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Kader Attia (born 30 December 1970) is an Algerian-French artist.[1][2][note 1]
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Born | Dugny, France | 30 December 1970
Known for | Visual art |
Attia was born in Dugny, France to Algerian parents and was raised in Paris and Algeria.[4][5] He studied at the l'école Duperré de Paris, l'école des arts appliqués La Massana de Barcelone and graduated from the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs Paris, in 1998.[6][7][8]
Attia's work often examines social injustice, marginalized communities and postcolonialism.[9][10][11]
In 2016, Attia founded La Colonie, a gallery near Paris' Gare du Nord train station.[12][13][14] In March 2020, La Colonie closed permanently due to the coronavirus pandemic.[15] In March 2021, Attia was announced as the curator for the 12th Berlin Biennale.[16] He is the first artist to curate the biennale since New-York based collective DIS, who presented the 9th edition in 2016.[15] In November 2021, he had an exhibition entitled "On Silence" at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha.[17]
Attia's work is included in the permanent collections of:
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