ADEL ABDESSEMED 1971 born in Constantine, Algeria lives and

ADEL ABDESSEMED
1971 born in Constantine, Algeria
lives and works in Paris, France
Selected Exhibitions
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
Bristow, Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London, England
The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
From Here to Eternity, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Jalousies: complicités avec Jean Nouvel, Musée de Vence, France
Picasso.mania, Grand Palais, Paris
Cultivating Culture, ICASTICA, Arezzo Biennial of Art, Arezzo
Adel Abdessemed, CAC, Malaga
All the World's Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di
Venezia, Venice
Piano Pieces – Klaviere. Klänge. Kunst., Salzburg Museum - Neue Residenz Kunsthalle, Salzburg,
Austria
Soldaten, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Mon Enfant, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israël
Merci, Blondeau & Cie, Geneve
Oiseau, Spatiu Intact, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Made by… Feito por Brasileiros, Cidade Matarazzo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Utopian Days x Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Le livre des AA, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
La Disparition des Lucioles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
Entre-Temps, Musée d'art contemporain de Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Grandeur, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
Ravage Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, Museum Leuven, Belgium
Narcisse, l'image dans l'onde, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France
Lampedusa & Dessins anciens, Saint Honoré Art Consulting, Paris, France
The Desire of Freedom, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
L'âge d'or, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar
Prima Materia, Punta Della Dogana, Venedig
The Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin, Israel
Sous nos yeux (partie 1), La Kunsthalle Mulhouse – Centre d’art contemporain, Mulhouse, France
La vase abominable, David Zwirner, London
Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen
Laboratory of the Future: Together/Apart, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Sous influences. Arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Noah’s Ark, Spatiu Intact Gallery, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Virtuacité à Saint-Gaudens, Collegiate Chruch Saint-Pierre, St. Gaudens, France
Biennale Bénin 2012 – Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen, Centre Kora, Cotonou
ADEL ABDESSEMED Je suis innocent, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2011
2010
2009
2008
Orange: Contemporary Art Event of Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada
Mediations Biennale 2012 National Museum, Poznan, Poland
7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Foreigners Everywhere, Jewish Museum, Vienna
ADEL ABDESSEMED, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France
Sint Jan, Sint-Baafskathedraal, Ghent, Belgium
Forma de Agir, bcubico Galerie, Brazil
Explorers: Works from the Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les
Sables d’Olonne, France
Explosion! The legacy of Jackson Pollock, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
La Triennale 2012, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
neon, who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue ?, La maison rouge, Paris
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
The Power of Doubt, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
In praise of doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice
Artists For Tahiti, Art Auction, Christie’s, New York, USA
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden
Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor, Onsite [at] OCADU, Toronto, Canada
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
Silent Warriors, parasol unit foundation, London
Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
Signs of Life. Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
The Beauty and the Distance, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Wystawa, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
Di Goldene Keyt, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
BAROCK. ART, SCIENCE, FAITH AND TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY AGE, Museo D'Arte
Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Mesure du désordre - Oeuvres du centre national des arts plastiques, Parvis - Centre d´Art
Contemporain, Ibos, France
UNIVERSAL CODE. ART AND COSMOLOGY IN THE INFORMATION AGE, ThePowerPlant, Toronto,
Canada
It Won´t Stop Until We Talk, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Medium Religion, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
RIO, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Le Ali di Dio. Adel Abdessemed, Fondazione Sandrette Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
(cancelled)
Mixed Bathing World, Beppu Contemporary Art Festival, Beppu City, Japan
Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Situation and Practice, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston
Orient For Global Bordelo, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Xeopolíticas Da Animación, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2000
Drawing for Human Park, CNAC Le Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain,
Grenoble, France
Poursuite, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi Venice
52nd Venice Biennale
Silence, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Wherever we go, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
Brighton Photo Biennial
Biarritz Photo Festival
Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
La Criée Rennes
Kunstmuseum Thun
Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
NMAC Foundation, Cadiz
MARTa Herford
apexart, New York
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Tirana Biennale
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Maison de la culture, Amiens
Centre Culturel Francais, Turin
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Villa Arson, Nice
Mamco, Geneva
MACRO, Rome
Fundacion la Caixa, Madrid
50th Venice Biennale
Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana