NADIM CHOUFI
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nadim choufi is an artist from Lebanon. He primarily works in sculpture, moving image, and text.
His art explores visions of progress, their allure, and the literary and visual practices that uphold or challenge them. Centering non-normative desire and hybrid bodies, he negotiates who pays the price for these ambitions and the blurred boundaries between progress and wellbeing. He currently lives and works in Lebanon and the Netherlands.
He is a 2024 resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy. He is a researcher at Haven For Artists and a tutor at the Critical Inquiry Lab (Design Academy Eindhoven) alongside the sculptural and moving image workshops that he gives at various institutes. Previously he was the Film Curator of transmediale 2024 and the co-Programs Director at Beirut Art Center.
Current and upcoming exhibitions and screenings
Harlesden Video Club ’24, Harlesden High Street, London, UK
Thinking Like A Mountain, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT
Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots, IT
New Radicalism, Rotterdam, NL
Minor Attractions, London, UK
2024
Open Studios 2024, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
Maximum Humidity, Jameel Arts Centre, Online
Screening & Conversation with Nadim Choufi , WIELS, Brussels, BE
World Weather Network, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Global Energy Cultures: Energy on Screen, Msheireb Museums, Doha, QA.
2023
The View from Above Takes My Breath Away – Fully, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
transmediale 2023: a model, a map, a fiction, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and its Immediate Consequences, ArtReview
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and its Immediate Consequences, Spryte, UK
redeem رديم, Kunstraum MEMPHIS, Linz, AT
Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, DE
Tactics&Practice, Aksioma, Ljubljana, SI
2022
Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)
Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, LU
MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, CA
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK
Translating Images, Mina Image Center, Beirut, LB
The Art Jameel Weather station, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
L’heure d’hiver Beirut, Cinema Galleries, Brussels, BE
Tasmeem 2022, VCUQatar Art & Design Biennial, QA
2021
, Beirut Art Center, LB (Solo Show)
Sharjah Film Platform 4, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
X is Not a Small Country — Unravelling the Post-Global Era, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology, Lisbon, PT
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Incertains États curated by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Cinemed, Montpellier, FR
Molding the lost space, Haven For Artists, Beirut, LB
Garden of e-arthly Delights, Sumaq Space, online
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences, Cinema Akil, Dubai, UAE
Limitrophy curated by Sepideh Majidi, Foreign Objekt, Online
Selected films: Garden of e-arthly Delights, Foundry, UAE
Decolonize Our Planet Shasha, Online
2020
Calling the Future, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, DE
Alien Processes: Reproduction & Time, The New School, New York, US
2019
Open Studios, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
MENA-logue, Macao, Milan, IT
REVEALING curated by Rachel Dedman , Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
Vices and Validation, French Institute, Beirut, LB
To the moon and back curated by Zeta Kolokythopoulou, South Hill Parks Art Centre, Bracknell, UK
2018
Inhuman Art, Galerie U Mloka, Olomouc, CZ
Inhuman Art, Konvikt Press Centre, Olomouc, CZ
INTIMACY, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, IE
Sahelanthropus v.01, Rede House, Middlesbrough, UK
iPhone Distances, Concept 2092, Beirut, LB
31st Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, FR
Residencies and Fellowships
2018- 2019 Fellow at Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2018 Artist Resident at Haven For Artists, Beirut, LB
Talks
2022
Panel Discussion: Translating Images, Mina Image Center, Beirut, LB
Nadim Choufi in Conversation with Gökçe Günel, Beirut Art Center, LB
2021
A Future Perfect [sic] Life, Foreign Objekt, San Francisco, US
2020
The last time I looked at the stars, I felt the colors radiating inside me, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
A Future Perfect [sic] Life, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2019
I'm ± Here: Shape Shifting Arabic for Love, artist talk at Macao, Milan, IT
I'm ± Here: Shape Shifting Arabic for Love, artist talk at Nedwa, Nicosia, CP
Selected Publications
2020
Reconfiguration of thought as a communal act, Circa 106 Publication
2017
Two poems in Versal 12
One poem in The Shallow Ends
Awards
Best Experimental Short Film, Sharjah Film Platform, 2021
The Art Jameel Commission: Digital, Jameel Arts Centre, 2020