BIOGRAPHY
ABDELAZIZ TALEB
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
C.V ( short )
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