Tarek Lakhrissi (born 1992  in Châtellerault, France. Lives and works in Paris) is a French artist and poet with a background in literature who explores sociopolitical narratives and speculative situations of transformation and magic through text, film, installation, and performance.

Lakhrissi has been exhibited internationally in galleries and institutions including Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney as part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney; Wiels, Brussels; Palazzo Re Rebaudengo/Sandretto, Guarene/Torino; Manchester International Festival; Mostyn, Llandudno; Tinguely Museum, Basel; HKW, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Fondation Ricard, Paris; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma as part of the Quadriennale di Roma; High Art, Paris; Vitrine, London; La Verrière, Fondation d'enterprise Hermès, Brussles; Kevin Space, Vienna; Hayward Gallery, London; Auto Italia South East, London; Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; L'Espace Arlaud, Lausanne; Zabriskie, Geneva; Fondation Gulbenkian, Paris; Veda gallery, Florence; CRAC Alsace; Kim?, Riga; Artexte, Montreal; La Gaité Lyrique, Paris; and SMC/CAC, Vilnius.

Lakhrissi's artworks are held in private and public collections such as Defares Collection, Netherlands; Fondazione Sandretto Collection, Italy;  Fondation Lafayette Anticipations, France; CNAP, France; FRAC Aquitaine MÉCA, France; FRAC Grand Large, France; IAC Villeurbanne, France; FMAC, France; Fiorucci Art Trust, UK and Italy; Mauro Mattei Art Trust, UK and Italy and the Johns Hopkins University Collection.



TAREK LAKHRISSI

Born in 1992, Châtellerault, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.


EDUCATION

2019 - 2020 Post-graduate programme ÉNSBA Lyon
2010 - 2015 BA/MFA Literature & Theatre, Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III and University of Montreal, Canada


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2024     

Who is afraid of red blue and yellow? - Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris (FR)
RISING, Kanal Pompidou, Brussels, (BE)
BLISS, Migros Museum, Zürich, (CH)
DOUBLE FEATURE: TAREK LAKHRISSI, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin and Düsseldorf simultaneously


2023  
Unfinished Sentence II, Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea (UK)
THE PRELUDE THE HOURS THE KISS THE END, Galerie Allen, Paris (FR)
I wear my wounds on my tongue (II), Collective, Edinburg (UK)
Liste Art Fair, with Trevor Yeung, Basel (CH)
You can now enter:Notes on Immersion with Tai Shani, Clima Gallery, Milan (IT)


2022
Revenge Fantasy, Frieze Art Fair / Vitrine Gallery, London (UK)
Manette (Joystick), with Neila Czermak Ichti, Artorama / Nir Altman, Marseille (FR)

2021
A, Letter, with Charlie Godet Thomas, Ballon Rouge, Brussels (BE)
I wear my wounds on my tongue, Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna (AT)
My immortal, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno (UK)
Perfume of Traitors, Vitrine Gallery, London (UK)

2020
This Doesn't Belong to Me, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (IT)

2019
Serpent Dream, Zabriskie, Genève (CH)
Caméléon Club, La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec (FR)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Paris + Art Basel, Galerie Allen, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris (FR)
A Drawing for Morocco, Paris Internationale, Paris (FR)
Echelle Humaine, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (FR)
UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (DE)
Lingering Bodies / Cuerpos Persistentes, Espacio Odeon, Bogota (CO)
Modern Nature, La Becque, Vevey (CH)
Scabs, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier (FR)     
The Naked Word, Centrale Fies, Dro (IT)
Words Don?t Go There, Kunstverein Braunschweig (DE)
Moon in your mouth, UKS, Oslo (NW)
Dancing forward, looking backward, Kunsthal Ghent (BE)
Bad Poetry / Vilaine Poésie, BBB Centre d?art, Toulouse (FR)
Art Genève, Klima Magazine, Genève (CH)

