Nationality French Name Adel Abdessemed | Role Artist | |
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Education Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts Similar People Mircea Cantor, David Zwirner, Kader Attia, Francois Pinault, Bruce Nauman | ||
Adel abdessemed palace exhibition at cac malaga
Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) is an Algerian contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation, performance, sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world.
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- Adel abdessemed palace exhibition at cac malaga
- Hubertus von amelunxen adel abdessemed reponds sable 2016
- Life
- Work
- References
Hubertus von amelunxen adel abdessemed reponds sable 2016
Life
Abdessemed was born in Constantine, in eastern Algeria, to a Chaoui Berber family. He grew up in the area of the Aurès Mountains, and attended the École régionale des beaux-arts in Batna. He then studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Algiers. He left in 1994, the year of the assassination of the director, Ahmed Asselah, and his son inside the school.
Between 1994 and 1999, Abdessemed attended the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon, in eastern central France. He then lived and worked in the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2000–2001 he was a resident artist at P.S.1 in New York. After spending some time in Berlin, he returned in 2004 to Paris. He is a French citizen.
Work
Abdessemed showed work at The Common Guild in Glasgow in Scotland in 2008, and at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States in 2008–2009.
