Exhibitions
Upcoming
2022
Eyes Wide Open – Aeroplastics gallery, Brussels, Belgium (group exhibition)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021
Charbagh Diplomatic Labyrinth – Commission for the New Belgian embassy, Rabat, Morocco
Ama Mesciri – Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2020
Fenduq – Vandalorum museum, Värnamo, Sweden
Binatna – Voice gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2019
Fenduq – Friese Museum Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2018
Metamodern apparatuses – (re)D gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2017
Atchilihtallah – On the transformation of art, craft and product – Mu.ZEE, Oostend, Belgium
2016
Anthropocene Geodesy – Voice gallery, Marrakech
The Art of Craft – Hood Museum of Arts, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Atchilihtallah – On the Transformation of Things – Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2014
Atchilihtallah – STUK kunstencentrum Museum, Leuven, Belgium
V12 – CØPPERFIELD gallery, London
Testosterone – Voice gallery, Marrakech
2013
V12 Laraki – Centre de Création Contemporaine, CCC/Tours, France
2012
In spite of the unheroic times – Rossicontemporary gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Wonderlust – Monty_ABN, Antwerp, Belgium
2010
Arrangements after Whistler – Cypress gallery, Leuven, Belgium
Exonymie – Institut Supérieur du Language Plastique (ISELP), Brussels, Belgium (off / Brussels Art Fair)
Métragrammes – Agnès b., Brussels, Belgium
2009
Vacilar – Adhoc gallery, Vigo, Galicia, Spain
Metragram Series – Rossicontemporary gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Freer trade – Despacio, Barrio Amon, San José, Costa Rica
Dan liever de lucht in #1 – Royal Belgium embassy, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Off the record #2 – Shimbashi Station, Tokyo
2007
Dan liever de lucht in #2 – Lokaal01, Breda, The Netherlands
Group exhibitions (selection)
2021
Savoir Faire – Institut Supérieur pour l’Étude du Langage Plastique [ISELP], Brussels, Belgium
Come What May – Aeroplastics gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020
Malhoun 2.0 – Fenduq/1-54 African Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
Infinite Village – Manifesta 13 Marseille – Les Parallèles du Sud, Marseille, France
2019
[reopening show] – Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA
Design Display – Autostadt, Wolfsburg/Frankfurt, Germany
2018
2050 – A Brief History of the Future – Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB/Brussels) & National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung (NTMFA/Taipei)
Ethics in the World of Strangers – Richard Taittinger gallery, New York, USA (Duo)
O Triângulo do Atlântico – 11th Mercosul Biennal, Mercosul, Brazil
Workflow – Cultural Centre of Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Second Life – MACAAL: Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden, Marrakesh, Morocco
2017
Working Promises – 10th Design International Biennale of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Chinafrika – GfZK Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Islam, it’s also our history! – Museum of Europa, Brussels, Belgium
Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj – Beirut, Lebanon
Beazley Designs of the Year – Design Museum, London, UK
SPEND – Kulte gallery, Rabat, Morocco
2016
What New Now? – 6th Marrakesh biennial, Morocco
Merchants of Dreams – BRANDTS Museum of Art and Visual Culture, Odense, Denmark
Where Do We Migrate To? – Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Where Do We Migrate To? – Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA
2015
Les Mondes Inversés – B.P.S.22 Museum, Charleroi, Belgium
Eppur si muove – MUDAM Museum, Luxembourg
2014
Le Maroc Contemporain – Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Where Are We Now? – 5th Marrakesh biennial, Morocco
2013
All the visible features of an area of countryside or land – Fordham University’s Center Gallery, New York, USA
My Joburg – La maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, Paris, France
2012
Road Directions – Museo d’Arte Orientale, Torino, Italy
Where Do We Migrate To? – CAC, New Orleans, USA
2011
Portrait Show – Gallery I-20, New York, USA
Out of Place – Lora Reynolds gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
Where Do We Migrate To? – Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
à partir – La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Conceptualizing the Body: Gaze, Masquerade, and Spectacle – Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Danse l’Afrique danse! Biennial – Bamako, Mali
Foreign Affairs – Museum of Ansembourg, Liège, Belgium
Canvas Collectie / Collection RTBF – Bozar museum, Brussels, Belgium
Neither From, Nor Towards… – Art Pavillion, Zagreb, Croatia
Mi‘rajiyya, the Night Journey, الإسراء والمعراج – Sharjah Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Summer in the city #2 – Cypres galerie, Leuven, Belgium
2009
Toute cruauté est-elle bonne à dire? – La Centrale électrique, Brussels, Belgium
4ème Scénographie Urbaine – The Joubert Park Project, Johannesburg, South Africa
The borders – Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, College of Old Westbury, New York, USA
Into the Atomic Sunshine – Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Casablanca: International Video Art Festival – Casablanca, Morocco
Cul-de-sac – exposition collective satellite (fluxnews), 53ème 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy
Last Day of Magic – satellite group exhibit, ScalaMata Gallery, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy
Untitled Ideal (collaboration with artist Nida Sinnokrot) – group exhibit, Foresight gallery, Amman
Riwaq Biennial – Contemporary art & architecture in the Occupied Territories, Palestine
1st FIAC of Algiers – National Museum of Algiers (MAMA), Algiers, Algeria
2008
Into the Atomic Sunshine – The Puffin Room, Soho, New York, USA
Localisms – De Paviljoens Museum, Almere, The Netherlands
Chinese Character Biennial – Ku Art Center, Huan Tie Museum, Beijing, China
Into the Atomic Sunshine – Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Boom-Boom – Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
CamouFlashed Mediation – Meditations Biennial, Poznan, Poland
Camp Hiroshima: Migration – Hiroshima Art Project, Hiroshima, Japan
I have been to Japan – Fordham University’s Center Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Scriptures – Toride Art Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
Resonances – STUK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leuven, Belgium
PILOT:3 – Monastery of St. Damian and St. Cosimo, 52nd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Fenenin el-Rahhal – working artists’ summit, Western Desert and Townhouse gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Horizon – Bloomberg headquarters, with Art in General, New York, USA
Ecumenopolis – Location One gallery, Soho, New York, USA
Memory in Motion – Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Bavaria, Germany
30 et presque songes – zone zital ankorondrano, Antananarivo, Republic of Madagascar
Dan liever de lucht in #1 – Royal Belgium embassy, Yotsuya, Tokyo
Dan liever de lucht in #2 – Lokaal01 gallery, Breda, The Netherlands
Be(com)ing Dutch Causus – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Water, ink: world of monochrome – Ueno City Art Museum, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
NO MAN’S LAND – Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Stekene, North Flanders, Belgium
2006
What Form Would A Life Take? – MOP Projects gallery, Sydney, Australia
Artist talks (selection)
2019
Middle Eastern Crafts: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2018
Vandalorum museum, Värnamo, Sweden
Decolonize the Craft Economy – 1:54 African Art Fair Forum, Marrakech, Morocco
Metamodern apparatuses – Cinema Zuid/Mukha, Antwerp, Belgium
2014
TEDxMarrakesh [TED] – Riad El-Fenn, Marrakech, Morocco
2010
Galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb
Faculty of Fine Arts, Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India
2009
DIVA series, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
2008
La Casa de los tres Mundos, Granada, Nicaragua
Massey University, School of Fine Arts, Wellington, New Zeeland
Rumah Air Panas (RAP), Annex Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ArtEast, Bishkek, Kyrghystan
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Holland
2007
Arts en Liberté Gallery, Algiers, Algeria
Green Papaya Art Space, Metro-Manila, The Philippines
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Alliance Française of Yangon, Union of Myanmar
New York Studio Program, New York, USA
The Khalid Shoman Foundation / Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Academy of Humanities and Economics, Łódź, Poland
Be(com)ing Dutch Causus, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Academy for Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
[AIT] Art Initiative Tokyo, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Bursaries, awards & residencies (selection)
2020
Civitella Ranieri Foundation artist residency, Umbria, Italy
2017
Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
2016
Artist Studio Program, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
2012
Dar Al-Ma’mûn artist residency, Marrakech, Morocco [Belgium Government support]
2011
Nominated for Sam Art prize 2011, Paris, France
CDA-Projects Grant Honorary Mention, İstanbul, Turkey
2010
Centre International des Récollets artist Residency and grant (Ville de Paris), Paris, France
Pilot:3 selection, 52nd Venice Biennial / Frieze Art Fair / 101 Tokyo Art Fair, London/Italy
2009
Frederico Herrero’s Despacio artist residency, San José, Costa Rica
Location One artist residency, New York [Belgium Government funded]
UNESCO-Aschberg artist Residency and grant, Darat Al-Funun, Jordan
Centre for Community Cultural Development artist Residency, JCCAC, Hong Kong
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station artist residency, Icehotel commission, Kilpisjärvi, Swedish Lapland
2006
MIDBAR artist residency, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Sharjah Art Museum artist residency, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Kolin Ryynänen artist residency, Northern Karelia, Kola Peninsula, Finland
Lijiang Studio artist residency, Yunnan, China
Paradise Art Center artist residency, Tehran, Iran
2005
European Media Plus award, Munich/Germany
Monbusho research scholarship, Japan ministry of culture, Tokyo
Nominations (selection)
2018
Belgian Pavilion (last round of selection process) – Venezia, Italy / Brussels, Belgium
2017
Prix Pictet photography prize (www.prixpictet.com) – Geneva, Switzerland
Beazley Designs of the Year – Design Museum, London, UK
Selected collections
Privates collections in Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Morocco, U.K., USA, France, Spain, Switzerland, Israël, etc.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Hood Museum of Arts, New Hampshire, USA
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland
Mu.Zee, Ostende, Belgium
Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
For Arts Sake Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakesh, Morocco
Luma Foundation Collection, Zurich, Switzerland