Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese artist living in Rotterdam.
He primarily works in sculpture and across other media.
His practice explores how desires are shaped by and can resist established visions of progress.
His recent projects explore diplomacy, poetry, queerness, and monstrosity.
Skinned Chair of the UN Security Council Chamber, 2024.
Photo: Shivadas De Schrijver
Currently, I am working on a series of sculptures, a book, a performance, and a film. They will be shown in 2026-2028.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions:
Het Aanslag Loket, Moezeum, Rotterdam, NL, 2026
Elegiac Whispers, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, 2026
Global Perspectives and Islamic calligraphy, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England, 2026
Sun, Don't Rush to be Red. Son, Don't Rush to be Read, TENT, Rotterdam, NL, 2025-26
SOLO - In Practice: Nadim Choufi, SculptureCenter, New York, US, 2025
Editorial:
Co-editor: I Will Always Be Looking For You - A Queer Anthology on Arab Art. Published Aug 2025
Managing Editor: Journal Safar
Recent News:
Singing with Severed Tongues: On Nadim Choufi's In the Face of the Dragon by Maru Pabón, Ibraaz, 2026
Winner of the Visual Arts Prize, Boghossian Foundation, 2025
Nadim Choufi: Reweaving Language, Remaking Worlds by Aziz Sohail, Mousse Magazine, 2025