Abdessamad El Montassir 압데사마드 엘 몬타시르
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Exhibition curated by Jay Junghee Kim, Push To Enter, Seoul
Trab’ssahl, curated by Émilie Renard, Bétonsalon, Paris
2022 Mémoire des cendres, curated by Paul de Sorbier, La Maison Salvan, Labège
Âabide l’kadia at la Cinémathèque for the Biennale Internationale des Arts Vivants, Toulouse
Galb’Achalay at le Vent des Signes for the Biennale Internationale des Arts Vivants, Toulouse
2020 Chroniques, biennale of digital imagination, organized by ZINC and Seconde Nature, Aix-Marseille
2017 Al Amakine, as a part of the OFF of the 11th Bamako Encounters, Villa Soudan, Bamako
2016 Résistance, YIA, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
Open Studio, Le Cube - independent art room, Rabat
Résistance Naturelle (open Studio), La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
2016 Sans titre, espace 150x195, Martil
GROUP SHOWS
upcoming Memory is an editing station, 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo
Ateliers du Laboratoire, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
2023 Ni drame ni suspense (les conditions de la durée), curated by Triangle, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
Les Figures du Vide, Fonds Régionnal d’Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté, Besançon
Dissolving your ear plugs, curated by M. Jacquin et A. St-Jean-Aubre, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette
Carte Blanche curated by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA), Montreal
2022 Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono, 13th Bamako Encounters, Bamako
66th Salon de Montrouge, curated by Guillaume Désanges and Coline Davenne, Montrouge
Les Sentinelles, curated by P. Cassagnau, C. Leprince et F. Cohen, Institut du Monde Arabe, Tourcoing
Cinema Galleggiante - Unknown Waters, invited by Ocean Space & TBA21–Academy, Venice
Hidden Traces, dans le cadre du Sommerfest, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender, online exhibition on Ocean Uni for TBA21-Academy
The Promise of Grass, curated by Adwait Singh for the 5th Mardin Biennial, Mardin
A Secret Chord, curated by Romain Jarry, Le Bel Ordinaire, Billère
Quand je n’aurai plus de feuille, curated by Gabrielle Camuset, La Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2021 Demain c’est seulement dans un jour, curated online by Taous R. Dahmani for the Jeu de Paume Lab
Biocenosis21,curated by Alice Audouin for Art of Change 21, Marseille
About Now, galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar
Archive(s) Sensible(s), curated by Laura Scemama, Le Cube - independent art room, Rabat
État d’Urgence d’Instants Poétiques, curated by Bouchra Salih at the Botanic Garden, Rabat
Traumatic Lines, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin
Del fotograma a las artes vivas, curated by Mario Gutiérrez Cru, Art Madrid’20, Madrid
2019 Leave No Stone Unturned [Remuer la terre], curated by Clelia Coussonnet, Le Cube, Rabat
Comisariados I, Europa mira al Este, as a part of Proyector festival, Sala El Águila, Madrid
2018 Invisible, curated by Alya Sebti, ifa Gallery, Berlin
De liens et d’exils, Villa Empain – Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
Invisible, curated by Alya Sebti for Dak’art, 13th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar
Interspaces, Kunstverein für Kärnten Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt
2017 Attokoussy, Hinterland galerie, Vienne
Attokoussy, Le Cube - independent art room, Rabat
Saout Africa(s), Every Time a Ear Di Soun, as a part of documenta 14, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Notte di San Giovanni XXIII edizione, Ostuni
Home, Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale, Tirana
Don’t Agonize, Organize, Poppositions, Brussels
Les hommes de l’ombre, Jardin Amina, Marrakesh
2015 Mastermind #4, Venise Cadre gallery, Casablanca
2014 Special Flag, the Atelier 21, Casablanca
Sans titre, 150x195 space, Martil
2012 Vent du Nord, Villa des Arts, Casablanca
RESIDENCIES
05. 2023 Residence at Le Couvent des Récollets, Paris
03. 2023 - 04. 2023 Artist-in-residence at Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton
02. 2022 - 02. 2023 Solitude fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
09. 2021 Research residency at La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
09. 2021 - 09. 2023 Residence at Les Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille
02. 2021 - 04. 2021 Research Residency Pro Helvetia at EoFA Geneva and at the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchâtel
07. 2020 Creative residency at the gmem-CNCM in the context of Chroniques, Marseille
04. 2020 - 06. 2020 Studio Residency with Pro Helvetia at Embassy of Foreign Artists, Genève
09. 2017 - 09. 2019 Art, Science and Society Program at l’IMÉRA, Institute for Advanced Study, Marseille
09. 2019 Résidence Mar’Occ, La Maison Salvan, Labège
01. 2019 - 02. 2019 Travelling narratives at Nouakchott, with Le Cube - independent art room
09. 2017 Attokoussy at La Maison Denise Masson, Marrakech
04. 2017 - 07. 2017 Residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
03. 2016 - 06. 2016 Résidence Méditerranée at La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille
09. 2015 La Ruche at L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca
09. 2013 - 12. 2013 Residence at Espace 150x195, Martil
12. 2011 Art, technologie et écologie, production et post-production at L’Appartement 22, Rabat
PROJECTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2023 Galb’Echaouf, projection for the Safar Film Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
Galb’Echaouf, film projection in the frame of the Nuit Blance, Maison des arts de Malakoff, Paris
Projection of Galb’Echaouf in the context of Film Criticism Conference, Jeddah
2022 Projection of Galb’Echaouf as part of the exhibition Shéhérazade, la nuit, curated by Yoann Gourmel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Projection of Galb’Echaouf as part of the Landscapes of Resistance, CinemaAttic, Edinburgh
Synchronise. Pan-African Film Networks encounters curated by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Annett Busch in the context of the 68th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen
Projection at Le Vortex, collaboration with the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Visions du Réel, Lausanne
Online projection in the context of the collaboration between RIDM and La Fabrique Culturelle, Montreal
Projection and talk with Elisabeth Piskernik in the context of Salam Orient, Brunnepassage, Vienna
2021 LASER Encounters, Cité Internationale des Arts, Pari
Hotel Sahara, projection of Galb’Echaouf in the context of Nocturne #1 at Les Magasins Généraux, Paris and discussion with Taous R. Dahmani, historian of photography
Galb’Echaouf, screening of the film and presentation of the research at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Achayef,projection and presentation of research, Le Cube - independent art room, Rabat moderated by Clelia Coussonnet, independent curator
2019 10th anniversary of the IMéRA, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille presentation of research projects in discussion
2018 Achayef, presentation of the film in discussion with Aïcha Diallo, ifa-Galerie, Berlin
2016 Presentation of Résistance Naturelle at La SERRE, Marrakesh
2015 Presentation of Résistance Globale at L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca
