Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Nadia Kaabi-Linke: Seeing Without Light, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Nadia Kaabi Linke: Squeezed in Infinity, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Nadia Kaabi-Linke (MO_Schaufenster #34), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2021
Реактивний струм / Idle Current (working title), National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2020
A Matter of Resilience, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2019
Ремонт, Izolatsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
2018
Impossible Ordinary, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2017
Versiegelte Zeit / Sealed Time, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
After-Images of Residue, Experimenter, Frieze Art Fair, New York, New York, United States of America
2016
Lost and Found, Experimenter,
Kolkata, India
2015
Walk the Line,
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Fahrenheit 311: Seven Legends of Machismo, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2014
The Future Rewound and the Cabinet of Souls, The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom
In Confinement My Desolate Mind Desires, Experimenter, Art Basel, Hong Kong, China
Meinstein, Alfred-Scholz-Square, Neukoelln, Berlin, Germany
Stranded – Preso por fios, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2013
No One harms Me…, Experimenter, Kolkata, India
2012
Black is the New White, Lawrie Shabibi , Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2010
Tatort/ Crime Scene,
Christian Hosp Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009
Archives des banalités tunisoises, Gallery El Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Sous La Terre, Les Dragons, Frac à Carquefou, Carquefou, France
Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
2023
The Mashrabiya Project, Museum for Art in Wood Old City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
In Its Own Shadow, ARTER Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2022
The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Forming Communities: Berliner Wege, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2021
Une aire de famille,
Musée d’art et d’histoire Paul Éluard, St. Dénis, France
TraumA. 3rd Bruges Triennial, Bruges, Belgium
Ithra Museum, Damman, Saudi Arabia
Fresh Earth, Aicon Gallery, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Under Construction, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Under Construction Part II, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Darat al Funun Re-Opening, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jorda
2020
I Put a Spell On You: On Artist Collaborations, SCAD – Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
The Lighthouse, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Gabes Cinema Fen, Württ. Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Invented History, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
A Bottomless Silence - Moda 2020, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, United States of America (Online Edition)
El Kazma – Gabes Cinema Fen, Gabes, Tunisia (Online Edition)
Unhomed, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
2019
Соло / Solo, Mayakovsky Theater, 48 hours Novosibirsk, Russia
Mare nostrum : identités méditerranéennes, Espace Monte Cristo, Pari, France
Durch Mauern gehen / Walking Through Walls, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Clapping With Stones: Arts and Acts of Resistance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
Gedenkort Stadthaus, Stadthöfe, Hamburg, Germany
Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
MATERIALIZE, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
What Remains Is What the Poets Found, PS 120, Berlin, Germany
Speaking Power to (Post) Truth, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, United States of America
2018
How To See [What Isn't There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Body Ego, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, United States of America
Scripted Reality, 10 Hanover Street, London, United Kingdom
Sahara: What is written will remain, Galleria Delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy
LB01 – Lahore Biennial, Lahore, Pakistan
2017
Witness, Karachi Biennial, Karachi, Pakistan
Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea: Arab Modern and Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, United States of America
2016
(RE) Birth, Art Abu Dhabi Gateway Program, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Borders of Visibility — 25th Slavonian Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia
Social Calligraphies, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Songlines for a New Atlas, Kalmar Museum, Kalmar, Sweden
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States of America
Line and Body: The Minimal Impulse in South Asia and the Middle East", Aicon Gallery, New York, United States of America
But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Magic and Power– Of Magic Carpets and Drones, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
2015
Invisible Manoeuvres – Reserves of Interpretation and Regions of Definition, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
What is Home?, Pump House Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Monsoon Show, ISA Gallery, Mumbai, India
All the World’s a Mosque, Bardo Museum, Carthage, Tunisia
2014
Wir sind alle Berliner: 1884-2014, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Entre nosotros / Between Us, Video Art from the Middle East and North Africa in a Global World, Etopia Center for Art and Technology, Zaragoza, Spain
Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb and the Maghrebi Diaspora, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Philadelphia, United States of America
Sculpture du Sud #4, Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-La-Sorgue, France
Ici l’Afrique/ Here Africa, Art for the World, Chateau de Penthes, Geneva, Switzerland
Arab Contemporary, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Conjunction, Greenhouse, Berlin, Germany
2013
Lieux de Mémoire,
Summarria Lunn Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Women Commentators, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Dysraphic City, Projektraum Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Nouvelles vagues – Looking for video, Claudine Papillon Gallery, Paris, France
Traces, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Abstract Generation: Now in Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
Visual Arts Festival Damascus, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
Conflicted Memory, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Tireless Refrain, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul, South Korea
25 Years of Arab Creativity, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
2012
Kochi-Muziris Bienniale 2012, Kerala, India
Drifting, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
25 ans de créativité arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
201111111s, LEAP-Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance, Berlin, Germany
The Unexpected Guest, Liverpool Biennial 2012, Liverpool, UK
Chkoun Ahna — On the Track of History, Carthage Contemporary, National Museum of Carthage, Tunisia
Languages of Revolution, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Social States: Baptiste Coelho and Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Pump House Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Lines of Control – Partitions as a Productive Space, Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
2011
El arte contemporáneo en el Magreb: dos orillas, Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid, Madrid, Spain
The Future of a Promise, Collateral event during the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Different Abstractions. Green Cardamom Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Drawn from Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, United Kingdom
2010
One Year in Berlin,
Christian Hosp Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Split, Darb 1718 Contemporary, Cairo, Egypt
2009
Aftermath, 25th Alexandria Biennal, Alexandria, Egypt
Drawn from Life – Drawing Form, Green Cardamom Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Provisions for the Future, Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Tunaction, Gallery Itinerance, Paris, France
2008
Urban Traces,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Berlin, Germany
Without Borders: Hispano/Maghreb Artistic Convergences, 30th Pontevedra Art Biennial, Pontevedra, Spain
Art Connexions: Arab Contemporary Artists, Gallery El Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia
Awards
2020
Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2019
AFAC - Film Grant, Beirut, Lebanon
2014
Discoveries Prize, Art Basel Hong Kong
2011
Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2010
First prize "UmbauStadt", Art and Urban Architecture Competition, Berlin, Germany
Al Mawred Al Thaqafy Grant, Cairo, Egypt
2009
Jury Prize at the 25th Alexandria Biennal for Mediterranean Countries, Alexandria, Egypt
2008
Production Grant from Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa de Rossi, Turin, Italy
Collections
Abraaj Group Art Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Art Jameel Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ARTER, Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States of America
Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiler, France
Fondation Villa Datris pour la Sculpture Contemporaine, L’Isle-sur-La-Sorgue, France
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, United States of America
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
The Khalid Shoman Collection, Amman, Jordan
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Ministère de la Culture et de la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine, Tunis, Tunisia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, United States of America
