Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai

Nadia Kaabi-Linke studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tunis, and later at the Sorbonne University in Pari♕s.

Kaabi-Linke’s body of work is related t🐎o places and their histories; it is as time-specific as it is site-specific. The installations and objects, as well as her pictorial works, are anchored in constellations of cultural, historical, social and political contexts and refer to a certain place or to coincidental events. Making use of many different media, artefacts, symbolisms and codes, her work is intertwined with socio-psychological topics: perception, memory, and geographically and politically constructed identities. 

Recent solo exhibitions include A Matter of Resilience, Darat Al Funun, Amman (2020); Impossible Ordinary, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2018-19); VersiegelteZeit [Sealed Time], Kunstmuseum (2017-2018); Lost and Found, Experimenter, Kolkata (2016); Walk the Line, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2015); FAHRENHEIT311: Seven Legends of Machismo, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2015); No Frills, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2015); The Future Rewound and The Cabinet of Souls, The Mosaic Rooms, London,  Stranded – Preso por fios, Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2014); No One Harms Me, Experimenter, Kolkata (2013) and Black is the New White, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2012).

Select group exhibitions include Clapping With Stones: Arts and Acts of Resistance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2019); Walking Through Walls, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019); The Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas (2019); How To See (What Isn't There), Langen Foundation, Neuss (2018); Body Ego, Dallas Museum of Art, Lahore Biennale (2018); Inhabiting Territories, MOVIMENTA Biennale, Nice (2017); Witness, Karachi Biennale (2017); Borders of Visibility, 25^th Slavonian Biennale (2016);  Songlines for a New Atlas, Kalmar konstmuseum, Sweden (2016); Social Calligraphies: East ̶ West, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2016); Between Structure and Matter: Other Minimal Futures, Curated by Prajit Dutta and Murtaza Vali, Aicon Gallery, New York (2016); But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Curated by Sara Raza, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Pushing the Boundaries –Connecting the World, VIII Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tashkent (2016); Magic and Power - Of Magic Carpets and Drones, Marta Herford Museum (2016).

Kaabi-Linke has received a number of awards including the New Discoveries Prize at Art Basel Hong Kong (2014); the Abraaj Capital Art Priz🅘e (2011); First prize in UmbauStadt art and Urban Architecture Competition, Berlin, Germany (2010) and the Jury Prize at the Alexandria Biennale (2009).

Her works are part of several public and privat🎐e collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim , New York; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Sharjah Art Foundation; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; Burger Collection, Hong Kong; Jameel Art Collectioꦺn; Fondation Villa Datris pour la Sculpture Contemporaine, France; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; ARTER Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York; The Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Lebanon; Kamel Lazaar Collection, Tunis and Ministère de la Culture et de la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine, Tunis.

Kaabi-Linke currently lives and works in Berlin.