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BIOGRAPHY
farah atassi
Born in 1981 in Brussels, Belgium. She lives and works in Paris, France
Education:
1999-05
2003
Ensb-a (Superior National School of Fine Arts), studio od Jean-Michel Alberola, Paris, France
School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of an exchange program with Ensb-a
Solo shows:
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Farah Atassi, galerie Xippas, Paris
Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Belgium (September)
Michel Rein Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (May)
Le Portique, Contemporary Art Center, Le Havre, France (November 28 – January 24)
Le Grand Café, Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Nazaire, France
Xippas art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
Farah Atassi & Stéphanie Cherpin, Edouard Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers, France
Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
Farah Atassi & Elodie Lesourd, Les Eglises, Contemporary Art Center, Chelles, France
La Vitrine, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France
Group shows:
2016
2015
2014-15
2014
Questioning the Shapes, Michel Rein, Brussels (September-October)
Yoknapatawpha, Biennal of Painting 2016, curated by Piet Coessens, Roger Raveel Museum, MachelenZulte, Belgium (June 26-September 25)
Non Figuration – un regain d’intérêt ?, Centre d’art – Meymac, France
Le Palais de Tokyo accueille le Prix Jean-François Prat, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (14-17 avril)
Folklore planétaire, curator : Arnauld Pierre, galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France (Feb. 6-Mar. 5)
A Question of Perspective, curator : Jane Neal, Grimm gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Jan. 22-Mar.
5)
Allures, commissaire: Eric Degoutte, Les Turbulences - Frac centre, Orléans, France (Oct. 9-Feb. 21)
Les narrations de l’absence, Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France (February 10 – May 31)
It Rained Again, with : David Adamo, Farah Atassi, Wojciech Bakowski, Lionel Maunz and Christine
Rebet Bureau, New York, USA (Jan. 11 – Feb. 8)
Avec et sans peinture, works of the collection, MAC/VAL – Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne,
France
Beyond the Grid, Michel Rein Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (February 6 – March 8)
Fruits de la passion: collection from the musée national d'art moderne, Georges Pompidou Center,
Paris, Hyogo Prefecturam Museum of Art, Kobé, Japan (January 18 – March 23)
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2013
2012-13
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
After, with Leonor Antunes, Farah Atassi, David Diao, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Bojan
Šarčević, Franck Scurti, Simon Starling et Lucy Williams. Curator : Marjolaine Lévy, JGM Gallery, Paris,
France
Entre deux, curator : Hélène Audiffren, with Peter Downsbrough, Dan Graham, Alexandra Leykauf,
Gordon Matta-Clark, Tatiana Trouvé, Regional Museum of Contemporary Art Languedoc-Roussillon,
Serignan, France
Farah Atassi, Latifa Echakhch, Claire Fontaine, Raphaël Zarka, artists nominated for the Marcel
Duchamp Prize 2013, Museum of Fine Arts of Libourne, France
Boîte-en-Valise, French Institut
Fruits of Passion – Friends Society of the National Museum of Modern Art – 10 years of the project for
contemporary art, National Museum of Modern Art, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France
L’art contemporain s’invite à Saint Germain, 10th edition of the Parcours Saint-Germain, Paris, France
2000-2011 : Soudain, Déjà, curator : Guillaume Désanges, ensba, Paris, France
Pearls of the North, Palais d'Iéna, Paris, France
Beyond the Crisis, Biennal of Curitiba, curated by : Alfons Hug and Ticio Escobar, Bazil
Look, inaugural exhibition, Xippas art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
There are two sides to every coin, and two sides to your face, curator : Carlos Cardenas, Xippas
Gallery, Paris, France
Si l’espace n’était qu’une dimension intérieure, Abbaye Sanit-André, Meymac, France
Festival, New Festival of the Pompidou Center in the Ermitage, curator : Bernard Blistène, Ermitage
Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Dynasty, ARC/ Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Salon de Montrouge, curator : Stéphane Corréard, La Fabrique, Montrouge, France
Treasures for Theatre, curator : Cécilia Bécanovic La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Insides/Insights, ANNE + Gallery, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Inertie du héros, curator : La Vitrine, Fine Arts Gallery of Cergy, Paris, France
Grants and residences:
2013
2012
2008
Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize
Resident at the ISCP, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Winner of the Jean-François Prat Prize, France
Individual help of the creation, DRAC île de France
Collections:
ENSB-A, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création
FMAC, Fonds municipal d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
MAC/VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry sur Seine, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
MNAM, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Société Générale, Paris-la Défense, France
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