, Algiers, Algeria
Cut Up/Cut Out, Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia; AMoA-Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, United States of America
5994 is just a number, ADN, Barcelona, Spain
Eugenèsia, Centre d'Art Lo Pati, Amposta, Spain
Nuit Blanche, Hôtel de Ville, Vincennes, France
Ekphrasis, Fondation Boghossian - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Messages silencieux, Maison de la Région, Strasbourg, France
Volutes partent en fumée, Phillips, Paris, France
PRESSE (censure), API, Geneva, Switzerland
Precaria, EAC, Montevideo, Uruguay
100 ans de Culture en Hainaut, Ateliers tournisiens de la tapisserie, Tournai, Belgium
Prête-moi ton Rêve, Musée de Civilisations noires de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Collecting in the 21st century, If an accumulation reflects a life, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, United States of America
Une collection d'art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-arts de Carcassonne, Carcassonne, France
Elective Affinities, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Graphein, Centre des arts Ecolint, Geneva, Switzerland
Special Exhibition, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Le Grand Détournement, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Rouge, Couleur de l’engagement, Château La Dominique, Saint-Emilion, France
Metamorphosis, Annex of Athens School of Fine Arts, Hydra, Greece
Sketchpad, Topographie de l'art, Paris, France
Under Construction, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
A-part, Maison du parc des Alpilles, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
Speaking Power To (Post) Truth, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, United States of America
SILENT PEACE, Atelier AMI, Geneva, Switzerland
The Handmade in the Technological Age, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California, United States of America
Les 22èmes Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Rencontres Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France
Tradition Interrupted, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
Une Poétique du multiple, Artothèque de Caen, Caen, France
Art et presse, libres échanges, Chateau de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland
Pas de printemps pour Marnie, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
L’Herbe entre les pavés (et les roses dans les phallus), Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Ici sont les dragons 2/3 : Venez comme vous êtes, Centre d'art contemporain de la Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
Miroir collectif, Musée Bank Al-Maghrib, Rabat, Morocco
The I is Always in the Field of the Other, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara, Turkey
2018
Narrative Means,
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
A Journey to Freedom, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
People Get Ready, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Motherland in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Cut Up/Cut Out, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida; Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, United States of America; Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
Systems of Demarcation, Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
Le Pavillon de l'Exil - Off de la Biennale de Dakar, Institut Français de Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Senegal
Scripted Reality, 10 Hanover Street, London, United Kingdom
Al Musiqa, Philharmonie de Paris - Cité de la musique, Paris, France
Resist!, Bozar Center for fine arts, Brussels, Belgium
MOVING ART, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Extensions de graffitis, Fort Saint-André, Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, France
40 ans de collection et un film documentaire de 60 min, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France
Somewhere Behind the Eyes, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Un œil ouvert sur le monde arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Robert Montgomery & mounir fatmi, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection 100 %, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Basically It's Very Practical, IKOB - International Art Centre East Belgium, Eupen, Belgium
Beyond Borders, Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Second Life, Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco
EXOTIC × MODERN: French Art Deco and inspiration afar, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
BRIC-à-brac | The Jumble of Growth, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Revolution Generations, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
2017
57th Venice Biennale 2017, Tunisian Pavilion: The Absence of Paths, Venice, Italy
57th Venice Biennale 2017, NSK State Pavilion, Venice Italy
The Silences Between, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Diaspora Now!, Gifu Museum, Gifu, Japan
Lettres ouvertes, de la calligraphie au street-art, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
memoire vive, L29 Art Studio, Rome, Italy
VIII Festival du Film Documentaire de Cachoeira, Université Fédérale du
Recôncavo de Bahia, Bahia, Brazil
Cut Up / Cut Out, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Huntsville Museum of Art , Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America
Miroir, Miroir, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Le Monde et le Reste, Galerie Ceysson et Bénétiere, Paris, France
Beautiful Stranger, Museum De Wieger, Deurne, The Netherlands
The Black Sphinx, from Morocco to Madagascar, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
E-mois, Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
