CV - Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde

ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Born in 1977 in Moscow, Zoulikha Bouabdellah grew up in Algiers until the age of 16 before moving to France in 1993 due to the civil
war. From this plural identity, the artist draws the foundation of her work that is built around transgression, humor and subversion. In the
form of installations, videos and photographs, her work questions authoritative representations, be they political, social, moral, religious
and formal. Her work strives to articulate notions of feminism and sexuality at once as political intervention and as an emancipatory
gesture, and the imperialist tensions at play in their aesthetic strategies.
Her work was featured in Experiments in the Arab Avant-garde at the French Cinémathèque (Paris); Africa Remix at the Centre
Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2005), and Paradise Now! Essential Avant-Guarde French Cinema 1890-2008 at the Tate Modern (London,
2008). Recently, Bouabdellah’s work was namely presented at Wiels in Body Talk (Brussels, 2015), Centre Pompidou in its presentation
of its modern collection Modernites Plurielles 1905 – 1970 (Paris, 2014) in The Divine Comedy at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst)
(Frankfurt, 2014), Music Palace, the Power of Music seen by Visual Artists at Boghossian Foundation (Brussels, 2014), The Progress of
Love at The Menil Foundation (Houston, 2012)
She has also exhibited at the Venice Biennial (2007), Aichi Triennial (2010), Bamako Biennial (2003), the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo,
2006), the Brooklyn Museum (New York, 2007), Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (Vienna, 2006), the Museum Kunst Palast
(2004, Düsseldorf), the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (New York, 2009), the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art
(Doha, 2013) and the Moderna Museet (Stockholm, 2012). Zoulikha Bouabdellah is the recipient of several prizes including the Prix
Meurice for Contemporary Art, Paris, France in 2008 with her sculpture The Kiss. She was one of the three winners of the inaugural
Abraaj Capital Prize, Dubai, UAE in 2009 with her installation Walking on the Sky, Pisces and Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (AFAA –
Cape Town, South Africa) in 2005.
She has completed residencies at the Art School Palestine in Ramallah, Amherst College in Massachussetts and in Cape Town, South
Africa.
Her works are held in several public collections including Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah,
UAE; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mathaf, Doha; Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Wien, Autriche.
EDUCATION
2002
2000
M.A. Visual Expression, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts de Cergy, France
Visual Arts, Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts de Cergy, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
L'envers et l'endroit, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France.
Bizarre, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Elle et lui, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco
Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, Living or Dead, Is Purely Coincidental, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai,
UAE
Solo project, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Marrakech Art Fair, Morocco
Mirage, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Set Me Free from my Chains, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE
CMOOA, Rabat, Morocco
Hobb, La B.A.N.K, Paris, France
Silence, Galerie 52’13’’, Berlin, Germany
Bleu, Blanc Rouge and other colours, La B.A.N.K, Paris, France
Mutation, La Lettre volée, Brussels, Belgium
Zoulikha Bouabdellah, IZIKO, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
Body Talk: féminisme, sexualité et corps dans l’œuvre de six artistes africaines, WIELS - Centrum voor Hedendaagse
Kunst, Brussels, Belgium.
Cherchez l'Erreur, The Institute of Islamic Culture, Paris, France
Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb and the Maghrebi Diaspora, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (CFG)
- Haverford College, Haverford, USA
Music Palace, The Power of Music Seen by Visual Artists, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
Sculpture du Sud, Villa Datris, Fondation de la sculpture contemporaine, L'ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, France.
