Mounir Fatmi

Tangier, Morocco, 1970 -

BiographyMOUNIR FATMI
Born 1970, Tangier, Morocco
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
1989 School of Fine Arts, Casablanca, Morocco
1991 School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Connection 02, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier, Morocco
Fuck Architects: Chapter 2, le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’art
Contemporain, Thiers, France
Fuck Architects: Chapter 3, First Biennale of Brussels, Belgium
2007 Fuck Architects: Chapter 1, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY
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, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Without History, Musée national Picasso La Guerre et la Paix- Vallauris, Vallauris, France
2006 tête dure / hard head, Galerie la B.A.N.K., Paris, France
99 names of god, Galerie Saint Severin, Paris, France
2005 Bad Connexion, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Black screens, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, France
2004 Survival Signs, Oeuvres video 1990-2004, Videokiosque 01, Pau, France
He who understands last understands 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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 10th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2008 Attempt to Exhaust an African Place, Santa Monica Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
Flow, Studio Museum, New York, NY
Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890-2008, Tate Modern, London
Visionary Tales of a Balanced Earth, New Zealand, Australia, South
Africa, Nairobi and Russia in collaboration with United Nations Environmental Program
Cadavre Exquis, Analix-Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
The Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo del Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Traces du Sacre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Traces du Sacre, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Moving Towards a Balanced Earth: kick the carbon habit, The Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Biennal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra,Spain
Traversia, CAAM, Canary Islands
2007 1st Triennial of Luanda, Luanda, Angola
52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Sharjah Biennial 8: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
24th Biennial Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, USA

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 Musée d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
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
Biennale d'art contemporain de Bourge, Bourge, France
Inventaire contemporain II, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2003 Sur le front, géographie de la peinture contemporaine, Le Triage, Nanterre, France
8th Havana Biennial, In/Tangibles Cartographies, Havana, Cuba
Nuevo video arabe, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
Avant-garde Cinema, General Counterculture, Cinémathèque Francaise, Paris, France
Art vidéo, Art interactif, 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
Biennale of Art, Video and TV, Bologna, Italy
Film Screening, UC Berkeley & Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco
Selected Residencies
2006 The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Damon Centre and Saw Gallery, Gatineau/Ottawa, Canada
2004 Drac centre / Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France
CRRAV, Bourse du Fonds Regional d'aide a la Creation, Tourcoing, France
2001 Drac ile de France, Centre Culturel le Chaplin, Mantes la Jolie, France
Friche Andre Malraux, Collectif 12, Mantes la Jolie, France
2000 Ateliers d'artistes, Marseille, France
1997 Drac Nord Pas de Calais / MAJT, Lille, France
Fellowships
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
Awards and Grants
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 Annual Festival of Arab Video, Casablanca, Morocco

1993 First Prize, Biennial of Young Painters, Fondation Wafabank, Casablanca, Morocco
Artist Publications
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." C.C
le chaplin, Mantes la Jolie
1996 Chevallier, Bénédicte. "à l‚origine." du goethe-institut,
Raba
Selected Bibliography
2008 Blanc, Axelle. “Borderlines.” Gazet’art, no. 4, Nov 2007: 16-17.
Cotter, Holland. “Out of Africa, Whatever Africa May Be.” New York Times, April 4, 2008: E27, E32.
Debailleux, Henri-François. “ Arabe art.” Libération, Apr 3, 2009: 6-7.
Esman, Abigail R. “Leaps of Faith.” Art + Auction, May 2008: 162-169-171.
Francblin, Cathrine. “le sacré au travail.” Artpress, no. 345, May 2008: 44-48.
Gilman, Claire. “Mounir Fatmi.” Freize, issue 114, Apr, 2008: 188-189.
Sansom, Anna. “Please be Seated: The Artists’ View of the Electric Chair.” DAM, no. 16, Apr/May 2008: 115-118.
Youssi, Yasmine. “Ces artists font un sacré travail.” La Tribune, no. 3.904, May 3, 2008.
2007 Banai, Nuit. “Mounir Fatmi, “Fuck Architects: Chapter 1.” Time Out New York, Nov 8-14, 2007: 68.
Bedford, Christopher. “Critic’s Picks: Mounir Fatmi, Shoshana Wayne Gallery.” Artforum.com Feb 2007.
Cohen Hadria, Michèle. "Cris de banlieues/paroles d‚artistes, etc." Montréal
Corgnati, Martina. "Guilty: Mounir Fatmi." Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from the Middle East, vol. 1, Oct 2007: 91-93.
Davis, Ben. "LA LA LAND." Artnet Magazine, Feb 26, 2007.
"In Pictures: Venice Biennale 2007." BBC News, 7 Jun 2007.
Harris, Jane. “Coil Slick.” The Village Voice, vol. LII, no. 48, Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2007: 44.
Mounir Fatmi. “Mounir Fatmi: African Pavillion.” V Magazine, no. 49, Fall 2007: 167
Lacayo, Richard. " Africa: Best in Show?" TIME Magazine, Looking Around Blog, 12 Jun 2007.
Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Mounir Fatmi: Something is Possible." ArtKrush, issue 53, review, Mar 7, 2007.
Rovzar, Chris, et al. "Photo Op: New York in Venice." New York Magazine, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Jun 2007.
Smith, Roberta. "Mounir Fatmi." The New York Times, Nov 16, 2007: E34.
Vali, Murtaza. “Mounir Fatmi: Fuck Architechts: Chapter 1.” Art Review, issue 18, Jan 2008: 121.
2006 F.C, Fatmi l‚insoumis, télérama N°2945
"African Art Now." NEWSgrist, May 4, 2006.
2005 Brenez, Nicole. "l'art ne reflète pas le monde, il anticipe les vérités,
panic." Paris
Dezainde, Line. "Résister, voir n°537." Sept, Ottawa
Heartney, Eleanor. "2004 Ad." Art in America, May 2005.
2004 Ballista, Marie-José. "ce qui reste après la destruction." le berry républicain, 26
Oct 2004: 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,
27 Oct 2004: Cher
2003 Basting, Barbara. "aus einer welt der hindernisse." tages anzeiger, 15 Nov 2003:
Zürich
Bernède, Jérémy. "le monde arabe vu de son avant-garde." midi libre, 30 Oct 2003: Montpellier
Lagarde, Angélique. "une grande université de langues." cassandre, Paris
West, Michael. "andere ansichten aus afrika." brüchenbauer, 25 Nov 2003:
Zürich
2002 Antoine, Frédéric. "ovalprojet, le courrier de mantes." 19 Jun 2002: Mantes la Jolie
el Haïk, Tarek. "Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi." frameworks,
n°43: 1-3.
Lagarde, Angélique. "Mounir Fatmi." plasticien, projections, n°2, Paris

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