Artist's arttributes:
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Video, Installation |
Most exhibitions in:
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| France | 45 |
| USA | 19 |
| Italy | 16 |
| Israel | 9 |
| Germany | 9 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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| Institution |
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Dvir Gallery, Israel |
7 |
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Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Italy |
3 |
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Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, France |
3 |
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David Zwirner, Inc., USA |
3 |
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MoMA PS1, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1971 Born in Constantine (DZ)
Lives and works Lyon (FR)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 173 
until 13.7.
Solo shows 22
2013
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| Adel Abdessemed - Le Vase abominable - David Zwirner, London (England) |
2012
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| Adel Abdessemed I am innocent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Glissement de terrain - Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
2010
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| Adel Abdessemed - Silent Warriors - Parasol unit, London (England) |
2009
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| Adel Abdessemed - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
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| Adel Abdessemed - RIO - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Le Ali di Dio. Adel Abdessemed - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
2008
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| Adel Abdessemed: Situation And Practice - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Christine König Galerie, Vienna |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Drawing for Human Park - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
2007
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| Adel Abdessemed - Poursuite - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Adel Abdessemed - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Conversation - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Practice Zero Tolerance - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Adel Abdessemed - Practice Zero Tolerance - La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes |
2005
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| Happiness in Mitte - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (England) |
2004
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| Adel Abdessemed - Le Citron et le lait - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Adel Abdessemed - FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims |
2002
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| Quarta estacio Benifallet-Vassivière - Centre international d´art et du paysage de l´île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière |
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| Adel Abdessemed - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
Group shows 150
2013
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| sous influences - arts plastiques et psychotropes - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Sous Nos Yeux (Partie 1) - La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse |
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| Makhno's Boys/Isaac Babel - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
2012
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| Biennale Bénin 2012 - Biennale Bénin, Cotonou |
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| Fruits of Passion - Project for contemporary art - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| La Belle et la Bête - Institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux |
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| Glissement de terrain - Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière |
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| Mediations Biennale 2012 - Mediations Biennale, Poznan |
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| 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial Of Contemporary Art - Production Of Meanings - Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg |
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| Media City Seoul - 2012 The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale - Media City Seoul - International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul |
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| La voce delle immagini - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Explorateurs. Oeuvres du Centre national des arts plastiques - Musée de l´abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d' Olonne |
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| Le Donjon De Vez À L’heure D’ÉtÉ - Donjon de Vez, Vez |
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| Explosion! - Painting in Action - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Fremde Überall – Foreigners Everywhere - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection - Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna |
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| La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Néon, Who’s afrmaid of red, yellow and blue ? - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Evil is here - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Nunc Et In Hora Mortis Nostrae - Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels |
2011
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| Meeting Points 6: Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic - Argos, Brussels |
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| Homage to Bas Jan Ader - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Seeing is believing - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| The House Without the Door - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Out of Storage: Provisoire & Définitif - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
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| Entre-Temps- The Artist as a Narrator - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
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| Fantômes et cauchemars - Espace culturel François Mitterrand, Beauvais |
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| Fantômes et cauchemars - HISTORIAL DE LA GRANDE GUERRE, Peronne |
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| THE LAST FIRST DECADE - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| Meeting Points 6 - Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic - Beirut Art Center, Beirut |
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| Elogio del dubbio - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| In Praise of Doubt - Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Pax - Fondation Francès, Senlis |
2010
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| 21st Century: Art in the First Decade - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Lo spazio del sacro - Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena |
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| Misericordia - Prism, West Hollywood, CA |
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| Aichi Triennal 2010 - Arts and Cities - Aichi Triennal, Nagoya |
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| Perpetuel Battles - Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow |
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| 17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Drawing Time / Le temps du dessin - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy |
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| Wystawa - Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
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| I mutanti - Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, Rome |
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| Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - Leo Koenig Inc., New York City, NY |
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| C'est la vie ! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst - Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris |
2009
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| BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples |
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| 3rd AiM International Biennale - Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech |
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| 30 Seconds off an Inch - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| 10e Biennale de Lyon - The Spectacle of the Everyday - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Là où je suis n'existe pas - les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
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| El tiempo del Arte - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires |
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| Mesure du désordre Oeuvres du Cnap - Le Parvis - scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos |
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| Rites de Passage - SCHUNCK* , Heerlen |
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| It won't stop until we talk - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| Political/Minimal - Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Main Building, Lodz |
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| Universal Code - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Entre-Temps - Paço das Artes, São Paulo |
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| time versus fashion - Kunstverein Nürtingen e.V., Nürtingen |
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| Transmission Interrupted - Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (England) |
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| Shifting Identities. (Swiss) Art Now - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Esposizione Universale - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
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| Un Certain Etat du Monde ? A Certain State of the World ? - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow |
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| explorateurs - Centre de Arts d'Enghien-Les-Baines, Enghien les Bains |
2008
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| Political/Minimal - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Medium Religion - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Biacs 3 - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| Art Focus Jerusalem 2008 - Art Focus Jerusalem, Jerusalem |
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| Political Corect - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva |
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| So Close So Far Away - H+F Collection - Museum het Domein, Sittard |
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| Quiet Politics - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| L'Argent - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Shifting Identities – (Schweizer) Kunst heute - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Mes Amis - Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| les ateliers de rennes - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes |
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| Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| God & Goods - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD) |
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| Flow - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| God is design - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo |
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| In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva |
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| Geopolitics of the Animation - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
2007
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| French Kissing in the U.S.A. - - The Moore Space, Miami, FL (closed, 2008) |
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| So Close / So Far Away (Zo dichtbij, zo veraf) - BE-PART - Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem |
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| Points de vue - Institut Culturel Roumain, Paris |
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| Geopolíticas de la animación - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| 10th International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Biennale internationale d’art contemporain de Melle 2007 - Biennale internationale d’art contemporain de Melle, Melle |
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| 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Her(his)tory - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens |
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| Silenzio. Una mostra da ascoltare - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| IDEAL.LOOP - Espace Croisé, Roubaix |
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| Wherever We Go: Art, Identity, Cultures in Transit Phase 1 - Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
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| Body as Spectacle - MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka |
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| Power Play - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Cómo vivir juntos - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| l’Emprise du Lieu, Expérience Pommery # 4 - Domaine Pommery, Reims |
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| SUBLIME OBJECTS. Collections sans frontières V - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
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| TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town |
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| So close / So far away - Crac Alsace, Altkirch |
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| Fantasmagoría - Dibujo en movimiento - Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid |
2006
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| Yan Pei-Ming in Adel Abdessemed - Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
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| 1. Bienal de Canarias - Bienal de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| 27° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Wherever we go - Spazio Oberdan, Milan |
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| Brighton Photo Biennial 2006 - Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (England) |
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| Peintures / Painting - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Nous nous sommes tant aimés - Collections de Saint-Cyprien, Saint Cyprien |
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| Choosing my Religion - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun |
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| Accumulation - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Hot/Cold - Summer Loving - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
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| Emergency Biennale in Chechnya - Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC |
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| Testigos / Witnesses - Fundación NMAC - Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz |
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| Take a walk on the wild side - de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich |
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| Sonambiente - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| Zwischen Körper und Objekt - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Sweet Taboos: A Mini Tirana Biennale in New York - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons - Artspeak, Vancouver, BC |
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| 7ème Biennale de l´Art Africain contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
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| Au Delà des Images: (Beyond Images) - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut |
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| . . . d'où l'écoute prend forme - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| Traits pour traits - Artothèque de Caen, Caen |
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| Notre histoire - une scène artistique française émergente - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
2005
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| Emergency Biennal 2005 - Emergency Biennal, Bolzano |
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| Gott sehen. Das Überirdische als Thema der zeitgenössischen Kunst - Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth |
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| 3rd Tirana Biennial 2005 - Tirana Biennial, Tirana |
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| agir proche - Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens |
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| Desenhos A-Z - Porta 33, Funchal |
2004
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| PROSISMIC - Fondation d´entreprise Ricard, Paris |
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| PROSISMIC - - Espace Paul Ricard, Paris (closed) |
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| Dimension Folly - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento |
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| SHAKE - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Die zehn Gebote - Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden |
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| cycle Rien ne presse / Slow and Steady / Festina lente (septième épisode) - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Shake - OK Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ, Linz |
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| Playlist - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
2003
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| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Blood - Lines & Connections - Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Le Ludique - LaM - Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
2002
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| NOS TROUBLES - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
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| Doublures - FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen |
2001
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| Le Ludique - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City |
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| 1st Tirana Biennale 2001 - Tirana Biennial, Tirana |
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| Yokohama 2001 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art - Yokohama Triennale, Tokyo |
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| Strangers/étrangers - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| 2000 – 2001 National and International Studio Program Exhibition - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Paris pour escale - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
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| PICAF 2000 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| Manifesta3 - Ljubljana - Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam |
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| Juste au corps, de la peau au vêtement - La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes |
Dealer Directory 5 |
Austria
| | Christine König Galerie, Vienna
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Israel
Morocco
United Kingdom
| | David Zwirner, London (England)
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USA
| | David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
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Collections 5

France
| | FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
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| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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Italy
| | Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
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Spain
| | Fundación NMAC - Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz
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Switzerland
| | Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
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Catalogs
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