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Saâdane Afif    (French, 1970)

 Saâdane Afif - Blue Time ( 3 different versions;this is version 1) (Installations)  x w: 35 cm /  x w: 13.8 in
Saâdane Afif
Blue Time ( 3 different versions;this is version 1) 2008
 
 Saâdane Afif - POP (Le bar des Héros) (Prints)
Saâdane Afif
POP (Le bar des Héros) 2007
 
 Saâdane Afif - Suspense Blanche (Mixed Media)
Saâdane Afif
Suspense Blanche 2008
 
 Saâdane Afif - This is the way you and I measure the world (Installations)  x w: 175 cm /  x w: 68.9 in
Saâdane Afif
This is the way you and I measure the world 2008
 
  

Biography
1995 Degree of Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges
1997 Residence at Brise Glace, Grenoble
1998 Post-Diplôme de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes
2001 Award and residence, Villa Arson, Nice
2002 "Villa Medicis Hors les Murs" award-winner
2006 International Contemporary Art Award, Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco

Exhibitions
2009 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Weserburg, group show, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2009 Schere - Stein - Papier. Pop-Musik als Gegenstand Bildender Kunst, group show, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2008 Technical Specifications, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007 Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2007 Half Square, Half Crazy/ A demi carré, à demi fou, Villa Arson, Nice (cur. E. Wetterwald & L. Reynaud-Dewar)
2007 Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2006 Power Chords/ 9 pièces réduites, Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco (cat.) (solo)
2006 Power Chords , Cité de la Musique, Paris (solo)
2006 Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy (solo)
2006 Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cur. J. Sans & N. Bourriaud) (cat.)
2006 Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (cur. Lorenzo Fusi)
2006 Anti-dote, Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris (cat.)
2006 Unité, Paris Calling, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom
2006 Collection 05, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (cur. Nathalie Ergino)
2006 Midnight Walkers , Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (cur. S. Schaschl-Cooper & C. Le Restif)
2006 Black/White & Chewing Gum, Krobath Wimmer Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2006 Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea (cur. Manu Park)
2006 Intérieur jour- l'objet entre art et design dans la collection du FRAC Ile de France , Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France
2006 ... d'où l'écoute prend forme, Centre d'art Passerelle (cur. François Quintin), Brest, France
2006 Deaf -from the audible to the visible , Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
2006 Thank you for the Music , Sprüth Magers Lee, London
2006 Amazeing friends , Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
2005 Thank you for the Music , Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Gallery, Munich, Germany
2005 The Last Christmas, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
2005 Expérience de la durée , Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon (cur. J. Sans, N. Bourriaud, T.Raspail & T.Prat) (cat.)
2005 Pantagruel's Syndrom , Turin Triennial (cur. C. Chrystov-Bakargiev & F. Bonami), Turin, Italy
2005 Sweet Taboos, Tirana Biennial (cur. Hou Hanru), Tirana, Albania
2005 Lyrics , Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.) (solo)
2005 Hors-catégorie , Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (solo)
2005 One Million BPM, Cimaise et portique, Albi, France (solo)
2004 Melancholic Beat, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (cat.) (solo)
2004 Prospectif , Le Hall, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (solo)
2003 King plants and dirty roads , Art/34/Basel/Art (solo)
2003 Statements, Galerie Michel Rein (solo)

Literature
2006 Travailler la musique comme le bois et le fer, Henri-François Debailleux in Libération, July 31.
2006 Tremplin pour le futur, Philippe Régnier in Le Journal des Arts #241, July 7.-Sept.7, p.12.
2006 Saâdane Afif à la recherche de l'abstraction , Evence Verdier in Artpress #320, February, pp.43-45.
2006 Saâdane Afif/ Palais de Tokyo , Jean-Max Colard in Artforum, January.
2006 Chansons d'une exposition , David Sanson in Mouvement, January-March.
2006 Power Chords, published by Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco (mono.)
2005 Lyrics, texts/images, published by Saâdane Afif/ Palais de Tokyo (mono.)
2003 Jeunesse Youth / part 1, texts by Lili Reynaud, John Beagles, François Piron, published by Le Collège/Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims-Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (mono.)
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