Achraf Touloub (born in 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, lives and works in Paris, France) investigates the links between tradition and modernity in our globalized world.
Working in a variety of mediums, he opposes the ancient oriental motifs and ideas he depicts to the contemporary aesthetic of his compositions. Take, for instance, his copper ink drawings. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, they consist of repeated Sequences (2015) painstakingly traced on paper. While from afar, the undulating lines coalesce and appear as monochromatic planes of color, up close, they become legible as a multitude of calligraphic signs.
Achraf Touloub graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Viva Arte Viva – the 57th Venice Biennale, and a solo show at Galeria Plan B in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Achraf Touloub was included in Artsy’s list of “20 Artists to Watch at the Armory Show” and of “14 Artists You’ll Be Talking about Long after the Venice Biennale”.
Working in a variety of mediums, he opposes the ancient oriental motifs and ideas he depicts to the contemporary aesthetic of his compositions. Take, for instance, his copper ink drawings. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, they consist of repeated Sequences (2015) painstakingly traced on paper. While from afar, the undulating lines coalesce and appear as monochromatic planes of color, up close, they become legible as a multitude of calligraphic signs.
Achraf Touloub graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Viva Arte Viva – the 57th Venice Biennale, and a solo show at Galeria Plan B in Berlin, Germany. In 2017, Achraf Touloub was included in Artsy’s list of “20 Artists to Watch at the Armory Show” and of “14 Artists You’ll Be Talking about Long after the Venice Biennale”.
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Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Education
2013
Graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Les Arrivées, Passerelle, Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (FR)
2020
Discord venue, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2019
Art Club #30, Villa Medici, Rome (IT)
European Night, Plan B Berlin (DE)
2018
Solo Show – Albert Baronian, Art on Paper, Brussels (BE)
2016
CONT’D, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (DE)
2015
Standard condition, Albert Baronian, Brussels ( BE)
Solo Show, Galeria Plan B, Art Basel, Hong Kong (HK)
Buffering Natives, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (IN)
2014
Latent, Plan B gallery, Berlin (DE)
2011
Achraf Touloub, Galerie Baronian Francey (Project Room), Brussels, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Fiac 2019, Baronian-Xippas (FR)
dialogues #1, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)
Le Choix D’Albert, Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)
Iulia Nistor and Achraf Touloub, Space (Continuation and end),b Rezidenta BRD Scena9, Bucharest (RO)
2018
Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, DOC, Paris (FR)
Lolo’s Entanglements, De Warande Cultural Centre, Turnhout (BE)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 1, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (LT)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 2, Tallinn Art Hall (Kunstihoone), Tallinn (EE)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 3, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (LV)
GREFFES / Cluj, Lateral Art Space, Cluj, RO, curator: Pier Paolo Pancotto
Dogs of the new foundland, curated by Helmut Stallaerts, Albert Baronian Gallery, (BE)
Night was paper and we were ink, Barjeel Art foundation, Sharjah (AE)
Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, curators: Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun
2017
Auguries, Art space Geumcheon, Séoul (KR)
Greffes, Villa Medicis, with Alfredo Aceto and Mohamed Namou, Roma (IT)
Festival Numok, bibliothèque du cinéma François Truffaut. (FR)
Ma’rad, Cité Internationale des Arts internationale, curated by Ilaf Noury, Paris. (FR)
Shield, Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg, Danemark (DK)
VIVA ARTE VIVA, Venice biennale 2017, curated by Christine Macel, Venice Thread, (IT)
Museum live performance, with Yohan Han at Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Dissolve into red dwarf, Island, Brussels (BE)
100 Chefs-d’oeuvres de l’Art Moderne et Contemporain Arabe, the Barjeel collection at the Institut du Monde Arabe, (FR)
Paris Imprimer le Monde, curated by Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, curators: Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun
2016
Chers Amis, Collection permanente du Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Les Jeudi de la Villa, La Villa Medicis, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Roma (IT)
Kochii-Muziris Biennale 2016-2017, ‘forming in the pupil of an eye’, curated by Sudershan Shetty, Kochi (IN)
Berlin Show 4, Inventory, Group show, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (DE)
Richard Osterweil, Indrė Šerpytytė, Achraf Touloub, To_Bridges, Group show, New York (US)
All the lights we cannot see, Group show by the Random Institute, Pyongyang (KR)
3 Collectionneurs, autrement, ETE 78, Group show, Bruxelles (BE)
2015
Buffering Natives, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, (IN)
Club of matinée idolz, CO2 Gallery, Turino (IT)
2014
Des hommes, des mondes, College des Bernardins Paris, FR
2013
Ma Prochaine Vie, curated by Isabelle Lenormand,Courtesy -Los Angeles at Here Is Elsewhere Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2012
21×29, 7, Galerie DE ROUSSAN, curated by Jean-jacques Lebel and Nabila Makrani, Paris (FR)
Shuffing Cards/curated by Cécile Bourne Farrell, Galerie des Bains douche de la plaine, Art Cade, Marseille (FR)
Achraf Touloub / Germain Hamel, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Lauréats du prix des amis des Beaux arts, collection Rosenblum, Paris, FR
2011
Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre Docks Artfair, Lyon (FR)
Projectroom, galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels (BE)
Mains d’oeuvres , Saint Ouen (FR)
A la fénêtre du wagon, avec Sophie Lamm et Sami Trabelsi, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Drawing now, Salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre (FR)
2010
Mains d’oeuvres “a snowball effect”, Saint Ouen (FR)
Biennale Arts Le Havre (FR)
Salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre (FR)
2009
Le Monde de Glen Baxter , Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Youpi, c’est la rentrée ! , Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Vraoum , Maison Rouge, Paris (FR) (cat.)
Le mardi 9 décembre 2008 a 19 heures , Espace k, Paris (FR)
2008
Lauréats au concours de dessin de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
2007
Festival d’Automne, Centre du Châtelet, Paris (FR)
Selected Private And Public Collections
2013
Graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Les Arrivées, Passerelle, Centre d’art contemporain, Brest (FR)
2020
Discord venue, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)
2019
Art Club #30, Villa Medici, Rome (IT)
European Night, Plan B Berlin (DE)
2018
Solo Show – Albert Baronian, Art on Paper, Brussels (BE)
2016
CONT’D, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (DE)
2015
Standard condition, Albert Baronian, Brussels ( BE)
Solo Show, Galeria Plan B, Art Basel, Hong Kong (HK)
Buffering Natives, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (IN)
2014
Latent, Plan B gallery, Berlin (DE)
2011
Achraf Touloub, Galerie Baronian Francey (Project Room), Brussels, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Fiac 2019, Baronian-Xippas (FR)
dialogues #1, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)
Le Choix D’Albert, Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)
Iulia Nistor and Achraf Touloub, Space (Continuation and end),b Rezidenta BRD Scena9, Bucharest (RO)
2018
Le Colt est Jeune & Haine, DOC, Paris (FR)
Lolo’s Entanglements, De Warande Cultural Centre, Turnhout (BE)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 1, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (LT)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 2, Tallinn Art Hall (Kunstihoone), Tallinn (EE)
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennal 13, Chapter 3, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (LV)
GREFFES / Cluj, Lateral Art Space, Cluj, RO, curator: Pier Paolo Pancotto
Dogs of the new foundland, curated by Helmut Stallaerts, Albert Baronian Gallery, (BE)
Night was paper and we were ink, Barjeel Art foundation, Sharjah (AE)
Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, curators: Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun
2017
Auguries, Art space Geumcheon, Séoul (KR)
Greffes, Villa Medicis, with Alfredo Aceto and Mohamed Namou, Roma (IT)
Festival Numok, bibliothèque du cinéma François Truffaut. (FR)
Ma’rad, Cité Internationale des Arts internationale, curated by Ilaf Noury, Paris. (FR)
Shield, Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg, Danemark (DK)
VIVA ARTE VIVA, Venice biennale 2017, curated by Christine Macel, Venice Thread, (IT)
Museum live performance, with Yohan Han at Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Dissolve into red dwarf, Island, Brussels (BE)
100 Chefs-d’oeuvres de l’Art Moderne et Contemporain Arabe, the Barjeel collection at the Institut du Monde Arabe, (FR)
Paris Imprimer le Monde, curated by Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Mutations-Créations / Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, curators: Marie Ange Brayer and Olivier Zeitoun
2016
Chers Amis, Collection permanente du Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Les Jeudi de la Villa, La Villa Medicis, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Roma (IT)
Kochii-Muziris Biennale 2016-2017, ‘forming in the pupil of an eye’, curated by Sudershan Shetty, Kochi (IN)
Berlin Show 4, Inventory, Group show, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (DE)
Richard Osterweil, Indrė Šerpytytė, Achraf Touloub, To_Bridges, Group show, New York (US)
All the lights we cannot see, Group show by the Random Institute, Pyongyang (KR)
3 Collectionneurs, autrement, ETE 78, Group show, Bruxelles (BE)
2015
Buffering Natives, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, (IN)
Club of matinée idolz, CO2 Gallery, Turino (IT)
2014
Des hommes, des mondes, College des Bernardins Paris, FR
2013
Ma Prochaine Vie, curated by Isabelle Lenormand,Courtesy -Los Angeles at Here Is Elsewhere Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2012
21×29, 7, Galerie DE ROUSSAN, curated by Jean-jacques Lebel and Nabila Makrani, Paris (FR)
Shuffing Cards/curated by Cécile Bourne Farrell, Galerie des Bains douche de la plaine, Art Cade, Marseille (FR)
Achraf Touloub / Germain Hamel, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Lauréats du prix des amis des Beaux arts, collection Rosenblum, Paris, FR
2011
Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre Docks Artfair, Lyon (FR)
Projectroom, galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels (BE)
Mains d’oeuvres , Saint Ouen (FR)
A la fénêtre du wagon, avec Sophie Lamm et Sami Trabelsi, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Drawing now, Salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre (FR)
2010
Mains d’oeuvres “a snowball effect”, Saint Ouen (FR)
Biennale Arts Le Havre (FR)
Salon du dessin contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre (FR)
2009
Le Monde de Glen Baxter , Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Youpi, c’est la rentrée ! , Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris (FR)
Vraoum , Maison Rouge, Paris (FR) (cat.)
Le mardi 9 décembre 2008 a 19 heures , Espace k, Paris (FR)
2008
Lauréats au concours de dessin de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
2007
Festival d’Automne, Centre du Châtelet, Paris (FR)
Selected Private And Public Collections
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