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BIOGRAPHY

ABDELAZIZ TALEB
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Mixed media artist, producer, archival artist and curator. Founder and director of the Arab media lab project and Digital Marrakech festival, where he plans artists programs, discussions, workshops and trainings.

His films and videos are seen as an extension of Taleb´ s body, which explore different visions around poetry, inner identity, the purification of the soul and deep social realities.

A number of which had been selected to Academy-certified film and video festivals such as The Berlinale talent, Venice International Film Festival, Rotterdam film festival, festival international du Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier, free waves Los Angeles, International short film festival - Clermont-Ferrant, CCCB Barcelona, World Museum Rotterdam, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Caixa Art Forum Barcelona, Casa Arabe Madrid, Documenta Madrid, Villa des arts Casablanca and Rabat, Kiev Biennial, ZKM Karlsruhe... and many more. 

 

He also gives lectures and master classes on the current media art happenings in The Arab world, and initiated and produced various projects around the Arab stereotypes in western media.

 

Taleb contributed in the curation of various projects worldwide which contribute to the circulation of works from the Arabic and North African countries in different (international) video and film festivals, diversify the "Western perspective" on art from the Arab world and acquaint the West with Arab artists. Lives and works in Germany

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Abdelaziz Taleb

Born in Agadir Morocco

Director and founder of The ARAB MEDIA LAB project / 2010-present

Director and founder of DIGITAL MARRAKECH FESTIVAL / 2011-present 

Director and founder of  The MEDIA ART MOROCCO / MAM workshops series and master classes / / 2016-present 

Co-Director of the Moving Video project: VIDEOKARAVAAN 2002-2010

Curator of The Arab stereotypes in western medias, Casa Arab Madrid 2011

Curator Arab stereotypes in western medias, Documenta festival Madrid, 2011

Curator TROC ART, la villa des arts Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco, 2007-2008

Curator of  „ Trans arab „ La Caixa art forum Barcelona, 2003-2006

Curator of Arab media arts happenings at „Test portal Amsterdam „ 2006

Curator of The Media arts happenings in The Arab world, Van abb Museum Eindhoven, 2005

Curator  of The Media arts happenings in The Arab world, World museum Rotterdam, 2003

Programmer Africa in the picture Film Festival“ , Amsterdam 2001/2003

STUDIES / SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES

Graduate in English literature at the University of Agadir, Morocco 1994-1998

Video art studies at the University of Agadir 1996-1998

Scholarship residency and studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne KHM, Germany. 1999-2001

Made in Hangar grant residency, Hangar/ Barcelona art report 2002

Residency la Mostra video de Barcelona / OVNI-DESORG 2003-2004

GRANTS AND HONORS

Academy of media arts Cologne KHM ( Fellowhsip), Cologne 1999-2001

UNESCO Grant for media Artists 1999-2000

Made in Hangar grant, Hangar/ Barcelona art report 2002

First prize at the Agadir festival for young Moroccan Artists 1998

The academy award prize given by the Ibn Zohr University- Agadir 1998

1st prize in Casablanca international video festival 2001-2002-2003

UNESCO-ASCHBERG Award for media artists 1999

UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists / 1999-2000

Shirimoyo Prize for best Video at the FIAV video festival, Nimes , France 2002

Best Moroccan short film in Venice international film festival 2008

5 times best Video art work at FIAV / Casablanca international video art festival / 1998-2002

WORK IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ART COLLECTIONS ( selection )

Agadir University-Morocco

World wide video festival database, NL

Casablanca International video art festival, Casablanca, Morocco

Caixa Art Forum, Barcelona, Spain

Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain

Rotterdam International Film festival, NL

Venice International Film Festival, Italy

Clermont-Ferrant International short Film festival, France

Allianz Cultural Foundation,Berlin, Germany

Institut Francais Agadir, Morocco

ZKM Kalsruhe, Germany

Digital Marrakech, Morocco

ONA Foundation, Casablanca-Rabat, Morocco

Centre Culturel Atlas golf Marrakech, Morocco

CCCB Barcelona, Spain

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL

World Museum Rotterdam, NL

Test Portal Amsterdam, NL

Berlinale film festival, Berlin, Germany

European Cultural foundation, NL

Doen Foundation, NL

Prince Claus Foundation, NL

Goethe Institut Rabat, Morocco

Time is love International video art program

Hiedra, Buenos Aries, Argentina

Mcube Gallery, Lalitpur, Nepal

Plymouth University, UK

Yokohama Community Design Lab, Yokohama, Japan

National institute of fine Arts, Tetouan, Morocco

Expressive Arts institute, San Diego, US

Torrance Art Museum, California, US

Next Five Minutes Amsterdam, NL

Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht, NL

Riad El Fenn, Marrakech, Morocco

Sofia underground performance Art festival, Sofia, Bulgaria

Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier

Kyiv Biennial 

EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, INTERVENTIONS ( selection )

Casa Arabe Madrid, Transmediale Berlin, Short ends film festival London, Freewaves Los

Angeles, The Image Forum Festival Tokyo, Eindhoven Van AbbeMuseum, Rencontres

Internationales Paris Madrid Berlin, ICA London, FIAV international video festival

Casablanca, Cinematheque Tanger, , Videokaravaan world tour, Impakt Utrecht, World

museum Rotterdam, Test portal Amsterdam, Caixa art forum Barcelona, OVNI Barcelona,

Media Art Agadir, CCCB Barcelona, Institut francais Morocco, Academy of media arts

Cologne, World wide video Amsterdam, Africa in the picture Amsterdam, Mostra

international film festival venice, berlinale talent campus, Time is love International video

art program, Kyiv Biennial …

 

CATALOGUES ( selection )

TransArab, Caixa foundation, Spain

La Mostra video de Barcelona / Desorg database, spain

Book: Contemporary Moroccan Artists « Dictionnaire des Artistes Contemporains du Maroc» By Dounia Benqassem

Arab stereotypes in western media, Casa Arabe, Madrid

World wide video Catalogue and Database

Rotterdam International Film Festival

Venice International Film Festival

Kyiv Biennial 

Prince Claus Fund

European cultural Foundation

IDFA-NL

Berlinale

Doen Foundation

Arab Fund For Culture AFAC

Allianz Stiftung Berlin

Torrance Art Museum, California, US

Hivos Foundation

 

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS ( selection )

El Mundo

El Pais

Lavanguardia

Telquel

Diptyk

Libération

Al Arabiya

Canvas Magazine

Al Quds

Africulture

Hespress

Yabiladi

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