Education
1989 School of Fine Arts, Casablanca, Morocco
1991 School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the
viewer from their preconceptions of politics and religion, and allows them to
contemplate these and other subjects in new ways. His videos, installations,
drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires.
They directly address the current events of our world, and serve to both
clarify the origins and symptoms of global issues, as well as speak to those
whose lives are affected by specific events.
mounir fatmi’s work has been exhibited in the Migros Museum für Gegenwarskunst,
Zürich, Switzerland, the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo Japan. He
also recently participated in the Gwangju Biennial, Korea, and the 2nd Seville
Biennial, Spain. In 2006 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the 7th Dakar
Biennial, and his work will be included in the 2007 1st Luanda Triennial in
Angola, 8th biennial of Sharjah and the 52nd biennial of Venice.
In 2008, he is part of the program Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema 1890-2008 at the Tate Modern in London. He participates in the exhibition Flow, at the Studio Museum Harlem, in New York and at the exhibition Traces du Sacré, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris.
2006
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Damon Center and Saw Gallery, Gatineau/Ottawa, Canada
2004
Drac Centre / Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France
CRRAV, Bourse du Fonds Régional D'aide à la Création, Tourcoing, France
2001
Drac île de France, centre culturel le chaplin, Mantes la Jolie, FranceFriche André Malraux, Collectif 12, Mantes la Jolie, France
2000
Ateliers d'artistes, Marseille, France
1997
Drac Nord Pas de Calais / MAJT, Lille, France
2006
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DCO/IC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Van den Bergh van Heemstede stichting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Bourse de l'AFAA, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
2006
Grand Prix Leopold Sedar, Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Stichting kunstprijs Willem F.C. Uriôt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
Special mention, International festival of new film, Split, Croatia
Special price of the Jury ex-æquo, Festival vidéo d'Estavar-Llivia, Estavar, France
1st prize Video-creation, Canarias International Mediafest, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
1994
First Prize, Second Annnual Festival of Arab Video, Casablanca
1993
First Prize, Biennial of Young Painters Fondation Wafabank, Casablanca
2009
Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf-Berlin
2008
Connexion 02, galerie Delacroix, Tangier, Morocco
Fuck Architects: chapter II, le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
2007
Fuck Architects: chapter I, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Something is possible, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
I like America, La Maison Rouge- Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
In search of paradise, Ferdinand van Dieten Gallery, Amsterdam
Without History, Musée National Picasso La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France
2006
tête dure / hard head, Galerie la B.A.N.K., Paris, France
99 names of god, Galerie Saint Severin, Paris, France
mounir fatmi, digital & video art fair, Miami beach, Miami
2005
Bad Connection, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Black screens, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, France
2004
Survival Signs, Video Works, 1990-2004, Videokiosque 01, Pau, France
He who Laughs last laughs longest, Centre d'art contemporain le Parvis, Ibos, France
Until the End of Dust, Espace des Arts, Colomiers, France
2003
Obstacles-next flag, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
1999
Connections and Displacements, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
2008
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema 1890-2008, Tate Modern, London
Attempt to exhaust an African Place, Santa Monica Art Center, Spain
The Armory Show, Lombard-Freid Project, New York,
Traversées, ArtParis, Paris,
Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Gates of Mediterranean, Palazzo del Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Traces du sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Traces du sacré, Haus der Kunst, Münich
Cadavre exquis, Analix-Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Moving towards a Balanced Earth: kick the carbon habit, The Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Biennale de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain,
Second Life: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Traversia, CAAM, Canary Islands
2007
