Bouchra Khalili

Vidéo Photography Installation

Lost Boats - Detail : Dry Leaves - Series Wet Feet / C-print 2012 - 80 x 100 cm / Ed. of 5

Bouchra Khalili

Expositions en cours ou à venir / Shows in progress or to come

Il Palazzo Enciclopedico - 55 th Biennale de Venezia / Curated by Massimiliano Gioni / Giardini and at the Arsenale / Venezia +
The 55th International Art Exhibition titled Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), curated by Massimiliano Gioni will be laid out in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale forming a single itinerary, with works spanning over the past century alongside several new commissions . “Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) is a show about obsessions and about the transformative power of the imagination; the exhibition opens in the Central Pavilion with a presentation of Carl Gustav Jung’s Red Book” – Gioni continues. “In the vast halls of the Arsenale the exhibition is organized as a progression from natural to artificial forms, following the typical layout of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of curiosities. Just like Auriti’s Palace, these baroque proto-museums brought together man-made and natural wonders to construct visual compendia of the world through a science of elective affinities and magical sympathies. This associative process of knowledge, through its heterogeneous ordering of objects and images, draws interesting parallels between the wunderkammer and today’s culture of hyper-connectivity.” Through the many examples of artworks and figurative expressions on view, including films, photographs, videos, bestiaries, labyrinths, performances and installations, “The Encyclopedic Palace emerges as an elaborate but fragile construction, a mental architecture that is as fantastical as it is delirious. After all – says Gioni – the biennale model itself is based on the impossible desire to concentrate the infinite worlds of contemporary art in a single place: a task that now seems as dizzyingly absurd as Auriti’s dream.”
FREIHEIT ! / Kunstpalais / Erlangen / Allemagne
Cross Borders / Curated by Elisabeth Klotz / Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM / Karlsruhe/Germany +
Over the course of the “Arab Spring” the region to the south of the Mediterranean is undergoing a state of transformation, the events of which are followed in Europe with great interest, but also with hope and skepticism. With respect to content, the focus of the exhibition “Cross-Border” is on artist’s critical investigation of various thematic aspects of the concept of borders, the attitudes and approaches to borders and strategies of overcoming them. Questions emerge within the context of the exhibition, which adopt a clear position to this issue and elaborate a range of solutions, which treat regionally specific, political or cultural aspects. The eighteen artists whose works are represented in the exhibition are globally networked. Several of them have spent many years abroad, a number of them currently in foreign countries or else commute between different countries. The exhibition offers a differentiated perspective on the region through the works of the artists, which invite viewers to reevaluate biased perspectives and misinterpretations. Artists: Arwa Abouon, Lara Baladi, Anna Boghiguian, Yto Barrada, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Diana El Jeiroudi, Rana ElNemr, Reem Ghazzi, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Emily Jacir, Amal Kenawy, Bouchra Khalili, Diala Khasawnih, Randa Mirza, Faten Rouissi, Mouna Jemal Siala, Oraib Toukan

Expositions passées / Past shows

Wet Feet and more / DAAD Galerie / Berlin
The Seaman / Freedman Gallery, Albright College / Reading +
The Freedman Gallery at Albright College is pleased to present a video by Bouchra Khalili. This is the first time The Seaman will be shown in the United States, and will be on view in the Gallery's Project Space from February 19 to March 8, 2013. Erin Riley-Lopez, Curator of the Freedman Gallery, organized this exhibition. Filmed against the backdrop of Hamburg, Germany's container terminal, this 11-minute single-channel video is divided into three distinct chapters: "Merchandise," "Isolation," and "Home." The terminal is shown alternately during the day and evening hours as a deserted space, devoid of any human presence—the crates and machines of the terminal become the moving figures in the video. A voiceover narrative—of a Filipino seaman talking about his daily life on shipping cargos—blends seamlessly with the image. Working symbiotically, the narrative and image convey the experience of permanent exile. About the artist Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili was born in 1975, in Casablanca, Morocco. Raised between Paris and Casablanca, she later studied Cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Visual Arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts, Paris-Cergy. She lives and works between Paris and Berlin. Bouchra Khalili's work in video, mixed-media installations, photography, and prints combines a conceptual approach with a documentary practice to explore issues of clandestine existences and political minorities. In her work, she articulates language, subjectivity, discourse and speech, transitional territories and transit zones, investigating the interrelation between contemporary migrations and colonial history, physical and imaginary geography. Her work has been shown extensively around the world, including recently at Intense Proximity - La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2012); The 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012); The Museum of Modern Art as part of the film exhibition Mapping Subjectivity (New York, 2011); The 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011); The Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2011); The Liverpool Biennial (2010); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2010); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2010); INIVA, (London, 2010); Gallery 44, (Toronto, 2010); The Reina Sofia National Museum, (Madrid, 2009); and The Queens Museum of Art, (New York, 2009), among others. She is also the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including The Louis Lumière Award (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2005); The Image/Mouvement Grant (French Ministry of Culture, 2007); The Videobrasil Residency Award (Sao Paulo, 2009); and The Cultures France Hors Les Murs Award in 2010. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Daad - Artist in Berlin Award, and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship (The New School, New York, in association with ArteEast).
ici, Ailleurs. Curated by Juliette Laffont / Marseille-Provence, European Capital of Culture 2013 / Friche Belle de Mai / Marseille
Labor Berlin 12 - Drifts / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
Imagined Place / Tropenmuseum / Amsterdam +
Imagined Places Adrian Paci, Zineb Sedira, Bouchra Khalili, Claudia Cristovao, Ho-Yeol Ryu
Kurzfilme von Bouchra Khalili: STRAIGHT STORIES (2006 – 2008) MAPPING-JOURNEY (2008 – 2011) SPEECHES (2012) / Deutsches Film Institut / Frankfurt +
Die Beschäftigung mit Exil, Verlust und Entwurzelung durchzieht alle formal durchdachten Werke der französisch-marokkanischen Video- und Fotokünstlerin Bouchra Khalili. Die Videos des MAPPING-JOURNEY-Projekts basieren auf Erzählungen namenloser Flüchtlinge, die über ihre Migrationsrouten nach Europa berichten. Diesem modernen Nomadentum widmet sich auch die als Triptychon konzipierte Serie STRAIGHT STORIES. SPEECHES zeigt Migranten, die in ihrer jeweiligen Muttersprache Auszüge aus Schlüsseltexten des postkolonialen Diskurses vortragen. Khalilis Arbeiten sind bei vielen internationalen Festivals und Ausstellungen vertreten, unter anderem im Centre Georges Pompidou. Folgende Filme von Bouchra Khalili sind zu sehen: STRAIGHT STORIES – PART 2: ANYA (Frankreich/Türkei 2008. 12 Min.) MAPPING-JOURNEY #1 (Frankreich 2008. 4 Min.) MAPPING-JOURNEY #3 (Frankreich/Palästina 2009. 3 Min.) MAPPING-JOURNEY #4 (Frankreich/Italien 2010. 4 Min.) MAPPING-JOURNEY #5 (Frankreich/Italien 2010. 11 Min.) MAPPING-JOURNEY #7 (Frankreich/Spanien 2011. 6 Min.) SPEECHES: AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (Frankreich 2012. 3 Min.) SPEECHES: ABDELKRIM AL KHATTABI (Frankreich 2012. 4 Min.) SPEECHES: MALCOLM X (Frankreich 2012. 6 Min.) SPEECHES: EDOUARD GLISSANT (Frankreich 2012. 4 Min.) SPEECHES: MAHMOUD DARWISCH (Frankreich 2012. 3 Min.)
Film Screening and Conversation : Bouchra Khalili: Invisible Road / The New School, Kellen Auditorium Sheila C. Johnson Design Center / New York +
Working in video, print, photography, and mixed media installations, Bouchra Khalili has emerged as one of the most significant artistic voices to mine the experience of immigrant minorities. The artist combines a conceptual approach with documentary practices to explore issues of forced nomadism, undocumented existence, and minority discourses. The recipient of numerous awards, among them this year’s DAAD-Artist in Berlin Award, Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili is a 2011-2013 Vera List Center Fellow with a New York residency in association with ArteEast. During her fellowship, Khalili will build upon research that she has been conducting for nearly a decade and focus on New York’s population of undocumented immigrant laborers and the everyday objects that are evidence of their clandestine existences. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, and based between Berlin and Paris, Bouchra Khalili was trained in film, video, and the visual arts at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and a founding member and curator at the Cinémathèque de Tanger, North Africa’s first cinema cultural center. The screening of select works by Khalili is followed by a conversation between the artist and film curator Livia Alexander, Executive Director of ArteEast. Participants Bouchra Khalili, artist and 2011-2013 Vera List Center Fellow Livia Alexander, Executive Director, ArteEast Organized and presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in conjunction with the center’s curatorial focus theme Thingness, the New School class Art & the Political, and ArteEast.
