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Overview
By using materials such as antenna cable, typewriters and VHS tapes, mounir fatmi elaborates an experimental archeology that questions the world and the role of the artist in a society in crisis. He twists its codes and precepts through the prism of a trinity comprising Architecture, Language and Machine. Thus, he questions the limits of memory, language and communication while reflecting upon these obsolescent materials and their uncertain future. mounir fatmi’s artistic research consists in a reflection upon the history of technology and its influence on popular culture. Consequently, one can also view mounir fatmi’s current works as future archives in the making. Though they represent key moments in our contemporary history, these technical materials also call into question the transmission of knowledge and the suggestive power of images and criticize the illusory mechanisms that bind us to technology and ideologies.
Since 2000, mounir fatmi’s installations were selected in several biennials, the 52nd and 57th Venice Biennales, the 8th Sharjah Biennale, the 5th and 7th Dakar Biennales, the 2nd Seville Biennale, the 5th Gwangju Biennale, the 10th Lyon Biennale, the 5th Auckland Triennial, the 10th and 11th Bamako Biennales, the 7th Shenzhen Architecture Biennale, the Setouchi Triennial and the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan. His work has been presented in numerous personal exhibits, at the Migros Museum, Zurich; MAMCO, Geneva; Picasso Museum La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris; AK Bank Foundation, Istanbul; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Gothenburg Konsthall and Es Baluard Museu, Palma de Mallorca. He also participated in several collective exhibits at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Palais de Tokyo, Paris. MAXXI, Rome. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. MMOMA, Moscow. Mathaf, Doha, Hayward Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, at Nasher Museum of Art, Durham and Louvre Abu Dhabi.
He has received several prizes, including the Uriöt prize, Amsterdam, the Grand Prix Léopold Sédar Senghor at the 7th Dakar Biennale in 2006, as well as the Cairo Biennale Prize in 2010, and the Silver Plane Prize, Altai Biennale, Moscow in 2020. -
Works
mounir fatmi Morocco, b. 1970
Brainteaser for moderate muslim, 2004Acrylic on rubiks cubes54 x 11,5 x 13,5 cmEd. of 5 + 1 A.P.5of 5ExhibitionsNews-
mounir fatmi: Biennale Grandeur Nature - The Spirit of the Forest
at the Château de Fontainebleau August 8, 2025Mounir Fatmi is participating in the second edition of the Biennale Grandeur Nature – The Spirit of the Forest , taking place at the Château...Read more -
Énormément Bizarre
assume vivid astro focus, Joana Vasconcelos, mounir fatmi, Centre Pompidou, France March 25, 2025We are pleased to share that our artists assume vivid astro focus, Joana Vasconcelos, and mounir fatmi are part of the group exhibition 'Énormément Bizarre'...Read more -
mounir fatmi's 'All that I Lost' in Es Baluard
Normopathies: Works from the Es Baluard Museu Collection | Until January 2025 July 30, 2024mounir fatmi's 'All that I Lost' is now on view at Es Baluard Museu in Palma as part of 'Normopathies: Works from the Es Baluard...Read more -
José María Sicilia, mounir fatmi and Amparo Sard at Es Baluard
In Conversation: The Museum and the Collection | Until May 26 April 26, 2024José María Sicilia, mounir fatmi and Amparo Sard's works on view at Es Baluard Museu, in Palma. 'In Conversation: The Museum and the Collection', curated...Read more -
mounir fatmi at the MOCA Collection in L.A.
October 3, 2023The Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles has acquired the piece 'The Blackboard ', by Baró Galeria's represented artist mounir fatmi , an installation...Read more