2022
Portals, Galerie Allen, Paris (FR)
The Voices of the Tempests, Somerset House Studio, London (UK)
Breathing in Babylon, Kanaal 40, Amsterdam (NL)
Parallel Visions, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (IT)
Habibi, les révolutions de l'amour, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (FR)
PROTOZONE 8: QUEER TRUST, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Home is where the Haunt is, Des Bains Gallery, London (UK)
Biennale Matter of Art, City Gallery, Prague (CZ)
BANG BANG, Tinguely Museum, Basel (CH)
Des corps libres, Studio des Acacias, Paris (FR)
Tactiques du rêve augmenté, La Verrière - Hermès Foundation, Brussels (BE)
100%, La Villette, Paris (FR)
Echoes, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
Hand to your ear II, Emalin Gallery, London (UK)
A forma dos futures, Casa da Escada Colorida, Rio di Janeiro (BR)

 

2021
BIENNALE, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)
Ordained, Horny & Horned, VEDA, Firenze (IT)
EXTRA WORLDING, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Avoidance, Futura, Prague (CZ)
Bonaventure, 22nd Ricard Foundation Prize, Paris (FR)
Une journée en utopie, Familistère, Guise (FR)
The Shape of Futuros, One Gee Fog, Geneva (CH)
Proto-Club 2: (be)longing, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Poet Slash Artist, Manchester International Festival, Manchester (UK)
Flying on the raven's wing, Horst Festival, Vilvoorde (BE)
Abundance, Het Hem, Amsterdam (NL)
Yes a falling tree makes also sound, Kling&Bang, Reykjavik (IS)
The many face God·dess (3/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)
A plusieurs, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Hard to Love, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
Un même monde, MAGCP, Cajarc (FR)

 

2020
Living just enough, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (ZA)
Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (IT)
Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Imposture, IAC, Villeurbanne (FR)
Infinie Liberté, Salle Saint-Martin, Souillac (FR)
La Clinique du Queer (2/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)
Risquons-Tout, Wiels, Brussels (BE)
Sâr Dubnotal, CAC Bretigny, Bretigny s/Orge (FR)
Your friends and neighbors, High Art Gallery, Paris (FR)
NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (AU)
La pleine lune dort la nuit, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart (FR)
I am from nowhere good (1/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)

2019
Cinders, Sinuous and Supple, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (CH)
Fluid Wor(l)ds, Postscheckamt, Berlin (DE)
FIAC Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
Le couteau sans lame et dépourvu de manche, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
Tainted Love (south club edit), Villa Arson, Nice (FR)

2018
Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Kim, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (LV)
Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, DOC!, Paris (FR)
Talismans ; Le désert entre nous n'est que du sable, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (FR)
Tainted Love, Confort Moderne, Poitiers (FR)

2017
Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius (LT)

 

RESIDENCIES

2022
Lafayette Anticipations (FR)

2021
Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)

2020
Wiels, Brussels (BE)
Workspace, Brussels (BE)
Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
CN D, Pantin (FR)


2019
Post-graduate program, Fine Art School of Lyon (FR)
Bundanon Trust, Illaroo (AU)
Artspace, Sydney (AU)
Kunstencentrum Buda, Courtrai (BE)
Workspace, Brussels (BE)
Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)
Accomplices, Mophradat, Delphi (GR)
Cneai, Pantin (FR)


2018
La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec (FR)

2016
Artexte Gallery, Concordia Univeristy, Montreal (CA)

 


TEACHING / CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS

HEAD, Geneva (CH)
Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR)
ZhDK, Zurich (CH)
ESACM, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
ESAAA, Annecy (FR)
Slade Art School, London (UK)
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
ENSBA Cergy (FR)
Bétonsalon, Paris (FR)
Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)
Doc, Paris (FR)
Espace Khiasma, Lilas (FR)
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)
Université de Strasbourg (FR)


SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2022
BEAST!, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
BEAST!, Festival Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
BEAST!, HKW, Berlin (DE)
BEAST!, Tinguely Museum, Basel (CH)
MISS ME ?, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

2021
Sick Sad World, Grand Casino of Knokke (BE)
Sick Sad World, Wild Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Sick Sad World, Fondation Ricard, Paris (FR)

