Zineb Sedira French, Algerian , b. 1963
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Les UNES tissées 2 (Festival Pan Africain d’Alger 1969), 2024
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Almost any stories (F for Fake), 2023
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No matter what (Dreams Have No Titles), 2023
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No Matter What (Dreams Have No Titles), 2023
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Dreams Have No Titles (Lightbox #3), 2022
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Brochures festival Panaf (from the series For a Brief Moment the World Was on Fire...), 2019
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Festival Panaf 1969-2009 (from the series For a Brief Moment the World Was on Fire...), 2019
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L'aube des damnés (from the series For a Brief Moment the World Was on Fire...), 2019
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Sugar Routes II, 2013
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Sugar Silo, 2013
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Sugar Surfaces I, 2013
Born 1963. Paris, France
Lives and works London and works between the United Kingdom, Paris and Algiers
Over the past 25 years, Zineb Sedira has enriched debates around modernism, modernity, and their manifestations through a practice that foregrounds artistic expression and contemporary experience in North Africa and beyond. Initially grounded in autobiographical research into her identity as a woman with a singular personal geography, her work has gradually expanded toward more universal concerns including mobility, memory, transmission, migration, storytelling, and the bias of official histories. Working across photography, film, installation, video, performance, and object-making, Sedira has developed a polyphonic visual language that weaves together landscapes, language, portraiture, and archival materials, navigating between documentary and fictional approaches to question historical narratives. Engaging with sites, objects, and archives marked by movement and displacement, her practice preserves and reactivates memory while challenging dominant histories. For Sedira, producing art is an act of resistance, against forgetting, hegemonies, and fixed narratives.
Sedira’s work has been shown in several international institutions and biennials, such as the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); Tate Britain, UK; Centre Pompidou, France; Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Mori Museum, Tokyo; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea; MMK Museum für Mordern Kunst, Germany; Smithsonian, Washington; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum Colecao Berardo, Lisbon; The Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; Bildmuseet, Sweden; Jeu de Paume, Paris; IVAM, Spain; Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; Prefix - Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille; Palais de Tokyo, France; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille; Pori Museum, Finland; MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; The Photographer’s Gallery, London; Sharjah Biennale (2003 and 2007), UAE; Folkestone Triennial (2011), Kent; Thessaloniki Biennale (2011), Greece; and the Liverpool Biennale (2021), UK.
Her works can be found in several prestigious collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA; Arts Council England, UK; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; British Museum, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne. Paris, France; Musée national de l’histoire et des cultures de l’immigration/Cité nationale de l’histoire, Paris; The mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien Collection, Vienna, Austria; SAMOCA Museum, Saudi Arabia; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Ministry Culture and Youth Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.
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“I have lived on the land long before swords turned man into prey”
ZINEB SEDIRA | KAMAL ALJAFARI | AZZEDINE SALECK | South of Ajdabiya collective 27 September - 18 October 2025In the quest to explore the boundaries of land—those shaped by war, colonization, militarization, and migration—this exhibition calls for a reconsideration of what it means to inhabit spaces that have...Read more -
To Weave into Words and Films
ZINEB SEDIRA SOLO EXHIBITION 20 September - 23 November 2024We are delighted to present Zineb Sedira's To Weave into Words and Films in Tunisia next month. This newest iteration of Dreams Have No Titles, first unveiled at the French Pavilion during the 2022 Venice Biennale, marks the debut of the installation in North Africa and its first showing in a formerly colonized country.Read more
The exhibition, Sedira's second show with us and first in our new space, triangulates between a screening of her film Dreams Have No Titles, a series of tapestry works highlighting Tunisian artisanship, and a display of lightboxes, all of which reverberate an overarching ethos.
