Kader Attia

Attia was born in Dugny, France to Algerian parents and was raised in Paris and Algeria.^[4][5] He studied at the l'école Duperré de Paris, l'école des arts appliqués La Massana de Barcelone and graduated from the Ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs Paris, in 1998.^[6][7][8]

Attia's work often examines social injustice, marginalized communities and postcolonialism.^[9][10][11] His work has involved the concept of repair in relation to these concepts.^[12]

In 2016, Attia founded La Colonie, a gallery near Paris' Gare du Nord train station.^[13][14][15] In March 2020, La Colonie closed permanently due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[16] In March 2021, Attia was announced as the curator for the 12th Berlin Biennale.^[17] He is the first artist to curate the biennale since New-York based collective DIS, who presented the 9th edition in 2016.^[16] In November 2021, he had an exhibition entitled "On Silence" at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha.^[18]

Attia's work is included in the permanent collections of:

• Museum of Modern Art, New York,^[19]
• Sharjah Art Foundation,^[20]
• Tate Museum,^[21]
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,^[22]
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,^[23]
• Guggenheim Museum in New York.^[4]
• Arter, İstanbul.

• In 2016, Attia won France's Prix Marcel Duchamp.^[24][25] In 2018, he was awarded the Joan Miró Prize.^[26][27]

• In 2019, Attia was a member of the jury that selected Arthur Jafa as winner of the Prince Pierre Foundation's International Contemporary Art Prize.^[28][29] In 2026, he served on the jury of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.^[30]

• The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures. The Green Box Kunstedition. 2013. ISBN 9783941644533^[31]
• The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity. MIT Press. 2024. ISBN 9783956795336, editor.^[32]