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born 1978 in Tunis, Tunisia.




Nadia Kaabi Linke is a Tunisian artist, born in Tunis in 1978 from a Russian mother from Kiev and a Tunisian father. She experienced life in many countries, languages, and cultures, such as Ukraine (Kiev), Tunisia (Tunis and Bizerte), the United Arab Emirates (Dubai), and France (Paris). She studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tunis, and later in Paris she combined her artistic work with the academical formation in philosophy and sciences of art. Today, she lives and works both in Tunis and Berlin. She accomplished her scientific research in artistic poeïtics, which focused the subject “The Invisible and the Pictorial Emergence of the Surface in Installation-Paintings” with the degree of a PhD (summa cum laude) at the Sorbonne University of Paris in 2008. This intellectual concept remained central to here practical art work. She articulates in her praxis the notions of contemporary history in the sense of an “archeology of the visual contemporaneity” and site-specificity.



2010
Hiwar - حوار . Group Exhibition in Tunis. From Mai 23 – June 15, 2010, Tunis, Tunisia. Curated by Khadija Hamdi.
SPLIT. Group Exhibition, Darb 1718 Contemporary. Art and Culture Center. From April 24 till Mai 22, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

2009
Aftermath. 25th Alexandria Bienniale for Mediterranean Countries. From December 17, 2009 – January 31, 2010, Alexandria, Egypt. (Price of the Jury)
Drawn from life. Drawing Form. Group Exhibition, Green Cardamom from November 19, 2009 till January 22, 2010, London, UK.
"Africaines". Second Panafrican Culture Festival in Algiers. July 4 till 20, 2009, Alger, Algeria.
Kaabi Linke – Kosuth, Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa de Rossi from June 20 – July 15, 2009, Fossano, Italia.
Provisions for the Future. 9th Sharjah Biennial 2009 from March 16 – Mai 16, 2009. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Art Dubai. Gallery El Marsa, March 18 – 21, 2009. Madinat Jumeirah, United Arabian Emirates.
—Gallery Itinerance from March 8 – March 22, 2009. Paris, France.
Archives des banalités tunisoises. Galerie El Marsa, January 17 – February 8, 2009. Tunis, Tunisia.

2008
Urban Traces. Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, from November 7, 2009 – January 2, 2009. Berlin, Germany.
Without Borders: Hispano/Maghreb Artistic Convergences. 30th Biennial of Pontevedra from July 17 – September 7, 2008. Pontevedra, Spain.
Art Connexions: Arab Contemporary Artists. Galerie El Marsa, June 14 – July 17, 2008. Tunis, Tunisia.

2006
—“The invisible and the visible”, Orwohaus. Berlin, Germany.
—"Créations contemporaines" organisé par Ader, Richelieu-Drouot. Paris, France.

2005
—“Stock III, installation in situ in the “rue de Fontenay”. Vincennes, France.

2004
—“Walk”, installation in situ in the Parc of the Cité Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France.
—"Journées portes ouvertes" in the studio of Christian Boltanski at the Academy of Fine Arts. Paris, France.

2003
—Maison de Tunisie in the Cité Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France.
—"À louer" at the Maison Internationale de la Cité Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France.

2002
—“Reflexions”, installation in situ in the UFR des Arts plastiques of the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Fontenay aux Roses, France.
—"Insolite" (photography) at the French-British College in Cité Universitaire de Paris. Paris, France.

2001
—Scene setting of TV film « Contes de notre patrimoine » in collaboration with Nacer Khemir (director), produced by the Etablissement de la Radio et de la Télévision Tunisienne (ERTT).

1998
—(Painting) Russian Cultural Centre. Tunis, Tunisia.