نضال شامخ Nidhal Chamekh

Gallery contact:
Selma Feriani
Tunis : 32 Rue Ibn Nafis. La Goulette, 2015. Tunisia
London : 1-5 Cromwell Place. London, SW72JE. UK.

ولد نضال شامخ عام 1985 بمعتمديۃ الدهماني بتونس و درس الفنون التشكيليۃ في تونس ثم في باريس ويعمل حاليا بين العاصمتين. يرسم نضال مسار تفكير وتجريب عميقين لإعادة التفكير في عصرنا. تتنزّل كافة أعماله في مفترق طرق بين الذاتي والسياسي وبين المعيشي والتاريخي وبين الحدث الساخن و الأرشيف. فمن الرسوم إلى التنصيبات مرورا بالتصوير و الفيديو يفكّك .نضال شامخ و يفتت و يشرّح كل ما شكل هويتنا الحاليۃ

عُرضت أعمال نضال شامخ في بينالي البندقيۃ وترينالي آيشي باليابان وبينالي إينشوان بالصين وبينالي داكار وفي تونس مع مجموعۃ .سياسيّات وفي ف.م. مركز الفن المعاصر بمدينۃ ميلانوا و بدراوينغ رووم بلندن وبمتحف وود و غيرها

Né en 1985 à Dahmani en Tunisie, Nidhal Chamekh vit et travaille entre Paris et Tunis. Artiste visuel, il est diplômé de l’école des Beaux-arts de Tunis et de l’Université de la Sorbonne à Paris. Il trace un chemin de réflexion et d’expérimentation pour repenser notre époque. Chacune de ses créations se situe, pour les questionner, dans l’intersection entre le biographique et le politique ; entre le vécu et l’historique ; entre l’événement et l’archive. Du dessin à l’installation à la photo et la vidéo, Nidhal Chamekh fragmente et défait, dissèque à travers ses œuvres la constitution même de notre identité contemporaine.
Ses œuvres ont été exposées à la Biennale de Venise, la Triennale d’Aïchi, la Biennale de Yinchuan, la Biennale de Dakar et montrées à Tunis durant les expositions du collectif Politics, à Paris à l’Institut du Monde Arabe et à Drawing Now, en Italie au FM Centre d’art contemporain de Milan, à Londres au Drawing Room durant la Foire 1:54 ainsi qu’à Art Basel et au Musée Hood pour ne citer qu’eux.

Born in 1985 in Dahmani, Tunisia, Nidhal Chamekh graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tunis and the University of Sorbonne in Paris. He continues to work and live between the two cities. Nidhal’s creations reflect on the times we inhabit. His artwork is situated at the intersections of the biographic and the political, the lived and the historical, the event and the archive. From drawing to installations, and from photography to videos, Nidhal Chamekh’s oeuvres dissect the constitution of our contemporary identity.

His artwork has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, the Aïchi Triennale, the Yinchuan Biennial, the Dakar Biennial and has been shown in Tunis at Politics Collective exhibitions, in Paris at The Arab World Institute, The Drawing Now, in Italy at FM Contemporary Art Center, in London at Drawing Room, during 1:54 Art Fair and in Art Basel and the Hood Museum among others.

Solo exhibitions (séléction)

2024: Et si Carthage... - Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
Curated by Kathryn Weir & Salma Kossemtini
2022: NOVO project - Secci Gallery, Florence, Italy
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
2023: Drawings - Dominik Mercsh Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019: Nos visages - Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2016: Mnēmē - Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2016: Burn - Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
2015: Dispars - Aïcha Gorgi Gallery, Tunis
2014: Entre les choses - Mariska Hammoudi Gallery, Paris

Group Exhibitions (séléction)

2024

Méditerranées Episode 1: Inventions and Representations. Mucem, Marseille, France.
05.06.2024 - 31.12.2026
Featuring Francis Alÿs, Ziad Antar, Hélène Bellenger, Nidhal Chamekh, Joseph Eid (AFP), Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Mouna Karray, Fatima Mazmouz, Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, Maria Varela, as well as Théo Mercier.

PAUSE. Frac Lorraine / 49 Nord 6 Est, France.
06.09.2024 - 26.01.2025
Group exhibition featuring: Sven Augustijnen, Nidhal Chamekh, Banele Khoza, Naeem Mohaiemen, Peter Piller, Oraib Toukan.

2023

A Convening of Civic Poets. Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.

2022

Il Cono d’Ombra (The Shadow Cone). Decolonial narratives of the Overseas, Castel Nuovo, Naples, Italy.
Curated by Marco Scotini.

Castel Nuovo fotografia, 10th edition, Rome, Italy.

Étincelles, Exhibition of the residents of the French Academy in Rome, Italy.

Summer Group Show. Taymour Grahne.

Paris+. Paris, France.

Liste Art Fair. Basel, Switzerland.

2021

Resident at the Villa Médicis, 2021-2022 Promotion.

Diaspora at Home. Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.

CARGO, Les Rencontres photographiques de Saint-Nazaire, France.

2020

Comme un parfum d'aventure. MAC Lyon, France.

Untitled. Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia.

2019

Les Rencontres photographiques de Bamako, 12th edition. Bamako, Mali.

HybrID. Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Diaspora at Gome. CCA Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.

The Land’s Unknown. Orléans Architecture Biennale, France.

Dream City Biennale, Tunis, Tunisia.

Sesc_Videobrasil Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil.

The Armory Show, New York, USA.

Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK.

Art Club 27, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy.

2018

Memory Matters. Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden.

A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists' Drawings. Modern Art Oxford, UK.

The Sea is the Limit. York Art Gallery, York, UK.

21,39 Refusing to Be Still. Jeddah Arts, Jeddah, KSA.

