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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

2017

2016

Chroniques, biennale of digital imagination, organized by ZINC and Seconde Nature, Aix-Marseille

Al Amakine, as a part of the OFF of the 11th Bamako Encounters, Villa Soudan, Bamako

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

2015

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

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

Invisible, curated by Alya Sebti for Dak’art, 13th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar

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

2017

2012

Mastermind #4, Venise Cadre gallery, Casablanca

Special Flag, the Atelier 21, Casablanca

Sans titre, 150x195 space, Martil

Vent du Nord, Villa des Arts, Casablanca

RESIDENCIES

05.2023

03.2023 - 04. 2023

02. 2022 - 02. 2023

09. 2021    

09. 2021 - 09. 2023

02. 2021 -  04. 2021 

07. 2020      

04. 2020 - 06. 2020

092017  -  09. 2019

09. 2019      

012019  -  02. 2019

09. 2017  

042017  -  07. 2017

03. 2016  - 06. 2016

09. 2015  

09. 2013  -  12. 2013

12. 2011        

Residence at Le Couvent des Récollets, Paris

Artist-in-residence at Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton

Solitude fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Research residency at La Cinémathèque de Toulouse

Residence at Les Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille

Research Residency Pro Helvetia at EoFA Geneva and at the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchâtel

Creative residency at the gmem-CNCM in the context of Chroniques, Marseille

Studio Residency with Pro Helvetia at Embassy of Foreign Artists, Genève

Art, Science and Society Program at l’IMÉRA, Institute for Advanced Study, Marseille

Résidence Mar’Occ, La Maison Salvan, Labège

Travelling narratives at Nouakchott, with Le Cube - independent art room

Attokoussy at La Maison Denise Masson, Marrakech

Residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris      

Résidence Méditerranée at La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille

La Ruche at L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca

Residence at Espace 150x195, Martil

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, Paris

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

2018

2016

2015

10th anniversary of the IMéRA, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille presentation of research projects in discussion 

Achayef, presentation of the film in discussion with Aïcha Diallo, ifa-Galerie, Berlin

Presentation of Résistance Naturelle at La SERRE, Marrakesh

Presentation of Résistance Globale at L’Atelier de l’Observatoire, Casablanca

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