Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese artist living in Rotterdam.
He works primarily in sculpture, extending into installation, performance, film, and text.
His practice explores global and national projects of progress, the systems that sustain them, and the desires that disrupt them.
His recent work examines contemporary diplomacy through its objects and structures, unsettling its power through sensual, animalistic, and speculative forms informed by dissent in Arabic poetry. He draws on nonconforming queer desires to propose alternative ways of being under dominant regimes.
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.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions:
Het Aanslag Loket, Moezeum, Rotterdam, NL, 2026
Elegiac Whispers, A M Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, 2026
Global Perspectives and Islamic calligraphy, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England, 2026
Sun, Don't Rush to be Red. Son, Don't Rush to be Read, TENT, Rotterdam, NL, 2025-26
SOLO - In Practice: Nadim Choufi, SculptureCenter, New York, US, 2025
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