Mounir Fatmi

Born:
1970
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Nationality:
Moroccan
Trust:
APT Dubai
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  • Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf will be exhibiting works by Sven Druehl and Mounir Fatmi at Basel’s art fair Volta 13 from June 12 through June 17, 2017.

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  • Sale of Estampes & Multiples.

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  • “I don’t know what it’s like to be black in America,”(1) wrote the artist Dana Schutz in her protracted defense against calls for the removal and destruction of her painting Open Casket (2016).

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  • Mounir Fatmi’s 'Inside The Fire Circle' is on view at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, through April 22, 2017.

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  • From 15 to 18 March, the 11th edition of Art Dubai will take place, hosting 79 contemporary galleries from across the globe.

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  • Lawrie Shabibi presents “Inside The Fire Circle,” an exhibition by Mounir Fatmi, which will continue to run through April 27, 2017.

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  • Art and nature: the outdoor sculpture park offers the best of both worlds. Especially during the summer holidays, when we’re eager to trade in weary museum-legs for the invigorating effects of the nature hike, without sacrificing the need to view and appreciate great artworks. Here we’ve collected a selection of some of the best sculpture parks in Western Europe, combining idyllic settings with contemporary artworks by renowned artists. Located outside of major urban centers and off the beaten track, these art destinations are worth the trip.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • In 2008 Ireland was the first European country officially to enter into recession post crash, and, together with Greece, it has almost become a symbol of the spiraling economic downturn

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  • It's a few years since the first galleries started opening amid the old iron mongers, carpentry warehouses, car showrooms and-out-of-town supermarkets of Dubai's Al Quoz

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  • Moroccan art is being roused from a deep slumber. The "Marrakech Art Fair" has just come to an end, Morocco's first trade fair for contemporary art.

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  • A museum on the road separating Jewish west Jerusalem from the Arab neighborhoods in the city's east is attracting a daring group of artists

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  • In 2008 Ireland was the first European country officially to enter into recession post crash, and, together with Greece, it has almost become a symbol of the spiraling economic downturn

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  • It's a few years since the first galleries started opening amid the old iron mongers, carpentry warehouses, car showrooms and-out-of-town supermarkets of Dubai's Al Quoz

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  • The contemporary art landscape is littered with prestigious awards but the Jameel Prize, the Victoria and Albert Museum’s biennial award for contemporary

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  • Moroccan art is being roused from a deep slumber. The "Marrakech Art Fair" has just come to an end, Morocco's first trade fair for contemporary art.

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  • A museum on the road separating Jewish west Jerusalem from the Arab neighborhoods in the city's east is attracting a daring group of artists

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  • A new exhibition exploring the cultural exchange and duality of form between Arabic and European artists opens at the Palais Namaskar hotel, Marrakech

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  • From 9 to 11 October 2010, the city of Marrakech will be hosting the first edition of a modern and contemporary art fair in Morocco.

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  • Multi-Media artist Mounir Fatmi’s first UK solo show, History is Not Mine, opened at the Paradise Row Gallery on 19 April.

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  • Exhibiting artists: Nazgol Ansarinia, Taysir Batniji, Hala Elkoussy, Mounir Fatmi, Abdulnasser Gharem, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Rachid Koraïchi

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  • Within the medieval walls of Senlis, just outside Paris, in an old building that once housed priests, an unusual contemporary art collection

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  • Following the nine earlier editions that focused on History, Globalization and Temporality, the 10th edition of the Biennale de Lyon takes on the

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  • At the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale, opening on June 4, the high-profile participation of Middle Eastern countries is sure to give the popular art exhibition a distinctly political flavor.

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  • The three inaugural exhibitions planned by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

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  • The world’s first Arab Museum of Modern Art and Qatar’s plans for its cultural future Speculation about the museum boom in the Middle East

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BIOGRAPHY
Born 1970, Tangier, Morocco, lives and works between Paris and Tangier.
 
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games. His work deals with the desecration of religious objects, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He is particularly interested in the idea of death of the subject of consumption. This can be applied to antenna cables, copier machines, VHS tapes, and a dead language or a political movement. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events and reveals its structure. Mounir Fatmi's work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by the conventions. 
 
Mounir Fatmi's work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions : in Mamco, Geneva, in the Migros Museum für Gegenwarskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, at the Picasso Museum, war and peace, Vallauris, at the FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, at the Contemporary Art Center Le Parvis, at the Fondazione Collegio San Caro, Modena, at the AK Bank Foundation in Istanbul, at the Museum Kunst Palast in Duesseldorf and at the MMP+, in Marrakesh.
 
He participated in several collective shows at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,The Brooklyn Museum, New York, N.B.K., Berlin, MAXXI, Rome, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, the Hayward Gallery, London, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
 
His installations have been selected in biennials such as the 52nd and 54th Venice Biennial, the 8th biennial of Sharjah, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennial, the 2nd Seville Biennial, the 5th Gwangju Biennial and the 10th Lyon Biennial, the 5th Auckland Triennial, Fotofest 2014, Houston and the 10th Bamako Encounters.
 
Mounir Fatmi was awarded by several prize such as the Cairo Biennial Prize in 2010, the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam, the Grand Prize Leopold Sedar Senghor of the 7th Dakar Biennial in 2006 as well and he was shortlisted for the Jameel Prize of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London in 2013.

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