In Friction with Fiction, Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Arts Ephémères, Château de Servières, Marseilles, France
INDEPENDENTLY, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
En l’occurrence, Centre Européen d’Action Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
Africa, assume an art position!, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
3 collectionneurs autrement, ETE78, Ixelles, Belgium
Religion: miroir de la société – Une histoire, des regards, Musée du Pays de Hanau, Bouxwiller, France
10 years old, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy
State of the World, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
A Global Stage, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
The Eye of LEBANON, OUROUBA, Beirut, Lebanon
La Nuit Blanche, Institut Français de Cotonou, Cotonou, Benin
Friends & Family (vol2), Galerie Eva Hober, Paris, France
Newwwar. It’s Just a Game?, Bandjoun Station, Bandjoun, Cameroon
Generation Flash, Fondation Alliances, Casablanca, Morocco
Altiba9, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Full Moon, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Saout Africa(s) - SAVVY Funk - Documenta 14, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Poésie Abstraite, MA GALERIE – Samuel Le Paire, Paris, France
Exposición Internacional Al-Tiba9, Arteria Bcn Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2016
BRIC-à-brac The Jumble of Growth, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
D’une méditerranée, l’autre, Hôtel Arts, Toulon, France
The Index and the Machine, ADN Platform, San Cugat del Vallès, Spain
Essentiel Paysage, Musée d’art contemporain africain Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
On the Origins of Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
Exile Pavilion, Achives Nationales Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France
Dada est tatou, Galerie de multiples, Paris, France
Dépenses, First part of the trilogy: La Traversée ds Inquiétudes, Labanque, Béthune,France
Love Stories, Les Potaumnales, Beauveais, France
Nothing but blue skies, retour sur l’image médiatique du 11 septembre, Arles 2016 – Les Renconctrés de la photographie, Arles, France
Dark Chapters, Rotor, Graz, Austria
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Awashima Community Area, Japan
Let’s dance, corps en mouvements, Festival a-part 2016, Les Alpilles, France
error: x, OSTRALE’016, Dresden, Germany
L’art de la tolerance, Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat, Morocco
New Revolutions, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Les Murmures de la Galerie 121, La Galerie 121 – Institut Français de Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
En garde, l’art s’engage!, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement – De leur temps (5),
Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Le Sens de la Peine, La Terrasse, Nanterre, France
Merchant of Dreams, Brandts & Viborg Kunsthal, Odense & Viborg, Denmark
Expérience sonore, Musée d'Art Moderne de Troyes, Troyes, France
198920072016, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
Le sein dessin, Galerie Vivo Equidem, Paris, France
Lady Dior As Seen By, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Footing the Bill : Art and our ecological footprint, part II,
Artworksforchange.org, International
3AJEL, Le Temps Réel, Talan, Tunis, Tunisia
25eme edition de L'art dans les chapelles, et la Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Utopies, Espoirs, Colères, L'Été Photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure, France
Al-tiba9, Bardo National Museum, Algiers, Algeria
Urban Touch, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover, Germany
All I Want For Christmas Is..., Galerie de multiples, Paris, France
Cut up/cut out, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
L’œil du collectionneur – Focus 1, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
2015
Les Fragments de l’Amour, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, France
I Love You, Fondazione VIDEOINSIGHT, Turin, Italy
The Migrant (Moving) Image, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Unprotected Zone, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Global Control and Censorship, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Le Monde Selon…, Frac Franche Comté, Besançon, France
Telling Time, 10èmes Rencontres de Bamako, Biennale Panafricaine de Photographie, Bamako, Mali
Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
A Republic of Art – French Regional Collections of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Who Said That Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist?, 1st TRIO Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Je Me Souviens du Génocide Arménien, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, France
Tolerance, The 2nd International Bodrum Biennial, Bodrum, Turkey
Jameel Prize 3, Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah, UAE; The National Library, Singapore
Diverse Works: Director’s Choice, 1997-2015, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Traces of the Future, MMP+, The Marrakech Museum of Photography and
Visual Arts, Marrakech, Morocco
Detrás del Muro II, La Havana Biennial – Collateral Project, el Malecón, Havana, Cuba
HIWAR - inaugural exhibition, AMOCA, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art, Sakhnin, Occupied Palestine
Passages, parages; visages, paysages, Musée Bank Al-Maghrib, Rabat, Morocco
FOMO, Fear Of Missing Out - Sextant &+, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
A l'ombre d'Eros, une histoire d'amour et de mort, Monastère Royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Elogio de la fatiga, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain
Corps recomposés. Greffe et art contemporain, Le Scriptorial d'Avranches, Avranches, France
All the World's a mosque, Théâtre de Carthage - Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia
Test Exposure, 16th International Media Art Biennial WRO, Wroclaw, Poland
You love me, you love me not, contemporary art of the collection Sindika Dokolo, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Africa and its shadow, Marta Massaioli Arte Contemporanea, Fabriano, Italy
Art in Exile, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Measuring the unmeasurable, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Direction Artistique, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Endless, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Other People's Memories, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Fotofest 2014: Views from the inside, ADMAF, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Summertime... and the living is easy, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Who said tomorrow doesn't exist?, 1st Trio Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Seins à Dessein, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
Je me souviens, La Traverse - centre d'art contemporain d'Alfortville, Alfortville, France
Tolerance, The 2nd International Bodrum Biennial, Bodrum, Turkey
Street Culture, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts de Châteauroux, Châteauroux, France
Art et Prison - We only exist when we create, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Memory & Oblivion, Station, Beirut, Lebanon
En-Quête, Ghaya Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
La Fabrique de l'homme moderne, en résonance avec la Biennale de Lyon, La Fabric, espace d'art contemporain, Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France
Claire & Obscure, Galerie d'Art Frontières, Lille, France
100%, Galerie des Multiples, Paris
Handle with Care, Ostrale '15, Dresden, Germany
Face 2 Face, Festival A-Part, Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Le Point de Fuite de l'Histoire, Festival Photographique de Lectoure, Lectoure, France
Edge of Silence, The Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2014
Entre Nosotros (Between Us), CAyT Centro de Arte y Technologia, Zaragoza, Spain
The Sublime: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Qagoma, Brisbane, Australia
Helvetica Zebra, Station, Beirut, Lebanon
1914-2014, MMVI Musée Mohammed VI, Rabat, Morocco
Le Maroc Contemporain, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb and the Maghrebi
Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb and the Maghrebi Diaspora, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Philadelphia, United States of America
Colonia Apocrifa, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain
The Disappearance of Fireflies, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France
Pourquoi écrire?, Galerie Sobering, Paris, France
Arab Contemporary – architecture, culture, identity, Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Humblaek, Denmark
Cinematheque19, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, United States of America
Nass-Belgica – L’immigration marocaine en Belgique, Centre Culturel Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Between two stools, one book, Fondation Boghossin-Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgium
Choices – Works on Paper, CONRADS, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Pink Spy, MUHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
View from Inside, Fotofest 2014 Biennial, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Surfacing, Goodman Gallery, Capetown, South Africa
Contemporary Africa, as seen through the eyes of its artists, Chateau de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland
La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Saint-Anne, Avignon, France
Sculptures du Sud, Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-La Sorgue, France
Giving Contours to Shadows, N.B.K., Berlin, Germany
The Sea is my land, Milan Triennial, Milan, Italy
Ne pas se séparer du monde, 5éme Orient’art Express, Oujda, Morocco
Blue Movie, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris. France
Liberté mon amour, Fête de l'Humanité, Paris, France
The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
A Moment Forever, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Les Désastres de la Guerre, Festival A-Part, Les Baux-de-Provence, France
La Route Bleue, Musée National Adrien Dubouch, Limoges, France
Complices y Testigos, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
The Kennedy Bunker, REH-transformer, Berlin, Germany
IMPACT, Art Gallery of Western Austrialia, Perth, Australia
African Way, Chapelle de la Visitation - Espace d'art contemporain, Thonon-les-Bains, France
Des Choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Jameel Prize 3, Hermitage-Kazan Museum, Kazan, Tatarstan; New Manege, Moscow, Russia
Songs of Love and Songs of Loss, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2013
Jameel Prize 3, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
Body and Soul: New International Ceramics, Museum of Art and Design, New York, United States of America
La Route Bleue, Fondation Boghossian-Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Pièces montrées: La collection impossible, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, France
The Bridge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
If you were to live here…, The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Ici, Ailleurs, Marseille 2013 European Cultural Capital, Marseille, France
The Sea is my land, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Exercises on Democracy, White House Biennial, Athens, Greece
Transit, Pavilhao da Oca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Khat and After, Katara Cultural village, Doha, Qatar
21st century Silk Highway, Yallay Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Symbiose de deux mondes, Written Art Foundation - Palais Namaskar, Marrakech. Morocco
Au-delà de mes rêves, H2M - Résonance de la Biennale de Lyon, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
50 ans d'arts videos internationaux, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
(One) Hope Map, Centre Culturel de Bruges, Bruges, Belgium
Cogitum, Palais des Evêques, Saint-Lizier, France
Sculpture on the beach, Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
L'art dans les chapelles, Chapelle de la Trinité, Cléguerec, France
To be continued, Le Quartier - Centre d'art contemporain, Quimper, France
3 x 3 - L'écriture, trialogue entre les trois religions, Citykirche Alter Markt, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Ennemi Public, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Pictorial Field, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Lady Dior as seen by, Pier 4 - Central, Hong Kong, China
Skate Moss, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
10 is more than a number, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
25 years of Arab Creativity, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; National Museum of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain
2012
Re-Orientation,
2nde Biennale of the Mediterranean, Sakhnin, Occupied Palestine
Mutation, Burn Baby Burn, Dak’art: 10th Dakar Biennial, Dakar, Senegal
25 years of Arab Creativity, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Unrest, Apexart, New York, United States of America
Home WHERE?, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, United States of America
Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine
#Cometogether, Edge of Arabia, London, United Kingdom
Narracje 4, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland
Systems and patterns, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contested Territories, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island, New York, United States of America
Untold Stories, Johan Deumens Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Le Christ dans l'art, Gingko'art, Paris, France
La Plasticité du Langage, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
Horizons Croisés, 34e Moussem Culturel International d'Assilah, Assilah, Morocco
Replicants, Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
Détournements, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Drawings, Paradise Row Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Advance/...Notice, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Noir Clair, Galerie Quang-Analix Forever, Paris, France
Seules les pierres sont innocentes, Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
Le Depays, 4th Marrakech Bienniale, Marrakech, Morocco
Le Monde comme il bouge, La Brasserie, Foncquevillers, France
Lady Dior as seen by, Wako Namiki, Tokyo, Japan
Intranquillités, B.P.S.22, espace de création contemporaine de la province du Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
In Other Words, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
L'histoire est à moi!, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Transit, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
2011
The Future of A Promise, 54th Venice Biennial,Venice, Italy
Told, Untold, Retold, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Miragen, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Concrete Islands, Analix Forever in Paris, Paris, France
La Ville et leurs imaginaires, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Images affranchies, Ancienne agence de la Banque du Maroc, Marrakech, Morocco
Fluxus-African Contemporary Art, Chiesa dei Santi Carlo e Agata, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Pax, Fondation Frances, Senlis, France
Meeting Point 6 - Locus Agonistes - Practices and Logics of the civic, Beirut art Center, Beirut, Lebanon; Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
The Great Babylon Circus, Mu, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
West end?, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Occupied Palesine
Islam & the City, Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris, France
Collector, Lille3000, Lille, France
Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin
Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland
Inspiration Dior, Musée des Beaux Arts Pouchkine, Moscow, Russia
Maghreb: Dos Orillas, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Working for change - projet pour le pavillon marocain - 54e Biennale de Venise, Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco
The Pavement and the Beach, Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom
After the Rage, Beton7, Athens, Greece
Frontières, rencontres de Bamako, Fondation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
The Last exhibition at Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Between Now and Then, OMR Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
Unfolding Tales, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States of America
2010
11th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
Résonance: artistes marocains du monde, Fondation Omar Benjelloun Musée privé de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
Silence _ Storm, Institut Français d'Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Shadow Dance, KAdE, Kunsthaal in Amersfoort, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Dé/Ré-way to Basel, Artmedia, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Circuit céramique aux Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Res Publica, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Yesterday will be better, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
The Spacemakers, The Delfina Foundation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Unexpected, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
In context, Arts on main, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dak'Art 10: Dakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
As the land expands, the world gets closer, Al Riwaq Gallery, Bahrain
Frontières, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Centre culturel franco-mozambicain, Maputo, Mozambique
Frontières - 4e rencontres photographiques de Fès, Institut Culturel Français, Fez, Morocco
Frontière - 8e rencontres photographiques de Bamako, La Centrale électrique, Brussels, Belgium
One Shot! Football et art contemporain, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, Belgium
Biennale Cuvée, Weltauswah der Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, Israel
The Storyteller, iCI travelling exhibition- The New School, New York, United States of America; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
FIAC Tuileries 2010, Paris, France
Living Together, Observatori 11, Valencia, Spain
Born in Dystopia, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
The Exquisite Corpse Project, Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York, United States of America
Capturando rayos del sol Norteafricano, Centro Parraga of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
THE STATE, Traffic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CAVE, Contemporary Arab Video Encounter, Maraya art center, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Breaking News, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modène, France
Miragens, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009
10th Biennale of Lyon, The Spectacle of the Everyday, Lyon, France
The Storyteller, iCI travelling exhibition- Salina Art Museum, Kansas, United States of America
Art TLV 09, Tel Aviv, Israel
8e rencontres photographiques de Bamako - African Biennial of Photography 2009, Bamako, Mali
America, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Fonction Critique, Aperto, Montpellier, France
Il faut être absolument moderne, Luleci Hendek cad., Istanbul, Turkey.
Alter EST, Les Lieux: Espace Le Carre et le Jardin des Modes, Lille, France.
Traversées, Museum Bab Rouah, Museum Bab Elkebir, Rabat, Morocco; Darb 17 18, Egyptian Contemporary Art and Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt
Cul-de-Sac, Isola di San Pietro, Venice, Italy
Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Another Border: Who are the others?, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; LACMA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Looking Inside Out, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway
After Architecture: Tipologies de Després, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
TransArabe in Casa Arabe, Casa Arabe, Madrid. Spain
Collective Memories in three chapters, Galerie Antje Wachs, Berlin, Germany
Things Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery, New York, United States of America
Balla Drama, Paradise Row, London, United Kingdom
Planète Cerveau, Musée Denys Puech, Rodez, France
2008
Farewell to Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennale, China
Flow, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890-2008, Tate Modern, London, UK
Looking Forward to Hearing From You, Musee Gounaropoulos, Athens, Greece
Open Sky, Spaces beyond their Practices, Kunstverein Medienturm, Ilz, Austria
The Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo del Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Traces du Sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Visionary Tales of a Balanced Earth, The TePapa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Biennal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain
Traversia, CAAM, Canary Islands
Sedition, White Box, New York, United States of America
Peur et Désir, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Attempt to exhaust an African place, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Analix-Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Traversées, Art Paris, Paris, France
Videozoom - Sala 1, Centro Internazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2007
52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sharjah Biennial 8: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change,
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
1st Triennial of Luanda, Luanda, Angola
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
24th Biennial - international art exhibition, Nadezda Petrovic Memorial, Cacak, Serbia
Seven Installations, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, United States of America
(Im)postures, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Frontier(s), Musée d’art et d’histoire, Saint-Brieuc, France
Fiac cinéma, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006
2nd Biennial of Séville: The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Séville, Spain
7th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Image Révélée, Musée de la ville de Tunis, Tunisian Republic
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Moderna Musse, Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Alternative Currents, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux & Le Parvis Center Musée d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
Absolumental, Les Abattoirs, Musee D’art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
Explorations in film & vidéo, The Photographers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Spiritus - Nuit blanche, Eglise Saint Séverin, Paris, France
Shard history/Decolonising the image, Espace Arti et w139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Black panther party for self defense, Bank Galerie, Paris, France
2005
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Tourist Class, Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Marokko: kunst & design, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Mediterranean encounters, Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy
Uit de landen van ondergaande zon, Arti e amicitae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Image statement position, Photocairo, Cairo, Egypt
Cohabitation forcée, Centre d'art contemporain ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
2004
5th Gwangju Biennial: A drop of water, a grain of dust, Gwangju, South Korea
Nearer the Near East, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Les camoufleurs, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Lüneburg, Germany
Biennale d'art contemporain de Bourges, Bourges, France
Inventaire contemporain II, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Apagado/Encendido, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
Foucault cinéma, image mémoire, image pouvoir, Cinémathèque française, Paris, France
Les afriques - Lille 2004 capitale européenne de la culture, Tri postal, Lille, France
2003
Sur le front, géographie de la peinture contemporaine, Le triage, Nanterre, France
8th Havana Biennial, In/Tangibles Cartographies, Havana, Cuba
Nuevo video arabe, Caixa forum, Barcelona, Spain
Avant-garde Cinema, General Counterculture, Cinémathèque Francaise, Paris, France
Art vidéo, Art interactif, Musée de la fondation O.N.A., Casablanca, Morocco
Les résidents, l'ailleurs, l'image et la mobilité, La Plateforme, Algiers, Algeria
Journées méditerranéennes d'arts plastiques, Sousse, Tunisia
Videoarcheology, The red house - Center for culture and debate, Sofia, Bulgaria
Espacios mestizos, 2ème international contemporary art meeting, Osorio, Canary Islands
2002
Videorient,
Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
Images and power, Espacio C, Camargo, Spain
Observatorio #2, Espace Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
Latitude Villette Maghreb, Grande halle de la Villette, Paris, France
Pacific cinémathèque, Vancouver, Canada
Tv or not Tv, 8ème Celebration of expérimental media arts, Los Angeles, United States of America
2001
9th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
Video- I see, The Creation of Video, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Radio de accion, Centro atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
Videomarea, Palazzo Borsa Valori, Genoa, Italy
Mutation plastique marocaine, Le passage de l’art, Marseille, France
In/tangible cartographies, World wide vidéo festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000
4th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Film Screening, UC Berkeley & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, United States of America
Biennale of Art, Video and TV, Bologna, Italy
Auditorium, MAMAC, Nice, France
10 familles, 10 artistes +si affinité, FIAC Paris, Paris, France
Society for cinema studies, Chicago, United States of America
L’objet désorienté, Ateliers d’artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marseille, France
Blue stage, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
UC Berkeley & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, United States of America
1999
Disoriented Object, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
7th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
Nomadic Visions, FRAC Franche-Comte, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dole, France
Artistes Marocain, ARIAP - Atelier/Galerie, Lille, France
Un automne marocain, Arteppes - Espace d’Art Contemporain, Annecy, France
L’objet désorienté, Villa des Arts & Galerie 121, Casablanca, Morocco
Un été marocain, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Castres, France
Paris-Casa, suites marocaines, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
Collections
AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Articulate Contemporary Art Fund, London, United Kingdom
Bank Al-Maghrib, Casablanca, Morocco
Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, France
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States of America
Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
De Nederlandsche Bank N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Farjam Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
FDAC L'Essonne & Château de Chamarande, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création, Paris, France
Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain d'Alsace, Sélestat, France
Foundation Frances, Senlis, France
Hessel Foundation for the Bard Museum, New York, United States of America
Jameel Foundation; King Abdulaziz Centre, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia
Koč Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey
MAMC Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Miniature Museum Ria and Lex Daniels, The Hague, The Netherlands
MMP+, The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts, Marrakech, Morocco
MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum of the ONA Foundation, Casablanca, Morocco
Nadour, Krefeld
National Museum of Mali, Bamako, Mali
Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
Queensland Art Gallery of Australia, Brisbane Australia
Ramzi & Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Rijksakademie Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rosenblum & Friends, Paris, France
Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Tiroche DeLeon Collection; Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
Wafabank Foundation, Casablanca
Written Art Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
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