Kader Attia & François Gemenne

Kader Attia (born in 1970 in Dugny) grew up between France and Algeria and has been developing for the past twenty years a multidisciplinary practice nourished by his multicultural roots. He explores the perspective of societies on their history, notably the privatisation and repression, the violence and loss, and the way they affect the evolution of individuals and the nations, both connected to the collective memory. His research has brought him to the idea of reparation, a concept he philosophically developed in his writings and symbolically through his art. The principle of reparation being a constant in nature - is within humanity, that all living systems, social or cultural, can be considered as an infinite process of reparation, closely related to loss and wounds.

His work has been shown in many international exhibits, notably, at the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Hayward Gallery in London, MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the S.M.A.K in Ghent, and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. His work has also been shown at the 12th Biennale of Gwangju, the 12th Biennale of Shanghai, the 12th Manifesta, Palermo, the 57th Venice Biennale, and dOCUMENTA(13).

Curator of the Berlin Biennale 2022, winner of the Joan Miró (2017) and of the Marcel Duchamp prize (2016), Kader Attia is represented by the galleries Continua, Lehmann Maupin, and Nagel Draxler.

Member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), researcher at the University of Liège as well as professor at Sciences Po Paris, François Gemenne is a specialist in the geopolitics of the environment. Author of a thesis on ecological refugees, his research focuses on the international governance of migration in the face of climate change, putting into tension the notions of sovereignty and borders in the face of climate disruption. He has conducted several field studies in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina (2005) and in Japan after the Fukushima disaster (2011). He is also the author of numerous books, Géopolitique du climat : négociations, stratégies, impacts (Armand Colin, 2015), Atlas de l'anthropocène (Presses de Sciences Po, 2019), On a tous un ami noir : pour en finir avec les polémiques stériles sur les migrations (Fayard, 2020).