2019
Performing Unfinished Sentence, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
Our Lady of Bastard Grass, with Ghita Skali, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR)
conSpiration, with Loup, Festival Jerkoff, Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR)
Mes pensées, exactement (My thoughts, exactly), with Eden Tinto Collins, INHA, Paris (FR)
Innocence is blocking me, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
32 of October / 32 octobre 2018, with Ghita Skali, La Galerie, CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec (FR)
Different Alibis, Auto Italia South East, London (UK)

2018
Différents Alibis, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (FR)
Blouse Bleue, Festival Jerkoff, Point Ephémère, Paris (FR)
I don't understand what you are saying but I love you, PointCulture, Bruxelles (BE)
I don't understand what you are saying but I love you, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (FR)
Blouse Bleue, Live! #1, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (FR)

2017
The Readers, Baltic Triennal 13 GIVE UP THE GHOST , CAC Vilnius (LT)
Can you spell your name please ?, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius (LT)


COLLECTIONS

Defares Collection (NL)
Fondazione Sandretto Collection (IT)
Fondation Lafayette Anticipations (FR)
CNAP (FR)
FRAC Aquitaine MÉCA (FR)
FRAC Grand Large (FR)
IAC (FR)
FMAC (FR)
Johns Hopkins University Collection (US)
Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation (UK + IT)
Collection of Mauro Mattei Art Trust (UK + IT)


AWARDS

2022
Zurich Art Prize  / Nominee

2021
22nd Ricard Foundation Prize / Nominee

2019
Matsutani Occident Prize / Nominee
PSC Art Prize / Nominee
FoRTE Grant / Awardee
DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Awardee

 

 

INTERVIEWS / ARTICLES / REVIEWS

EN
Mousse Magazine (Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Frieze (Philipp Hindhal)
BOMB (Laura Brown)
Flash Art (Caroline Elbaor)
Burlington Contemporary (Theo Gordon)
Art Monthly (Jade Barget)
Performa (Daniel Blanga Gubbay)
PW (Sarah Johanna Theurer & Elena Setzer)
Subbacultcha (Niloufar Nematollahi)
Blok (Dina Akhmadeeva and Adomas Narkevi?ius)
Salt (Nia Thomas)
Contemporary & (Ibrahim Cissé)
Widewalls (Balasz Takac)
L'Officiel USA (Margaux Bang)
ACMI (Shelley McSpedden)
Sydney Herald Morning (Linda Morris)
Mada Masr (Ash Moniz)
BerlinArtLiknk (Johanna Hardt)

FR
Fondation Ricard (Thomas Conchou)
Les Inrocks (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
Beaux-Arts de Paris (Madeleine Planeix Cocker, Fabrice Bourlez)
Lafayette Anticipations (Madeleine Planeix Cocker)
Revue Critique (Caroline Honorien)
Numéro (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
The Steidz (Critina Lopez)
Hypotheses.org (Lina Merad)
Vanity Fair (Olivier Bouchara)
Numero (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
Vice Belgique (Romain Vennekens)
Les Inrocks (François Piron, Ingrid Luquet Gad, Josèfa Ntjam)
Artpress (Thibaut Hofer)
AOC (Léo Guy-Denarcy)
Palais de Tokyo (François Piron)
Wiels (video)
Zero Deux (Antoinette Jattiot)
Numero (Matthieu Jacquet)
Figure Figure (Lou Ferrand)
Slash Paris (Guillaume Benoit)
La Nouvelle Revue Française (François Piron)
Manazir (Joan Grandjean)
Beaux-art Magazine (Maïlys Celeux-Lanval)
Time Out (Zoé Kennedy)
Quotidien de l'art (Pedro Morais)
L'Officiel Art (Margaux Bang)
Slash Paris (Léone Metayer)
Les Inrocks (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
Grazia (Pedro Morais)
Le Beau Vice (Elisabeth Lebovici)
Beaux-Arts Magazine (Julie Ackermann)
Les Inrocks (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
Les Inrocks (Ingrid Luquet Gad)
Libération (Judicaël Lavrador)