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Tarek Lakhrissi

b. 1992 Châtellerault, France; Lives and works in Paris, France

Tarek Lakhrissi is a French artist and poet with a literary background, working across installation, performance, film, text, and sculpture. His practice centres on political and social issues, exploring transformative narratives through the lens of language and codes. Deeply influenced by feminist and queer writers such as Elsa Dorlin, Kaoutar Harchi, Monique Wittig, and José Esteban Muñoz, Lakhrissi infuses his work with a romantic atmosphere and poetic, melancholic sensibility.

Language, text, and poetry are the foundations of his working process, guiding each project as he transforms written ideas into visual media. His work delves into the performative power of language, and with a poetic, erotic, and nostalgic impulse, his work imagines and manifests alternative queer futures. Through this multidisciplinary approach, Lakhrissi navigates complex emotions and identities, crafting spaces where queerness, resistance, and desire come together to challenge conventional narratives and imagine new possibilities.

Tarek Lakhrissi’s recent solo exhibitions include SPIT, Nicoletti Contemporary, London (2024); RISING FAÇADE #3, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2024); BLISS, Migros Museum, Zurich (2024); Double feature, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin & Dusseldorf (2024); THE PRELUDE THE HOURS THE KISS THE END, Galerie Allen, Paris (2023); Rev...

Tarek Lakhrissi

Coeur Brillant (or Bright Heart)
2023

Tarek Lakhrissi

Heavy Existential Questions
2025

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FAÇADE: Tarek Lakhrissi

2024

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Who is afraid of red blue and yellow?

2024

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TONGUE SONG (BLACK LAKE)
2024

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chanel#7 (or icarus)
2025

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THE EVIL PART INSIDE OF ME IS LAUGHING

2024

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WELCOME HOME
2025

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Bliss

2024

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Unfinished Sentence II at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2020

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This Doesn’t Belong To Me at Palazzo Re Raudebengo, Guarene, Italy

2020

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Out of the Blue

2019

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Hard to Love

2017

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Sick Sad World

2021

BIOGRAPHY

Tarek Lakhrissi’s recent solo exhibitions include SWALLOW, TINA, London (2025); SPIT, Nicoletti Contemporary, London (2024); RISING FAÇADE #3, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2024); BLISS, Migros Museum, Zurich (2024); Double feature, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin & Dusseldorf (2024); THE PRELUDE THE HOURS THE KISS THE END, Galerie Allen, Paris (2023); Revenge Fantasy, Frieze Art Fair, Vitrine Gallery, London (2022); Perfume of Traitors, Vitrine Gallery, London (2021); This Doesn’t Belong to Me, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2020); Serpent Dream, Zabriskie, Genève (2020); and Caméléon Club, La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec (2020). Group exhibitions include mode d’emploi, MAMCS, Strasbourg (2024); Please don’t be yourself, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Treasure of the Town: Malerbuch, Kunsthaus, Zurich (2024); Arabofuturs, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2024); Entre les lignes : Art et Littérature, Mo.Co, Montpellier (2024); Paris + Art Basel, Galerie Allen, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris (2023); Duo show with Trevor Yeung, Liste Art Fair, Basel (2023); A Drawing for Morocco, Paris Internationale, Paris (2023); UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2023); The Voices of the Tempests, Somerset House Studio, London (2022); Habibi, les révolutions de l’amour, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2022); Biennale Matter of Art, City Gallery, Prague (2022); Tactiques du rêve augmenté, La Verrière - Hermès Foundation, Brussels (2022); BIENNALE, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Bonaventure, 22nd Ricard Foundation Prize, Paris (2021); Poet Slash Artist, Manchester International Festival, Manchester (2021); Living just enough, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town (2020); Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2020); Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London (2019); and Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius (2017).

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EDUCATION

2019–2020
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Lyon, FR

2013–2015
Université de Montréal, CA

2010–2013
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, FR

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
SWALLOW, TINA, London, UK

2024
SPIT, Nicoletti Contemporary, London, UK
RISING, FAÇADE #3, KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE
BLISS, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH
Double feature, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin & Dusseldorf, DE

2023
Unfinished Sentence II, Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Unfinished Sentence II, De la Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
THE PRELUDE THE HOURS THE KISS THE END, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
I wear my wounds on my tongue (II), Collective, Edinburg, UK
You can now enter : Notes on Immersion, with Tai Shani, Clima Gallery, Milan, IT

2022
Revenge Fantasy, Frieze Art Fair, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK

2021
My immortal, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, UK
I wear my wounds on my tongue, Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, AT
Perfume of Traitors, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK

2020
This Doesn’t Belong to Me, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Serpent Dream, Zabriskie, Genève, CH
Caméléon Club, La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec, FR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Joséfa Ntjam/Tarek Lakhrissi, Nouveau Printemps, Toulouse, FR
Disobedient Constellations, Rehmann Museum, Laufenburg, CH 
Faire corps, Ginza Maison Hermes Le Forum, Tokyo, JP 
TRUTH FICTION, Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva, CH  
Marietta Klagles, Cologne, DE
Portals to unwritten time, Perrotin, Paris, FR 
Thresholds, Doors, Portals, Cloud 7, Brussels, BE
Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK 
Merci! John Giorno, Almine Rech gallery, Paris, FR
MiArt Fair, Nicoletti x Tina, Milan, IT
BLUSH, Marietta Klagles, Cologne, DE 
in the hours between dawns, IAC, Villeurbanne, FR

2024
Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach Convention Center, FL
who is afraid of red blue and yellow?, with Ugo Rondinone, Reiffers Art Initiatives, Acacias
Art Center, Paris, FR
PRIMAVERA, PRIMAVERA, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR
Paris + Art Basel, Galerie Allen, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, FR
mode d’emploi, MAMCS, Strasbourg, FR
Please don’t be yourself, Fragment Gallery, New York, NY
Treasure of the Town: Malerbuch, Kunsthaus, Zurich, CH
Always coming home, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK
Arabofuturs, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, FR
The Channel, CACN, Nimes, FR
Entre les lignes : Art et Littérature, Mo.Co, Montpellier, FR
Small Sculptures, Sharp Objects, Copenhagen, DK

2023
Paris + Art Basel, Galerie Allen, Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, FR
Duo show with Trevor Yeung, Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
A Drawing for Morocco, Paris Internationale, Paris, FR
UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, DE
Lingering Bodies / Cuerpos Persistentes, Espacio Odeon, Bogota, CO
Modern Nature, La Becque, Vevey, CH
Scabs, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, FR
The Naked Word, Centrale Fies, Dro, UK
Words Don't Go There, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
Moon in your mouth, UKS, Oslo, NO
Dancing forward, looking backward, Kunsthal Ghent, BE
Bad Poetry / Vilaine Poésie, BBB Centre d’art, Toulouse, FR
Art Genève, Klima Magazine, Genève, CH

2022
Portals, Galerie Allen, Paris, FR
Manette (Joystick), with Neila Czermak Ichti, Artorama, Nir Altman, Marseille, FR
The Voices of the Tempests, Somerset House Studio, London, UK
Parallel Visions, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Habibi, les révolutions de l’amour, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, FR
Breathing in Babylon, Kanaal 40, Amsterdam, NL
PROTOZONE 8: QUEER TRUST, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Home is where the Haunt is, Des Bains Gallery, London, UK
Biennale Matter of Art, City Gallery, Prague, CZ
BANG BANG, Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH
Des corps libres, Studio des Acacias, Paris, FR
Tactiques du rêve augmenté, La Verrière - Hermès Foundation, Brussels, BE
100%, La Villette, Paris, FR
Echoes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Hand to your ear II, Emalin Gallery, London, UK
A forma dos futures, Casa da Escada Colorida, Rio di Janeiro, BR

