Artist
Latifa Echakhch
French, b. 1974
Latifa Echakhch is a French artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Latifa Echakhch was born in Morocco.
Overview
Latifa Echakhch (Arabic: لطيفة الشخش; born 1974) is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Working in Switzerland, she creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
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.
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
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 Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bergamo (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.
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, ISBN 978-2-914171-46-5 Thierry Raspail, Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013, ISBN 978-2-90646-187-1
Collections represented
Museum