Becoming voice / Curated by Florian Wüst and Maxa Zoller / South London Gallery
FIAC 2012 Stand Polaris & galerieofmarseille / Grand Palais / Paris
Models For Taking Apart / Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan / saskatoon
Wet Feet and more / Galerie Polaris
18th Biennale of Sydney - All our relations / Curated by Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster / Art Gallery of NSW / Sydney
Future Wide Open School / Hayward Gallery / London +
This summer, for one month only, the Hayward Gallery will transform itself into Wide Open School. An experiment in public learning, Wide Open School will offer a programme devised and fuelled by the imaginations of leading artists from over 50 different countries. Intended as a school for people who love active learning but don’t necessarily like being taught, Wide Open School will be a place where people of all ages and from all walks of life can explore, alongside artists, an unpredictable assortment of subjects. The heart of Wide Open School will involve creating an energetic atmosphere for exchanging ideas, so that all participants gain a direct experience of different ways of thinking, questioning and solving problems. Classes will be held in the galleries, where artists will develop workshops, group projects, seminars, lectures and/or performances about subjects in which they are passionately interested, and that may extend to topics far beyond the methods and scope of conventional education.
Target Boden / Havremagasinet / Boden / Suède
Wet feet , Dry Feet, solo show / Centre d'Art Tarragona / Tarragonna / Espagne
The Mapping Journey Project - solo show / Campagne- Première Gallery / Berlin / Allemagne
La Triennale / Intense Proximity / Palais de Tokyo +
Artistic Director: Okwui Enwezor Née en 1975, Casablanca, Maroc – Vit à Paris, France À l’occasion de Intense Proximité, Bouchra Khalili présente une version de Speeches en projection sur un seul écran. L’installation était initialement conçue pour cinq écrans suspendus dans l’espace. Pour ce projet, elle invite des exilés à «redire» des fragments de textes majeurs de la pensée politique et culturelle moderne et contemporaine, écrits par Malcom X, Abdelkrim El Khattabi, Édouard Glissant… Chacun des textes est dit dans la langue maternelle des orateurs, dont des dialectes qui ne s’écrivent pas. Au travers de la traduction et de l’oralité, ce processus de déplacement et de « créolisation » tente un double mouvement de réincarnation par la parole de ceux dont les corps, les langues, et les mots demeurent invisibles. Le travail de Bouchra Khalili – vidéo, installation, photographie et œuvres sur papier – explore les trajets migratoires contemporains et la notion d’existence clandestine, en articulant exploration de zones de transit et langues et discours minoritaires. Khalili a participé à de nombreuses expositions internationales, dont récemment «Mapping Subjectivity» au MoMA (2011); la 10e Biennale de Sharjah (2011); «You have been there» pour la Galerie Marian Goodman (New York et Paris, 2011), ainsi que «Meeting Points» (2011) et «Surveillé(e)s» (2011). En 2012, elle inaugure Le Centre d’art de Tarragone avec une exposition personnelle, participe à la 18e Biennale de Sydney, et réside à Berlin dans le cadre de «DAAD-Artist in Berlin Award».
Once upon a time, the screen del video monocanal a l'univers del cinema / Arts Santa Monica / Barcelona +
Curator : Pascal Neveux: a història del vídeo ocupa un lloc important en la totalitat de les col·leccions dels FRAC. Amb més de 1600 vídeos en les 23 col·leccions dels FRAC, aquest mitjà s’ha afermat en 30 anys com un camp d’experimentació important a nivell internacional. Performances, auto filmacions, ficcions i auto ficcions, narracions, experiments tecnològics, dispositius, instal·lacions, el vídeo reinventa allò real i recobreix una realitat en constant evolució. Amb la coincidència al 2012 del 30è aniversari dels FRACs i el 10è aniversari de Screen Festival/Fira LOOP es presenta, amb col·laboració, l'exposició a Arts Santa Mònica que és la primera mostra a Europa que presenta aquest formidable corpus d'imatges dels FRAC (Fons Regionals d’Art Contemporani, de França). Aquest recorregut en imatges dels anys 70 ençà comença per un homenatge als grans artistes del segle XX. Georges Rey, Marcel Broodthaers, conviden els visitants a entrar en un laberint d’imatges que van des de la frontera en el sentit geogràfic i polític del terme (Khallili, Roeskens, Atay), el viatge, entre exili i somni (Almeida, Sedira, Leccia, Tan, Garcia) i l’arquitectura a partir de la seva dimensió simbòlica i política (Colomer, Narkevicius, Zarka, Downsbrough). ARTISTES PARTICIPANTS: Adel Abdessemed, Lida Abdul, Absalon, Helena Almeida, Francis Alys, Fikret Atay, Faycal Aghriche, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Marcel