2017

Newwwar. It’s Just a Game? Bandjoun Station, Cameroon.
Curated by Marion Zilio.

Walking Through Someone Else's Dream. Orléans Architecture Biennale, France.

Dream City Biennale, Tunis, Tunisia.

Fuir. Fondation Blachère, Les Bourguignons, France.

The White Hunter. FM Contemporary Art Center, Milan, Italy.
Curated by Marco Scotini.

Graphic witness. Drawing Room, London, UK.

Drawing Biennial. Drawing Room, London, UK.

Dans Mes Mains, dans Mes Rêves Même. Patio Opéra, Paris, France.

2016

The Sea is The Limit. Galerie Patrick Heide, London, UK.

Yinchuan Biennale. For an Image. Faster Than Light. Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China.

Aichi Triennale. Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan. Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan.

Effervescence. Institute of Cultures of Islam, Paris, France.
Curated by Michket Krifa.

Inventory. New Works and Conversations around African Art. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA.

2015

56th Venice Biennale. All the World's Futures. International Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
Curated by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019).

D/Dessin 15. Contemporary Drawing Fair, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York, USA.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, UK.

ABC Berlin Contemporary Art Fair, Berlin, Germany.

2014

La Forme Animale. GVCC Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
Curated by Zoulikha Bouabdellah.

Orient Art Express, Oujda, Morocco.
Curated by Abdelkader Dahmani.

Survivances. Galerie Elmarsa, Tunis, Tunisia.

Dégénération. Galerie Aïcha Gorgi, Tunis, Tunisia.

Replicants. Galerie Yam, Mexico, Mexico.

Dak’Art 2014, 11th edition of the Dakar Biennale, Senegal.

2012-2013

Les jours d’avant, 12th edition of the Lyon Biennale - Resonances, France.

La Nuit Blanche. French Institute of Oran, Algeria.

Art O’clock. Contemporary Art Fair, La Défense, France.

Les Soirées Dessinées. Galerie Talmart, Paris, France.

Slash. Galerie Aïcha Gorgi, Tunis, Tunisia.

Politics #2. National Center for Living Art, Tunis, Tunisia.

Politics. Galerie Talmart, Paris, France.

Dispars. Galerie Talmart, Paris, France.

Politics. National Center for Living Art, Tunis, Tunisia.

Dégagements. Arab World Institute, Paris, France.

Collections

CNAP. National Center for Plastic Arts. France.
Contemporary Art Fund - Paris Collection. France.
British Museum. London.
H. Foundation. Antananarivo and Paris.
Fondation Blachère. France.
Hood Museum of Art. Dartmouth.
Frac Centre Val de Loire. France.
Barjeel Foundation. Sharjah.
Kadist Foundation. Paris – San Francisco.
Shanti Art Collection. Maine.

Awards and Distinctions

La Fondation des Artistes. France.
Resident at the Villa Médicis. Rome.
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Quebec.
Al Mawred Al Thaqafi. Brussels.
AFAC Foundation. Beirut.

Publications

Le Dessin dans l’art contemporain. Editions Pyramid.
African Art Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining African Art for the Twenty-FirstCentury. Ilex press & Tate Modern.
African Artists, from 1882 to now. Phaidon Editors.
Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing. Phaidon Editors.
Multitudes. Icônes 81. Paris.
Reflections on Contemporary art of Middle East and North Africa. British Museum.
Esse arts+opinions n°98 – Savoir. Montréal.
The Last Monument Standing. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
Streams of consciousness. Archive books. Berlin.
Imaginated communities. Videobrasil. Sao Paolo.
Memory Matters. Musée Skisernass. Suède.
Blessures. Espace. Art Actuel, pratique et perspectives. Québec. INHA, Le Maghreb. Perspective, Paris.
The White Hunter African Memories and Representations. Archive Books.
Marcher dans le rêve d’un autre. Les Presses du réel et Frac Centre.
Homo Faber : A Rainbow Caravan. Triennale d’Aïchi. Nagoya, Japon.
All the World's Futures: 56 International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia.
Protocollum. Edition Dickersbach.
Asian African Art - New Frontiers of Contemporary Art. Editions Primo Marella gallery.
Contemporary African Art. Primae Noctis & Wild Spaces Safaris.
La Forme Animale. Éditions Venise Cadre. 11ème Biennale de Dakar.
Dégénération. Editions Ammar Farhat, Tunis.
Résonance, 12ème Biennale de Lyon.
Politiques 2, Centre National d’Art Vivant de Tunis. 2012 Politiques, Centre National d’Art Vivant de Tunis.
Dégagements, Institut du Monde Arabe.

Interventions & Conversations

Resistance of the Memory: Alternative Modes of Appearance. Conversation with Marco Scotini. Naba. Rome.
Workshop with Art & Media students. Naba, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti. Rome.
Archiving Absence: Two Artistic Practices Confronting the Coloniality of History. Conversation with Fanny Souade Sow, moderated by Hajer Ben Boubaker. Kadist. Paris.
Representation, Violence, and the Constant Evolution of Our (Political) Landscape: Ala Kheir, Nidhal Chamekh, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Rahima Gambo, Santiago Mostyn. Moderator: George Shire. National Museum. Bamako Encounters.
Les Intensifs. ENSA Paris-Malaquais. Paris.
Workshop with Master’s students in Fine Arts, moderated by Ismail Bahri. Paris 8 University Vincennes. Paris.
Public Workshop: The Life of Images. Drawing Room. London.Conversation with Kate Macfarlane as part of the exhibition The Graphic Witness. Drawing Room. London.
Conversation with students from the Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis as part of the Dream City Biennale. Tunis.
Conversation with students from EPSAA. Paris.
Conversation with Omar Berrada as part of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. London.