Works
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch D, 2025
    Kometenbuch D, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch K, 2025
    Kometenbuch K, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch A, 2025
    Kometenbuch A, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch P, 2025
    Kometenbuch P, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch F, 2025
    Kometenbuch F, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch M, 2025
    Kometenbuch M, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch J, 2025
    Kometenbuch J, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch H, 2025
    Kometenbuch H, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch G, 2025
    Kometenbuch G, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch N, 2025
    Kometenbuch N, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch B, 2025
    Kometenbuch B, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch O, 2025
    Kometenbuch O, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch E, 2025
    Kometenbuch E, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch L, 2025
    Kometenbuch L, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch C, 2025
    Kometenbuch C, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch I, 2025
    Kometenbuch I, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Kometenbuch Q, 2025
    Kometenbuch Q, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Aerolites D, 2025
    Aerolites D, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Aerolites C, 2025
    Aerolites C, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Aerolites B, 2025
    Aerolites B, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Aerolites A, 2025
    Aerolites A, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Engramme Aerolites D, 2025
    Engramme Aerolites D, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Engramme Aerolites C, 2025
    Engramme Aerolites C, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Engramme Aerolites B, 2025
    Engramme Aerolites B, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Entropie Aerolites B, 2025
    Entropie Aerolites B, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Entropie Aerolites A, 2025
    Entropie Aerolites A, 2025
  • Aerolites Halley (Commissioned, 2025
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Untitled, 2023
    Untitled, 2023
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Engramme Ashes, 2023
    Engramme Ashes, 2023
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Engramme Aurore Boréale, 2023
    Engramme Aurore Boréale, 2023
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Events, 2020
    Events, 2020
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Rayon fossile II, 2020
    Rayon fossile II, 2020
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Structure carriére, 2019-2023
    Structure carriére, 2019-2023
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Structure carriére marbres, 2019-2023
    Structure carriére marbres, 2019-2023
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Random 150, 2014
    Random 150, 2014
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Maquette sculpture A, 2013
    Maquette sculpture A, 2013
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Maquette sculpture C, 2013
    Maquette sculpture C, 2013
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Random 20, 2011
    Random 20, 2011
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Random 88, 2011
    Random 88, 2011
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Random 3, 2011
    Random 3, 2011
  • Abdelkader Benchamma, Random 49, 2009
    Random 49, 2009
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Biography

Over the years, Abdelkader Benchamma has built a body of work that focuses on drawing. His artistic practice has evolved throughout his career, absorbing references from classical drawing, scientific modeling, comics, Japanese prints and literature. That said, Benchamma´s drawings are not only delicate and highly sophisticated technical creations, but they also contain a deep reflection on the states of matter and the relationship of humans with the physical and metaphysical environment. The aesthetic evolution of his compositions goes hand in hand with the contents he explores and thus a transformation that goes from the figurative to the abstract and from the individual to the cosmic, can be seen. Benchamma proposes an expanded drawing that overflows the boundaries of the paper to occupy the exhibition space, creating a new dimension that surrounds the viewer.

 

Abdelkader Benchamma studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris. He has created drawn murals at the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, at the panarab exhibition in Venice during the 54º Biennal, and at the Collège des Bernadins in due to the Nuit Blanche of Paris in 2018. He has shown individually at MRAC Sérignan (2019), also at the CENTQUATRE-Paris (2018), and at The Blueproject Foundation Barcelona (2016). His pieces can be found in public collections such as the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, the Musee de Beaux Arts-Orleans in France and the MATHAF, Musée Arab d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Doha, Qatar. Benchamma  was included in the Phaidon book Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing,  a global survey on contemporary drawing that presents 115 artists selected by internationally renowned critics and curators . In 2018 he was awarded with the Occitaine-Médicis 1º prize and finalist of the Marcel Duchamp Price in 2024. 

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