Memory is Evergreen, 2014, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut
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Born 1966 in Gaza, Palestine. Lives and works between Paris and Palestine.
The Gazan born artist, Taysir Batniji, has become one of Palestine's leading conceptual artists. Batniji first left Gaza at 25 years old, and has traveled intermittently between his current home of Paris and his native Palestine. His displacement between two cities and two cultures has a strong influence on his work and artistic identity - a person and a practice within and without a country, a conflict, and a memory.
Batniji received his BFA from Al Najah University. He went on to study in Italy and France. He participated in the Venice Biennial (2003, 2009 & 2011), the Istanbul Biennial (2012), along with solo exhibitions at Espace Culturel Robert de Lamanon (Marseille, 2013), La BF15 (Lyon, 2012), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva, 2007), and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2004). He has been included in group shows at the Fotohof (Salzburg, 2013), Villa Medici (Rome, 2012) CCA Wattis (San Francisco, 2012), Artworks (Berlin, 2011), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, 2009), and many others. Georges Pompidou, FNAC, France, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Fondation Louis Vuitton, among others.
lives and works in France and Palestine
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Pères , CCF d'Alger, Alger, Algeria
Exhibition Anatole France de Montataire and space Henri Matisse de Creil
Péres , Kasr el Basha and Center Culturel Français, Gaza, PLE & CCF of Amman
Pères , Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève
Bruit de fond , La Compagnie, Marseille
Gaza, journal intime , Belgrade, Serbia
Selected Group Exhibitions
A World Not Ours , La Kunsthalle - Center d'Art Contemporain Mulhouse
Art Festival Watou # 8 , Schore, Belgium
Between Myth and Fright. The Mediterranean as conflict , Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia
Réve d'un autre monde , CHRD, Lyon
Dizziness of Reality , Berlin Academy of Arts
BML MTL , Biennial of Montréal
Wish You Where Here , National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
Les Horizons , Center d'art La Criée, Rennes
Keep your eye on the wall , CAP, Kuwait
Customs mode: Quotidien practices and Everyday Rituals , Maraya art center, Sharjah
Thanks for writing , 601artspace, New York
NOW BABYLON , Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark
Anna Boghiguian - Taysir Batniji , Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
Summa Art Fair, Madrid
Here, Elsewhere / Ici, ailleurs , Marseille
Forays. Systems of Self Interest. Mechanism of Looting, Fotohof Salzburg
Systems and Patterns, Ljubljana, Slovenia
When Attitudes Became Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Cultural Center Mechelen, Belgium
State of Transit, Open Systems, Center for Art Projects, Vienna
RAY: MAKING HISTORY, MMK Frankfurt, Kunstverein Frankfurt
12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
"The Future of a Promise", 54th Venice Biennial, Venice
Jerusalem Show, Al Mamal Art Aenter, Jerusalem
Palestine, La création dans tous ces états, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Palestine c / o Venice, 53 Venice Biennale, La Giudecca, Venice
Nos Réalités, Le Quartier art center, Quimper
Palestine, La Vie Tout Simplement, Pont des Arts , La Bank gallery, Paris
Heterotopias, First Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki
No holidays in Gaza at CIC, Cairo
Still Life - Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change *, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
Wanderland (Israel Palestine), Art Museums Krefeld, Museum House Long
Coding: Decoding, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
New Territories, Stadshallen, Bruges
Middle East News, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
18émes Instants Vidéo Nomandes, Rencontres Internationales de la création vidéo et de la poésie électronique, Région PACA
17.Instants vidéo Nomades, Rencontres Internationales de la création vidéo et de la poésie électronique, Aix-en-Provence
Rencontres International of Photography, Arles
C'est pas du cinéma, Studio national Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing
Village of Arts and Artisanat, Gaza
Salon Itinéraire 2000, Levallois
3 artistes, Maison du Théâtre et de la Danse, Paris
Entre Temps, Université Paris 13, Paris
Palestine in Progress, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
Palestinian Art, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm
Parmi les artistes en Palestine, Cisjordanie
Nissan, Gaza, Palestine
Premier Festival d'Art de Jérusalem, Jérusalem
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