Mohamed Bourouissa

Born in 1978 in Blida (Algeria), Mohamed Bourouissa is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at Palais de Tokyo, LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut (Lille), Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (London), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin), Rencontres d’Arles, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Musée national Eugène Delacroix (Paris), Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia) and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). His work is represented in major public collections worldwide, including those of the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and MoMA (New York City), and has won numerous awards. He has also been nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2018) and selected for the Pictet Prize, an international photography award (2017). Preceded by a long immersion phase, each of Mohamed Bourouissa’s projects establishes a new situation of enunciation. With a critical eye on often stereotyped media constructions, the artist reintroduces complexity into the representation of contemporary society. The subjects of his photographs, sculptures and videos are regularly people left “on the margins”, at the crossroads of integration and exclusion.