-
Already Dead 01, 2021
-
Coma Manifesto 04, 2021
-
Heavier than words, 2021
-
Peripheral vision, 2021
-
Peripheral vision 3, 2021
-
Propaganda, 2021
-
Connection 13, 2020
-
The White Matter, 2019
-
Roots 08, 2016
-
The Index and the Machine 01, 2016
-
The Blind man, 2015
-
Behind the Rainbow 03, 2014-2015
-
Art de la Guerre - Ingénieurs, 2014
-
History is not mine, 2014
-
Evolution or Death, Phoebe, 2013
-
Mechanization 08, 2013
-
Oil 22, 2013
-
The Blinding Light 01, 2013
-
Who is Joseph Anton 01 XL, 2012-
-
Casablanca Circles 17, 2012
-
Casablanca Circles 47, 2012
-
Composition 05, 2012
-
The Angel’s Black Leg, 2011
-
Assassins, 2010
-
Black on Black, 2009 -
-
Contamination, 2009
-
Dead or Alive (Red), 2008
-
The Monuments, 2008
-
The dynamic Geography of History, 2006-2014
-
Evolution or Death, Matéo, 2004
mounir fatmi was born in Tangiers, Morocco, in 1970. When he was four, his family moved to Casablanca. At the age of 17, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Arts, and then at the Casablanca art school, and finally at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
He spent most of his childhood at the flea market of Casabarata, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tangiers, where his mother sold children’s clothes. Such an environment produces vast amounts of waste and worn-out common use objects. The artist now considers this childhood to have been his first form of artistic education, and compares the flea market to a museum in ruin. This vision also serves as a metaphor and expresses the essential aspects of his work. Influenced by the idea of dead media and the collapse of the industrial and consumerist society, he develops a conception of the status of the artwork located somewhere between Archive and Archeology.
By using materials such as antenna cable, typewriters and VHS tapes, mounir fatmi elaborates an experimental archeology that questions the world and the role of the artist in a society in crisis. He twists its codes and precepts through the prism of a trinity comprising Architecture, Language and Machine. Thus, he questions the limits of memory, language and communication while reflecting upon these obsolescent materials and their uncertain future. mounir fatmi’s artistic research consists in a reflection upon the history of technology and its influence on popular culture. Consequently, one can also view mounir fatmi’s current works as future archives in the making. Though they represent key moments in our contemporary history, these technical materials also call into question the transmission of knowledge and the suggestive power of images and criticize the illusory mechanisms that bind us to technology and ideologies.
Since 2000, Mounir fatmi’s installations were selected in several biennials, the 52nd and 57th Venice Biennales, the 8th Sharjah Biennale, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennales, the 2nd Seville Biennale, the 5th Gwangju Biennale, the 10th Lyon Biennale, the 5th Auckland Triennial, the 10th and 11th Bamako Biennales, the 7th Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, the Setouchi Triennial and the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan. His work has been presented in numerous personal exhibits, at the Migros Museum, Zurich. MAMCO, Geneva. Picasso Museum La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris. AK Bank Foundation, Istanbul. Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf and at the Gothenburg Konsthall. He also participated in several collective exhibits at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Palais de Tokyo, Paris. MAXXI, Rome. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. MMOMA, Moscow. Mathaf, Doha, Hayward Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, at Nasher Museum of Art, Durham and Louvre Abu Dhabi.
He has received several prizes, including the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam, the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at the 7th Dakar Biennale in 2006, as well as the Cairo Biennale Prize in 2010 and the Silver Plane Prize, Altai Biennale, Moscow in 2020.
-
The observer effect
mounir fatmi 20 Mar - 22 May 2021 ADN GaleriaThe Observer Effect, brings together a series of recent productions through which the artist explores new ways of creating from paradigmatic elements that have been present in his work: analog...More information -
5994 is just a number
Group show 10 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 ADN GaleriaWithin the framework of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2019, we are presenting a collective exhibition with the artists who we work for; some of them since the beginning, and others who...More information -
The index and the machine
mounir fatmi 19 Nov 2016 - 19 Jan 2017 ADN PlatformADN Galeria presents the second solo show by mounir fatmi at ADN Platform: The Index and the Machine. The Index and the Machine has been a word association used in...More information -
Light & Fire
mounir fatmi 22 Nov 2014 - 14 Jan 2015 ADN GaleriaThe exhibition brings together a series of works that explore the basis of history and society expressed through the written word and in various forms of language: religious, political, ideological...More information -
The art of war
mounir fatmi 22 Nov 2014 - 22 Jan 2015 ADN PlatformADN Platform hosts Art of War’s exhibition by mounir fatmi, an extension of Light & Fire solo show at ADN Galeria. Art of War takes the homonymous Chinese book’s title...More information -
Accomplices & Witnesses
Group Show 24 May - 31 Jul 2014 ADN GaleriaThe exhibition “Accomplices and Witnesses” is based on the idea of the artist as an accomplice and witness of social dynamics requiring an active implication, commitment and a positioning which...More information -
Ten is more than a number
Group Show 29 Jun - 30 Nov 2013 ADN GaleriaOn June the 29th , ADN Galería presents 10 IS MORE THAN A NUMBER, a group show which compiles works by all the artists working with the gallery to celebrate...More information