NADIM CHOUFI
SELECTED PROJECTS:

nadim choufi is a visual artist living in Beirut. He primarily focuses on the material histories and futures of innovation and desire, their social and political driving forces, and the visual and literary practices that surround them.

He is a 2024 resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Currently he is the curator of the film programme of the 2024 festival edition of transmediale and a researcher at Haven For Artists. Previously he was co-Programs Director at Beirut Art Center.

b. 1994. Living in Beirut, Lebanon

Current and upcoming exhibitions and screenings

Thinking Like A Mountain, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT
Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots, IT
Screening & Conversation with Nadim Choufi , WIELS, Brussels, BE
World Weather Network, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Global Energy Cultures: Energy on Screen, Msheireb Museums, Doha, QA.

2023

The View from Above Takes My Breath Away – Fully, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
transmediale 2023: a model, a map, a fiction, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and its Immediate Consequences, ArtReview
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and its Immediate Consequences, Spryte, UK
redeem رديم, Kunstraum MEMPHIS, Linz, AT
Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, DE
Tactics&Practice, Aksioma, Ljubljana, SI

2022

Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)
Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, LU
MENA Film Festival, Vancouver, CA
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK
Translating Images, Mina Image Center, Beirut, LB
The Art Jameel Weather station, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
L’heure d’hiver Beirut, Cinema Galleries, Brussels, BE
Tasmeem 2022, VCUQatar Art & Design Biennial, QA

2021


Race for the Surface
, Beirut Art Center, LB (Solo Show)
Sharjah Film Platform 4, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
X is Not a Small Country — Unravelling the Post-Global Era, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology, Lisbon, PT
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Incertains États curated by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Cinemed, Montpellier, FR
Molding the lost space, Haven For Artists, Beirut, LB
Garden of e-arthly Delights, Sumaq Space, online
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences, Cinema Akil, Dubai, UAE
Limitrophy curated by Sepideh Majidi, Foreign Objekt, Online
Selected films: Garden of e-arthly Delights, Foundry, UAE
Decolonize Our Planet Shasha, Online

2020
Calling the Future, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, DE
Alien Processes: Reproduction & Time, The New School, New York, US

2019
Open Studios, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
MENA-logue, Macao, Milan, IT
REVEALING curated by Rachel Dedman , Beirut Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
Vices and Validation, French Institute, Beirut, LB
To the moon and back curated by Zeta Kolokythopoulou, South Hill Parks Art Centre, Bracknell, UK

2018
Inhuman Art, Galerie U Mloka, Olomouc, CZ
Inhuman Art, Konvikt Press Centre, Olomouc, CZ
INTIMACY, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, IE
Sahelanthropus v.01, Rede House, Middlesbrough, UK
iPhone Distances, Concept 2092, Beirut, LB
31st Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, FR

Residencies and Fellowships

2018- 2019 Fellow at Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, LB
2018 Artist Resident at Haven For Artists, Beirut, LB

Talks

2022
Panel Discussion: Translating Images, Mina Image Center, Beirut, LB
Nadim Choufi in Conversation with Gökçe Günel, Beirut Art Center, LB

2021
A Future Perfect [sic] Life, Foreign Objekt, San Francisco, US

2020
The last time I looked at the stars, I felt the colors radiating inside me, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
A Future Perfect [sic] Life, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan

2019
I'm ± Here: Shape Shifting Arabic for Love, artist talk at Macao, Milan, IT
I'm ± Here: Shape Shifting Arabic for Love, artist talk at Nedwa, Nicosia, CP

Selected Publications

2020
Reconfiguration of thought as a communal act, Circa 106 Publication

2017
Two poems in Versal 12
One poem in The Shallow Ends


Awards

Best Experimental Short Film, Sharjah Film Platform, 2021
The Art Jameel Commission: Digital, Jameel Arts Centre, 2020