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The Absurdity Of Violence And Conflict | Massinissa Selmani

© Copyright, 2023, Omar Rashid, Outlookindia.com 13 March 2023 (...) Algeria-born artist Massinissa Selmani, tells Outlook when there is a situation of violence and oppression, absurdity can be used... Read more

Sharjah Biennial 15 featuring an installation by Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim

22 February 2023 The 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennal, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, opened its doors Tuesday 7th of February in... Read more

Accueil Culture «Tumadhir’s Walk», exposition personnelle de Nicène Kossentini avec Alia Sellami à la galerie Selma Feriani: Cinétique du mot CULTURE «Tumadhir’s Walk», exposition personnelle de Nicène Kossentini avec Alia Sellami à la galerie Selma Fe

© Copyright, 2023, MEYSEM MARROUKI, lapresse.tn 20 January 2023 «Au féminin, elles ont pu extraire l’essence de l’expression à convier ces différents aspects esthétiques et sensoriels. Cherchant une multitude... Read more

Les noms des quatre artistes nommés pour le Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023 révélés

© Copyright, 2023, Emmanuelle Jardonnet, lemonde.fr 13 January 2023 Claude Bonnin, le président de l’Adiaf (Association pour la diffusion Internationale de l’art français), a dévoilé, jeudi 12 janvier, les... Read more

First-ever Islamic Arts Biennale lineup announced

© Copyright, 2022, Afrah Bari, timeoutriyadh.com 16 October 2022 Selma Feriani Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of the artists M'barek Bouhchichi(1975, Morocco) and Yazid Oulab (1958, Algeria/France)... Read more

Meet Selma Feriani, champion of art from the global South

© Copyright, 2022, ArtBasel.com 24 September 2022 To put Tunisia on the global art map: This has been Selma Feriani’s mission for the last 15 years. Working... Read more

Nicène Kossenti Ongoing Residency

© Copyright, 2022, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn 17 September 2022 Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program Residency dates | 01.09.2022 to 30.09.2022 at The Invisible Dog Art Center... Read more

Massinissa Selmani participating in the Fifth edition: In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire

© Copyright, 2022, Kochi-Muziris Biennale / e-flux 16 June 2022 We are proud to announce Algerian-French artist Massinissa Selmani’s participation in The Kochi Biennale Foundation’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale. The edition, curated... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh, ÉTINCELLES / SCINTILLE, Annual Fellows exhibition at Villa Medici curated by Saverio Verini

© Copyright, 2022, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici 16 June 2022 'The project that Nidhal Chamekh is working on at Villa Medici is entitled “ Et si Carthage n’avait pas été... Read more

Elena Damiani, Essays on the solid, Exhibition at MAC Lima

© Copyright, 2022, MAC Lima 15 June 2022 (...)In different media, mainly through sculpture, Elena Damiani (Lima, 1979) interprets images and materials associated with archaeology, geology and cartography... Read more

M'barek Bouhchichi, LOVE... Marrakech opened my eyes to color at Palácio Cadaval

© Copyright, 2022, MacLyon 15 June 2022 The artist M'barek Bouhchichi ispart of a group show curated by Mouna Mekouar 'and it is held in the heart... Read more

Thameur Mejri Until My Veins Collapse (States of Emergency) - Exhibition

© Copyright, 2022, MacLyon 9 February 2022 Thameur Mejri (born in 1982 in Tunis) blurs the boundaries between public and private in an effort to confront individual... Read more

Jellel Gasteli: Form and Surface An interplay of principles, dimensions and art movements

© Copyright, 2022, Emma Warburton, Tribe Photo Magazine 5 February 2022 'Contemporary Tunisian photographer Jellel Gasteli has maintained a close relationship with formalism over the last three decades. Since his early... Read more

Thameur Mejri au musée d’art contemporain de Lyon

© Copyright, 2022, Lapresse.tn 17 January 2022 'L’exposition immersive présentera la pratique diversifiée de Mejri, des dessins et des peintures, ainsi que des installations vidéo et sonores.... Read more

In Conversation Lina Ben Rejeb: Pushing the Limits of Erasure

© Copyright, 2021, Chama Tahiri Ivorra, contemporaryand.com/ 24 September 2021 'Having graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011, Lina Ben Rejeb has built her career in France and Tunisia,... Read more

En Tunisie: 1990s Tunisia is explored in photographer Jellel Gasteli’s latest exhibition

© Copyright, 2021, Erin Clare Brown, thenationalnews.com 13 June 2021 After more than a year of crushing inside-ness, of isolation and lives chiseled down to the four walls of our... Read more

En conversation | Massinissa Selmani : créer des œuvres dans la dualité

© Copyright, 2021, Elisa Pierandrei, contemporaryand.com/ 12 May 2021 Contemporary And : Votre pratique artistique allie dessins et animations en boucle qui révèlent des scènes énigmatiques et ambiguës. Massinissa... Read more

In Conversation with Selma Feriani

© Copyright, 2021, Elina Sairanen, mathqaf.com 2 April 2021 'Selma Feriani is a Tunisian gallerist leading her eponymous art gallery in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia. Mathqaf sat down... Read more

A la station B7L9 : Thameur Mejri et l’exorcisme séculaire

© Copyright, 2021, Hatem Bouriel, webdo.tn 23 March 2021 La première exposition institutionnelle de Thameur Mejri en Tunisie sera inaugurée jeudi 25 mars à la station d’art B7L9 à... Read more

Exposition personnelle d’Ismaïl Bahri à la galerie Selma Feriani: Chroniques de l’invisible

© Copyright, 2021, Meysem Marrouki, LaPresse.tn 20 March 2021 Ses œuvres se révèlent de manière quasi photographique, via des parois sensibles (vitres, fente dans le mur), en interaction avec... Read more

Thameur Mejri la peinture au poing

© Copyright, 2021, Olivier Rachet, Diptykmag 10 March 2021 'On a beau être un père de famille apaisé et un professeur de l’Institut supérieur des beaux-arts de Tunis respecté,... Read more

Selma Feriani’s Latest Exhibition Explores the Complexities of Human Existence

© Copyright, 2021, Mille Team, milleworld.com 1 March 2021 'Few art patrons have shaped Tunis’ art scene like Selma Feriani . The gallerist founded her eponymous gallery in 2013... Read more

M'barek Bouhchichi featured in : Expositions, Société Nomadisme des luttes, principe d'hybridité : retour sur « Global(e) Resistance »

© Copyright, 2020, Christine Macel, centrepompidou.fr 22 January 2021 Quelles sont vos réactions après la visite de l’exposition « Global(e) Resistance » ? Morad Montazami – Cette exposition... Read more

Elena Damiani featured in : Trends to Watch in 2021 - Colored Pencil Revival

© Copyright, 2020, Shannon Lee, artsy.net 20 January 2021 This January, Artsy is launching a series of three features to spotlight the trends we’re watching in 2021. Using our... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh featured in : Keeping time – the Tunisian clock monuments that tell of a bygone regime

© Copyright, 2020, Layli Fouroudi, apollo-magazine.com 18 December 2020 (...)Rather, each locality received an instruction to erect a clock in whatever style they wanted, says Mokhtar Hammami, who worked... Read more

M'barek Bouhchichi featured in African Galleries Now: Contemporary Sculpture

© Copyright, 2020, Artsy.net 8 December 2020 'Sculpture is unequivocally something that many would think of first if asked about historical art from the continent. While the... Read more

Massinissa Selmani & Eva Nielsen featured in 50 artistes du XXIe siècle qui ont déjà marqué la scène française

© Copyright, 2020, Amélie Adamo, Christine Coste, Stéphanie Lemoine, Anne-Cécile sanchez et Fabien Simode · L'ŒIL 24 November 2020 'Plasticiens, peintres, dessinateurs, artistes urbains, du numérique ou de la performance… Les 50 artistes qui suivent témoignent de la diversité... Read more

Thameur Mejri | 15 African Artists on the Rise

© Copyright, 2020, Wabwire Joseph Ian, Artsy.net 19 November 2020 The artist Thameur Mejri has been featured in the article '15 African Artists on the Rise' by Wabwire Joseph Ian... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Record of the Invisible [Chroniques de l'invisible] | Group Show at CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN. SAINT-NAZAIRE |Curated by Guillaume Désanges

© Copyright, 2020, CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN. SAINT-NAZAIRE 16 October 2020 Ismaïl Bahri, Ignasi Aballí, Eva Barto, Edith Dekyndt, Lois Weinberger Curated by Guillaume Désanges in collaboration with Coline Davenne Exhibition... Read more

Résistance, disent-ils | Article by Le Monde.fr featuring the artist M'barek Bouhchichi

© Copyright, 2020, Lunettes Rouges 13 October 2020 'En mai 2009, grande première, le Centre Pompidou a découvert l’existence des femmes, a réalisé qu’il y avait des oeuvres... Read more

Farah Khelil | Satellite Exhibition | Group Show at the Biennale Of The Tangible Image

© Copyright, 2020, The Biennale of The Tangible Image 14 July 2020 BIENNALE OF THE TANGIBLE IMAGE During a month of exhibitions and events located in the 20e In the arrondissement of... Read more

[Work in progress] dans les petits papiers de Massinissa Selmani

© Copyright, 2020, Olivier Rachet, Diptykmag.com 10 July 2020 L’artiste algérien s’inspire de poésie et introduit l’aquarelle dans ses carnets de recherche qui sont autant de pépites. À première... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh, artiste, à La Presse : questions de culture

© Copyright, 2020, Asma Drissi, lapresse.tn 5 June 2020 Il fait partie de ces artistes qui questionnent leur époque, il la compose, la décompose, superpose les techniques, se libère... Read more

Daydreaming of Carthage - Visiting the Malek Gnaoui Exhibition From Quarantine

© Copyright, 2020, Wera Morawiec, Contemporarylynx.co.uk 3 June 2020 In 2019 I spent almost 7 months in Tunisia working on several projects with my partner as NOKS collective. We... Read more

Malek Gnaoui | Article in "Contemporary &" about Essaïda-Carthage Exhibition

© Copyright, 2020, Contemporary And 18 May 2020 Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces were forced to close due to the Corona-Crisis. In this series we are... Read more

M'barek Bouhchichi | Global(e) Resistance | Group Show at the centre pompidou

© Copyright, 2020, Centre Pompidou, Christine Macel, Alicia Knock, Yung Ma 12 May 2020 'The exhibition “Global (e) Resistance” unveils, for the first time, the works of more than sixty artists brought together over... Read more

THE LITTLE BOAT | ZIAD ANTAR

© Copyright, 2020, Onassis foundation 7 May 2020 The Onassis Foundation (onassis Stegi ans Onassis USA) 'gave artists from around the world 120 hours to create from home... Read more

Populated Solitude | Talk with Farah Khelil | NOKS

© Copyright, 2020, Noks collective 21 April 2020 Farah Khelil was born in Carthage, Tunisia. Lives and works in Paris, France. With few means and techniques, she sets... Read more

Le pas de côté

© Copyright, 2020, Inside the White Cube 11 April 2020 Le pas de côté A brief history of the Textile: Trade and textile have been an integral aspect in... Read more

The art I love: MACAAL president Othman Lazraq's tour of his museum's formidable African art collection

© Copyright, 2020, Othman Lazraq, CNN Style 26 March 2020 ...'Besides being a great friend, M'Barek Bouhchichi is one of the most talented Moroccan artists of my generation. His multidisciplinary... Read more

Massinissa Selmani | Signes personnages | Group Show

© Copyright 2019 cccod 15 March 2020 'Avec la conception d’une exposition clé-en-main rassemblant sept œuvres, le CCC OD propose aux vingt-deux communes de Tours Métropole Val... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Le cabaret du néant | Group show

© Copyright, 2020, Frac île‑de‑france, le château rentilly 8 March 2020 Today, Sunday March 8th, is the grand opening of the group exhibition Le Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of Nothingness), at... Read more

Nicène Kossentini | El kazma / L'heure d'hiver à Tunis | Group show

© Copyright, 2020, Cinema Galeries 5 March 2020 Nicène Kossentini 's work is part of El KAZMA on the occasion of 'Le Temps d'Hiver à Tunis' at Cinema... Read more

Massinissa Selmani | Drawn Forms | Interview

© Copyright, 2020, Richard Bright & Interalia magazine 1 March 2020 Drawn Forms Massinissa Selmani’s work aims to create drawn forms mingling a documentary approach with fictional constructions and animations, while... Read more

« Apparition » d'Ismaïl Bahri, radiographie de la mémoire

© Copyright, 2020, Adnen Jdey, Nawaat.org 22 February 2020 Dans sa nouvelle création expérimentale, « Apparition », Ismaïl Bahri laisse le pouvoir d’une ombre s’étendre sur une photo pour... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Tiger Short price winner

© Copyright, 2020, Herb Shellenberger, 50th IFFR 3 February 2020 On Sunday, IFFR proudly announced the first big winners of this year’s festival. Ismaïl Bahri (Apparition ), Maïder Fortuné and... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh | 21ª Bienal de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil

© Copyright 2020, Videobrasil 30 January 2020 At the 21st Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil, Nidhal Chamekh presented two works ; NEVER GIVE UP ( vidéo) and... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh | Les rencontres de Bamako | Group Show

© Copyright, 2019, Les rencontres De Bamako 30 November 2019 'Each slide unfolds another portrait revealing faces of soldiers form Mali, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Senegal who fought in the... Read more

Massinissa Selmani | Le calme de l’idée fixe | Solo Show curated by Delphine Masson

© Copyright, 2019, Galerie Anne-sarah Bénichou 8 November 2019 'Le dessin sous toutes ses formes est un champ d'expérimentation infini pour Massinissa Selmani. D'un trait sobre et délicat, l'artiste... Read more

Massinissa Selmani | Waiting for Omar Gatlato | Group show curated by Natasha Marie Llorens

© Copyright, 2019, The Wallach Art Gallery | Columbia University 26 October 2019 'The exhibition borrows its title from a 1979 publication on early Algerian film, edited by Wassyla Tamzali, which references Samuel... Read more

Nidhal Chamekh | This land’s unknown Orléans Architecture Biennial #2 | Group show curated by Nora Akawi

© Copyright, 2019, FRAC Centre-Val de Loire 11 October 2019 Exhibition dates 11.10.19 to 19.01.20 FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, Orleans, France FRAC Centre-Val de Loire Read more

"Je me souviens" by Nicène Kossentini, Anamnèses intimes

© Copyright, 2019, Adnene Jdey, Nawaat.org 24 May 2019 Sans doute ne l’a-t-on pas suffisamment dit jusqu’ici, mais la démarche de Nicène Kossentini ne se livre au regard que... Read more

Elena Damiani | Screen Acts : Women In Film and Video | Group Show

© Copyright, 2019, San Joses Museum Of Art 19 May 2019 The San José Museum of Art celebrates new ideas, stimulates creativity, and inspires connection with every visit. Welcoming and thought... Read more

Eva Nielsen | Evergreen Plaza | Group Show

© Copyright, 2019, Maison-Salvan 12 May 2019 Au travers de l’invitation qui a été formulée à Eva Nielsen, la Maison Salvan souhaitait aller au-delà de la seule... Read more

Maha Malluh | Zamakan | Group Show

© Copyright, 2019, arabnews.com 12 May 2019 Zamakan, which runs in Dhahran until Sept. 23 at the King Abdul Aziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), showcases the... Read more

Farah Khelil | Heartbreak | Group Show

© Copyright, 2019, Ruya Maps 11 May 2019 Taking the classical story of Dido and Aeneas as its starting point, the exhibition will include the work of nine... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Kyotographie | Kyoto international photography festival

© Copyright, 2019, KYOTOGRAPHIE 5 May 2019 The KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival is held annually over four weeks during the height of the spring tourist season in... Read more

M'barek Bouhchichi

© Copyright, 2019, DomusWeb 5 May 2019 A group show at the MACAAL in Marrakech explores cultural and capital effects on materiality in art, from some of... Read more

Elena Damiani @ La Galleria Nazionale D’arte Moderna E Contemporanea

© Copyright, 2019, La Galleria Nazionale 28 January 2019 The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea launches its new season of exhibitions with Joint is Out of Time, a... Read more

Massinissa Selmani I No looking back, okay

© Copyright, 2018, UGM 25 December 2018 The exhibition No Looking Back, Okay? stems from the belief that we do not perceive the past as a concluded... Read more

Carnets de Jellel Gasteli par Isabelle Dominati

© Copyright, 2018, In Corsica par Isabelle Dominati 11 December 2018 Le Salon H est une galerie à Paris où je me rends régulièrement parce que malgré cette régularité je ne... Read more

Massinissa Selmani | UGM | Group Exhibition

© Copyright, 2018, UGM 19 November 2018 The exhibition No Looking Back, Okay? is an attempt to decipher if and how confrontations with manifold layers of memory... Read more

Massinissa Selmani & Ismaïl Bahri @ IVAM | Inhabiting The Mediterranean

© Copyright, 2018, IVAM 14 November 2018 Beyond the idyllic view of the Mediterranean Sea portrayed in the early 20th century by northern painters who were fascinated... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Des Gestes à Peine Déposés Dans Un Paysage Agité

© Copyright, 2018, Le Journal de la Verrière 12 November 2018 Aussi précis qu’insaisissable Par Guillaume Désanges Depuis la fin des années 2000, l’artiste franco-tunisien Ismaïl Bahri développe un travail... Read more

Massinissa Selmani I “GOLD” I Group Exhibition

© Copyright, 2018, YKG / Yutaka Kikutake Gallery 12 November 2018 Yutaka Kikutake Gallery is pleased to present group exhibition “GOLD” featuring three artists Ian Grose, Maia Cruz Palileo and Massinissa... Read more

Ismaïl Bahri | Un fil d’images et de non-dits

© Copyright, 2018, Le Devoir. Jérôme Delgado 12 November 2018 Un étonnant fil conducteur traverse la salle d’exposition du centre Dazibao. D’une œuvre à l’autre, d’un écran à l’autre, on... Read more

Jellel Gasteli I à Paris et à Tunis à partir de mi-novembre!

© Copyright, 2018, Rania Lahmer | Ideo Magazine 8 November 2018 DU 16 NOVEMBRE 2018 AU 19 JANVIER 2019, SE TIENDRA L’EXPOSITION DU PHOTOGRAPHE JELLEL GASTELI AU SALON H À PARIS,... Read more

Farah Khelil I A conversation on her exhibition ''Graines de pensée''

© Copyright, 2018, James Scarborough | What The Butler Saw 5 November 2018 Farah Khelil was born in Carthage, Tunisia. She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis. She holds a... Read more