Abdelkader Benchamma
The artist
Born in 1975 in Mazamet (France), Abdelkader Benchamma lives and works in Paris and Montpellier. Benchamma chooses to work in a sole medium: drawings. He adopts different approaches to the drawing process, sometimes moving across a sheet of paper with the meticulous strokes of an engraver, sometimes spreading over a wall with lavish gestures that appropriate the space. The matter escapes from the frame in a form of organic growth. Inspired by literature, philosophy, astrophysics and esoteric reflections, his works create visual scenarios that question our relationship to reality as they probe the frontiers of the invisible.
Exhibitions
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Cosmography
June 27 - August 1, 2024
New York -
Cosma
January 7 - March 18, 2023
Paris - Beaubourg -
Signes
September 3 - October 24, 2020
Brussels -
From the Paper to the Wall
June 6 - July 26, 2019
Brussels -
Engramme
March 16 - May 19, 2019
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1975 in Mazamet, France |
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| Residence | Lives and works in Montpellier and Paris, France |
| Education | 2003 - École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France 2000 - École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Montpellier, France |
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Landscape of the fall, Het Noordbrabants Museum (HNBM), ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
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| 2023 | Solastagia: Archaeologies of Loss, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Œuvre croisée, Librairie des Colonnes, Tangier, Marocco Géologie des déluges, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France COSMA, Templon, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Abdelkader Benchamma, Sant’Euno Church, in collaboration with Palazzo Butera and FIAF, Palermo, Italy Abdelkader Benchamma, solo show at Galerie Templon’s booth, Art Brussels 2022, Brussels Expo, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2021 | Rayon fossile, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Echoes, Rupture et Associés, Paris, France |
| 2020 | Signes, Galerie Templon, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| 2019 | Symetrie et soupirs, In Situ : Art Contemporain et Patrimoine, Abbaye de Lagrasse, Lagrasse, France Abdelkader Benchamma : Fata Bromosa, MRAC, Sérignan, France Engramme, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Rumeur des cercles, Galerie les Chantiers Boite Noire, Montpellier, France Un artiste, une œuvre, Fondation Hélénis special commission, Montpellier, France |
| 2018 | L’horizon des évènements, CENTQUATRE-Paris, France Echos de la Naissance des Mondes, Collège des Bernardins, on the occasion of the Nuit Blanche, curated by Gaël Charbau, Paris, France |
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GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
| 2025 | Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Apocalypse. Hier et demain, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France Lire le ciel, Mucem, Marseille, France |
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| 2024 | Au bord des mondes, Prix Marcel Duchamp, Center Pompidou, Paris, France Le jour des peintres, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Les lois de l’imaginaire, curated by Laure Forlay and Sophie Sizabuire, FRAC Auvergne in collaboration with the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie, Aurillac, France |
| 2023 | Prendre le soleil, Hangar Y, Meudon, France Neither the sky nor the earth, Lago/Algo, Mexicó City, Mexico Metro ! Le Grand Paris en mouvement, Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France Histoire de Pierres, curated by Jean de Loisy, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy Constellations, Musée d’art moderne, Céret, France Immortelle, MO.CO., Montpellier, France |
| 2022 | Ce que nous avons perdu dans le feu, Villa Arson, Nice, France |
| 2021 | Comics Trip!, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Un autre monde///Dans notre monde, Lieu commun, Espace d’art contemporain, Toulouse, France |
| 2020 | Un autre monde///Dans notre monde, FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France Artistes à la Une : Togeth’HER 2021, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Un autre monde/// Dans notre monde, Frac PACA, Marseille, France Eldorado - Lille 3000, Le Tripostal, Lille, France Syncopation, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan 100 artistes dans la ville, Montpellier, France Air, stone, water, X, Fondation Helenis, Montpellier, France |
