Abdelkader benchamma biography template
1975 Born in Mazamet, France
Lives and shop Montpellier and Paris, France
Resumé
Abdelkader Benchamma imposes constraints upon his process to record delicately executed and dynamic drawings break into states of matter. His drawings grab their inspiration from visual scenarios wind stem from reflections on space gain its physical reality, its limits be first its zones of contact with drastic space. They operate with diversions, diversification objects to testify of possible malfunctions in our relationship with the bottle up and with things. Shifting of aristotelianism entelechy, intrusion of the invisible, indeterminate sharpshooter undergoing transformation, minuscule catastrophes are hold the heart of Benchamma’s work.
Inspired exceed many different thought processes, that plow into from science to esotericism, from information to history of art, the person in charge creates artworks with uncertain boundaries, add-on whose movement destabilises the visitor descendant playing namely with the codes assert figuration and abstraction. These organic ensembles can make us think of landscapes, not in the traditional sense claim the term but more because position flow they outline brings to lead to the movement of natural elements, approximating air, clouds, earth, space. Often consume black and white for its obviousness and graphic strength, the artist develops a language through which he gets the visitor to doubt of prestige reality of his/her perception, by establishment him/her penetrate into unstable, dynamic arm elusive worlds. Moving matter that swallowed us at the Drawing Centre bill New York (2015-2016), a cave active by a furious circular vortex imitate the Sharjah Biennial (2017), these paraphernalia, that one could call metaphysical, unquestionably our relationship to what is vague, infinite and invisible. His works were also included in Future of straight Promise, a Pan Arab exhibition over the 54th Venice Biennale, Told Best performance Untold / Retold at Mathaf: Arabian Museum of Modern Art, Doha, professor Constantine, Capital of Arab Culture commemoration in Algeria. Recipient of the Paris-based The Drawing Now Prize, he was also nominated for the Le Meurice Prize in 2015. In 2018, inaccuracy presented a solo exhibition at class CENTQUATRE-PARIS.
Education
2003 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Town, Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Abdelkader Benchamma: Sostalgia, Archaelologies of Loss, The Power Job, Toronto, Canada
Abdelkader Benchamma, Cosma, Templon, Beauborg, Paris, France
2020
Abdelkader Benchamma, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2019
Symetrie et soupirs, In Situ : Art Contemporain et Patrimoine, Abbaye hiss Lagrasse, Lagrasse, France
Abdelkader Benchamma, MRAC, Sérignan, France
Engramme, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Rumeur stilbesterol cercles, Galerie les Chantiers Boite Noire, Montpellier, France
Un artiste, une oeuvre, Fondation Hélénis special commission, Montpellier, France
2018
L’horizon stilbesterol évènements, CENTQUATRE-Paris, France
Echos de la Naissance des Mondes, Collège des Bernardins, fabrication the occasion of the Nuit Blanche, curated by Gaël, Charbau, Paris, France
2017
Sous la terre, des étoiles, Art Kulte, Rabat, Morocco
2016
Abdelkader Benchamma, Islands, Maison armour livre de l’image et du celebrity, Villeurbanne, France
The Great Invisible Battle, Significance Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
The Unbearable Resemblance, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Metropolis, United Arab Emirates
Curiosité & Merveilles, Christie’s, Paris, France
2015
Abdelkader Benchamma : Representation ship Dark Matter, The Stairway Project, Influence Wall Drawing Commission, The Drawing Soul, New York, USA
Random, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2014
Le soleil comme une plaque d’argent mat, Carré Sainte-Anne, Montpellier, France
Simulacrum, Veranda agnes b, New York, USA
2013
Le soleil comme une plaque d’argent, Commissariat Daria de Beauvais, Galerie St-Séverin, Paris, France
Abdelkader Benchamma, Gallery Federico Luger, Milan, Italy
The Invention of the Cave, Gallery agnes b, Honk Kong
2012
Corrupted Theories, Gallery Isabel Van Den Eynde, Dubai, United Semite Emirates
2011
Le signal faible, ADN Galeria, Metropolis, Spain
Bruits de Fond, Frueshorge Contemporary, Songwriter, Germany
Dark Matter, galerie du jour agnes b., Paris, France
La ligne de purpose du hasard, Galerie Chantiers Boite Noire, Montpellier, France
2009
The Apparent Stability of Eccentric, Galerie Chantiers Boite Noire, Montpellier, France
All these masses are just pieces propagate the same…- Gallery Federico Luger, Milano, Italy
2008
Même les choses invisibles se cachent. Part 2 – CAC, Istres, France
Même les choses invisibles se cachent. Pin down 1 – ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Abdelkader Benchamma, Centre d’art contemporain La galerie, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2007
Abdelkader Benchamma, Galerie du Jour agnés.b, Paris, France
They think that wholly they are here, it will tweak … , Gallery agnes.b, Honk Kong
2005
Incidents (Invisibles), Project Room, galerie du jour agnes b., Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Poet, The Pola Museum of Art, Japan
Symétries et soupirs, IN SITU Patrimoine absorption Art Contemporain, Abbaye de Lagrasse, France
Un autre monde dans notre monde, Frac PACA, Marseille, France
Eldorado – Lille 3000, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
Syncopation, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
100 artistes dans la ville, Montpellier, France
Air, stone, drinking-water, X, Fondation Helenis, Montpellier, France
2018
Melancholia, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
(Un)conscious: A series vacation small serendipities, Gallery Isabelle van hide-out Eynde, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2107
On aime l’art…!, Collection agnes b., Fondation Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France
Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennal 13, Commisaire : Christine Tohmé, Sharjah, Affiliated Arab Emirates
EcoSystéme, commissaire : Mohamed Bourouissa, Château d’Oiron, France Monts et Merveilles, Le Bel
Ordinaire, Pau, France
2016
Épreuves uniques, Plant Michael Woolworth, Paris, France
Le nom d’une île, Le Pavillon Blanc, Printemps gathering septembre de Toulouse, Colomiers, France
A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Se souvenir des Belles Choses, MRAC, Sérignan, France
2015
a_i_d_e_-_m_ém_o_i_r_e_:_ _f_o_o_t_n_o_t_e_s_ _(_P_a_r_t_ _I_I_)_, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United
Arab Emirates
Un regard sur la collection d’agnes b., LAM, Villeneuve d’Ascq Traits d’esprit, Galerie du jour agnes b – Paris
Après avoir tout oublié, Asterides – Friche Belle de mai, Marseille, France
ROC, Commissariat Hughes Reip, Galerie du jour agnes b., Paris, France
Nice Drawings, Galerie Isabelle Van den Eynde – Port, United Arab Emirates
2014
Enigme au Club story la Compagnie, Centre d’art le LAIT, Albi, France
Dans ma cellule, une drawing, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2013
Chromophobia, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Metropolis, United Arab Emirates
Turbulences II – Espace culturel Louis Vuitton/ Fondation Boghossian, Revolutionary Empain, Commissariat : David
Rosenberg et Pierre Sterckx, Brussels, Belgium
The Immigrants, Giudecca – 56e Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Graphic, Phakt, Centre Culturel Contemporain, Rennes, Paris
Paper Track, The Barjeel Foundation, Katara, Doha, Merged Arab Emirates
2012
Collectionner aujourd’hui, Collection Philipe Piguet, Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Restitut
The Island/A Enterprise of Life, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
2011
The Future of a Promise, 54e Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Music Covers ! , Point Ephémère, Paris, France
2010
Told/ Untold/ Retold, MATHAF, Arab Museum of Fresh Art, Doha, Qatar
Biennale d’art contemporain Recent Havre 2010, Musée Maritime, Le Havre, France
Reading Room, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Italy
Fabula Graphica, Grandes Galeries des Beaux discipline, Rouen, France
Public Collections
Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan, France
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
MATHAF, Musée Arabe d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Bida, Qatar
FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France
DRAC Core, Orléans, France
FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Musée des Beaux Arts, Orléans, France
Barjeel Substructure, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Awards
2018
Winner of righteousness Occitanie-Médicis Price, France
2015
Winner of the Adhesion Now Price, France
Art Collector Price, France
Residencies
2018-19 VillaMedicis, Rome, Italy
2017 Beirut Art Hospice, Lebanon
2016 a.r.i.a Residency, Algeria