Broodthaers, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Keren Cytter, David Claerbout, Jordi Colomer, Edith Dekyndt,Jérémy Deller, Sebastien Diaz Moralès, Marcel Dinahet, Peter Downsbrough, Céline Duval, Latifa Echakhch, Harrell Fletcher, Cyprien Gaillard, Dora Garcia, Mario Garcia Torres, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Dominique Gonzalez Foester, Douglas Gordon, Grout Mazeas, Gary Hill, Jean-Charles Hue, Pierre Huyghe, Patrick Jolley & Reynold Reynolds, Joan Jonas, Lamia Joreige, Isaac Julien, Karl Kells, William Kentridge, Bouchra Khalili, Anja Kirschner, Bertrand Lamarche, Fabrice Lauterjung, Ange Leccia, Cristina Lucas, Anna Malagrida, Paul Mc Carthy, Laurent Montaron, Frederic Moser, Tania Mourad, Ciprian Muresan, Deimantas Narkevicius, Marylène Negro, João Onofre, David Panos, Ewa Partum, Ulrich Polster, Marie Reinert, Hugues Reip, Georges Rey, Pipilotti Rist, Till Roeskens, Anri Sala, Philippe Schwinger & Frederic Moser, Zineb Sedira, Charles Simonds, Fiona Tan, Marie Voignier, Clemens Von Wedemeyer, Akram Zaatari, Raphael Zarka.
Uncanny Journey / Curated by Nadja Baldini, Beat Huber, and Cathérine Hug / Dienstgebaüde Artspace / Zurich / Suisse
Live rightly, die, die … / Curated by David Thomas / DAZIBAO / Montréal / Canada
Always Moving Forward / Art Gallery of Peterborough / Peterborough / Canada
You have been there - Cutared by Marie Muracciole / Galerie marian Goodman / New York +
"You have been there" curated by Marie Muracciole, Galerie Marian Goodman/New York with Chantal Akerman-Yto Barrada-Gerard Byrne-Claude Closky-Moyra Davey-David Goldblatt-Dan Graham-Pierre Huyghe-Christoph Keller-Bouchra Khalili-Zoe-Leonard-Steve McQeen-Chritodoulos Panayiotou-Jeff Wall.December 13 - January 21.2012.
Hydrarchy - Transitional & Transformative Seas / Contemporary Image Collective / Cairo +
Artists / speakers: Ayed Arafah, Iain Chambers, Annie R. Gardner, Bouchra Khalili, Uriel Orlow, The Otolith Group, Xaviera Simmons, Take To The Sea, and Lawrence Weiner. Hydrarchy looks at the Mediterranean Basin, the Suez Canal, besieged Gaza, and the broader North African context, from the perspective of their waters and the actions that take place upon them. The sea, the ship, and the legal and political construct of ‘offshore’ allows a profound shift of cultural perspective, prioritising transition and flux over fixity, state control and mappability. While land borders are perceived to be fixed and unchangeable, the attempts of 'pirates', ‘illegal’ migrants, and flotilla activists show that territorial logics can be escaped or challenged. It is no surprise, then, that actions that take place at sea are becoming primary foci within the political logics of globalization. Flotillas, abandoned fleets, pirates, portable seas, migrant journeys, and the mystical language of navigation all filter into the artworks and discussions of Hydrarchy, which take diverse approaches in highlighting, directly or indirectly, the means by which maritime politics revolutionise our thinking.
Le Retour. 3éme Festival International d'Art Contemporain Alger / Curator Nadira Laggoune / Musée National d'Art Moderne et Contemporain d'Alger
J'ai deux amours / Curated by Hou Hanru, Évelyne Jouanno, and Isabelle Renard / Cité Nationale de l'Immigration / Paris / France
Drift - an exploration of urban & suburban landscapes / Sharjah Art Foundation
Always Moving Forward / Platform Centre Digital and Photographic Art / Winnipeg / Canada
Mapping Subjectivity, Part II: Experimentation in Arab Cinema. 1960-Now. / Curated by Jytte Jensen and Rasha Salti / Museum of Modern Art / New York / USA
Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic / Curated by Okwui Enwezor / Argos Centre for Art and Media / Brussels +
By initiating a series of discursive and perceptual systems in which fresh hypotheses of the civic can be articulated, presented, and debated, Locus Agonistes aims to participate in the dynamic, lively, and complex debates of contemporary critical cultures in Arab societies and localities adjacent to them in Europe. The project is inspired by the momentous historical forces and the emancipatory logics that are currently reshaping debates on civic identities, political subjectivities, cultural strategies, and artistic practices in Arab societies; and conceived as a response to the various scenarios of rupture between antagonistic political camps, and civic critical cultures. Participating artists include Adel Abdessemed, Saâdane Afif, Doa Aly, Allora & Calzadilla, Tarek Atoui, Stan Douglas, Radhouane El Meddeb, Mounir Fatmi, Mona Hatoum, Bouchra Khalili, Sandra Madi, Basim Magdy, Rima Maroun, Selma & Sofiane Ouissi, Tino Sehgal and Jalal Toufic. Meeting Points 6; Locus Agonistes – Practices and Logics of the Civic is a multidisciplinary event organized in collaboration with Young Arab Theatre Fund and KVS.
