Kader Attia

Kader Attia (b. 1970, France), grew up in Paris and in Algeria. Attia has been exploring societies’ strategies of dealing with history as regards experiences of oppression and repression, violence and loss. His intercultural research, taking into account psychology, sociology and ethnology, has led him to the concept of Repair, which he has been developing in his writing and visual art. Closely linked to wounds, recuperation, and re-appropriation, Repair reaches far beyond the subject and connects it to collective memory, nature, culture, history, and myth.

Kader Attia’s work has been shown in group shows and biennials such as the 12th Shanghai Biennial; the 12th Gwangju Biennial; the 12th Manifesta, Palermo; the 57th Venice Biennial; dOCUMENTA(13) in Kassel; Met Breuer, New York; Kunsthalle Wien; MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; or The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York — just to name a few. Notable solo exhibitions include ‘The Museum of Emotion’, The Hayward Gallery, London; ‘Scars Remind Us that Our Past is Real’, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; ‘Roots also grow in concrete’, MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine; ‘The Field of Emotion’, The Power Plant, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; ‘Repairing the Invisible’, SMAK, Ghent; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; ‘Sacrifice and Harmony’, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main; ‘The Injuries are Here’, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts de Lausanne; ‘Contre Nature’, Beirut Art Center; ‘Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob’s Ladder’, Whitechapel Gallery, London; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

Attia lives and works in Berlin and Paris.