Biographical Elements

1970

mounir fatmi was born in Tangier, father Ahmed Abdeslam Fatmi and mother Souadia Jilali Aouami.

1973

He joined the Koranic school which he left after a year because of his lack of concentration and his difficulty in learning the Koran by heart.

1974

He goes with his mother, who sells children’s clothes, at the Casabarata flea market, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Tangier. He later declared that the chaotic universe of this market, where everyday items, images and sounds abound, was his first artistic school, like an open-air museum in ruins. Precisely on this same market he will later create a very important photographic series entitled Casabarata.

1975

His family settled in Casablanca in the district of the old Medina, rue du consulat d´Angleterre, a district known as “La Croix-Rouge”. He discovers the city and its architecture: the Sidi Bousmara square, the Sidi Allal Karouani mausoleum, the Zaouiat Darkaouia, the Imperial cinema, the Central Hotel, the Souiriyine synagogue, the fortifications of the Sqala, and the Zerktouni garden.

1980

After primary school in the old medina of Casablanca, he continues his secondary studies at Ibn Khaldoun high school.

1987

He left Morocco to go to Italy. He enrolled as a student at the Free School of Drawing and Printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. At the same time, he worked as a house painter.

01. Tangier, ©Foundation mounir fatmi, 2023

02. Tangier, ©Foundation mounir fatmi, 2023

03. Tangier, ©Foundation mounir fatmi, 2023

04. Tangier, ©Foundation mounir fatmi, 2023

1989

Back in Casablanca, he attended the School of Fine Arts, which he left after a term, preferring to spend most of the time in the streets of the city and especially in the old medina in the Esperanza district.

1990

During a trip to Tangier, the writer Mohamed Choukri introduced him to the American composer and writer Paul Bowles. He discovered the writings of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, took an interest in the literature of the Beat Generation and also read Jean Genet and Mohamed M’rabet. The same year, he made his first installation “Naked space and verticality” at the Kasbah Museum, Tangier and began his first large series of paintings, “Fragile / Communication (1990-1996)”.

1991

He works for a communication and advertising agency in Casablanca where he trained in computer graphics, photography and moving images. He directs his artistic research towards the media of communication, and he experiments with commercial techniques of producing synthetic images in series. He began his first video, sound and installation experiments and he began the iconographic project “The Fourth of the Cover”, inspired by his professional experience and advertising rhetoric.

1992

He begins the project of the graphic novel “At the origin”, grouping together 48 boards of paintings in ink and acrylic. This artist’s book was published with the assistance of the Goethe Institut de Casablanca - Rabat, in 1996 during his solo exhibition.

1993

He receives the first prize of the 3rd Biennial of young Moroccan painting, for the series “Fragile / Communication” and he meets Catherine David, president of the jury. He begins “Antibiotics”, an evolving series of 141 paintings, which he shows to witnesses in exchange for their photographic portrait. The same year, he symbolically declared his “artistic death” during an interview with the Moroccan newspaper “L’Opinion” and he joined the network of mail artists, thus sending his works by post.

1994

He won the 1st prize at the 2nd Casablanca Video Art Festival for the video “The Red Alphabet”, and he met film and video critic Marc Mercier.

1995

He completed several videos, “Birth”, “Fragile communication” and “No one is alone, nothing is solid”. He received a nomination from ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, during the International Videokunstpreis for the video “The Red Alphabet”.

1996

He left his post as artistic director in advertising, and he multiplied his artistic projects. He exhibits at the Nadar Modern Art Gallery, in Casablanca. He completes the drawings for the “Accessible” project, made directly on the pages of a noir novel and submitted to people encountered by chance during his travels. He begins the series of paintings “Without Witnesses” and “Erasures / Memorizations”. Spectators are invited to contemplate the works produced before they are covered with several coats of white paint. This performance establishes a clear dividing line between “Those who saw” and “Those who did not see” the works before they were erased. The witnesses of the paintings are finally photographed, and their portraits are placed alongside the works stamped “Painted Vu Erased”.

1997

He works as professor at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca which he leaves after three months. He received the Drac - Nord Pas de Calais scholarship for a residency at the Atelier de la MAJT, in Lille. He produced the performance “Coma”, in which canvases are shown to witnesses before being rolled up and wrapped in transparent plastic covers. The same year he finished the video “Arabesque”, a tribute to Jackson Pollock, and he won the audience prize at the 4th Casablanca Video Art Festival.

1998

He travels to Spain, then to France where he shows the video “No one is alone, nothing is solid”, at the prison of Health, in Paris. He received several prizes for his video creations: special mention of the 3rd Inter- national Festival of New Films in Split, Croatia, prize for the best video creation at the International Video Festival in the Canary Islands, for the video “Survival Signs”, special prize of the Jury at the 16th Estavar Llivia Art Video Festival. Back in Morocco, he began writing the manifesto Coma, in Tangier, with the sentence “My father has lost all his teeth, now I can bite him”.

1999

Back in Tangier, he begins the series of photographs “Casabarata”, anchored in the decor of his native district. Invited by the Goethe Institut, he curates the exhibition “Photographs of the Bauhaus 1920 - 1930” at the Musée des Oudayas, Rabat. He took part in the collective exhibition “Rien à voir”, Espace d’art Actua, Casablanca, where he met the curator Jean-Louis Froment who invited him to the exhibition “The disoriented object” Museum of the Arts decorative, Paris. He received the Afaa scholarship and completed an artistic residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris. He takes part in several exhibitions in France: “Paris-Casa, Mo- roccan suites”, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, “A Moroccan summer”, CAC, Castres, “A Moroccan autumn” Arteppes, Annecy, “Regards nomades” FRAC de Franche-Comté and Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, “Moroccan Artists” ARIAP, Lille. Curator Mikey Kwella presents a special program of his videos under the title “The mounir fatmi fresh winds from the desert” at the Transmediale in Berlin. He takes part in the 7th Art Media Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland.

2000

He received two research and residency grants in France, at Ateliers d’Artistes, Marseille and at MJC, Manosque. He moved to France where he began the “Free Trade” and “Menuphone” projects, questioning creation under embargo. He participated in several exhibitions in Europe and the United States: Biennale Arte vidéo TV, Bologna, Auditorium du MAMAC, Nice, Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago. He is invited by Tarik el Haik and Edith Cramer to the University of California, Berkeley and the Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco for the screening of his videos under the title “Rehearsing Arab identity”. The installation “Liaisons et displacement” is selected at the 5th Biennial of Contemporary Art Dakar, Senegal, where he meets the curators Simon Njami and Harald Szeemann.

2001

He received a grant from the Drac Île-de-France, and he started Ovalprojet, where the Val Fourré district, located in the Parisian suburbs, became the site of an experiment on the question of representation. With the cooperation of the immigrant community, he developed a set of images to be broadcast on their home country TV channels. It is selected for various events in Europe: 9th Biennial art media, Wroclaw, “In / tangible cartographies”, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, “Radio de accion” CAAM, Canary Islands, “Videomarea” Palazzo Borsa Valori, Genoa, “Video / I see, video creation in France”, in the auditorium of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

2002

He created the mural Week-end Painting at the Africa Museum in Johannesburg and the Moroccan Salon installation at the Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris. He completed the video “Feast” in tribute to William Burroughs. He participated in several exhibitions in Europe and the United States: “Images and Power”, Espacio C, Camargo, “Pacific cinémathèque”in Vancouver, “Videorient”, Landesmuseum, Linz, “Latitude Villette Maghreb” Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris. The Arabesque video was selected by Marianne Brouwer for her Politics in Exhibitions and Politics conference during the 3rd platform of Documenta 11.

2003

The Migros Museum in Zürich dedicates him a solo exhibition under the title “Obstacles”. He meets Mchael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, of the concept group Art & Language. The 25th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival pays tribute to all of his video work under the curatorship of Hubert Corbin. He participates in several group exhibitions in Europe: “Espacios mestizos”, 2d International contemporary art meeting, Osorio, Canary Islands, “Video art, interactive art”, Museum of the ONA Foundation, Casablanca, “Videoarcheology”, The Red House, Center for culture and debate, Sofia, “Nuevo video arabe” aixa forum, Barcelona, “Avant-gar- de cinema, general counter-culture” La Cinémathèque française, Paris. His videos are the subject of two special programs during the plastic art video meeting at CAC Basse-Normandie and at the Cairo International Experimental Film Festival.

2004

He is invited by Simon Njami and Jean-Hubert Martin to participate in the exhibition “Africa remix”, at the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, at the Hayward gallery, London, at the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, at the Mori art Muséum, Tokyo, at the Moderna Musset, Stockholm, and at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. He meets Odile Biec and he sets up the personal exhibition “Understand who will understand the last”, at the contemporary art center Le Parvis, Ibos. He participates in the “third Round Table” organized by Nicole Brenez, as well as in the program “Foucault cinema, image memory, image power”, La Cinémathèque française, Paris. He presents the photographic series “Border Sickness” within the exhibition “Nearer the near east”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. He is selected at the Guangju Biennale, “A drop of water, a grain of dust”, South Korea, where the video “Less expensive earth” is shown for the first time.

2005

He completed an artistic residency at the Daïmon Art Center in Gatineau and he mounted the exhibition “Bad Connexion”, at the Saw Gallery, Ottawa. Back in France, he created the personal exhibition “Black Scre ens”, at the Center for Contemporary Intercommunal Art, Istres. He participates in several group exhibitions in Europe: “Meeting point”, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, “Tourist class,” Konstmuseum, Malmö, “Forced cohabitation,” CAC Ticino, Bellinzona, “Image statement position”, Photocairo, Cairo, “Marokko kunst & design” Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam.

2006

He receives a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he joins the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where he receives the Uriôt prize. He organizes the exhibition “Black Panther party for self-defense” at the Bank Galerie, Paris. He meets Jean de Loisy and he exhibits the sculpture “Face, the 99 names of god”, Galerie Saint Séverin, Paris. He takes part in several group exhibitions in Africa and Europe: “Absolumental”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse, “Revealed Image”, Museum of the City of Tunis, “Courants alternatifs” at the Parvis, Ibos & CAPC in Bordeaux. Meets Okwui Enwezor who invites him to participate in the exhibition “The unhomely, Phantom scenes in global society”, 2nd Seville Biennale. He also participates in the 7th Biennial of Contemporary Art Dakar, Senegal and he receives the Grand Prize Léopold Sédar Senghor for his installation “Out of History”.

2007

He began a series of trips to the United States where he mounted his first solo exhibitions in American galleries: “Fuck architects, chapter I”, at Lombard-Freid project, New York and “Something is possible”, at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica. He participates in the exhibition “Seven installations” Faulconer Gallery - Grinnell College, Iowa. Back in France, he mounted the exhibition “I love America”, Maison rouge Foundation, Paris. He meets Paul Ardenne who signs the text of his personal exhibition “Without history” at the Picasso War and Peace Museum, Vallauris. The same year, he was selected for several biennials: 8th Biennale of Sharjah, “Art, ecology and the politics of change” Dubai, 1st triennial of Luanda, Angola and “Check-List Luanda Pop” at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

2008

The Embargo video, produced in 1997, is part of the “Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema 1890-2008 ”, Tate Modern, London. He participates in various exhibitions: “Traces du sacré”, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris and Haus der Kunst, Münich, “Open Sky - Spaces beyond their Practices” Kunstverein Medienturm, Ilz, “Flow” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, “ Traversia ”CAAM, Canary Islands,“ Visionary Tales of a Balanced Earth ”The Te Papa Museum, New Zealand,“ Attempt to exhaust an African place ”Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona. He sets up the two exhibitions “Fuck architects: chapter II”, CAC le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers and “Connexion 02”, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier. He takes part in the Pontevedra Biennial in Spain, and in the 1st Brussels Biennial.

2009

He meets curator Hou Hanru who invites him to the exhibition “The Spectacle of the Everyday”, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, during the 10th Biennale de Lyon. He mounted two solo exhibitions: “Fuck architects, chapter III” FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, and “Minimalism is capitalist”, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf. He participated in several group exhibitions: “Traversées-Crossings”, Galerie Bab Rouah, Rabat, “America” Beirut Art Center, Beirut, “Looking Inside Out”, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, “The Storyteller” Salina Art Center, Salina, “After Architecture: Typologies de Després” Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, “Planète Cerveau”, Denys Puech Museum, Rodez, 8th Photographic Encounters of Bamako, Mali. He published the text “No and First Name” in the collection “Letter to a young Moroccan”, at the invitation of the filmmaker and writer Abdellah Taîa.

2010

He sets up the solo exhibitions “Seeing is believing” at the Galerie Hussenot, in Paris and “The Beautiful Language” at the Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten, Amsterdam. He participates in several group exhibitions: “Unexpected Unerwartet”, at the Kunstmuseum, Bochum, “Res-publica”, MMOMA, Moscow, “Yesterday will be better” Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, “Capturando rayos del sol Norteafricano”, Centro Parraga of Murcia, Murcia, “The Storyteller”, The New School, New York, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, “Shadow Dance” KAdE, Amersfoort, “Frontières” Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg. It has been selected for several biennials: 9th Biennale of Contemporary Art Dakar, Senegal “Retrospective and Perspectives”, Biennale Cuvée, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, 8th Biennial of Bamako, Mali “Living Together”, 1st Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa, “Silence Storm” , International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Izmir. On the occasion of the 12th Inter- national Cairo Biennial, he received the Cairo Biennial Prize.

2011

He meets Ali Akay and he sets up the “Megalopolis” exhibition at the AKBank Sanat Foundation, Istanbul. He produced two exhibitions “The Angel’s Black Leg” at the Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf and “Between the lines” at the Hussenot Gallery, Paris. The installation “The Lost Springs” is withdrawn from the selection of the 11th Havana Biennale and censored after only three hours of exhibition at the Dubai International Art Fair. He participated in several group exhibitions in Europe and the United States: “Unfolding Tales”, Brooklyn Museum, New York, “Told, Untold, Retold” Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, “Miragen”, Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da Republica, Sao Paulo, “After the Rage”, Beton7, Athens, Meeting Point 6, “Locus Agonistes - Practices and Logics of the civic”, Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, “West end?” Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem. He has been selected for several biennials: “Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change”, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, “A Rock and a Hard Place” 3rd Thessaloniki biennale, and for the exhibition “The Future of a promise” at the 54th Venice Biennale.

2012

He presents several solo exhibitions in the United States and South Africa “Suspect Language” at Good- man Gallery, Cape Town, “Kissing Circles” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, “Oriental Accident” Lombard-Freid Projects, New York. He takes part in several group exhibitions: “Unrest”, Apexart, New York, “Transit”, Museu de Arte Moderna Bahia, Salvador “In Other Words” NGBK, Berlin, “Beyond Memory” Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, “Contested Territories” Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, “Intranquillités”, BPS22, Charleroi. The installation “Technologia” is censored during the exhibition “L’Histoire est à moi!” on the occasion of the Le Printemps de Septembre festival, Toulouse. The controversies and threats surrounding his work are growing in France and in several Arab countries. The video “Sleep - Al Naïm” tribute to the writer Salman Rushdie whom he met the same year is considered too sensitive, and it is withdrawn from the exhibition “25 years of Arab creativity”, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. He participates in the 10th Biennial of Contemporary Art Dakar, Senegal, “Contemporary creation and social dynamics”. The installation “Moderne Times, A history of the machine” is selected at the 6th Biennale de Québec, “Machines - Les formes du mouvement”.

2013

He begins the projects “The Journey of Claude Lévi-Strauss”, “The Blinding Light”, and “The Journey into the shame”, around the American writer John Howard Griffin. He presents the solo exhibitions “Spot On: Mounir Fatmi”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. His work is selected for the Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Hermitage-Kazan Museum, Kazan, New Manege, Moscow, Sharjah Museum, United Arab Emirates. He takes part in several group exhibitions: “Body and soul”, Museum of Arts and design, New York, “Le Pont”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, “The Sea is my land” MAXXI, Rome, “If you were to live here” 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand, “Re-orientation” 2nd Mediterranean Biennial, Sakhnin. He takes part in the exhibition “Here, elsewhere”, La Friche Belle de Mai.Marseille. He publishes the artist’s book “The Kissing Precise” with the collaboration of art critic and curator Régis Durand.

2014

He presents the solo exhibitions “They were blind, they only saw images”, Yvon Lambert gallery, Paris and “Walking on the light”, CCC, Tours. He begins the projects, “The Art of War” and “The Fundamental Change”. He participated in several group exhibitions: “Memory, place, desire” Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Pennsylvania, “The Sublime”, QAGOMA, Brisbane, “Arab contemporary architecture, culture and identity” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblaek, “Des Choses en moins, des choses en plus “Palais de Tokyo, Paris, “IMPACT”, Art gallery of Western Australia, Perth,”Songs of love and songs of loss“Gwangju museum of art, Gwangju. “Giving contours to shadows” NBK, Berlin , “Colonia Apocrifa” MUSAC, Leon, “Contemporary Morocco”, Institut du monde arabe, Paris. The installation “Modern times, A history of the machine” is projected on the facade of the Grand Palais, on the occasion of the Art Paris event. He participates in the “Views from inside” exhibition, Fotofest Biennial, Houston. On the occasion of the exhibition “1914-2014 One hundred years of creation in Morocco” MMVI Museum, Rabat, the installation “Facing silence” is censored. Only part of the work is visible when the Museum opens and during the official visit. The installation also does not appear in the exhibition catalog, where only the artist’s name is mentioned.

2015

He presents the personal exhibitions “Permanent exiles”, MAMCO, Geneva and “C’est encore la nuit”, Prison Qara, Meknès. He participates in several group exhibitions: “All the world’s a mosque”, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, “Traces of the Future” MMP +, Marrakech, “A REPUBLIC OF ART: French regional collections of contemporary art. “From the 80’s to today” Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,“ HIWAR - Inaugural exhibition ”AMOCA, Sakhnin,“ Diverse works: Director’s choice, 1997-2015 ”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn. The video “Sleep - Al Naim” is censored during the “C’est la nuit” exhibition, Villa Tamaris art center, Seyne-sur-Mer. The same year, it was screened at the “20th anniversary of the MAMCO” Cinéma Le Spoutnik, Geneva, and it was part of the “Global Control And Censorship” exhibition, ZKM, Karlsruhe. He participated in several biennials: “Between the pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will” at the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece,“ Tolerance ”at the 2nd international biennial in Bodrum, Turkey,“ Who said tomorrow doesn’t exist? ”at the 1st Trio Biennial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil “Test Exposure” 16th International Media Art Biennial WRO, Poland. He sets up the group exhibition “Art in exile”, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels. He publishes the essay “This is not a blasphemy” in collaboration with Ariel Kyrou, and he begins a trip to Japan at the invitation of the Art Front gallery.

2016

He launched the traveling exhibition project “The Exile Pavilion” and he organized the first stopover at the National Archives Museum in Paris. He presents the personal exhibitions “Depth of Field” at the Labanque art center in Béthune and “Darkening Process” at the MMP + in Marrakech. He participated in several group exhibitions: “Love Stories” “Les Photaumnales”, Beauvais, “En garde, art s’engage!” “At the Bartholdi Museum, Colmar,” Nothing but Blue Skies, Return to the media image of September 11 “at the Rencontres de la photographie, Arles,” Sonic experience “, Museum of Modern Art in Troyes,” New Revolutions “Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, “Merchant of Dreams” at the Brandts & Viborg Kunsthal, Odense. He is selected at the “Fundamental” exhibition at the 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland, and at the Setouchi Triennial in Awashima Community Area, Japan. 

2017

He presents a series of personal exhibitions: “Peripheral Vision” at the Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, “Survival Signs” at the Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, and “Fragmented Memory” at the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. He participates in group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and the United States. “Cut Up / Cut Out”, Huntsville Museum of Art Alabama and Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington. “Ten years old”, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena. “Mirror mirror”, Mudac, Lausanne. “A Beautiful Stranger”, Museum De Wieger, Deurne. State of the World, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas. “The Silences Between,” Goodman Gallery, Cape Town. “In Friction with Fiction”, Conrads Gallery, Düsseldorf. “In this case”, CEAAC, Strasbourg. “Diaspora now” Gifu Museum, Gifu. It has been selected for several biennials: 7th Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, 11th African Photography Biennial, Bamako. He also participates in the exhibition “The Absence of Paths”, 1st Tunisian Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale and the sculpture “Roots” is part of the inaugural exhibition “A Global Stage”, at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

2018

He mounted several solo exhibitions: “180° Behind Me”, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, “The Human Factor”, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, “The Day of the Awakening”, CDAN Museum, Huesca. In Europe, his works are exhibited at the Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, “Motherland in Art”, MOCAK, Krakow, “Resist! “Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels,” A Journey to Freedom “, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart,” Narrative Means “Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. In the United States, his works are featured in the program at the Ellen Noel Art Museum Odessa, Texas, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida, and in the “People Get Ready” exhibition Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina. His performance “The Missing Show” is the subject of special programs during the exhibition “NOVLANGUE”, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris and “The Mosaic Rooms”, London. He is selected for several biennials in Africa and Asia: Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, in Niigata, Japan, Agora Biennale of art and architecture in Rabat, Morocco, “L’Heure Rouge”, 13th Biennale in Dakar, Senegal.

