Yassine Khaled
Visual Artist
Biography
Yassine Khaled
I'm visual artist based in Helsinki. My sculptures, installations, performances, paintings, and videos focus on the disparity between the power and wealth of some, and the powerlessness and poverty of others in our globalized world. In my works, I visualize power relations between individuals caused by, for instance, ever-increasing gaps in wealth, socio-cultural differences, labor conditions, educational opportunities — the conditions that determine one’s level of comfort and stability in society.
My works have been represented internationally in galleries, art fairs and biennales including: Expanded Media -exhibition at Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival, Stuttgart, Germany (2019), Prix Ars Electronica, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria (2018), SALTS Group Exhibition, Birsfelden, Switzerland (2017-2018), Chart Art Fair (2017), Copenhagen, Denmark, Haihara Art Centre, Tampere, Finland (2017), SUPERMARKET Art Fair, Stockholm (2017), Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki (2017), CMOOA -Collection’s Auction, Palace Es Saadi, Marrakech (2016), Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (2016-2017), 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London (2015), GVCC, Casablanca (2012-2017) and ”Luxures”, RonchauxRoom, Besançon, France (2014), Biennale OFF 4 Marrakech (2012) and Contemporary Art Fair of Africa and the Mediterranean, Casablanca (2011).
EDUCATION
2010 - present
2019 MFA - Academy of Fine Arts: Time and Space Studies, University of Arts Helsinki
2011 Bachelor Diploma - National Institute of Fine Arts Tétouan, Morocco
PERFORMANCES
2019 Monitor Man -video in Criatek - Digital Creativity & Technology Festival, Aveiro, Portugal
2018 Monitor Man -performance at Digital Weekender Festival, Watermans Arts Centre, London
Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Monitor Man -performance, Platform in collaboration with Filmverkstaden and Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art Vaasa, Finland
2017 Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Research Pavilion, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, related to 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Helga Christoffersen
Monitor Man, Arabia Street Art Festival, Helsinki
Monitor Man -performance and video of the performance presented at Supermarket 2017 Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden 2016
Monitor Man at Baltic Circle, International Theatre Festival, Helsinki
2015 Like a Dog, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki 2014 /2013
How to Shine Shoes?, Sefrou, Morocco/Festival Lumières d’Afrique, Apaca Art Event, Besancon, France
2013 The Dirt Under the Soles - Festival Lumières d’Afrique, Apaca Art Event, Besançon, France
The Revolution -Festival Lumières d’Afrique, Apaca Art Event, Besançon, France
2010 Mika Ka7la (Rubbish Man) - Tétouan, Morocco
2010 - present
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Monitor Man in the Time of Pandemic, MAA-tila, Helsinki
2019 Disconnecting, GVCC Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2017 ForHidden, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
A Territory Under the MaMa, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Open Studio, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2011 The Good Zero, Institute of Fine Art Space, Tétouan, Morocco
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Language of Belonging, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, curated by Linda Ciesielski
2019 Monitor Man -Criatek - Digital Creativity & Technology Museu de Arte Nova, Aveiro, Portugal
Expanded Media at Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival, Germany
2018 Human Factors, Watermans Arts Centre, London, curated by Irini Papadimitriou
CyberArts 2018 - Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Hive Mind, Kunstihoone - Tallinn Art Hall, curated by Stacey Koosel
New Normal, Saariaho Järvenpää Gallery, Helsinki
imagine., MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2017-2018 I AM OUR COMMON PRONOUN, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland, curated by Helga Christoffersen
2017 Research Pavilion, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, related to 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
I AM OUR COMMON PRONOUN, Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Helga Christoffersen
Kaupunki, Group Exhibition, Art Centre Haihara, Tampere, Finland Silence, Please, Gallery Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland KuvAn Kevät, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland The Game Between -installation, Art Fair Suomi-festival, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2016 Särö - Sprickan - Fracture, Almintalo, Loviisa, Finland
Fondia Gallery, Helsinki, Finland Carte Blanche of Villu Jaanisoo, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
Non Parallel Process, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2015 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, England March, Group Exhibition, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco
MASTERMIND, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco - Curator: Mohamed Arejdal
2014 Luxures/ ﺕﺍﻮﻬﺷ, RonchauxRoom, Besançon, France
2013 Group show - Gallery of Institut Français, Fes, Morocco Culture Vultures, Gallery Pop Up Alzahra, Fes, Morocco Culture Vultures, Dar Tazi, Fes, Morocco
2012 Blast - MASTERMIND, GVCC, Casablanca, Morocco - Curator: Mehdi Hadj Khalifa Now, MASTERMIND / Biennale OFF 4 Marrakech, GVCC, Morocco - Curator: Mehdi Hadj Khalifa 2011 Contemporary Art Fair of Africa and the Mediterranean, Casablanca, Morocco WEG WEG WEG, Film program, Utrecht, Hollande Carrefour des Jeunes Artistes Peintres 2ème édition, Gallery Mohamed El Fassi, Rabat, Morocco
2010 The Sefrou Cherry Festival, Sefrou, Morocco
RESIDENCIES
2021 2 month virtual residency in SPACE Art + Technology -residence, London, supported by Saastamoinen Foundation.
2020 Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
2018 Residency in Saaren kartano, Kone Foundation, Finland
2016 Väinö Tanner Foundation, Mazzano Romano, Italy
KuvA, Berlin, Germany
2014 Institut of Fine Arts, Besançon, France La Cité International Des Arts, Paris, France
2013 Institut of Fine Arts, Besançon, France Air.café, Tissardmine, Morocco Institut Français, Fes, Morocco
2012 GVCC, Marrakech, Morocco
SCREENINGS
2020 Monitor Man in The Time of Pandemic -short film on Helsinki Music Centre’s big outside screen as a part of Together Alone -program, organized by Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes
2017 Monitor Man Kettupäivät -Short Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
WORKSHOP
2017 Intervention on Equality and Aesthetics of Knowledge, with Jacques Rancière, Ivana Momcilovic (People Coming from Nowhere -collective), Gregoire Rousseau, Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab Press) and Minna Heikinaho
2019 Workshop with Jukka Hautamäki and Marko Tandefelt about Art-Technology, Oodi Library, Helsinki
GRANTS AND PRIZE
2020 Finnish Cultural Foundation, 6-month working grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, grant for mobility
2019 Arts Promotion Centre Finland, one year working grant
2018 Honorary Mention for Monitor Man at Prix Ars Electronica 2018, Austria
Kone Foundation, 6 month working grant
Arts Promotion Centre Finland, 6 month working grant
2017 Arts Promotion Centre Finland
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2016 Koneen Säätiö, for making a performance for Baltic Circle - International Theatre Festival
Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki
2015 GVCC, Galerie Venise Cadre Casablanca, Morocco
2014 Institut Français, Paris, for 5 months residency at The Cité internationale des Arts
2014 2nd Prize for The Artist of the New Generation in Morocco, Ministry of Culture Morocco
2013 Institut Français Maroc, for working and material costs in a artistic residency Batha in Fes, Morocco
UPCOMING
2021 - 2-month residency in Finnish Cultural Institute in New York
- 1-month residency in SPACE Art + Technology -residence, London, supported by Saastamoinen Foundation.
- Public Art-work "Art as a Platform for Integration" Supported by Irini Papadimitriou, SPACE Art + Technology -residence, London and Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
- Public Art-work_Installation, "Sense of Belonging", Helsinki, Finland
2022 -Solo Exhibition, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland