Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch (born 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Latifa Echakhch was working in Switzerland, she creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
Latifa Echakhch
- Name
- Latifa Echakhch
- Born
- 1974
- Birthplace
- El Khnansa, Morocco
- Occupation
- Visual artist
- Known for
- Contemporary art, installations
- Nationality
- Morocco
- Fields
- installation art
- Movements
- conceptual art
- Honours
- Marcel Duchamp Prize
- Languages
- Arabic · Berber
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Arabic and Berber. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are installation art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are À chaque stencil une révolution. Work by Latifa Echakhch is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Tate, MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Distinctions recorded are Marcel Duchamp Prize.
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For the birthplace of Latifa Echakhch, El Khnansa is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Al Maghrib by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Latifa Echakhch • Born — 1974 • Birthplace — El Khnansa, Morocco • Citizenship — MoroccanFrench • Occupation — Visual artist • Years Active — 2000s–present • Known for — Contemporary art, installations • Honours — Participation in Venice Biennale (2011), Marcel Duchamp Prize winner (2013)
Early life and education
Early life and education
Latifa Echakhch was born in El-Khnansa, Morocco in 1974 and immigrated to France at the age of three. She attended the École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble and graduated from the National School of Arts Cergy-Pontoise and the Lyon National School of Fine Arts.
Documentary record
Latifa Echakhch, an installation artist, photographer and video artist, was born in 1974.
Career
Career
Echakhch began her career in 2002. In 2008, she was invited to exhibit her work at Tate Modern in London. In 2011, she participated to the Venice Biennale. She was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013. Alfred Pacquement, director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Pompidou Centre), who was president of the jury, said: "Her work, between surrealism and conceptualism, questions with economy and precision the importance of symbols and reflects the fragility of modernism." In December 2015, she was the first woman guest curator of the annual Masters' exhibition at the Haute École d'art et de design Genève, GET OUT.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• Illustration — A chaque stencil une révolution in Art Basel 2010, Kleinbasel • 2007: Le Magasin, Grenoble • 2008: Tate Modern, London • 2009: Fridericianum, Kassel • 2009: Latifa Echakhch – Partitures, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld • 2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, New York • 2010: Le Rappel des oiseaux, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne; then in the (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy • 2012: Latifa Echakhch – The Birds. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus, Frankfurt • 2013: Latifa Echakhch – Laps, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon • 2013: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles • 2015: Latifa Echakhch – Screen Shot, Zurich Art Prize 2015, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich • 2016: Cross Fade, The Power Plant, Toronto • 2017: Crowd Fade, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul • 2018: Falling, Lovely and beautiful, KIOSK, Ghent • 2018: Le Jardin Mécanique, New National Museum of Monaco • 2018: Sensory Spaces 14, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam • 2019: Romance, Fondazione Memmo, Rome • 2019: Freedom and Tree, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz • 2020: The sun and The Set, BPS22, Charleroi • 2022: The Concert, Swiss Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale.
Private life
Private life
Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland.
Monographs
Monographs
• Kamel Mennour, Latifa Echakhch, texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Latifa Echakhch, Annabelle Gugnon, Bernard Marcadé, Zürich / Dijon, Switzerland / France, JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag / Les Presses real, 2012, • Thierry Raspail, Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013,
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- 1.Lunn, Felicity. Latifa Echakhch. Frieze. 1 January 2011.
- 2.Chardon, Elisabeth. Latifa Echakhch, la résistance par l'art. Le Temps. 11 December 2015.
- 3.Le prix Marcel Duchamp 2013 attribué à Latifa Echakhch. The Huffington Post. AFP. 26 October 2013.
- 4.Latifa Echakhch |. Flash Art. November 16, 2016.
- 5.Universes in Universe. 54th Venice Biennial, 2011.
- 6.Blouin. Latifa Echakhch Tears Down the Circus at the Kunsthaus Zurich. ArtInfo. 10 January 2013.
- 7.Le Marcel-Duchamp remis à Latifa Echakhch. Libération. 27 October 2013.
- 8.Lasnier, Jean-François. La poésie visuelle de Latifa Echakhch. Connaissance des Arts. 29 March 2013.
- 9.Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia.
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