ALEJANDRO VIDAL
Palma de Mallorca 1972
Lives and works in Barcelona

Solo shows (Selection)

2008
One second burns for a billion years’ Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Sabattique : Alejandro Vidal & Saâdane Afif, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid
Dance like a fool, walk like a king. Play Platform for film&video, Berlin

2007
Blackout for Death Kling&Bang Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland

2006
Material Dust, Fundació La Caixa ,CaixaForum, Barcelona (Espai Montcada)
Demons Dance Alone, Galerie Adler, New York City, USA
MACO, Mexico City, stand Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures
Loop, Video Art Fair, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

2005
Aesthetics of Violence MOT, Londres .Curated by Chris Hammond
A lonely Suicides Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures, Berlin, Germany
Curated by Marco Scotini
Deciphering Scars Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
Disrupted Noise Terror, Insurgent Space, Tirana, Albania, Curated by Stefano Romano
Constructing Victims p | m Gallery, Toronto, Canada
‘The pattern of Subversion’ BuroEmpty, Amsterdam; The Netherlands
Artissima, Torino, stand Play Gallery for Still and Motion Pictures

2004
A pas de Loup Museum of Contemporary Art. Belgrado Curated by Branko Dimitrijevic
Un tiro a todos los Diablos Artra, Milan, Italy, Curated by Marco Scotini
Protecting Idols ADN Galería, Barcelona

2003
In the Company of Enemies Galería T4, Barcelona
Exercises in Self-Protection Espacio Tres, Mexico DF, Curated by Francisca Rivero-
Lake
Promising Young Boys Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden

Group shows (Selection)

2008
Time Code , Museo di Arte Moderno di Bologna. Mambo. Curated by A.Piosseli and
Fabiola Nalda.
9ºBienal Martinez GUuerricabeitia, Universitat de Valencia
Repeat All. MIS, Museo Imagem e So, Sao Paulo, Brazil curated Sigismond de Vajay

2007
Agression. Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena,
Italy.
Exploraciones La Capella, Barcelona, curated by Manuel Olveira
Curated by Lorenzo Fusi and Naeem Mohaimen
100 Tage 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Repeat All, 13 Video Installations by International Artists , Matucana 100, Santiago de
Chile
Rock my Ilussion, Sala Puerta Nueva, Córdoba, Spain curated by Jesús Alcaide
Shot and Go, A vision of international actual photography, Isola di San Servo, Venezia.
Curated by Raffaele Gavarro
VideoZoom Spagna, Sala Uno Centro d’arte contemporanea, Roma, Italy, curated by
David Barro.
War, Peace and Ecstasy, Artissima 14th Torino Italy, curated by Cecilia Alemani
VIision:A Instituto Cervantes & Loop Video Art, Beijing, Milano, Lyon, Casablanca,
curated by Javier Duero

2006
Busan Biennale ,Corea ,Curated by Manu Park
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Matthias Ulrich
Repeat All , 13 Video Installations by International Artists, Vevey, Switzerland, curated
byi Sigismond de Vajay
Crime and Punishment. Tallinn Kunstihoone, Estonia, curated by Anders Härm
2nd Biennale of Young Artists, Bucarest, Rumania, curated by Branko Franceschi
Observatori, Museo de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia,Spain, Curated by Javier
Duero
Arts al Palau, Palau Ducal dels Borgia, Gandia,Spain curated by Evarist Navarro
Naked Life Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Manray Hsu /
Maren Richter
100 Tage 100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Videopulsiones, Tecnologias do Sentimento ,Galeria de esposiçoes de ESAD,Lisboa
Curated by Joaquin Barriendos
Nottdance06, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, Uk
Video Visionen, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
Video Heroes. CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, curated by Javier Duero
Art Rotterdam, stand Galleria Artra

2005
Kamikaze, Artra Galleria, Genova, Italy
Parafraseando al Diablo Harto_Espacio, Montevideo, Uruguay
Nocturnal Transmission, Curator’s Office, Washington, USA, curated by Andrea Pollan.
Insurgent Space, Black Room, Tirana National Gallery, Albania
Video/ökonomie, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
ArtFrankfurt, stand Gallery Adler, Germany
FIAC, Paris, stand Galerie Adler.
Digital and Video Art Fair, Paris, stand Play Gallery for still and motion pictures.
Loop Video Art Fair Barcelona, Play Gallery for Still and motion Pictures.
Ciclo de Video Play Young (Encuentro Pepe Espaliu) Filmoteca de Andalucia, Spain

2004
Personne n’est Innocent Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, curated by Damien
Airault /Sigismond de Vajay
Working Class Today ..Tomorrow Nuevos Ricos KBB, Barcelona

2003
We are not afraid VTO Gallery, Londres Controlled Revolution 4 , Vecchio Hospedale
Soave, Codogno, Italy
Contested Space’ Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy, curated by Marco Scotini
Liste 03, Basel, stand VTO Gallery
Exploraciones La Capella, Barcelona, curated by Manuel Olveira

SAÂDANE AFIF
Born in 1970 in Vendome, France
Lives and works in Berlin

Solo shows

2008
Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Two... FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
One, FRAC Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France

2007
Blue Time vs. Suspense , galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
58:22 & some words , galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany

2006
Power Chords/ 9 pièces réduites , Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco (cat.)
Power Chords , Cité de la Musique, Paris
galleria Maze, Torino, Italy

2005
Lyrics , Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
Hors-catégorie , galerie Michel Rein, Paris
One Million BPM, Cimaise et portique, Albi, France

2004
Melancholic Beat , Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (cat.)
Prospectif , Le Hall, galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

2003
‘king plants and dirty roads , Art/34/Basel/Art Statements,galerie Michel Rein
Memory Lost , Villa Arson, Nice, France

2002
...et n’importe quoi , galerie Michel Rein, Paris (cat.)

2001
Mise à flot , Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France
Poetic Lambda , Le Collège/Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

2000
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France
Le vrai scandale c’est la mort , Expression Algérienne 2000, galerie de l’Université,
Aix-en-Provence, France

1999
Ebauche , Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France

1998
TOUT , galerie Michel Rein, Tours, France

Group shows
2008
Archéologies du présent – Collection FRAC Centre, Musée Archéologique
d'Argentomagus, Les Mersans, France
Pop! goes the weasel , Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cur. Anja Casser)
176 Project Space, London (cur. Vincent Honoré)
Sabbatique (with Alejandro Vidal), galeria Elba Benitez, Spain

2007
French kissing in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami, USA (cur. Silvia Karman Cubina)
Documenta 12 , Kassel, Germany (cur. Roger Buergel; Ruth Noack) (cat.)
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London (cur. V. Honoré)
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)
Expats/ Clandestines, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
Cosmic Dreams, Centre Cultural Andratx, Spain (cur. Friederike Nymphius)
Handsome young doctor, Cubitt Gallery, London (cur. Tom Morton)
Daniel Buren invite..., Domaine Pommery, Reims , France
Rouge baiser, Frac des pays de la loire , Carquefou, France
Half Square, Half Crazy/ A demi carré, à demi fou , Villa Arson, Nice (cur. E.
Wetterwald, V. Pécoil & L. Reynaud-Dewar)
La Boum , Layr Wuestehagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Artistes français de A à Z , galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
XS , galerie espace Mica, Rennes, France (cur. E. Wetterwald)

2006
Notre Histoire , Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cur. J. Sans & N. Bourriaud) (cat.)
Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (cur. Lorenzo Fusi) (cat.)
Anti-dote , Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris (cat.)
Unité, Paris Calling , Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom
Collection 05, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (cur. Nathalie Ergino)
Midnight Walkers , Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine,
France (cur. S. Schaschl-Cooper & C. Le Restif)
Black/White & Chewing Gum, Krobath Wimmer Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Busan Biennial, Busan, Korea (cur. Manu Park)
Intérieur jour- l'objet entre art et design dans la collection du FRAC Ile de France ,
Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France
... d'où l'écoute prend forme , Centre d'art Passerelle (cur. François Quintin), Brest,
France
Deaf -from the audible to the visible , galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Thank you for the Music , Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Amazeing friends , galleria Maze, Turin, Italy

2005
Thank you for the Music , Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Gallery, Munich, Germany
The Last Christmas, galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Expérience de la durée , Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon (cur. J. Sans, N.
Bourriaud, T.Raspail & T.Prat) (cat.)
Pantagruel's Syndrom , Turin Triennial (cur. C. Chrystov-Bakargiev & F. Bonami),
Turin, Italy
Sweet Taboos , Tirana Biennial (cur. Hou Hanru), Tirana, Albania
Anti-dote , Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris
Rendez-vous 2005, la jeune création contemporaine , parcours résonance de la
biennale, galerie des Terreaux, Lyon, France
Plurielles 1 « Identités » , Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
Invisible script: a letter to Morel (cur. François Piron), W139, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Down at the Rock’nRoll Club , 1st Moscow biennial (cat.)
Tijdelijk Onbewoonbaar Verklaard , More Talent Than Space, Ypres, Belgium
Contrée , FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Musée des Cordeliers, St-Jean d’Angély, France
Vorticanti , galleria Maze, Turin, Italy

2004
The stars are so big, the earth is so small… Stay as you are (cur. Robert Meijer),
galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin
D’un pas…L’autre…, Jinan festival 2004, China
Shake , O.K. Centrum, Linz (Austria)/Villa Arson, Nice (France) (cat.)
Oasis , Glassbox, Paris
Playlist (cur.Nicolas Bourriaud), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
Code Unknown , Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (cat.)
Vente à la criée du lot 49 , Zoo Galerie, Nantes
Prêt à prêter , FRAC PACA, Marseille, France
Black out, (histoires et fiction), oeuvres de la collection du FRAC Poitou-Charentes ,
Galerie de l’Ancien Collège, Châtellerault, France

2003
Books Machines (com. Jean-Max Colard), Magasin Colette, Paris
Phalanstère , Centre d’art contemporain, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
Great Expectations , Fuoriuso 2003, Pescara, Italy (cat.)
Meanwhile in a real world , Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris
Nos Troubles , Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète,
France
Collections SANS Frontières , Gallerie Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (cat.)

2002
From top to bottom Mystic Mountains , (cur. Iliara Bonacossa), Tour Fromage, Aosta
Valley, Italy (cat.)
Any where out of the world , Raid projects Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
13 artistes de la collection du FRAC Centre , FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
Objets de réflexions , Le Plateau-Frac Ile-de-France, Paris (cat.)
Self/In material conscience , Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy

2001
Any where out of the world (cur. Parker’s Box et Triangle-France), Parker’s Box, New-
York
Parallèle Parallaxe Paradoxe (cur.François Piron), Maison Popu., Montreuil, France
(cat.)

2000
Du fabuleux , Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Tours, France
Sensitive , Le Printemps de Cahors (cur.Christine Macel), Cahors, France (cat.)
Actif/Réactif , La création vivante à Nantes, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (cat.)
Big Torino , Turin Biennial (cur.Robert Fleck), Turin, Italy (cat.)

1999
Faut-il rappeler les amours de vacances , La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France

1998
Une légende à suivre , CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (cat.)
Déplacements (cur.Alain Declercq), rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris
Bruits secrets , Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France
Paysage, manifestement , Porte de Roubaix-Porte Gand, Lille, France
Collectif (cur.Nathalie Viot), asso. APF, Villemur-sur-Tarn, France

1997
Fétiches et Colifichets , Zoo galerie, Nantes, France
Legend of the Seas , Exposition du Post-diplôme, Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts,
Nantes, France (cat.)
Enthousiasme, courage, confiance et optimisme , l’Imagerie, Lannion, France

1996
Collectif (Pierre Bismuth, Stéphane Calais, Laurent Chambert et Liliana Moro), galerie
Michel Rein, Tours, France
(cat.)catalogue published

Group projects

2002
Paris-Brooklyn (with Fabien Verschaere), Parker’s Box, New York

2001
Saâdane Afif/Anne De Sterk, ERBA, Rouen, France

1999
Il fait beau et chaud , Saâdane Afif/Pierre Bamfort/Lina Jabbour/Pierre Malphettes,
Transpalette, asso.Emmetrop, Bourges, France (cat.)
RN117 , Saâdane Afif/Delphine Coindet, Le Parvis, Pau, France (cat.)

1998
Remix , Saâdane Afif/Mathieu Mercier/Marie Vindy, ERBA, Besançon, France

1997
Saâdane Afif/Marie Vindy, Maison Billaud, Fontenay-Le-Comte, France