Kader Attia
Kader Attia, Professor of Time-based Media
Contact:
- Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-0
- Mail: kader.attia@hfbk-hamburg.de
Kader Attia (*1970) was born in the Parisian district of Dugny, he was raised in suburban Paris and in Algeria. He graduated from École Supérieure des Artes Appliqués Duperré in 1993 and École Nationale Supéreure des Arts Décoratifs in 1998. His solo exhibitions have been staged in museums and galleries across the world, including Hayward Gallery, London (2019), The Power Plant, Toronto (2018), SMAK: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (2017), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2016), Beirut Art Center (2014) or Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013). He participated in many international art biennials, notably Manifesta 12, Palermo (2018), Sharjah Biennale (2017), 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and documenta 13, Kassel (2012). In 2022 he curated the 12. Berlin Biennale. From 2016 until 2020 he was running La Colonie (together with Zico Selloum), a bar and meeting space intended for exhibition, activism and debate in Paris.