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Les rêves n’ont pas de titre 21 May – 27 September 2026Curated by Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Presented for the first time in France, the work was originally conceived for the French Pavilion...Read more -
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In Absence and in Presence : 22 March — 30 August 2026In Absence and in Presence: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection Aranya Art Center Guangzhou 22 March — 30 August 2026 Photography: Liu Xiangli...Read more -
Nicene Kossentini, Sara Ouhdaddou, Zineb Sedira at LOUVRE-LENS
Par-delà les Mille et Une Nuits. Histoires des orientalismes 1 April 2026Group exhibition curated by Annabelle Ténèze and Souraya Noujaim, with scientific curatorship by Gwenaëlle Fellinger The group exhibition Par-delà les Mille et Une Nuits. Histoires...Read more -
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The Line, Co-curated with Arup Phase 2 5 March 2026Dreams Are a Language Made of Images , 2025 Aluminium composite material, stainless steel, aluminium and LED lighting 3.75 x 19.4 x 15.7m Dreams Are...Read more -
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PUSH THE LIMITS 2 culture strips to reveal war 27 February 2026Fondazione Merz presents the second edition of PUSH THE LIMITS, Group exhibition curated by Claudia Gioia and Beatrice Merz The artists: Heba Y. Amin, Maja...Read more -
Zineb Sedira: Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go
Curated by Rita Fabiana 24 February 2026In Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go;, Zineb Sedira (Paris, 1963) explores migration, memory, and transmission through the interplay of personal and collective narratives....Read more -
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WHEN WORDS FALL SILENT, CINEMA SPEAKS … // Tate Britain Commission 2026 - Duveen Galleries May 13, 2026 — January 17, 2027Curated by Jessica Vaughan with Celeste McEvoy Zineb Sedira (b.1963, France) is the artist undertaking the Tate Britain Commission, 2026. Unveiled for the first time...Read more -
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Atelier Calder Residency April–July 2025Zineb Sedira | Atelier Calder , Tours, France We’re elated to spotlight Zineb Sedira 's new residency at Atelier Calder , a renowned space fostering...Read more -
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"Babel heureuse ?" 26 March 2025on view until 13 July 2025 at Letzëbuerg City Museum, Luxembourg Babel heureuse ? explores the topics of polyglossia and translation by placing them in...Read more -
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"A way of surviving, a way of life…" 26 March 20253 Oct 2024 - 8 Mar 2025 at the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi The exhibition 'A way of surviving, a way of life… ' in...Read more -
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THE TRUE SIZE OF AFRICA 9 November 2024 to 17 August 2025Dates: 9 November 2024 to 17 August 2025 Space: Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Germany 'Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go' The work takes its title...Read more -
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"A way of surviving, a way of life..." 3 October 2024 - 8 March 2025Dates: 3 October 2024 - 8 March 2025 Space: Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation Zineb Sedira's solo exhibition, 'A way of surviving, a way of life...'...Read more -
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Display at Tate Britain 23 May 2024 - 23 May 2025Dates: 23 May 2024 - 23 May 2025 Space: Tate Britain | Main Floor | Room 29 Dreams Have No Titles combines the artist’s life...Read more -
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Partitions Sédimentaires, Triennale de Nîmes 2 September 2024Dates: April 5 – September 22, 2024 Space: Carré d'art | Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes « Sedimentary Partitions » is part of the Arles...Read more -
Zineb Sedira : Dreams Have No Titles
Whitechapel Gallery / 15 February – 12 May 2024, curated by Gilane Tawadros and Hannah Woods. 12 January 2024For Spring, 2024, Whitechapel Gallery presents the UK debut of the critically acclaimed exhibition Dreams Have No Titles by French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira. Originally conceived...Read more
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Art Basel Paris 2025
Booth 1.K3 20 - 26 October 2025Nidhal Chamekh Aymen Mbarki Monia Ben Hamouda Nadia Ayari Zineb Sedira Yann Lacroix Request a Preview Selma Feriani Gallery is pleased to present a group...Read more -
Art Week Riyadh 2025
6 - 13 April 2025Art Week Riyadh, a Saudi Visual Arts Commission initiative, runs from 6 to 13 April 2025. We are thrilled to join Art Week Riyadh with:...Read more -
Art Basel Paris
BOOTH G11 16 - 20 October 2024Space: GRAND PALAIS Catalina Swinburn Zineb Sedira Nadia Ayari Filwa Nazer Jessica Boubetra Farid Belkahia Pascal HachemRead more -
Abu Dhabi Art Fair
FOCUS SECTION / Booth S1 22 - 26 November 2023Selma Feriani is delighted to present works by Filwa Nazer, Nicène Kossentini, and Zineb Sedira for the curated section of the fair. Love is a...Read more -
Paris + by Art Basel
GALERIES / Booth E30 19 - 22 October 2023Selma Feriani is delighted to present works by Massinissa Selmani, Zineb Sedira, Maha Malluh, Catalina Swinburn, Pascal Hachem, Amina Saoudi Aït Khay, and Malek Gnaoui.Read more
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Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets
The Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowingBen Eastham, The Guardian, 13 May 2026 -
Les révolutions de Zineb Sedira à la Galerie Selma Feriani
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Three Leading British Artists Reflect on Frieze
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‘Our Algerian Community’: Zineb Sedira Talks to Massinissa Selmani
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Zineb Sedira: ‘Culture is a way of resisting’
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Zineb Sedira : A brush with…
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