Videobrasil 17 : International Contemporary Art Festival / Curated by Solange Farkas / State Art Gallery / Sao Paulo
Second World / Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill / Graz / Austria
Roaming Images / In the frame of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial, curated by Lara Boubnova / Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts / Thessaloniki / Grece
Models For Taking Part / Curated by Juan Gaitan / Justina M. Barnicke Gallery / Toronto / Canada
Archives of displacement / Curated by Ali Akay / Açik Ekran, Istanbul +
Commissariat de Ali Akay
You have been there / Curator Marie Muracciole / Galerie Marian Goodman / Paris
Surveillé(e)s / Curator Abdellah Karroum / La Halle / Pont en Royans
Arte video francés contemporáneo / CUC (Centro Cultural Universitario Tlateloco), Mexico
The Permanent Longing for Elsewhere / Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada
Contemporary African Films / Berkeley Art Musem / Pacific Film Archives
Dans le Palais de Cristal / CA’ASI, Venise. Biennale de Venise. « Collateral Event » / Venise +
Commissariat de Pascale Cassagnau et Pascal Beausse
Whose Map is it ? / INIVA, Londres
Là où se fait notre histoire / Exposition des œuvres de la collection. Frac Corse, Corte
Borders / Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbonne
10th Sharjah Biennial : Plot for a Biennial / Sharjah Art Foundation.
New Work From France / Hamilton Gallery, Canada
Spectrum Shorts / 40th Rotterdam International Film Festival
The Permanent Longing for Elsewhere / Gallery TPW, Toronto
City States / 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Frontières/Borders / La Centrale Electrique, European Center of Contemporary Art, Brussels
Atmosphères / Galerie Tremel, Gouarec
The Spacemakers / Delfina Foundation. Tent Gallery, Edinburgh
Always Moving Forward / Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
2nd Thessaloniki Biennial / Thessaloniki, Greece.
Résonances / Marrakech Art Museum
8th African Photography Biennial / Mali National Museum, Bamako
VideoStudio # 2 : Psychogeography / The Studio Museum, New York
Looking Inside Out / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
This Land is Your Land / Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Tarjama/Translation / Queens Museum of Art, New York
Spectrum / 38th Rotterdam International Film Festival
Continents à la dérive / Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète
El Sur de Nuevo / Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid
The Other Shadow of the City / Al Hoash Gallery, East Jerusalem
Home ? / Centre d’Art Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre
Identita in Transito / Sala Uno, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Rome
Iconoclastes : Les Territoires de l'Esprit / Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Vues Aériennes. Cinéma du Réel. / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Middle East Channel : Résistances I & II / The Third Guangzhou Triennial. Guangzhou, Chine
Storytellers / Galerie of Marseille, Marseilles
Frieze Art Fair l’Appartement 22 / London
Limit, moving images and lot of strangeness : Videobrasil 16 / SESC Paulista, Sao Paulo,
Mediterraneo(s) / Centre d’Art La Panera, Lérida, Espagne
Focus on Bouchra Khalili / EDINBURGH FILM HOUSE
Monumenta Cinéma : Ligne de Partage / Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris
Résistances # 2 : Demain dès l’aube / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Do Not Exist: Europe, Women Digital Medium / Brême
Palermo Citta Aperta : spazi filmici e geografi e urbane / Institut Français de Palerme
Experimental and avant-garde documentaries / International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
Focus on Bouchra Khalili / Museum of Modern Art, Salvador do Bahia, Brazil
Bouchra Khalili. Videoscrituras / Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brésil
Bouchra Khalili : Méditerranée, Méditerranées / Caixa Forum of Art, Barcelona
Explorations in Films and Videos / The Photographers’ Gallery, Londres
Among The Moderns / Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Documentaire d’Avant-Garde : Poèmes Anti-Coloniaux, Essais Humanistes / Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Je ne crois pas aux fantômes, mais j’en ai peur / Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris
Too Much Freedom ? / UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
New York Video Festival / Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York