Installation view of Kader Attia
On Silence
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
November 8, 2021 - March 31, 2022
Photo: Markus Elbaus

Installation view of Kader Attia
On Silence
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
November 8, 2021 - March 31, 2022
Photo: Markus Elbaus

Installation view of Kader Attia
On Silence
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
November 8, 2021 - March 31, 2022
Photo: Markus Elbaus

Installation view of Kader Attia The Valley of Dreams
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
November 12 – December 19, 2020

Installation view of Kader Attia The Valley of Dreams
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
November 12 – December 19, 2020

Installation view of Kader Attia The Valley of Dreams
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
November 12 – December 19, 2020

Mirror Mask
2020
Wooden mask, mirror fragments, black pigment
Artwork Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 7 x 6 5/8 inches (46 x 18 x 17 cm)
Overall Dimensions: 77 x 10 x 10 inches (195.6 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm)

Untitled
2020
Collage, ink, photograph, photocopy, print on paper
Framed Dimensions:
26 1/2 x 32 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (67.3 x 81.9 x 3.8 cm)
 

Untitled
2020
Ceramic, terracotta, epoxy resin and steel plinth
Artwork Dimensions: 17 1/8 x 17 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches (43.5 x 43.5 x 8.9 cm)
Overall Dimensions: 70 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (177.8 x 25.1 x 25.1 cm)

Janus
2020
Cast aluminum
787.4 x 582.7 x 681.1 inches ​(2000 x 1480 x 1730 cm)

Installed at Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Donated by Christen Sveaas
Photo: Kunsthaus Zurich, Franca Cadrian

Installation view of Kader Attia: Remembering the Future
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
August 21 - November 15, 2020
Photo: Kunsthaus Zurich, Franca Cadrian

Installation view of Kader Attia: Remembering the Future
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
August 21 - November 15, 2020
Photo: Kunsthaus Zurich, Franca Cadrian

Installation view of Kader Attia: Remembering the Future
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
August 21 - November 15, 2020
Photo: Kunsthaus Zurich, Franca Cadrian

Installation view of Kader Attia: Remembering the Future
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
August 21 - November 15, 2020
Photo: Kunsthaus Zurich, Franca Cadrian

Installation view of Kader Attia / MATRIX 274
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
September 18 - November 17, 2019
Photo: JKA Photography
 

Installation view of Kader Attia / MATRIX 274
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
September 18 - November 17, 2019
Photo: JKA Photography
 

Installation view of Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
February 13 – May 6, 2019
Photo: Courtesy Hawyard Gallery

Installation view of Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
February 13 – May 6, 2019
Photo: Linda Nylind

Shifting Borders
2018
Mixed media installation; 7 chairs, 14 prosthetic legs, shoes; 3-channel HD digital film projection on 4 screens, 16:9, colour, sound each; "The Paradoxes of Modernity", 43:19 minutes; "Recycling Colonialism", 32:12 minutes; "Catharsis: The Living and the Dead are Looking for Their Bodies", 48:53 minutes

Installation view of The 12th Gwangju Biennial: Imagined Borders
Gwangju, Korea
September 7 - November 11, 2018

On n’emprisonne pas les idées
2018 
Site-specific installation; series of metal fences, concrete bases, stones

Installation view of Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton 
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
April 14 - September 16, 2018
Photo: Aurelian Mole, Courtesy MAC VAL

On n’emprisonne pas les idées (detail)
2018 
Site-specific installation; series of metal fences, concrete bases, stones

Installation view of Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton 
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
April 14 - September 16, 2018
Photo: Aurelian Mole, Courtesy MAC VAL
 

Installation view of Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton 
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
April 14 - September 16, 2018
Photo: Aurelian Mole, Courtesy MAC VAL

Installation view of Les racines poussent aussi dans le béton 
Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
April 14 - September 16, 2018
Photo: Aurelian Mole, Courtesy MAC VAL
 

Some Modernity’s Footprints
2018 
Site-specific installation; wood, railway sleepers, metal staples

Installation view of The Field of Emotion
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
January 27 - May 13, 2018
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

 

Traditional Repair, Immaterial Injury
2014
Site-specific floor sculpture; metal staples, concrete

Installation view of The Field of Emotion
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
January 27 - May 13, 2018
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Traditional Repair, Immaterial Injury (detail)
2014
Site-specific floor sculpture; metal staples, concrete

Installation view of The Field of Emotion
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
January 27 - May 13, 2018
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Installation view of The Field of Emotion
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
January 27 - May 13, 2018
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Installation view of The Field of Emotion
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
January 27 - May 13, 2018
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

Untitled (Mounira l’Oranaise)
2018
Print on poster paper
86.6 x 57 inches (220 x 145 cm)

Reflecting Memory
2016
Single-channel HD digital video projection, color, sound
 

 

 

Untitled (Ghardaïa)
2009
Installation; cooked couscous on plinth, digital prints on paper 

Installation view of But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
April 29 - October 5, 2016
Photo : David Heald

J’accuse (detail)
2016 
Installation; wooden busts on metallic plinths, wooden sculptures on metallic supports, single-channel video projection, colour, sound

Installation view of Sacrifice and Harmony
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
April 16 - August 14, 2016
Photo: Axel Schneider

J’accuse (detail)
2016 
Installation; wooden busts on metallic plinths, wooden sculptures on metallic supports, single-channel video projection, colour, sound

Installation view of Sacrifice and Harmony
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
April 16 - August 14, 2016
Photo: Axel Schneider

J’accuse (detail)
2016 
Installation; wooden busts on metallic plinths, wooden sculptures on metallic supports, single-channel video projection, colour, sound

Installation view of Sacrifice and Harmony
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
April 16 - August 14, 2016
Photo: Axel Schneider

Chaos + Repair = Universe
2014
Mirror fragments, metal wires
Installation; wooden busts on metallic plinths, wooden sculptures on metallic supports, single-channel video projection, colour, sound

Installation view of Sacrifice and Harmony
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
April 16 - August 14, 2016
Photo: Axel Schneider

Chaos + Repair = Universe (detail)
2014
Mirror fragments, metal wires
Installation; wooden busts on metallic plinths, wooden sculptures on metallic supports, single-channel video projection, colour, sound

Installation view of Sacrifice and Harmony
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
April 16 - August 14, 2016
Photo: Axel Schneider

Installation view of Continuum of Repair: The Light of Jacob's Ladder 
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
November 26, 2013 – November 23, 2014
 

Mirrors and Masks
2013
Series of sculptures, Dogon masks, mirrors, pedestals

The Repair from Occident to extra-Occidental Cultures
2012
Mixed media installation

Installation view of dOCUMENTA XIII
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
June 9 - September 16, 2012
Photo: Roman März

Rochers Carrés
2008
Photographic series, silver print
31.5 x 47.2 inches (80 x 120 cm)

Skyline
2007
Site-specific installation; fridges, black acrylic paint, mirror squares

Installation view of Square Dreams
BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
September 21, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Photo: Colin Davidson