Nadia Kaabi-Linke
Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s research-driven practice explores how migration, power, and geopolitics inscribe themselves into everyday materials. In her conceptual approach, she is dedicated to examining the invisible structures that shape experiences of borders, surveillance, and exclusion.
Working across installation, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, she often casts or collects physical traces such as worn surfaces, architectural fragments, or residues from sites of conflict and control to create works that hover between forensic evidence and poetic abstraction. Her projects combine a refined visual language with a political awareness, inviting viewers to confront how histories of violence, displacement, and resistance continue to shape the present.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 AlUla (sa), ALULA ARTS FESTIVAL
2025 Chemnitz (de), BEGEHUNGEN Arts Festival
2025 Gabes (tn), ISAM
2025 istanbul (tr), ARTER Museum
2025 Tunis (tn), LA BOÎTE
2025 Ryiadh (sa), SAMoCA Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art
2025 Bonn (de), KUNSTMUSEUM
2024 Berlin (de), HAMBURGER BAHNHOF National Gallery for the Contemporary
2023 Tunis (tn), LA BOÎTE
2023 Dortmund (de), MUSEUM OSTWALL
2023 Dhahran (sa), ITHRA Museum
2023 Kyiv (ua), NAMU National Art Museum of Ukraine
2021 Amman (jo), DARAT AL FUNUN
2017 Bonn (de), KUNSTMUSEUM
2011 Venice (it), VENICE BIENNIAL
STUDIES
2008 Paris (fr), SORBONNE: PhD
1999 Tunis (tn), INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS: Degree
BIO
Since 2006 Lives in Berlin (de).
1990 Moved with the family to Dubai.
1978 Born in Tunis (tn).
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