Amina Zoubir

**Amina Zoubir** ( bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1983) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ contemporary artist, filmmaker n ti pahi performer from Algiers, Algeria. O nyɛla bɛ ni mi so ni  feminist performer ka di nyɛla o bɛhigu ni sinii din yuli booni *Take your place la puuni*,  dini ka o daa dareeti yuuni 2012 di ni daa niŋ ka.Algeria nim yan puhi bɛ yuun pihinu chuɣu bɛ maŋ sulinsi deebu nyaan ga.

### O Public Art Collection nima
The artworks produced from Amina Zoubir's practice and research have been included in public and private collections of art foundations and museums.
* Etnografiska Museet, 2020, Stockholm, Sweden
* Collection Tilder, 2019, Paris, France 
* Collection Gervanne and Matthias Leridon, 2018 Paris, France 
* FRAC Occitanie, Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain, Les Abattoirs, 2017, Toulouse, France
* Foundation DONWAHI, 2016, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
* Foundation of African Artists for Development, 2015, Paris, France.

### O Filmography nima
*Last pop dance before darkness, 30 min, HD Pal color, sound, 2014–2016.
*Love all women like you love your mother, 4 min, Pal color, sound, 2018.
*Living in Utopia, video, 10 min, Pal color, sound, 2017.
*Take Your Place - Prends ta place, webdocumentary A Summer in Algiers - Un été Alger, produced by Narrative Paris and Une chambre à soi Algiers, with  support of CNC France, 40 min, HD Pal color, sound, 2012, six performances in urban spaces at Algiers, Algeria.
*In which world do you want to be born, video, 2 min, Pal color, sound, 2011.
*Psychedelic women, video, 10 min, Pal color, sound, 2008–2010.
*The city is one of us, in collaboration with Yossi Atia, Love Difference and Foundation Pistoletto, documentary, 10 min, Pal color, sound, 2008.
*Take the Bus and look - Prends le bus et regarde, documentary, 12 min, Pal color, sound, 2006.

## Exhibitions
### O Solo exhibition nima
* *Taking a stance on berber queens*, Södertälje Konsthall, April 27 to June 27  April 27-June 27, 2020, Södertälje, Sweden.
**The Forgotten figures*, Rikstolvan Art Center, September 19-November 1, 2020 Jarrestad Simrishamn, Sweden.
**Arab sexshop*, Espace d’Art 87, 2016, Paris, France. 
**Take your place*, A Summer in Algiers, Cinémathèque Tanger, 2013, Tangiers, Morocco. 
**Psychedelic women: the middle Eastern body languages*, PasaJist Gallery, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

### O Group exhibitions and biennial nima
2011 - 2020 
* Lahore Biennale, Second edition, installation Muscicapidae  January 26 to February 29, 2020, curator Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Lahore, Pakistan.
* Nobel Week Lights, installation Albert Camus Light's up *Je n’ai jamais pu renoncer à la lumière - Jag kunde aldrig ge upp ljuset*, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, with Nobel Prize Museum, Institut Français de Suède and Helmet, 5–13 December 2020, Stockholm, Sweden.
* 1:54 African Art Fair, Primo Marella Gallery, 2020, Marrakech, Morocco.
* Time To Shine Bright, Algerian Pavilion, Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, Venice Biennale 2019, Italy, May 9-November 24, 2019. 
* Cairo Biennale, Eyes East Bound, installation Muscicapidae, 13th edition at the Palace of Arts, curator Ehab El Laban, Cairo Egypt, June 10 to August 10, 2019. 
* Lumières d’Afriques, Musée d’Art Contemporain Mohamed VI, Rabat, Maroc, April 2 to August 15, 2019. 
* MAXXI, Musée Nationale d’Art Contemporain du 21e siècle, Rome Italy, African Metropolis, an imaginary city, curator Simon Njami and Elena Motisi, June - November 2018, Rome, Italy. 
* Dak’Art Dakar Biennale, The red hour, curator Simon Njami, Palais de Justice Dakar, May to June 2018, Dakar, Senegal. 
* Lagos Photo Festival, Regimes of Truths, curator Azu Nwagbogu, November- January, 2017, Lagos, Nigeria. 
* Lagos Biennale, Living on the edge, October 2017, Lagos, Nigeria.
* Afriques Capitales, Vers le cap de bonne espérance, curator Simon Njami, Gare Saint Sauveur, April 2017, Lille, France. 
* Centre Pompidou, Performance Aerobic Philosophic by Pascal Lièvre, 2016, Paris, France. 
* AKAA, Also Known As Africa, Foire d’art Contemporain d’Afrique, November 2016, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France. 
* L’Iris de Lucy, Musée départementale d’art contemporain Rochechouart, June 2016, Rochechouart, France. 
* El Iris de Lucy, MUSAC Museum of contemporary art, January 2016, León, Spain.
* Something Else, curator Simon Njami, OFF Biennale Caire, Darb1718, November 2015, Cairo, Egypt.
* Lumières d’Afriques, Théatre Nationale de Chaillot,  November 2015, Paris, France. 
* Addis FotoFest, 3e édition, Festival de la photographie, Addis Abeba, September 2014, Ethiopia. 
* Biennale H2O Actuel Art, curated by Feria+Vincent, Modern Art Museum of republic of Sakha, Yakoutsk, August 2014, Russia. 
* Torrance Art Museum, Time is Love, curator Kisito Assangni, September 2013, California, USA. 
* Palais de Tokyo, Launch of video performance Take Your Place, A Summer in Algiers, during Triennale *Intense proximité*, curator Okwui Enwezor, June 24, 2012, Paris, France.
* FEMLINK Wonder 2011, Fondation Artos, Nicosi, Chyprus and TAC, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

2004 - 2010
* Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb, Prend le bus et regarde, April 2010, Saint Denis, France. 
* Diffusion des Cinémas Arabes, Cinéma(s) d’Algérie, AFLAM, May 2009, Marseille, France. 
* Biennale Internationale d’art contemporain Pontevedra, 30e édition, sans frontières : convergences hispanomaghrébines, June 2008, Pontevedra, Spain.
* Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs d’Europe et de Méditerranée BJCEM, 13e édition, Bari, Italy. The city is one of us, Foundation Michelangelo Pistoletto, June 2008, Bari, Italy.
* Exhibition Regards des photographes Arabes au Musée public national d’Art moderne et contemporain d’Alger (MAMA) capitale du monde Arabe par Institut du monde arabe, 2008, Paris, France.  
* Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, Marché du court, 2008, France.
* Screening, Take the bus and look, Filmathèque ZINET, April 2006, Algiers, Algeria.  
* Biennale Internationale de Design Saint-Etienne, 2004, France.
* In memory of director Ahmed ASSELAH and his son Rabah ASSELAH, murdered at the École supérieure des beaux-arts d'Alger on March 5, 1994, during civil war. Exhibition at ESBA 2004, Algiers, Algeria.

### O Conference nima
*Conference at iaspis  Konsnarsnamnden Stockholm, Sweden  with Karen Milbourne, Senior Curator at Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C USA.
*Interview at French Institute Of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
*TV5 Monde, L'invité de Patrick Simonin, with Malala Andrialavidrazana, about the exhibition Lumières d'Afriques
*France Culture Radio, Ping Pong Interview, Amina Zoubir et Jayro Bustamante: Femmes rebelles d’Algérie et du Guatemala, Paris, France.
*Forum Libération, Débat Alger : nouvelle génération? Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
*Resistance et creation, debate moderated by journalist Ariane Allard with Lydie Salvayre, Hala Mohammad, Wassyla Tamzali, Alessandra Celesia and Amina Zoubir at Festival Films Femmes Méditerranée, organized by ARTE - Actions Culturelles, September 28, 2013, Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, France
*Debate Nouveaux Cinémas d’Afrique, Décoloniser les imaginaires: La Fabrique du Réel Dans Les Nouveaux cinémas d’Afrique, Les Ateliers Varan, 2013, Paris, France.
*Conference at , Festival Viva l’Algérie, January&nbsp;2013, Paris, France

## O Bibliography nima

### Exhibition catalogues
*Lahore Biennale, 2020, Lahore, Pakistan.
*Biso Biennale, 2020, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
*Cairo Biennale, Eyes East Bond, Cairo, Egypt.
*Time to shine bright, first Algerian pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, Italy, edited by Editions HELIUM Algeria
*Dakar Biennale, Dak'Art 2018, Palais de Justice de Dakar, Senegal
*African Metropolis, An imaginary city, group exhibition of African artists, MAXXI NATIONAL MUSEUM OF 21ST CENTURY ARTS, 2018, Rome, Italy, Editor Kehrer Verlag, Germany.
*Afrique Capitales, Vers le Cap de bonne espérance, group exhibition of African artists, La Villette Paris, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France,2017, Editor Kehrer Verlag, Germany.
*Lucy's Iris, group exhibition of African women artists, MUSAC Museum, 2016–2017, León, Spain.
*Lumières d'Afriques, group exhibition of African artists, Théâtre Nationale de Chaillot, 2015, Paris, France.

### O Publication nima

*Black Camera n°6 *Women on the Algerian Art Scene: Interrogating the Postcolonial Gaze through Documentary and Video Art*, article by Delphine Letort and Emmanuelle Cherel. Indiana University Press Board of Directors, 2014, Indiana, USA. 
**Algerian Artists Write the Video Body 1995–2013*, Nafas Magazine, 2014, online on *Universes in Universe*. 
**Le génie empêché par les médiocres, The genius impeded by the mediocre,*  about the movie Tahya Ya Dido, Mohamed Zinet (1971, 76 min) at Laboratoire d’Aubervilliers, 2013, France.
*Monde du Cinéma, number 3, *Art video algérien: une experience en temps réel*, review release in April 2013 at Paris, France.
*Book release *Relationship of image and sound in contemporary Algerian Video: Experience real-time* European University Editions, 2010, Germany. 
* Journal of the Foundation Michelangelo Pistoletto, About video documentary, *Take the bus and look*, 2010, Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy.

### O Collaboration nima
**Utocorpis*, curatorial programme, video art, films et vidéos d’artistes français et africains, 2017, French Institute Casablanca, Morocco. 
**Utocorpis*, les corps utopiques, Silencio Club David Lynch, 2017, Paris, France.
**Delirium*, vidéos d’artiste africains, French Institute Dakar, 2016, Senegal.
*Curating exhibition *Le corps manquant* - *The missing body*, 2014, French Institute Algiers, Algeria. 
**Corps et (des) accords. L’Esthétique vidéo des artistes algériennes (1995–2013)*, Cycle Possession, Espace Khiasma, 2013, curatorial programme of video art, Paris Les Lilas, France.
*Curating exhibition La scène algérienne, Hospice Saint Charles, January 2013, Rosny-sur-seine, France. 
*Illegal Cinema 113, screening movie *Tahya ya dido*, directed by par Mohamed Zinet (1971, 76 min), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 2013, Paris, France. 
**Methods and processes of change*, Foundation Michelangelo Pistoletto and Association Love Difference, 2010, Biella, Italy.
**French Connexion* edited by  Léa Gauthier, Black Jack Editions, 2008, Paris, France. 
**Du sacré dans l’art actuel?*, edited by Richard Conte et Marion Laval Jeantet, Klincksieck Editions, 2008, Paris, France.

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