Driss Ouadahi

Place: Casablanca

Born: 1959

Biography:

Driss Ouadahi is a contemporary Algerian painter and architect who trained, works, and lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ouadahi's work features abstracted architectural forms found in real Algerian housing structures. Themes in Ouadahi's works surround politics of class, religion, and ethnicity relating to ideas of boundaries and otherness. Systeme der Abgrenzung (Systems of Demarcation), opened at the Heydt Museum in Germany on February 25, 2018. Ouadahi's works are included in the publication collections of Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), FRAC Centre (Orléans, France), Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung (Rastatt, Germany), Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Germany), Nadour Collection (Germany), Stadtsparkasses Baden-Baden (Germany). Ouadahi has received several awards including Grand Prix Léopold Sédar SENGHOR, Dakar, Senegal (2014), Cité International de Arts Paris, (Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler) (2013), Artist Residency, Etaneno Museum im Busch, Namibia (2011), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Istres, Marseille (2003). Ouadahi's works have been published in several publications including 'Driss Ouadahi, Systeme Der Abgrenzung' (2018), 'Driss Ouadahi Takes on Fences in Latest Exhibit' (Jul. 13, 2016), 'Driss Ouadahi, 'Breach in the Silence' at Hosfelt Gallery' (Aug. 4, 2016), 'Driss Ouadahi: Meeting with an International Style Painter' (Nov. 14, 2014), 'Now Showing: Driss Ouadahi' (Oct. 1, 2010), 'Gridded Tyrannies' (2010). Ouadahi's works are exhibited in Hosfelt Gallery.