2021
BIENNALE, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
A, Letter, with Charlie Godet Thomas, Ballon Rouge, Brussels, BE
Ordained, Horny & Horned, VEDA, Firenze, IT
EXTRA WORLDING, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Avoidance, Futura, Prague, CH
Bonaventure, 22nd Ricard Foundation Prize, Paris, FR
Une journée en utopie, Familistère, Guise, FR
The Shape of Futuros, One Gee Fog, Geneva, CH
Proto-Club 2: (be)longing, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Poet Slash Artist, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
Flying on the raven’s wing, Horst Festival, Vilvoorde, BE
Abundance, Het Hem, Amsterdam, NL
Yes a falling tree makes also sound, Kling&Bang, Reykjavik, IS
The many face God·dess (3/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR
A plusieurs, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
Hard to Love, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, FR
Un même monde, MAGCP, Cajarc, FR

2020
This Doesn’t Belong to Me, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, IT
Living just enough, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Imposture, IAC, Villeurbanne, FR
Infinie Liberté, Salle Saint-Martin, Souillac, FR
La Clinique du Queer (2/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR
Risquons-Tout, Wiels, Brussels, BE
Sâr Dubnotal, CAC Bretigny, Bretigny s/Orge, FR
Your friends and neighbors, High Art Gallery, Paris, FR
NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, AU
La pleine lune dort la nuit, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, FR
I am from nowhere good (1/3), Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR

2019
Cinders, Sinuous and Supple, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, CH
3hd 2019: Fluid Wor(l)ds, Postscheckamt, Berlin, DE
FIAC Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
Le couteau sans lame et dépourvu de manche, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, FR
Kiss My Genders, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Tainted Love (south club edit), Villa Arson, Nice, FR

2018
Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, DOC!, Paris, FR
Talismans ; Le désert entre nous n'est que du sable, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, FR
Tainted Love, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR

2017
Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius, LT

PERFORMANCES

2025
MRAYA, Frac Bretagne x Maison de la Poésie, Rennes, FR

2024
Dangerous lyrics, with Joseph Schiano di Lombo, Migros Museum, CH
Fantaisie Finale x Blood!, Brussels Ass Book Fair, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE
Carte Blanche, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, FR
Ugo Rondinone and Tarek Lakhrissi in conversation, Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris, FR 

2023
BEAST!, Edinburg Art Festival, Edinburg, UK

2022
BEAST!, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
BEAST!, Festival Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
BEAST!, HKW, Berlin, DE
BEAST!, Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH

2021
MISS ME ?, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Sick Sad World, Grand Casino of Knokke, NL
Sick Sad World, Wild Gallery, Brussels, BE
Sick Sad World, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR

2019
Performing Unfinished Sentence, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, FR
Our Lady of Bastard Grass, with Ghita Skali, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, FR
conSpiration, with Loup, Festival Jerkoff, Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
Mes pensées, exactement (My thoughts, exactly), with Eden Tinto Collins, INHA, Paris, FR
Innocence is blocking me, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
32 of October / 32 octobre 2018, with Ghita Skali, La Galerie, CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec, FR
Different Alibis, Auto Italia South East, London, UK

2018
Différents Alibis, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
Blue Blouse, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR

2017
The readers, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius, LT
Can you spell your name please ?, Baltic Triennal 13, CAC Vilnius, LT
Les images pour le dire (ou No One Leaves Delilah), Loud & Proud Festival, Gaité Lyrique, Paris, FR

RESIDENCIES

2025
FRAC Bretagne x Maison de la Poésie, Rennes, FR
Therapeia Art Residency, Paxos, GR

2024 - 2025
Ateliers Médicis, FR

2024
Reiffers Art Initiatives Mentorat, Paris (FR)

2023
Confort Moderne, FR

2020 - 2021
Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR

2020
Wiels, Brussels, BE
Workspace, Brussels, BE
Sophiensaele, Berlin, DE
CN D, Pantin, FR

2019 - 2020
Post-graduate program, Fine Art School of Lyon, FR

2019
Bundanon Trust, Illaroo, AU
Artspace, Sydney, AU
Kunstencentrum Buda, Courtrai, BE
Workspace, Brussels, BE
Les Subsistances, Lyon, FR
Accomplices, Mophradat, Delphi, GR
Cneai, Pantin, FR

2018 - 2019
La Galerie CAC, Noisy-Le-Sec, FR

AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2025
CIRCA Prize / Nominee, UK

2023
Fondation des Artistes (FR) / Awardee

2022
Zurich Art Prize 2022 / Nominee

DRAC
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2022 / Awardee

2021
22nd Ricard Foundation Prize 2021 / Nominee

2020
FoRTE Grant 2020 / Awardee

2019
Matsutani Occident 2019 Prize / Nominee

SCREENINGS

2025
Hard to Love, MAM Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Bright Heart, Circa Prize, Picadilly Circus, London, UK 
Out of the blue, Camden Art Centre, London, UK 
Bright Heart, Cypher, Athens, GR
Each and every gesture,  Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH
Each and every gesture, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, IT

2024
Bright heart - Public Program for the exhibition Luiz Roque – Estufa, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE (forthcoming)
Carte blanche à Mohamed Bourouissa, Journées internationales du Film sur l'Art, Louvre, Paris, FR

2023
Bright Heart, De la Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-SeaEchelle Humaine, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024
Pietro Vitali on Tarek Lakhrissi at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunsthalle, Zurich, SW
Folles / Pendules ! Pratiques artistiques queer et chronopolitiques par Thomas, Conchou, Fondation Ricard, FR

2023
On the Tip of Tarek Lakhrissi’s Tongue by Benoit Loiseau, ArtReview, EN
CRITICS’ PICKS LONDON The Voices of a Tempest by Dylan Huw, Artforum, UK
You can now enter: notes on immersion. Tarek Lakhrissi, Tai Shani by Giulia Civardi, EN
THE PRELUDE THE HOURS THE KISS THE END by Cedric Fauq, EN
À Montpellier, l’exposition ”Scabs” gratte sous la surface des choses” par Delphine, Roche, Numéro Art, FR

2022
La tridimensionnalité chez Tarek Lakhrissi par Lina Merad, Hypotheses.org, FR

2021
A Heart Pierced by an Angel’s Spear: Tarek Lakhrissi in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mousse, EN
I wear my wounds on my tongue by Edwin Nasr, EN
How Zurich’s Shedhalle Rethinks Exhibition Making by Philipp Hindhal, Frieze, EN
Tarek Lakhrissi My Immortal Mostyn / Wales by Caroline Elbaor, Flash Art, EN
Tarek Lakhrissi by Theo Gordon, Burlington Contemporary, EN
Avoidance’ at Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA by Dina Akhmadeeva and Adomas Narkevičius, Blok, EN
Tarek Lakhrissi's To Debut Across Two UK Venues by Balasz Takac, Widewalls, EN
Texte critique d’Ingrid Luquet Gad, Numéro Art, FR
Anticorps E01 - Rencontre avec François Piron, Tarek Lakhrissi et Josèfa Ntjam et Ingrid Luquet Gad, Podcast Les Inrocks, FR
Dérives avec Tarek Lakhrissi et Madeleine Planeix Cocker, Lafayette Anticipations, FR

2020
Bitter Is the Truth: Tarek Lakhrissi Interviewed by Laura Brown BOMB, EN
In conversation with Tarek Lakhrissi at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (NIRIN) by Shelley McSpedden, ACMI, EN
Tarek Lakhrissi : portrait de l’artiste en trickster par Caroline Honorien, Revue Critique, FR
ANTICORPS — PALAIS DE TOKYO par Guillaume Benoit, Slash Paris, FR
Mue par extension par Joan Grandjean, Manazir, FR

2019
Ce monde n'est pas assez...Avec Tarek Lakhrissi à La Galerie de Noisy le Sec par Elisabeth Lebovici, Le Beau Vice, FR
Tarek Lakhrissi, artiste jusqu’au bout des mots par Ingrid Luquet Gad, Les Inrocks, FR
Pour sa première expo solo, Tarek Lakhrissi questionne la notion de seuil, de frontière et d’identité par Ingrid Luquet Gad, Les Inrocks, FR

COLLECTIONS

COLLECTIONS

HEAD, CH
ZHDK, CH
ECAL, CH
Slade Art School, UK
Het Nieuwe Instituut, NL
Städelschule, DE
Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
ENSAD, FR
EBABX, FR
ESACM, FR
ENSBA Cergy, FR
ESAA, FR
Bétonsalon, FR
Maison Populaire, FR
Espace Khiasma, FR
Cité Internationale des Arts, FR
Université Paris 8, FR
Université de Strasbourg, FR
Defares Collection, NL
Fondazione Sandretto Collection, IT
Migros Museum, CH
Fiorucci Art Trust, UK/IT
Mauro Mattei Art Trust, UK/IT
Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, FR
Collezione Scarzella, IT
The Kerenidis Pepe Collection, FR
CNAP, FR
FRAC Aquitaine MÉCA, FR
FRAC Grand Large, FR
IAC Villeurbanne, FR
FMAC, FR
Johns Hopkins University Collection, US
Collection Reiffers Art Initiatives (FR)

Artist News
4 October 2025

On the 4 October 2025, Tarek Lakhrissi's Hard to Love (2017) will be included in the screening programme LISTEN TO THE WATER, SEE THE WORLD at MAM Rio, Brazil.

Other artists showing moving image include Julien Creuzet, Jennifer Douzenel, Aurélien Froment, Lola Gonzàlez, Ange Leccia, Natasha Lesueur, Josèfa Ntjam and Sarkis. This screening forms part of the 2025 France in Brazil Season where Frac Bretagne and Frac Corsica are organizing, on behalf of Platform (the network of Regional Contemporary Art Funds), a program to share video works from the Frac collections. It is curated by Etienne Bernard, Director of Frac Bretagne, Fabien Danesi, Director of Frac Corsica, and Pablo Lafuente, Director of MAM Rio.

26 September 2025

Tarek Lakhirssi has been nominated for the Circa Prize 2025 by a selection committee made up of Amal Khalaf, Ben Broome and Samantha Oze and TONIGHT Lakhrissi’s Bright Heart (2023) will be on view at Piccadilly Circus on 26 September at 20:25 pm.

The 2025 jury comprises Björk, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Edward Enninful, Michèle Lamy, Ebony L. Haynes, Alvaro Barrington, Nicoletta Fiorucci, Josef O’Connor, Norman Rosenthal, and Catherine Wood. They will select one artist to receive £30,000, which will be announced on Monday, 13 October 2025.

19 July 2025

Tarek Lakhrissi and Maria Metsalu are included in Cura's summer 25 The Generational Issue.

Cédric Fauq has written a text on Tarek's work, and a text by Gregor Kulla is included on Maria's work. Artists featured in the issue include Josèfa Ntjam, Shunag Li, Capsar Heinemann, Bruno Zhu, Josiane M.H Pozi, Hannah Levy, and Selma Selman.

5 June 2025

Tarek Lakhirssi is included in the group show Portals to Unwritten Time curated by Barbara Newman and on view at Perrotin, Paris from 5 June - 25 July 2025

4 April 2025

TINA participates in it's first artfair Miart 2025 with new work by Tarek Lakhrissi and Karim Boumjimar
4 — 6 April, 2025

Tarek Lakhrissi

WELCOME HOME
2025

Oil pastel, pencil and acrylic paint on canvas

46 x 38 cm (framed)
19 x 15 in (framed)

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