Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese artist based in Rotterdam.
His sculptural practice extends into performance, film, and drawing.
His practice explores how nations and institutions enact projects of progress, the systems that sustain them, and the lives they shape and exclude. His work gives form to desires that unsettle the intentions of these visions and make possible other ways of living, belonging, and relating to the world.
His recent work focuses on diplomacy and the objects, furniture, and language through which progress is staged. Through poetics, monstrosity, and queer desires, he examines how progress can be reimagined.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions:
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO, 2026 (Sept 6)
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy, Pickle Bar, Berlin, DE, 2026 (Sept 10)
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy, Circa 106, Bremen, DE, 2026 (Sept 17)
Elegiac Whispers, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, 2026
Global Perspectives and Islamic calligraphy, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England, 2026
Skinned Chair of the UN Security Council Chamber, 2024.
Photo: Shivadas De Schrijver
Currently, I am working on a series of sculptures, a book, a performance, and a film. They will be shown in 2026-2028.
Editorial:
Co-editor: I Will Always Be Looking For You - A Queer Anthology on Arab Art. Published Aug 2025
Managing Editor: Journal Safar
Recent News:
Singing with Severed Tongues: On Nadim Choufi's In the Face of the Dragon by Maru Pabón, Ibraaz, 2026
Winner of the Visual Arts Prize, Boghossian Foundation, 2025
Nadim Choufi: Reweaving Language, Remaking Worlds by Aziz Sohail, Mousse Magazine, 2025