Zineb

Sedira

Zineb Sedira (b. 1963 Paris, France) utilises the mediums of photography, film, video, object making, performance and installation. For over 25 years, her practice has addressed themes of history, migration and storytelling.

Solo exhibitions: Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, 2023), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee, 2023), De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea, 2022), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, 2021), Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2019), Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Valencia, 2019), Beirut Art Center (Lebanon, 2018) and Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010).

Institutional group exhibitions: Kunsthausbaselland (Basel, 2022), The Photographers’ Gallery (London, 2021), Pompidou Centre (Paris, 2020), Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, 2019), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Holland, 2018) and Tate Britain (London, 2013).

Biennials and triennials: the Gwangju Biennale (2023); Venice Biennale (2001, 2011, 2022); the Folkestone Triennial (2011); Sharjah Biennale (2003 and 2007); and the triennial for photography and video at the Institute of Contemporary Photography in New York (2003).

Sedira’s film Dreams Have No Titles (2022) was awarded the Special Mention of the Jury at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. In 2023, it was screened at the High Line in New York and at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town and went on display at TATE Britain in London as part of a rehang of the permanent collection. It will have its UK premiere at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in Spring 2024. The work will tour to the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi, in Autumn 2024. Forthcoming is a significant solo exhibition at The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon in February 2025.