Zineb Sedira

Born:
1970
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
French
Trust:
APT London
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • A group exhibition, titled 'The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding', exploring the physical manifestations and approach of specific visual dynamics of post-WWII era, is on view at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, and will run through December 31, 2016.

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  • 1. “Counting on People” at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff A pandemic runs rampant while charlatan scientists offer a snake-oil cure for a price...

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  • The New York Times Reviews Zineb Sedira's "Present Tense"    

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  • APT Artists: Davide Baloula, Melik Ohanian, and Zineb Sedira nominated for the 2015 Marcel Duchamp prize

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  • London life is about to get infinitely better.

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  • Niki Johnson’s portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made of condoms is naturally sparking controversy.

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  • Damien Hirst to Open London Gallery: In an effort to recast his mass-produced art legacy, Damien Hirst is opening a free-entry gallery on Newport Street in London that will open with a showcase of work by an “anti-Hirst” artist: John Hoyland, the British abstract painter who objected to the Royal Academy’s 1997 “Sensation” show of work by the Young British Artists.

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  • Art on the Underground, the official art programme for Transport for London (TfL), announces Underline, a year-long interdisciplinary celebration of...

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  • The Association for the International Diffusion of French Art—ADIAF, for short—has announced the nominees for this year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize, which is given annually to a French artist whom they believe is worthy of foreign recognition.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • Rhythmic chants, news dispatches and a multitude of impassioned Tunisian voices echo down the corridors of Sharjah's Beit Al Serkal.

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  • There may be problems with living in Folkestone, but access to high calibre contemporary art is not one of them. Every three years an international

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  • In 2008, the inaugural Folkestone Triennial proved an unstoppable triumph for the slightly unfashionable Kent town.

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  • In the past the Mediterranean was a place of flourishing cultures that developed owing to the economic, cultural and social relations between the peoples living

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  • The exhibition 'Disquieting Muses' is launched by the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, part of the State Museum of Contemporary Art

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  • THE ALGERIAN EMBASSY in Beirut is not a friendly place, but you’ll never hear me say the staff there are inefficient. After weeks of rejection

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  • The 14th annual Contact festival kicks off in Toronto this week sporting a program that is both rigorous and risqué.

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  • “Nobody knows where Arab art began and where it stands today. It is one of the least studied areas in art.” So said Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani

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  • Spartacus Chetwynd, Ben Rivers, Zineb Sedira and Emily Wardill have been announced as the four shortlisted artists for the 2010 Jarman Award.

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  • Curator Andrea Schlieker has invited artists from Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, Kosovo, Guyana, India, Brazil and more to take part in the Folkestone Triennial 2011

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

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1963 in Paris, France, Zineb Sedira lives and works in London. Primarily autobiographical in nature, Sedira’s work explores issues of identity and belonging from the particular vantage point of her own background as a French woman of Algerian descent living in the United Kingdom. In doing so, she questions the oral transmission of history, the reception of codes and symbols associated with Muslim identity and the ways in which one might negotiate these cultural markers. Sedira has recently completed a trilogy that focuses on the Mediterranean Sea as an interstitial zone of possibility, at once connecting and dividing France from Algeria.

Zineb Sedira has recently presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Coppenhagen (2010), Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2010), Musée National Pablo Picasso, La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris (2010), Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers (2010), John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton (2009), Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town (2009), Pori Museum, Finland (2009) and Rivington Place, London (2009). Her work has been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions including “Elles@centrepompidou” at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009), “U-turn”, the 1st Quadriennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2008), “Still Life, Ecology and the Politics of Exchange”, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah (2007), “Around the World in 80 Days”, ICA, London (2006) as well as “Authentic/ex-centric: Africa in and Out Africa” as part of the 49th Venice Biennale, Venice (2001).

Zineb Sedira is represented by Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris.


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