Adel Abdessemed

**Adel Abdessemed** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1971) ka o nyɛ Algerian-French nuuni tuunbaŋda. O nyɛla ŋun tumdi nuuni tuunbaŋsim balibu pam. O tuma shɛŋa dalimla gamonima din be dunia.

## Maŋmaŋa yɛltɔɣa
Abdessemed nyɛla bɛ ni daa ninvuɣ'so yuuni 1971, tiŋa yuli booni Constantine, ka di be Algeria polo, daŋ shɛli ni bɛ ni daa dɔɣi o niŋ n-nyɛ Chaoui Berber. Fɔŋ shɛli o ni zooi n-nyɛ Aurès Mountains, ka chaŋ  shikuru din be Batna. O daa lahi chaŋ  din be Algiers n-ti tuɣi o bɔhimbu. O daa yi ni yuuni 1994.

Bini din gbaai yuuni 1994 zaŋ chaŋ yuuni 1999, Abdessemed daa chaŋ École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts din be Lyon, eastern central France. Din nyaŋa ka o pa be Cité internationale des arts din be Paris ka tumdi ni. Yuma din gbaai 2000–2001 o daa bela P.S.1 din be New York. O ni daa be Berlin nyaaŋa, yuuni 2004 o daa labi Paris. O lahi nyɛla French dahalali.

## Exhibitions
### Solo shows
*2018:
***Otchi Tchiornie*, Mac's Grand-Hornu, Belgium
***L'antidote*, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
***Le chagrin des Belges*, Dvir Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
*2017: *Conflit*, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada
*2016
***Politics of Drawing*, Cahiers d'Art, Paris, France
***Surfaces*, église des Célestins, Festival d'Avignon, France
***Bristow*, commissioned by Bold Tendencies CIC, London, United Kingdom
*2015 :
***From Here to Eternity*, Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US 
***Jalousies: Complicités avec Jean Nouvel*, Musée de Vence, Vence, France
***Palace*, CAC, Malaga, Spain
***Soldaten*, Christine König Galleria, Viena, Austria
***Opening of Archives*, Video Bureau, Beijing, China
*2014:
***Merci*, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
***Oiseau*, Spatiu Intact, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
***Mon Enfant*, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
***Solo*, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
*2013:
***Le Vase abominable*, David Zwirner, London, United Kingdom
***L'âge d'or*, , Doha, Qatar.
*2012:
***Je suis innocent*, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
***Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?*, David Zwirner, New York, US
***Décor: Adel Abdessemed*, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France.
*2011: *NU*, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
*2010: *Silent Warriors*, Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art, London, United Kingdom.
*2009:
***Le ali di dio*, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy.
***RIO*, David Zwirner, New York, US
*2008:
***Situation and Practice*, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US.
***Trust Me*, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland.
***Don't Trust Me*, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US.
***Drawing for Human Park*, Le Magasin - Centre national d'art contemporain de Grenoble, France.
*2007: *Dead or Alive*, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US.
*2006 : *Practice Zero Tolerance*, La Criée, centre d'art contemporain, Rennes et Fonds régional d'art contemporain d'Île-de-France-Le Plateau, Paris, France.
*2004: *Le Citron et le lait*, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
***Habibi*, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France.
*2003:
***Nuit*, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
***Quarta Estacio Benifallet-Vassivière*, Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière, France
*2002: *Adel Abdessemed*, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, US
*2001:
***Adel Abdessemed*, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
***Adel Abdessemed*, Project Room, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

### Special collaboration
* 2015 *: Retour à Berratham*, Ballet Preljocaj, choreography and staging: Angelin Preljocaj, text: Laurent Mauvignier, scenography: Adel Abdessemed, Cour d'honneur du Palais des papes, Festival d'Avignon, France.

### Group shows
*2018: *Echigo Tsumari Triennale,* Japan.
*2017:
***Urban Glass Brooklyn*, New York, US.
***15th Istanbul Biennial*, Turkey.
***[[Oku-Noto Triennale]]*, Suzu, Japan.
***Le Mois de la Photo*, Montréal, Canada.
***Pallaksh Pallaksh (I don't know just where I'm going)*, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
***The Restless Earth: Triennale de Milan*, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy.
*2016:
***30th Anniversary,* Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy.
***The End of the World*, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy.
***Miracle Marathon*, Serpentine Galleries, Second Home, London, United Kingdom.
***: Dancing with Myself. Selbstporträt und Selbsterfindung. Werke aus der Sammlung Pinault.* Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
***The New Human,* Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
***Cher(e)s ami(e)s. Nouvelle présentation des collections contemporaines. Hommage aux donateurs*, Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
***Souviens-toi du temps présent,* Centre d'art Le Lait, Albi, France.
***Money, Good and Evil: A Visual History of the Economy*, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden in collaboration with the Casino, Baden-Baden, Germany.
***Magie und Macht. Von fliegenden Teppichen und Drohnen*, MARTa Herford, Germany.
***De Warhol à Basquiat. Les chefs d'oeuvre de la collection Lambert*, Musée de Vence –Fondation Émile Hugues, Vence, France.
***Je Tu Il Elle*, Dvir Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
***Do It in Arabic*, Sharjah Art Foundation's Bait Al Shamsi, United Arab Emirates.
*2015:
***Retour sur l'abîme – L'art à l'épreuve du génocide*, Musées de Belfort, France.
***Drawing: The Bottom Line*, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium.
***PICASSO.MANIA*, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
***Le Cambrioleur*, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia.
***Patrice Chéreau / Un musée imaginaire*, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
***56th Venice Biennial*.
*2014:
***About Town*, Ikon in partnership with Hippodrome Plus, Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
***The Desire for Freedom, Art in Europe since 1945*, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Kraków, Poland.
**Narcisse, l'image dans l'onde*, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France.
***Milch / Lait / Latte*, Musée d'art du Valais, Sion, Switzerland.
***Made by... Feito por Brasileiros*, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil.
***Grandeur*, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, The Hague, Holland.
***Utopian Days-Freedom*, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
***La disparition des lucioles*, Collection Lambert, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France.
***Entre-Temps, l'artiste narrateur*, Chengdu MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China.
***Myth / History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art*, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
***Ravaged, Art and Culture in Times of Con ict*, Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
***Lampedusa : Dessins d'Adel Abdessemed & Dessins anciens*, Saint Honoré Art Consulting, Paris, France.
***Futbol: The Beautiful Game*, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US.
*2013: *Prima Materia*, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy. 
*2012:
**La Triennale, *Intense Proximité*, Paris, France.
***Explosion! Painting as Action*, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
*2011: *Seeing is Believing*, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
*2010: Triennale Aichi, Nagoya, Japan.
*2009:
**10th Havana Biennial, Cuba.
***Mapping the Studio; Artists from the François Pinault Foundation*, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy.
***Transmission Interrupted*, Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom.
*2008:
***Traces du sacré*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
**7th Gwangju Biennale.
***Airs de Paris*, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
**52nd Venice Biennale, Italy.
*2006: 27th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
*2003: 49th Venice Biennale, Italy.
*2001: Yokohama Triennale, Japan.
*2000: Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

## Collections
* Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
* Musée national d'art moderne Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
* Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France
* Collection Budi Tek, Shanghai, China
* Fondation François Pinault, Venice, Italy
* Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

## Bibliography
### Catalogues
* *Adel Abdessemed: Otchi Tchiornie / L'Antidote.* Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain, 2018. Texts by Eric de Chassey, Denis Gielen, Donatien Grau, Mark Nash, Paul Ardenne, Kamel Daoud, Thierry Raspail, Michele Robecchi and Octavio Zaya.
* *Adel Abdessemed: Conflit.* Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 2017. Texts by Nathalie Bondil and Vincent Lavoie.
* *Adel Abdessemed: Bristow*, published by Hannah Barry, Donatien Grau, Hans Ulrich Obrist, London, 2016
* *Adel Abdessemed : Works 1988-2015*, Foreword by Pier Luigi Tazzi. Introduction by Schwed. Texts by  Hans Belting, Giovanni Careri, Julia Kristeva, Tom McDonough, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Rancière, et al. Koenig Books, London, 2016
* *Adel Abdessemed Par*, Paris, Manuella éditions, 2015. Texts by Hans Belting, Emanuele Coccia, Élisabeth de Fontenay, Julia Kristeva, Tom McDonough, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Rancière, Shva Salhoov
* *Adel Abdessemed. Jalousies – complicités avec Jean Nouvel*, Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur / Collection Lambert, 2015. Correspondence between Jean Nouvel and Adel Abdessemed.
* *Adel Abdessemed. From Here to Eternity.* New York, Venus Over Los Angeles, 2015. Text by Francesco Bonami.
* *Adel Abdessemed. Dessins.* Paris, Éditions Dilecta, 2015. Text by Jean-Jacques Aillagon.
* *Adel Abdessemed. Palace.* Malaga, CAC, 2015. Texts by Fernando Francés and Alberto Ruiz Samaniego.
* *Adel Abdessemed. Solo.*Paris, Yvon Lambert, 2014. Letters from Hélène Cixous to Adel Abdessemed.
* *Adel Abdessemed. Mon Enfant.* Tel-Aviv, Dvir Gallery, 2014. Text by Shva Saloon.
* *Adel Abdessemed. L'âge d'or.* Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art / Silvana Editoriale, 2013. Texts by Abdellah Taïa, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Angela Mengoni and interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
* *Adel Abdessemed Je suis innocent.* Paris, Centre Pompidou / Steidl, 2012. Foreword by Alfred Pacquement. Texts by Emmanuel Alloa, Patricia Falguières, Pamela M. Lee, Tom McDonough and Philippe-Alain Michaud.
* *Adel Abdessemed, Dead or Alive.* New York, 2008. Contributions by Alanna Heiss and Neville Wakefield.
* *Adel Abdessemed, Les ai PS1 MoMA, les de dieu / Le ali di dio.* Turin, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2009. Contributions by Francesco Bonami, Edi Muka and Massimiliano Gioni.
* *Adel Abdessemed, Situation and Practice.* Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2009. Contributions by Jane Farver, Tom McDonough, and Noam Chomsky.
* *Adel Abdessemed.* Zürich, JRP Ringier, 2010, text by Larys Frogier.()
* *Silent Warriors*, London/Cologne, Parasol Unit/König, 2010. Contributions by Ziba Ardalan, Gilanne Tawadros and Guy Tortosa.
* *Décor.* Paris, Éditions Xavier Barral, 2012. Contributions by François Pinault, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Frédérique Goerig-Hergott, Eric de Chassey and Giovanni Careri
* *Adel Abdessemed Je suis innocent.* Cologne/Paris, Steidl/Centre Pompidou, 2012. Contributions by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Emmanuel Alloa, Hou Hanru, Pamela M. Lee, Tom McDonough and Patricia Falguières
* *L'âge d'or.* Mathaf/Silvana, Doha/Milan, 2013 : book designed by M/M (Paris). Contributions by Abdellah Karroum, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Angela Mengoni, Abdellah Taïa, and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

### Collaborations
* Hélène Cixous, *Les Sans Arche d'Adel Abdessemed*, Art et Artistes Galimard, Paris, 2018
* Adel Abdessemed et Véronique Yersin, *Charbon*, édition Macula, Paris, 2017
* Hélène Cixous, *Correspondance avec le mur*, Galilée, Paris, 2017
* Adel Abdessemed et Adonis, *La Peau du chaos. Correspondance*, Actes Sud, Paris, 2015
* Hélène Cixous, Corollaires d'un vœu, Abstracts et Brèves Chroniques du temps, Galilée, Paris, 2015
* Adel Abdessemed et Hélène Cixous, *Insurrection de la poussière*, Galilée, Paris, 2013
* Hélène Cixous, *Ayaï. Le cri de la littérature. Accompagné d'Adel Abdessemed*, Galilée, Paris, 2013
* Adel Abdessemed et Adonis, *Le Livre des AA*, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2014

## See also
**[[Headbutt (sculpture)|Headbutt]]*
*List of Algerian artists

## References

## External links
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*Official website