Kader Attia

Kader Attia, born in Dugny (Seine Saint-Denis, FR) in 1970, lives and works in Berlin and Algiers.

"Kader Attia belongs to a special breed of artists, who in another incarnation might have become anthropologists or scholars of culture. As a member of the North African community in Paris, Attia examines the conflicted identity of his uprooted culture vis-à-vis the seductiveness of consumer culture and the Western world of material abundance. His work is rooted in the complex relations between these two cultures, and he executes it in a reflective and critical manner pervaded by dark humor and cynicism." (Tami Katz-Freiman)

Solo exhibitions: 2014 Contre Nature, Beirut Art Center, Beirut. The Theory of Colour, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo/UNAM, Mexico. 5th Marrakech Biennial (MA). The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL).  2013 Continuum of the Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder, Whitechapel Gallery, London. Repair. 5 Acts, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. 2012 Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire: Le Corps Utopique, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. Collages, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin. 2011 Ghost, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp (BE). 2010 Holy Land, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (IT).

Group exhibitions: 2013 The World Turned Inside Out, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL). Rethinking Modernity, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul. Ici, ailleurs, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR). 2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE). Performing Histories, MoMA, New York. Newtopia – The State of Human Rights, Mechelen (BE). Hajj, Journey to the heart of Islam, British Museum, London. 2011 4th Moscow Biennale. The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE). Contested Terrains, Tate Modern, London. 2010 17th Biennale of Sydney.

Publications
Kader Attia. The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures, The Green Box, Berlin 2013.

Kader Attia, "Reappropriation as Resistance", in: Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen (eds.), Critical Spatial Practice, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2012.

Kader Attia: Signs of Reappropriation, exh. cat., Aca Gallery of The Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta 2008.

• Web: www.kaderattia.de