Latifa Echakhch
Latifa Echakhch (; born 1974 in El-Khnansa, Morocco) is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who 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 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. , 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 , GET OUT. Exhibitions 2007: Le Magasin, Grenoble 2008: Tate Modern, London 2009: Fridericianum, Kassel 2009: Latifa Echakhch – Partitures, , Bielefeld. 2009: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, New York 2010: Le Rappel des oiseaux, ; then in the (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy. 2012: Latifa Echakhch – The Birds. Project under the European Cultural Days of the ECB. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. 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, Zurich. 2016: Cross Fade, The Power Plant, Toronto. 2017: Crowd Fade, İstanbul Bienali, İstanbul. 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. 2020: The sun and The Set, BPS22, Charleroi. 2022: The Concert, Swiss Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. Private life Echakhch lives and works in Martigny in Switzerland. 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, , Latifa Echakhch. Laps, Lyon, France, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, 2013, References 1974 births Living people French contemporary artists French installation artists Moroccan emigrants to France Swiss contemporary artists