2019

He mounted several solo exhibitions: “The White Matter”, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, “A matter of perception”, Skanstull Metro Station, Stockholm, “The Process”, Wilde Gallery, Geneva. He participates in several group exhibitions: “Silent Narratives”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China, “La sombra de Goya en el arte contemporáneo”, Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, as well as in La Lonja, Zaragoza and the center d’art, Kubo Kutxa, San Sebastián, “Ekphrasis”, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, “PRESSE (censorship)”, API, Geneva, “Cut Up / Cut Out”, at the Amarillo Museum of Art and Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown. “Borders”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, “Speaking Power To (Post) Truth”, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York. He takes part in France in the exhibition “Collecting in the 21st century, If an accumulation reflects a life”, Collection Lambert, Avignon, as well as in the exhibition “A collection of contemporary art”, Musée des Beaux-arts de Carcassonne. “Acts of Reading”, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, Al-Tiba9, MAMA, Algiers, “Prête-moi ton Rêve”, Musée de Civilizations noirs de Dakar, “The I is Always in the Field of the Other”, Evliyagil Museum, Ankara. The same year he was selected for the Setouchi Triennial in Awashima Island, Japan.

2020

He leaves Paris and he settles in Palma de Mallorca. He participated in several group exhibitions: “Our world is burning”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, “The Pope”, MOCAK, Krakow, “Recycler / Surcycler”, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, “The Light House”, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, “La Colère de Ludd”, BPS22, Charleroi, “Traces du vivant”, Musée des confluences, Lyon. The “Cut Up / Cut Out” exhibition is on display at the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, the Massilon Museum, as well as the Carnegie Arts Center, Turlock. “Tourist!”, Espace d’Art Plastique, Mitry-Mory, ”How To Disappear“, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg,”Glitch”, Margo Veillon Gallery Tahrir Cultural Center, AUC, Cairo. The video “The Beautiful Language” receives the Silver Plane Prize at the Altai Biennale in Moscow.

2021

He presents a series of personal exhibitions: “The Observer Effect”, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, “The Age of Consequences”, Officine dell’Immagine gallery, Milan, “Heavier than Words”, Conrads Gallery, Berlin. He participated in several group exhibitions: “The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time”, Brooklyn Museum, New York, “Seeing & Perceiving”, The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran, “Moroccan Trilogy”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, “Memory of Defense: Physical and Mental Architectures”, Es Baluard Museu, Palma, “Luttes et Utopies: 50 ans d’art committed”, Musée de Millau, Millau, “Art, a Serious Game”, Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, “Tradition Interrupted”, Juliet Art Museum, Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, “Icons”, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels. He takes part in the “Hybrid 4 Contemporary Art Bien- nial: Open”, in Lens.

2022

He presents his personal exhibitions: “While the Storm Arrives” at Es Baluard Museu a Palma de Mallorca, “Yesterday was a Terrible Day” at Casa Conti-Ange Leccia in Corsica, “The Point of No Return” at Wilde Gallery in Bale and “How Much is Enough” at Ceysson & Bénétière in Saint-Etienne. He participated in several group exhibitions: Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, University City, MI, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels. He was selected for the Setouchi Triennial at Uno Port, Japan with his project “Based on True Story”.

2023

He presents his personal exhibition “Breaking the Cycle” at Baró Galeria in Palma de Mallorca. He participated in several group shows: Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, museum in progress, Vienna, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, Pola Art Museum, Tokyo. He has been selected for the Etchigo-Tsumari Triennale 2024. The installation The Blackboard has entered the collection of the MOCA in Los Angeles.

2024

He presents his personal exhibitions “If you don’t know me by now” at Ceysson & Bénétière gallery in Lyon. He participated in several group shows: Es Balaurd Museu, Palma, A tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, Les Abbattoires - La Fabrique des Arts, Carcassonne, Fondation Francès, Clichy, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Misk Art Institute, Riyadh. He was selected for the 1st edition of the Experimental Poetry Biennale of Argentina, and the 14th edition of the Bamako Biennale. In collaboration with the Piero Atchugarry gallery, he presents the exhibition "Embodied Echoes: Stories of the Foreign Soul" with the artist Dagoberto Rodriguez, held alongside the 60th Venice Biennale.

2025

He presents his personal exhibitions “mounir fatmi” at Art Front gallery inTokyo. He participated in several group shows: Centre Pompidou, Paris, Fondation EDF, Paris, MACAAL, Marrakech, Musée Mohammed VI d’art modern et contemporain, Rabat. He was selected for the Biennale Grandeur Nature II, Château de Fontainebleau.