Category: Tunisia
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Sahar El Echi (b. 1992) lives and works in Tunisia. She is a visual artist, filmmaker, and film curator. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Tunisia, she also holds an MA in visual design with distinction. Sahar has directed several independent films, including Mutation, Manwella, In-Between, and Correspondences. She has participated in…
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Sonia Kacem (*1985) lives and works in Geneva, where she earned a master’s degree from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in 2011. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leenard’s Cultural Grant (2023), the Zurich Art Prize (2022), the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize (2015), the Manor Art Prize (2014), and the…
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Born in 1992 in Bizerte, Asma Ben Aissa lives and works in Tunis. In her work, Asma is fundamentally interested in the landscape as an aesthetic concept, where experimentation serves her art. Her work explores themes of habitat, transmission, architecture, interior and exterior spaces, social transformations, and local heritage, echoing the relationship between environmental construction…
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Born and based in Tunis (1986), Yasmine Ben Khelil studied at the university Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. Yesmine’s approach consists mainly of re-appropriating or reinterpreting all kinds of images, objects or texts through various means (drawings, collages, installations, paintings, videos) to portray a world saturated with representations, transformed into a flow of information where past…
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Beya Othmani is an art curator and researcher from Tunisia and Algeria. Currently, she divides her time between Tunis and New York. Othmani’s recent research has been focused on exhibition histories, the construction of racial identities in art, and state-led exhibition-making practices in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Othmani is currently a CAORC/Andrew Mellon Art History…
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Olfa Feki is an architect, curator and artistic director/founder of #Kerkennah visual art festival. She has contributed to the establishment of the new generation of photojournalists of the North African shores following the Arab spring. After founding the first visual art center in Tunisia, she decided to move out to extend her experience. From project…
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(1924 – 2004) A pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women’s rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her contributions in the fields of design, painting, ceramics, upholstery, and decorative arts, employing various materials such as stamps, ceramics, stained…
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( 1927 – 2020)A Tunisian designer and decorator. Menchari was born in Tunis in 1927. Her father was a lawyer and her mother, Habiba Menchari, was known for her lectures on female empowerment. As a teenager, she met Jean and Violet Henson, who introduced Menchari to horticulture and helped her meet artists such as Man…
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Emna Zghal is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She was trained in both Tunisia and the United States and has shown her work in both countries and beyond. Her images of vast imagined spaces echo the patterns of nature and their infinite variety. And while the colors of her paintings, drawings and prints are surreal, they…
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Hela Lamine, born in 1984, is a Tunisian multidisciplinary artist and a teacher at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. She lives and works in Tunis. Since 2010, she has been developing a hybrid practice that centers around the human being and what they consume: food, social networks, politics, culture, tradition, identity, and…
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Self-taught artist, Khedija Essaied Jeddi (1976), looks at the world through the eyes of an eternal child. The artist uses her sensitivity to subjects, some of which are recurring in her reflection, to deliver narrative work, mixing texts, embroidery, painting and pastels. Her artistic work is constructed and fleshed out mainly around issues that are…
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Born in 1994 – Based in Tunis Harrabi is a visual artist, editor, documentary filmmaker and cultural practitioner. After several experiences in different cultural media in Tunisia as a journalist, video creator, chief editor and communication manager, she found her path in audiovisual collaborations with artists and young artistic collectives in Tunisia and abroad. In…
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Wiame Haddad (1987) is a Tunisian, Moroccan and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work takes on the scope of a photographic and cinematographic study, constituting ethical and formal research. This research is…