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COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Grand Paris Express, Vitry-sur-Seine, France | |
| Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan, France | |
| FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France | |
| MATHAF, Musée Arabe d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Doha, Qatar | |
| FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France | |
| DRAC Centre, Orléans, France | |
| FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France |
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RESIDENCIES (SELECTION)
| 2018 – 2019 | Villa Medicis, Roma, Italy |
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| 2017 | Beirut Art Residency, Lebanon |
| 2016 | a.r.i.a Residency, Algiers, Algeria |
AWARDS
| 2024 | Finalist for the Marcel Duchamp prize, Paris, France |
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| 2018 | Winner of the Occitanie-Médicis Price, France |
| 2015 | Winner of the Drawing Now Price, France Art Collector Price, France |
Press
The Art Newspaper - january, 2024
Les nommés du Prix Marcel-Duchamp dévoilés
Le Quotidien de l'Art - january, 2024
Le prix Marcel Duchamp révèle ses 4 finalistes
François Salmeron
Canvas - January, 2024
Finalists for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2024 Announced
Beaux Arts Paris - january, 2024
Abdelkader Benchamma, finaliste pour le Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Les Inrockuptibles - July, 2023
Les déluges sortent du cadre
Télérama - janvier 2023
La Chronique d'Olivier Céna
The Art Newspaper - janvier 2023
La Fondation François Schneider donne carte blanche à Abdelkader Benchamma
The Art Newspaper.fr - mars 2020
Le Grand Paris Express, laboratoire pour les artistes
Anne-Lys Thomas
Daily Art News Paper.fr - décembre 2019
Pour Abdelkader Benchamma, le dessin est une fin en soi
Sébastien Planas
Libération - octobre 2018
Nuit blanche à la belle étoile
La Croix - octobre 2018
Une plongée cosmique dans la nuit blanche
M le Magazine du Monde - avril 2018
Exploration souterraine
Art Absolument - juillet 2011
Le dessin comme archipel
News
Abdelkader Benchamma
SOLASTALGIA: ARCHAEOLOGIES OF LOSS
Solo Show
The Power Plant, Toronto
From October 13, 2023 to March 24, 2024
Abdelkader Benchamma’s solo exhibition Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss opens on October 13, 2023 at The Power Plant in Toronto.
Abdelkader Benchamma
NEITHER THE SKY NOR THE EARTH
Solo Show
Lago Algo, Mexico City
From September 15 to December 23, 2023
Abdelkader Benchamma’s solo exhibition Neither the sky nor the earth opens on September 15, 2023, at Lago Algo in Mexico City.
Abdelkader Benchamma
ŒUVRE CROISÉE
Solo Show
Librairie des Colonnes, Tangier
From July 1 to September 1, 2023
Abdelkader Benchamma’s solo exhibition “Œuvre Croisée” opens on July 1, 2023 at Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier.
Abdelkader Benchamma
GÉOLOGIE DES DÉLUGES
Solo Show
Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller
From May 13 to September 24, 2023
On the occasion of his solo show on the theme of the flood, Abdelkader Benchamma questions this universal myth, the collective psyche that is attached to it and conceives a fragmented territory.
Abdelkader Benchamma
CONSTELLATIONS
Group show
Musée d’art moderne de Céret, France From May 13 until November 26, 2023
On the occasion of the group show Constellations at the Musée du Céret, Abdelkader Benchamma will exhibit his artworks from May 13, 2023.
Orsten Groom
Oda Jaune
Abdelkader Benchamma
GROUP SHOW – IMMORTELLE
MO.CO, Montpellier
From March 11 to May 7, 2023
As part of the group show Immortelle at MO.CO, Oda Jaune, Abdelkader Benchamma and Orsten Groom will be exhibiting their work from March 11 to May 7, 2023. Immortelle offers an ambitious panorama of young French figurative painting. For the first time, the exhibition will be spread over all the art centres and will be organised in two parts.
Abdelkader Benchamma
GROUP SHOW – LE DESSIN COLLECTIONNÉ
Drawing House, Paris
Through May 16, 2023
On the occasion of the group show Le dessin collectionné, Abdelkader Benchamma exhibits his work Engramme until May 16, 2023.
Abdelkader Benchamma
INSTALLATION – BIENNALE ARCIPELAGO MEDETERRANEO
Church of SS. Eunio e Giulano - Palermo
From October 22 to November 27, 2022
As part of the Sete-Palermo Festival, Abdelkader Benchamma’s solo exhibition Cosma will open on October 22, 2022, with the support of Palazzo Butera and the French Institute of Palermo. This exhibition curated by Federica Fruttero gathers works produced during the artistic residency of the artist in the Palazzo Butera in June 2022.
