HAMZA HALLOUBI - Biography and CV

Hamza Halloubi is an artist, filmmaker, and writer, born in Tangier (Morocco) and based in Brussels. He works with film, video, and painting. He develops a body of work that questions dominant artistic narratives and the tensions between visibility and silence. His oeuvre is part of an approach that seeks to decentralize Western modern and contemporary narratives. Halloubi explores and speaks from "the minor places of culture," calling upon intellectual and artistic figures such as Edward Said, Mehdi Ben Barka, Jean Genet, Jane Bowles, and Cherifa, whom he invokes in order to challenge cultural hierarchies. Rejecting the spectacular, he favours subtle gestures. He conceives the act of filming as an ambiguous gesture-both powerful and vulnerable-often imbued with shame or doubt, and he refuses any form of identity essentialization.
He had solo exhibitions at, among others, De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2025, 2020, 2015, NL); Argos - Centre for Audiovisual Arts, Brussels (2021,2022, BE); tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam (2022, 2020, NL), L'appartement 22, Rabat (2019, MA); Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples (2017, IT); A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam (2016, NL); KIOSK, Ghent (2014, BE); and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2013, BE).

EDUCATION
2015 - 2017Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2012 - 14HISK, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, BE
2004 - 10Master in Visual Arts. ENSAV la Cambre, Brussels, BE

RESIDENCIESOngoing - MOUSSEM - Nomadisch Kunstencentrum, Brussels, BE2024 - Residency Unlimited, New York, USA2024 - Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, BE2017 - Fondazione Morra, Naples, IT

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS De Pont Museum, Tilburg, NLStedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, BEM - Museum Leuven, BERijksakademie, Amsterdam, Nl

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025Its throat is parched with thirst, but it would not accept a single drop of water from alien hands.De Pont museum, Tilburg, NL
2022You’re your country’s lost property with no office to claim you back! Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery, Amsterdam 2021‘You left me my lips, and they shape words, even in silence’, ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, BE 2020Affiliations, De Pont museum, Tilburg, NL«Seuls mes yeux resteront pour surveiller et hanter, et changer vos rêves en chaos» Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL 2019Le degré zéro de la performance, L’appartement 22, Rabat, MO. CuratorAbdellah Karroum 2017How Far is Far? Museo Hermann Nitsch, Naples, IT. Curator Alessandra TronconeContinuing, with, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels, BE 2016Travelling, A Tale Of A Tub, Rotterdam, NL. Curators Nathanja van Dijk, Suzanne Wallinga, Carolyn Drake 2015Passage, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, NL. Curator Maria Schnyder 2014Remake, c-o-m-p-o-s-i-t-e, Brussels, BEAppear, KIOSK, Ghent, BE. Curator, Wim WaelputHamza Halloubi, La CENTRALE, Brussels, BE 2013Nature Morte, BOZAR- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE 2012C'est le commencement qui est le pire, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen,Brussels, BE 2011Modest Expectations, Monty ABN, Antwerp, BE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS 2024Outspoken. Voices beyond the Archive, The Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, GermanyBelgica - Histoires Transnationales, Moussem, Galerie d’Art Oujda, Oujda, MOBelgica - Histoires Transnationales, Moussem, Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi, Tangier, MO
2023Motel Corona, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
2022WALK! Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE. Curators Dr. Fiona Hesse and Matthias Ulrich 2021The Constant Glitch, M - Museum Leuven, BE 2020L'Heure Bleue, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 2019THE HISK CONNECTION | KANAL — Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE. Curator Antony HudekThe Collection (1), Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 2018Eating Each Other - Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE. Curator Michiel VandeveldeRevolutionize, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, UA. Curator Nathanja van DijkDouble Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE. Curator Viktoria Draganova 2017“Neither.”, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, BE. Curator Fernanda BrennerReView, De Pont at 25, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, NLPrivate Choices | Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE 2016In the Belly of the Whale - Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL. Curators: Natasha Hoare, Adam KleinmanInvestigations Into the Uncanny - Willem Twee Kunstruimte, 's Hertogenbosch, NL. Curator Philippe van CauterenMAC International 2016, Belfast, IERijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NLFrom the collection, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BEClose-Up, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NLEvery Letter is A Loveletter, Tallinn Art Hall, EE. Curator Marge MonkoMerchant of Dreams, Brandts, Odense, DK. Curator Christian Skovbjerg JensenEarly Spring, Galerie tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL 2015The Migrant (Moving) Image, A Tale Of A Tub, Rotterdam, NL. Curator Nathanja van DijkRijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL5rd Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki, GR. Curator Katerina GregosYoung Belgian Art Prize, BOZAR, Brussels, BEZbigniew Rogalksi -Hamza Halloubi, Galerie AKINCI, Amsterdam, NL 2014A House of Several Stories, Signal, Malmö, SEPassages, Galerie AKINCI, Amsterdam, NLMarrakech Biennale 5, Where are we now? Marrakech, NO. Curator Hicham KhalidiThe Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FRNass Belgica, Botanique, Brussels, BE 2013Portrait of the Artist. Works and References, HISK, Ghent, BE. Curator Katerina GregosOpen studios, HISK, Ghent, Belgium 2012Mechelen City Theater , Mechelen, BEWATOU Kunstenfestival 2012, Watou, BERencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DEOpen studios, HISK, Ghent, BE 2011IMAGINE BEING HERE NOW The 6th Momentum Biennial, Moss, NO. Curators Aura Seikkula, Christian Skovbjerg Jensen , Marianne Zamecznik, Markús Thór Andrésson , Theodor RingborgRencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010FotoTageTrier 2010 “LEBEN elementar”, Trier, DE4th Cairo Video Festival, Goethe Institute, EGEattopia - Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, TWBAD MOON RISING 3 Curator Jan van Woensel, Boots Contemporary Art Space (St. Louis, MO), USA

SELECTED ARTIST TALK
2025 Eye on Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL2024 the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Columbia University, New York, USA2023 FRONT ROW, M HKA, Antwerp2023 Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles2016 A Tale Of A Tub, Rotterdam, NL2016 EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL2012 Commencements, Isba Beaux Arts de Besançon, Petit Kursaal, Besançon, FR