Mohamed Bourouissa

The largest exhibition in Germany thus far by the Algerian-born, Paris-based artist Mohamed Bourouissa (b. 1978) offers a view of his work from the early 2000s to the present.

With a selection of films, photographs, installations and sculptures, Bourouissa has put together works that bear witness to the different forms of violence that result from colonialist ideologies. Whether it is ordinary and trivialised or institutional, it is a violence that he and many other racialised people have known and suffered from. Nevertheless, Bourouissa’s works are far from being confrontational. On the contrary, while they allow us to delve into the intimate sphere of their protagonists, they testify to a feeling of humanity in which dignity triumphs over humiliation. Art becomes a strategy of defence and self-empowerment that enables individuals to reappropriate their own history – whether that of a prisoner, a former patient of a psychiatric clinic or Bourouissa’s aunt Noubia (photo), who immigrated to Osnabrück and lived there until she died.

The show is curated by Guest Curator Oriane Durand.

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