Taysir Batniji
- Taysir Batniji
- Work
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany, 2024
Taysir Batniji (b.1966, Gaza, Palestine) lives and works between Paris and Palestine. He studied Fine Art at Al Najah University in Nablus, Palestine and at the School of Arts in Bourges, France.
In recent years he has held solo exhibitions at Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles (2018); Aperture Foundation, New York (2018); Contemporary Art Space André Malraux, Colmar (2016); Espace Culturel Robert de Lamanon, Colmar (2016); Cultural Center Salon de Provence, Marseille (2013); Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva (2007); and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2004).
His works were shown in the following group exhibitions: Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2018); Mulhouse Art Center - Mulhouse (2017); Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2017); Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia (2016); and Center Pompidou (2014).
He participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011, 2009 and 2003. His works are part of prominent collections such as Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, among others.
Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | Hannoun, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE Out of the blue, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany |
| 2023 | Quadrillages et bifurcations, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Home Away from Home, Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France No Condition is Permanent, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar |
| 2021 | Taysir Batniji: Quelques bribes arrachées au vide qui se creuse, MAC VAL - Musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France |
| 2020 | Artist's Rooms: Taysir Batniji, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE |
| 2019 | Sand Comes Through The Window, Mina Image Center, Beirut, Lebanon Home Away from Home, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 | Home Away from Home, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France Home Away from Home, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2016 | DIPLOPIA, Contemporary Art Space André Malraux, Colmar, France |
| 2014 | Memory is Evergreen, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2013 | Taysir Batniji. Man does not live by bread alone, Cultural Center Salon de Provence, Marseille, France |
| 2012 | Troubles, Gallery BF15, Lyon, France |
| 2010 | Mobile Home, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2009 | Acting Memories, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France Fathers, CCF of Algiers, Algeria |
| 2007 | Fathers, Talmart Gallery, Paris, France Background Noise, La Compagnie, Marseille, France Fathers, Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2004 | Transit, Witte from With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2002 | Impossible Journey, K & S Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 | News / Breaking News, Arts and Crafts Village, Gaza |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | 17th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France space of togetherness, Neon Foundation, National Theater of Greece Drama School | School of Athens – Irene Papas, Athens, Greece |
| 2023 | About Sharing. Art on the (German-Polish) Border, The National Museum Poznan, Poland Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Grasping at Straws, The 5th Floor, Taitō City, Japan Les Sentinelles | Œuvres de la collection du Cnap, Tourcoing, France Jaou photo 2022, Tunis, Tunisia Taysir Batniji, Kunsthalle Trier, Germany 12th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 | Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Mara’ina, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture - Ithra, Saudi Arabia hybrID, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany 14th Fellbach Triennial For Small Sculpture:40,000 – A Museum Of Curiosity, Fellbach, Germany Enfermement, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis, France Lignes de vies - une exposition de légendes, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France |
| 2018 | Living in the Mediterranean, Institut Valencià d’art Modern, Valencia, Spain Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2017 | Titos Bunker, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany A World Not Ours, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse - Center for Contemporary Art, France Kunsten Festival Watou, Belgium |
| 2016 | Uprisings, Jeu de Paume, Paris Between Myth and Fright. The Mediterranean as conflict, Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain Dream of another world, Centre D’Histoire, Lyon, France Uncertain States, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | [7P] Fotofestival Mannheim - Ludwigshafen - Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany |
| 2014 | A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s until today, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France BNLMTL, L’avenir, Biennial of Montreal, Canada Recreational Purpose, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain Les Horizons, La Criée Art Center, Rennes, France Keep Your Eye on the Wall, Palestinian Landscapes, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait Customs Made: Quotidian Practices and Everyday Rituals, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE Thanks for Writing, 601 Artspace, New York, USA Arab Contemporary: Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark A Guest Without A Host Is A Ghost, CIC, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2013 | The sea is my land. Artists from the Mediterranean, MAXXI, Rome, Italy Summa Art Fair, Madrid, Spain Here, Elsewhere, Friche La Belle De Mai, Tour-Panorama, Marseille, France |
| 2012 | Light from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Forays. Self-interest systems - mechanisms of looting, Fotohof Salzburg, Germany Systems and Patterns, International of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA Newtopia: The state of human rights, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK Zollamt, Germany State of Transit, Open Systems, Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria |
| 2011 | Seeing is Believing, KW Berlin, Germany Istanbul Biennial 12, Istanbul, Turkey The Future of a Promise, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy |
| 2010 | Biennial Cuvée, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria |
| 2009 | Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Jerusalem Show III: The Jerusalem Syndrome, Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem Palestine c / o Venice, 53rd Venice Biennale, La Giudecca, Venice, Italy Palestine, La création dans tous ses états, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France Paris Photo, Paris, France |
| 2008 | Water: Misery and Delight, IFA gallery, Stuttgart, Germany Minimum Security, The Bank, Paris, France Our Realities, The Neighborhood, Contemporary Art Center of Quimper, France |
| 2007 | The 2nd Riwaq Biennial, Ramallah, Palestine 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah, UAE |
| 2006 | Coding: Decoding, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark New Territories, Belfry, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium Middle East News, On Culture and Politics, HAU, Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | KunstFilmBiennale, Sankt Peter Art Station, Cologne, Germany |
| 2003 | Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer’s Dictatorship, Utopia Station, 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
| 2002 | A Need of Realism. Solitude in Ujazdowski, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland |
Awards | |
| 2012 | Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Joint Winner |
Public Collections | |
| Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Goetz, Munich; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Georges Pompidou Center, Paris; Neuflize Foundation, Paris; Villa Bernasconi, Lancy, FNAC (National Fund of Contemporary Art), Paris; Immigration Museum, Paris; “Ursula Blikle Video Archive”, Kunsthalle Wien, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AU and Ursula Blikle Foundation, Kraichtal; Fresnoy Media Library, Tourcoing Art Center, France; Multimedia library of Videochroniques, Friche de Belle de Mai, Marseille | |
Education | |
| 1997 | DNSEP, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges, Bourges, France |
| 1992 | BA, Plastic Arts, Al-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine |