Kader Attia
1970 (Dugny)
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Kader Attia is a witness of his time and sees in art a means of expression and reflection on the questions that are dear to him, such as the difficulty to live between Western and Eastern cultures, Islam as a community withdrawal, or the complex relationship between the dominant culture, that of consumption, and the refractory identity of emerging countries. Its primary purpose is to question the spectator about current society and its identity drifts.
I try to trigger a political feeling in the spectator. My work is like all of us face reality. What interests me is when a work poses a political question not only from a linguistic, formal, but more from an ethical point of view.”
The evolution of his work tends towards a greater part of poetry, he flees from the brutality that generally takes political works. If his first testimonies are direct (photographs), his works will evolve towards installation through the creation of the Hallal brand.
“I am now trying to escape the perhaps too loud, too noisy character that is found in political art in general and in my work going back a few years.”
Kader Attia has a special relationship with architecture and is very interested in the work of Michel Foucault and Le Corbusier, as the work attests: Building, deconstructing, rebuilding: The utopian Body.
The work of Kader Attia can be described as a symbolic exploration of the traumas and fears of his own childhood. Claiming the plurality of its cultural affiliations (popular and cultivated culture, city culture, childhood culture, etc.).
Living in : Paris
Working in : Paris
Artist's webSite
Artist's gallery
Kader Attia is a witness of his time and sees in art a means of expression and reflection on the questions that are dear to him, such as the difficulty to live between Western and Eastern cultures, Islam as a community withdrawal, or the complex relationship between the dominant culture, that of consumption, and the refractory identity of emerging countries. Its primary purpose is to question the spectator about current society and its identity drifts.
I try to trigger a political feeling in the spectator. My work is like all of us face reality. What interests me is when a work poses a political question not only from a linguistic, formal, but more from an ethical point of view.”
The evolution of his work tends towards a greater part of poetry, he flees from the brutality that generally takes political works. If his first testimonies are direct (photographs), his works will evolve towards installation through the creation of the Hallal brand.
“I am now trying to escape the perhaps too loud, too noisy character that is found in political art in general and in my work going back a few years.”
Kader Attia has a special relationship with architecture and is very interested in the work of Michel Foucault and Le Corbusier, as the work attests: Building, deconstructing, rebuilding: The utopian Body.
The work of Kader Attia can be described as a symbolic exploration of the traumas and fears of his own childhood. Claiming the plurality of its cultural affiliations (popular and cultivated culture, city culture, childhood culture, etc.).
Artist's articles
Artist's exhibitions
Kader Attia - Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton
14/04/2018 - 16/09/2018
(Vitry-sur-Seine) MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
14/04/2018 - 16/09/2018
(Vitry-sur-Seine) MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
L’Un et l’Autre. Un projet de Kader Attia & Jean-Jacques Lebel
16/02/2018 - 13/05/2018
(Paris) Palais de Tokyo
16/02/2018 - 13/05/2018
(Paris) Palais de Tokyo
La Collection Barjeel. 100 chefs d'oeuvre de l'art moderne et contemporain arabe
28/02/2017 - 02/07/2017
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
28/02/2017 - 02/07/2017
(Paris) Institut du monde arabe
6e Biennale de Marrakech - Quoi de neuf là ?
24/02/2016 - 08/05/2016
(Marrakech) Palais Badii
24/02/2016 - 08/05/2016
(Marrakech) Palais Badii
« As I run and run, happiness comes closer » Morceaux choisis de la collection de Laurent Dumas
08/10/2014 - 20/12/2014
(Paris) Hôtel Beaubrun
08/10/2014 - 20/12/2014
(Paris) Hôtel Beaubrun
À Feu et à Sang
13/09/2014 - 23/11/2014
(Montbéliard) Le 19, Centre régional d'art contemporain
13/09/2014 - 23/11/2014
(Montbéliard) Le 19, Centre régional d'art contemporain
La disparition des lucioles - Collection Lambert en Avignon
18/05/2014 - 25/11/2014
(Avignon) Prison Sainte-Anne
18/05/2014 - 25/11/2014
(Avignon) Prison Sainte-Anne
Altérité - Je est un autre
05/06/2013 - 15/09/2013
(Paris) Espace culturel Louis Vuitton
05/06/2013 - 15/09/2013
(Paris) Espace culturel Louis Vuitton
Ici, Ailleurs
12/01/2013 - 31/03/2013
(Marseille) Friche la Belle de mai
12/01/2013 - 31/03/2013
(Marseille) Friche la Belle de mai
Mirages d'orient, grenades et figues de barbarie - Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée
08/12/2012 - 28/04/2013
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
08/12/2012 - 28/04/2013
(Avignon) Collection Lambert
Kader Attia – Construire, déconstruire, reconstruire : le corps utopique
25/05/2012 - 19/08/2012
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
25/05/2012 - 19/08/2012
(Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Vivement demain
05/02/2012 - 10/03/2012
(Vitry-sur-Seine) MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
05/02/2012 - 10/03/2012
(Vitry-sur-Seine) MAC VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
De leur temps (3), 10 ans de création en France : le Prix Marcel Duchamp
06/11/2010 - 13/02/2011
(Strasbourg) Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg
06/11/2010 - 13/02/2011
(Strasbourg) Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg
Tenir, debout
05/11/2010 - 06/03/2011
(Valenciennes) Musée des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes
05/11/2010 - 06/03/2011
(Valenciennes) Musée des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes
La Route de la Soie
20/10/2010 - 16/01/2011
(Lille) Tripostal
20/10/2010 - 16/01/2011
(Lille) Tripostal
Les grands espaces. L’expérience du grand format dans la photographie contemporaine
09/10/2010 - 10/01/2011
(Lille) Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
09/10/2010 - 10/01/2011
(Lille) Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
DREAMLANDS
05/05/2010 - 09/08/2010
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
05/05/2010 - 09/08/2010
(Paris) Centre Pompidou
8e Rencontres de Bamako : Biennale africaine de la photographie - « Frontières »
07/11/2009 - 07/12/2009
(Bamako) Maison Africaine de la Photographie
07/11/2009 - 07/12/2009
(Bamako) Maison Africaine de la Photographie
Traversées
16/05/2009 - 16/06/2009
(Rabat) Galeries Bab Rouah et Bab El Kébir
16/05/2009 - 16/06/2009
(Rabat) Galeries Bab Rouah et Bab El Kébir
Kader Attia, le corps, la pensée, l’hybride
04/04/2009 - 31/10/2009
(Tours) Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré
04/04/2009 - 31/10/2009
(Tours) Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré