Lydia Ourahmane

Ourahmane has had recent solo exhibitions at MACBA,[1] Barcelona, SculptureCentre,[2] New York; rhizome, Algiers; Kunsthalle Basel,[3] Switzerland; S.M.A.K [4] Ghent; Portikus,[5] Frankfurt; De Appel,[6] Amsterdam; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Chisenhale Gallery,[7] London.

Drawing on personal and collective narratives and experiences, Ourahmane challenges broader institutional structures such as surveillance, logistics and bureaucratic processes, and the ways these forces are registered.

Ourahmane's recent solo exhibitions include; Tassili, SculptureCenter, NY, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris and Mercer Union, Toronto (2022-2023), Survival in the afterlife, Portikus, Frankfurt and De Appel, Amsterdam (2021); Barzakh,[14][15][16] Kunsthalle Basel, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, S.M.A.K.

Ghent (2021-2022); صرخة شمسیة Solar Cry, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,[17] San Francisco (2020); and The you in us,[18][19] Chisenhale Gallery, London (2018), among others.

With collaborator Alex Ayed, she presented Laws of Confusion at Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021) and was included in Risquons-Tout, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2020).