Driss Ouadahi: Revisited Spaces
After having trained as an architect, Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi (b. 1959, Casablanca, Morocco) immigrated from post-colonial North Africa to study painting at the renowned Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. Influenced by his lived experience as an émigré he has developed a unique visual vocabulary – a synthesis of structural design and modernist grid painting – which he uses to explore the social, political and psychological aspects of boundaries and the possibility of transcending them.
Driss Ouadahi was born in Morocco in 1959 to parents who were Algerian political exiles. His work was exhibited in the Cairo Biennial in 2010 and The Future of a Promise: Contemporary Art from the Arab World during the 2011 Venice Biennale. He was awarded the grand prize at the Dakar Biennale in 2014. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally, including in Dubai, New York, North Africa and throughout Europe.
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HG Magazine Issue no. 21
William T. Wiley on View at SFMoMA; plus Gerrymandering panel discussion, Liliana Porter, Driss Ouadahi, Lordy Rodriguez, minestrone soup recipe October 29, 2020Panel Discussion: When Redistricting Becomes Gerrymandering -- Can Districts Be Drawn Equitably? Artwork Explained: Liliana Porter's Brancusi William T. Wiley: Con-Fusion-Ism on view at SFMoMA...Read more -
HG Magazine Issue no. 20
Upcoming Exhibitions: Lordy Rodriguez & Driss Ouadahi; plus Jutta Haeckel, Max Gimblett October 13, 2020Lordy Rodriguez: Polar Democracy Driss Ouadahi: Revisited Spaces New to Inventory: Jutta Haeckel Virtual Event: Max Gimblett & Lewis Hyde discuss The Disappearing Ox —...Read more
