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Artist's Name: Mounir Fatmi
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1970
Nationality: MA
City: Paris

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mounir fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewer from their preconceptions. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events and reveals its structure.

His work deals with the desecration of religious object, deconstruction and the end of dogmas and ideologies. He is particularly interested in the idea of death of the subject of
consumption. This can be applied to antenna cables, copier machines, VHS tapes, and a dead language or a political movement.
Although aesthetically very appealing, Mounir Fatmi's work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by the conventions.
mounir fatmi's work has been exhibited in the Migros Museum für Gegenwarskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo Japan.
He has participated in several biennials, among them the 52nd Venice Biennial, the 2nd Seville Biennial, Spain, the 8th biennial of Sharjah and the 10th Biennial of Lyon.

important exhibitions from Mounir Fatmi

Exhibition Location City Country Date
10. Biennale de Lyon 2009 La biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon Lyon FR 16.09.2009
8th Sharjah Biennial Sharjah Biennial Sharjah VA 04.04.2007
3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemoprary Art Thessaloniki GR 18.09.2011
OK | BIENNALE CUVÉE 10 OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich Linz AT 03.03.2010
BRUSSELS BIENNIAL 2008 Brüssel BE 19.10.2008
Meeting Points 6 Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic Beirut Art Center (BAC) Beirut LB 27.04.2011
Collector Lille 3000 Lille FR 05.10.2011
traces du sacré Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne Paris FR 07.05.2008
Beyond Memory Museum on the Seam Jerusalem IL 23.03.2012

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Galleries representing
Mounir Fatmi:

Galerie Conrads
Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten
Lombard-Freid Projects
Paradise Row Gallery
Shoshana Wayne Gallery