52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sharjah Biennial 8: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, U.A.E
1st Triennial of Luanda, Luanda, Angola
24th biennial Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Serbia and Balkan
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, USA
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Los Angeles art fair in New York,Stand Shoshana Wayne Gallery, New York
Art Chicago, Stand Shoshana Wayne Gallery,Chicago
2006
2nd Biennial of Séville: The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Séville, Spain
7th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Image Révélée, Musée de la ville de Tunis, Tunisian Republic
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Moderna Musse, Stockholm, Sweden
Self Defense, with the Black Panther Party, Galerie la B.A.N.K., Paris, France
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Alternative Currents, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux & Le Parvis Center d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
Foire d’art contemporain, fiac, stand Bank galerie, Paris
Los Angeles art fair in New York,Stand Shoshana Wayne Gallery, New York
2005
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Tourist Class, Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Marokko: kunst & design, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mediterranean Encounters, Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy
2004
5th Gwangju Biennial: A Drop of Water, a Grain of Dust, Gwangju, South Korea
Nearer the Near East, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Les Camoufleurs, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Lüneburg, Germany
Biennial of Contemporary Art of Bourges, Bourges, France
Inventaire Contemporain II, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Art Frankfurt, curator's choice, Frankfort
2003
On the Front: Geography of Contemporary Painting, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
8th Havana Biennial, In/Tangibles Cartographies, Havana, Cuba
New Arab Video, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
Avant-garde Cinema, General Counterculture, Cinémathèque Francaise, Paris, France
Video Art, Interactive Art, Musée de la fondation O.N.A., Casablanca, Morocco
2002
Videorient, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
Images and Power, Espacio C, Camargo, Spain
Observatorio #2, Espace Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium
2001
9th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
Video- I See, The Creation of Video, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2000
4th Dakar Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
Film Screening, UC Berkeley & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco
Biennale of Art, Video and TV, Bologna, Italy
1999
Disoriented Object, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
7th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland
Nomadic Visions, FRAC Franche-Comté - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
Artist Publications
2007
Mounir Fatmi: Until the End of Dust, Espace des Arts, Colomiers, France
2006
Toussaint, Evelyne, Odile Biec, Nicole Brenez. Mounir Fatmi, Un,
Deux...Quatre Editions, 2005.
Goudard, Bernadette Clot. Écrans Noirs; Revue Semaine, Arles
2002
Cohen Hadria, Michèle, Frédéric Bouglé. Ovalproject; Centre Cultural
le Chaplin, Mantes la Jolie
1996
Chevallier, Bénédicte. á L’Origine; Goethe Institute, Rabat
Selected Bibliography:
2007
Bedford, Christopher. “Critic’s Picks: Mounir Fatmi, Shoshana Wayne Gallery.” Artforum.com, February, 2007.
Cohen Hadria, Michèle. "Cris de banlieues/paroles d’artistes, etc." Montréal
2006
F.C. “Fatmi l’insoumis,” Télérama: N°2945
2005
Brenez, Nicole. "L'art ne reflète pas le monde, il anticipe les vérités,” Panic. Paris
Dezainde, Line. "Résister,” Voir: September n°537, Ottawa
2004
Ballista, Marie-José. "Ce qui Reste Après La Destruction." Le Berry Républicain, 26
October, Bourges
Biec, Odile. “Une Oeuvre à Lire Entre les Lignes,” Revue un Deux Quatre,
Clermont-Ferrand
Raymond, Marie-Claire. "Mounir Fatmi et La Tour Eiffel", La Nouvelle République,
October 27, Cher
2003
Basting, Barbara. "Aus Einer Welt der Hindernisse." Tages Anzeiger, November 15,
Zürich
Bernède, Jérémy. "Le Monde Arabe Vu de son Avant-garde." Midi Libre, October 30, Montpellier
Lagarde, Angélique. "Une Grande Université de Langues." Cassandre, Paris
West, Michael. "Andere Ansichten aus Afrika." Brüchenbauer, November 25, Zürich
2002
Antoine, Frédéric. "ovalprojet, Le Courrier de Mantes." June 19, 2002: Mantes la Jolie
el Haïk Tarek. "Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi."Frameworks, n°43, New York
Lagarde, Angélique. "Mounir Fatmi." Plasticien, Projections, n°2, Paris
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