“神秘参与” 艺术家介绍丨卡德尔·阿提亚、唐纳天

Kader Attia born in Senna-Saint-Denis (France) in 1970. He Lives and works in Berlin and Algiers.

He grew up in both Algeria and the suburbs of Paris, and uses this experience of living as a part of two cultures as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that reflects on aesthetics and ethics of different cultures. He takes a poetic and symbolic approach to exploring the wide-ranging repercussions of Western modern cultural hegemony and colonialism on non-Western cultures, investigating identity politics of historical and colonial eras, from Tradition to Modernity, in the light of our globalized world, of which he creates a genealogy. For several years, his research focuses on the concept of Repair, as a constant in Human Nature, of which the modern Western Mind and the traditional extra-Occidental Thought have always had an opposite vision. From Culture to Nature, from gender to architecture, from science to philosophy, any system of life is an infinite process of repair. He is the winner of 2017 Joan Miró Prize and in 2016 he won the Prix Marcel Duchamp.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “The Museum of Emotion”, The Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019); “Kader Attia”, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, United States (2019); “The Field of Emotion”, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2018); “Kader Attia”, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France (2018); “Reflecting Memory”, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (2017); “Kader Attia”, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2017). He participated the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Some of his works can be found at the Tate Modern in London, at the Centre Pompidou and at the ICA of Boston. 

Nadim Abbas

Nadim Abbas (b.1980, Hong Kong) examines the mercurial properties of images and their ambiguous relationship to reality.  This has culminated in the construction of complex set pieces where objects disappear into their own image and bodies succumb to the seduction of space.  Abbas was awarded with the Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship and the HK Arts Development Award (Young Artist / Visual Arts) in 2014.  

Past exhibitions include: "Phantom Plane" (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong), "Poor Toy "(VITRINE, Basel), "Proregress" (12th Shanghai Biennale), "Blue Noon" (Last Tango, Zurich), "Clouds⇄Forests" (7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art), "Camoufleur" (VITRINE, London), "Chimera" (Antenna Space, Shanghai), "The Last Vehicle" (UCCA, Beijing), "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience" (New Museum, New York), "Unseen Existence" (HK Arts Centre), "Going, going, until I meet the tide" (2014 Busan Biennale), "The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else" (Witte de With, Rotterdam), "Tetraphilia" (Third Floor Hermés, Singapore).