The Divine Comedy, Museum Fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
Modernités plurielles de 1905 à 1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Traits d'union, Paris et l'art contemporain arabe, Villa des Arts, Rabat
Nervous Women, Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium
Khatt and after, Mathaf : Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Cross-Border, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
Horizons Croises, 34th International Cultural Moussem, Festival of Asilah, Morocco
Arrivals and Departures 2012: The Mediterranean, Mole Vanvitelliana, Acona, Italy
Traits d’Union, Paris et l’art contemporain arabe, Villa Emerige, Paris, France; Beirut, Lebanon; Sanaa, Yemen
Le Corps a Decouvert, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2003
2002
Big Brother, l’artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts et du festival, Dinard, France
Disquieting Muses, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Greece
Fluxus - African Contemporary Art, Chiesa Del Santi Carlo E Agata, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Illumination (after Arthur Rimbaud), Curated by Ashok Adiceam, LTMH Gallery, NY, USA
La Nature ne fait Rien sans Objet, La B.A.N.K, Paris, France
Nouba, Aichi Triennial, Japan
Les Mécaniques Amoureuses, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, USA
Coexistencias, 2nd Architecture, Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Spain
The Other Shadow of the City, The Palestinian Art Court-al Hoash, Jerusalem, Palestine
Perspectives: women, art and Islam, co-presented by MoCADA and the Museum for African Art, NYC, USA
The seen and the hidden: (dis)covering the veil, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, USA
Wondering Where the ducks Went..., Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, Italy Rencontres Internationales de la photo,
Fes, Morocco
ArtEast, Video screening, Dansons, Dubai, UAE
ImagesPassages, Dansons, Annecy, France
Turin Triennial, Italy Point Ephémère, Paris, France
The third space: Cultural Identity Today, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Home ?, Galerie des tourelles, Nanterre, France
L’art au féminin, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Algiers, Algeria
Black-Paris, Black-Bruxelles, Ixelles, Belgium
Global Feminisms, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Boston, USA 7th Bamako Biennial, Mali
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 52nd Venice Biennial, African Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Dreamdance, Visual Arts Space, Vénissieux, France
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, NYC, USA
Sexy Souks, Point Ephémère, Paris, France
Paris du monde entier, Artistes étrangers à Paris 1900-2005, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Paris Black, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany SD OBSERVATORIO, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Africa Remix , Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Why Pictures Now?, Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
I love art vidéo, 7th edition, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Strasbourg, France
MAM SCREEN, Dansons screening in Tokyo subway, Tokyo, Japan
L’image révélée, Palais Kheireddine Musée de la ville de Tunis, Tunisia
Occident vist des d’orient, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Africa Remix, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hayward Gallery, London
Beauté. Afrique @ Nantes, Le Lieu unique, Nantes, France ‘Africa Remix’, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Sneeze 80 x 80, Gazonrouge, Athens, Greece VIth African Contemporary Art Biennial Dak’art, Dakar, Senegal
Illusiones, Espacio C., Cantabria, Spain ‘Les Afriques’, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Rites sacrés, rites profanes, Vth Rencontres de la photographie africaine, Bamako, Mali
La plateforme-dispositif mobile d’échange et de recherche euro-méditerranéen en création contemporaine, Algiers,
Algeria
Zineb Sedira, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Espace croisé, Roubaix, France
Une nuit d’Art...ventures, 93 artistes. Orlan invite Les Ex de Paris-Cergy, Paris
Focus pratique de la vidéo en école d’art, La Vitrine, École supérieure nationale d’art de Paris-Cergy, France
L’Europe fantôme. Visions africaines de l’Europe et des Européens, Brussels, Belgium
Obszervatorio#7. Introspective Zoulikha Bouabdellah et Olodélé Bamgboye, European Satellite Camu flage, Brussels,
Belgium
Vth African Contemporary Art Biennial Dak’art, Dakar, Senegal
Obszervatorio#3, recontextualization of Vth African Contemporary Art Biennial Dak’art 2002, Senegal
Camou flage, European Satellite, Brussels, Belgium
L’ami de mon amie. Cergy Connexion, Cergy-Pontoise, France
VIDEO FESTIVALS
2010
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
E-flux video rental, Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy 2008
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890-2008, Tate Modern, London, UK
New Media Screenings, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Carte blanche à Elvan Zabunyan, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Video story, Centre Pompidou’s 30th anniversary, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Live Screen, Saddler’s Well, London, UK
MAM SCREEN, Dansons screening in Tokyo subway, Tokyo, Japan
I love art vidéo, 7th edition, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Strasbourg, France
Playing in the Light: Black Dance Film Tour, Tate Modern, London
23rd festival Tous courts, Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Nuit de la vidéo française, Warsaw-Cracow-Gdansk, Poland
Expérimentations dans les avant-gardes arabes, Cinémathèque française, Paris
Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France Image Contre Nature, Marseille, France Festival Cinéma
Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France
Festival Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France IVe festival des Cinémas différents de Paris, France
IIIe festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, France
AWARDS
2008
2005
Ele Meurice for Contemporary Art Prize, Paris, France
Abraaj Captial Art Prize, Dubai, UAE
Prize for young Algerian creation, Algiers, Algeria
Winner of Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (AFAA), Cape Town, South Africa
COLLECTIONS
Nadour Collection, Germany
Le Meurice Collection, Paris, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
La Fondation Francès, France
Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Wien, Autriche
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola
Deutsche Bank, Germany
Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE