Ghita Skali (born 1992 in Casablanca) is an artist based in Amsterdam. She studied in France, first at Villa Arson, Nice then at the post-graduate program of the Fine Arts School in Lyon. She was a De Ateliers (Amsterdam) participant between 2018 and 2020.
Ghita has a multidisciplinary practice which encompasses installations, videos and interventions. She uses odd news, rumors and historical facts to disrupt institutional power structures. Her work blends humor and critics with outcomes that penetrate channels which go beyond the exhibition space, as alternative trade of goods, (il)legal documents, and things you take home.
The artist was nominated and shortlisted for the Prix de Rome (2023). In her work, Ghita Skali criticizes the selection procedure of the art prizes and of the Prix de Rome in particular. Until mid-20th century, participants were required to pass an exam at the Rijksakademie (State Academy of Fine Arts) behind closed doors. The sequestered artists were receiving food and materials through hatches in the door. One such doors features in Skali’s work for the Prix de Rome 2023. To the artist, it symbolizes the ostensible appearance of equal opportunities behind art prizes, whereas this system is exclusionary and discriminatory. She has also recently exhibited at Kunsthal extra City (Antwerp), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Le 18 (Marrakech) and at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
Ghita has a multidisciplinary practice which encompasses installations, videos and interventions. She uses odd news, rumors and historical facts to disrupt institutional power structures. Her work blends humor and critics with outcomes that penetrate channels which go beyond the exhibition space, as alternative trade of goods, (il)legal documents, and things you take home.
The artist was nominated and shortlisted for the Prix de Rome (2023). In her work, Ghita Skali criticizes the selection procedure of the art prizes and of the Prix de Rome in particular. Until mid-20th century, participants were required to pass an exam at the Rijksakademie (State Academy of Fine Arts) behind closed doors. The sequestered artists were receiving food and materials through hatches in the door. One such doors features in Skali’s work for the Prix de Rome 2023. To the artist, it symbolizes the ostensible appearance of equal opportunities behind art prizes, whereas this system is exclusionary and discriminatory. She has also recently exhibited at Kunsthal extra City (Antwerp), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Le 18 (Marrakech) and at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
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Ghita Skali | Prix de Rome Beeldende Kunst 2023
In museum collection:
LAM
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin
FRAC
Stedelijk Museum (Stem)
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Born in 1992, Casablanca, lives and works in Amsterdam.
Education
2018-2020: Participant at De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2017: Post-graduate program - Fine arts academy - Lyon
2016: National Master in Fine Arts - Villa Arson - Nice
Current / Forthcoming
- Until March 3, 2024: Prix de Rome - Stedelijk museum - Amsterdam
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023: Natuurlijk - 1646 - Den Haag
2023: Dead Skin Cash - with Salim Bayri - W139 - Amsterdam
2020: Offspring - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2020: Sunflower Seeds Are for Birds… - with Salim Bayri - Motel Spatie - Arnhem
2019: Narrative Machines Ep2 - curated by Marie de Gaulejac - Ete 78 - Brussels
2018: The monkeys' rock - Hotel Oberstadt - Mönchengladbach
2017: Palm Attacks - curated by Lorenzo Balbi - Fondazione Sandretto - Turin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023: Believe - Tropez - Berlin
2023: Shifting the silence - curated by - Gianni Manhattan - Vienna
2023: They thought we were alive and they run screaming - PLATO - Porážková
2023: If you really knew me - De Appel - Amsterdam
2023: Crying until laughing - Trafo gallery - Prague
2023: Meditations on Europe - Garage - Rotterdam
2022: Listening through the cracks - Beursschouwburg - Brussels
2022: A Tongue Becomes Yours - Ter Dilft - Bornem
2022: Fron/terra cognita + Hostile Terrain (HT94) - Wesleyan University
2022: Les palmiers fatigués - Le Cube Independant Art Room - Rabat
2022: Qualcosa Nell'Aria - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - Turin
2022: Made in X - Kunsthal Extra City - Antwerp
2022: Fabulous Facts, True Fictions - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2022: The real show - CAC Brétigny
2021: The Architecture of Staged Realities - Het Nieuwe Instituut - Rotterdam
2021: Sketches for the future - Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Que reste-t-il de nos amours ? • ما الذي تبقى مما نحب؟ - Kulte Gallery - Rabat
2021: In the presence of Absence - Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Antibodies - Palais de Tokyo - Paris
2021: Resisting the trouble - Manifattura Tabacchi - Florence
2020: New Radicalism - Rotterdam
2019: Revealing - Beirut Art Fair
2018: Cycle Noss Noss: Zeichen Sprachen | Langues Signes - Le 18 - Marrakech
2018: Vos désirs sont les nôtres - Triangle France - Marseille
2017: Productive Contradiction - Lyon
2017: 62 Edition of Salon de Montrouge
2017: Nilwood Melody - Abderahman Slaoui Fondation - Casablanca
2016: A propos - Art Center of la Villa Arson - Nice
2015: Mastermind - Galerie Venise Cadre - Casablanca
2014: Boxes- zones quarters - Irri Art - Casablanca
2014: Un jour par semaine - Caisse d’Impôt et de Gestion - Rabat
Selected Performances
2022: International Art Talent Program - Felix Meritis - Amsterdam
2022: It used to be better - Palais de Tokyo - Paris
2019: Narrative Machines Ep3 - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2019: Santa Chitta - Les tchaches - Botox(s) - Nice
2019:The 32th of October - La galerie CAC Noisy-le-Sec
2018: Hotel Cosmos - Clermont-Ferrand
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep6 - Project Space Festival - Berlin
2018: Narrative Machines: Ep1 with Karima Boudou - Marseille
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep5 - Le 18 - Marrakech
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep4 - Fondation Ricard - Paris
2017: The KitKat Project: Ep2 - Printemps de Septembre - Toulouse
2015: If I hadn't been Egyptian, I would have wanted to be Egyptian - Cairo Off Biennale
2014: If I hadn't been Egyptian, I would have wanted to be Egyptian -Wekalet Behna - Alexandria
Selected Screenings
2023: New works screenings by LIMA - Lab111 - Amsterdam
2023: Non-Aligned Film Archives - Cinematek - Brussels
2022: VI. Scene Takeover - E-flux online
2022: Into the great wide open - Vlieland
2022: AMS - Stevenson Gallery - Capetown
2022: Prospects - Van Nelle Factory during Art Rotterdam
2022: New Harverst - Eye film Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Drifting with the Summer Tides - SAVAC - Toronto
2021: New works screenings by LIMA - Lab111- Amsterdam
2021: International Film Competition - Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
2021: Short competition - Vilnius Film Festival
2021: Ammodo Tiger Short Competition - International Film Festival of Rotterdam
2020: Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop - Kunsthal Gent
2019: Mosaique des lexiques - Les laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Podcasts
- Anticorps Ep3 - Les Inrockuptibles
- Narrative Machines: Episode 1 - Duuu Radio
- Formes d'art et militantismes - Duuu Radio
Collections
Fondazionne Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, LAM Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Kadist Foundation, FRAC Lorraine and private collections.
Education
2018-2020: Participant at De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2017: Post-graduate program - Fine arts academy - Lyon
2016: National Master in Fine Arts - Villa Arson - Nice
Current / Forthcoming
- Until March 3, 2024: Prix de Rome - Stedelijk museum - Amsterdam
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023: Natuurlijk - 1646 - Den Haag
2023: Dead Skin Cash - with Salim Bayri - W139 - Amsterdam
2020: Offspring - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2020: Sunflower Seeds Are for Birds… - with Salim Bayri - Motel Spatie - Arnhem
2019: Narrative Machines Ep2 - curated by Marie de Gaulejac - Ete 78 - Brussels
2018: The monkeys' rock - Hotel Oberstadt - Mönchengladbach
2017: Palm Attacks - curated by Lorenzo Balbi - Fondazione Sandretto - Turin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023: Believe - Tropez - Berlin
2023: Shifting the silence - curated by - Gianni Manhattan - Vienna
2023: They thought we were alive and they run screaming - PLATO - Porážková
2023: If you really knew me - De Appel - Amsterdam
2023: Crying until laughing - Trafo gallery - Prague
2023: Meditations on Europe - Garage - Rotterdam
2022: Listening through the cracks - Beursschouwburg - Brussels
2022: A Tongue Becomes Yours - Ter Dilft - Bornem
2022: Fron/terra cognita + Hostile Terrain (HT94) - Wesleyan University
2022: Les palmiers fatigués - Le Cube Independant Art Room - Rabat
2022: Qualcosa Nell'Aria - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - Turin
2022: Made in X - Kunsthal Extra City - Antwerp
2022: Fabulous Facts, True Fictions - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2022: The real show - CAC Brétigny
2021: The Architecture of Staged Realities - Het Nieuwe Instituut - Rotterdam
2021: Sketches for the future - Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Que reste-t-il de nos amours ? • ما الذي تبقى مما نحب؟ - Kulte Gallery - Rabat
2021: In the presence of Absence - Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Antibodies - Palais de Tokyo - Paris
2021: Resisting the trouble - Manifattura Tabacchi - Florence
2020: New Radicalism - Rotterdam
2019: Revealing - Beirut Art Fair
2018: Cycle Noss Noss: Zeichen Sprachen | Langues Signes - Le 18 - Marrakech
2018: Vos désirs sont les nôtres - Triangle France - Marseille
2017: Productive Contradiction - Lyon
2017: 62 Edition of Salon de Montrouge
2017: Nilwood Melody - Abderahman Slaoui Fondation - Casablanca
2016: A propos - Art Center of la Villa Arson - Nice
2015: Mastermind - Galerie Venise Cadre - Casablanca
2014: Boxes- zones quarters - Irri Art - Casablanca
2014: Un jour par semaine - Caisse d’Impôt et de Gestion - Rabat
Selected Performances
2022: International Art Talent Program - Felix Meritis - Amsterdam
2022: It used to be better - Palais de Tokyo - Paris
2019: Narrative Machines Ep3 - De Ateliers - Amsterdam
2019: Santa Chitta - Les tchaches - Botox(s) - Nice
2019:The 32th of October - La galerie CAC Noisy-le-Sec
2018: Hotel Cosmos - Clermont-Ferrand
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep6 - Project Space Festival - Berlin
2018: Narrative Machines: Ep1 with Karima Boudou - Marseille
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep5 - Le 18 - Marrakech
2018: The KitKat Project: Ep4 - Fondation Ricard - Paris
2017: The KitKat Project: Ep2 - Printemps de Septembre - Toulouse
2015: If I hadn't been Egyptian, I would have wanted to be Egyptian - Cairo Off Biennale
2014: If I hadn't been Egyptian, I would have wanted to be Egyptian -Wekalet Behna - Alexandria
Selected Screenings
2023: New works screenings by LIMA - Lab111 - Amsterdam
2023: Non-Aligned Film Archives - Cinematek - Brussels
2022: VI. Scene Takeover - E-flux online
2022: Into the great wide open - Vlieland
2022: AMS - Stevenson Gallery - Capetown
2022: Prospects - Van Nelle Factory during Art Rotterdam
2022: New Harverst - Eye film Museum - Amsterdam
2021: Drifting with the Summer Tides - SAVAC - Toronto
2021: New works screenings by LIMA - Lab111- Amsterdam
2021: International Film Competition - Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
2021: Short competition - Vilnius Film Festival
2021: Ammodo Tiger Short Competition - International Film Festival of Rotterdam
2020: Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Gift Shop - Kunsthal Gent
2019: Mosaique des lexiques - Les laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Podcasts
- Anticorps Ep3 - Les Inrockuptibles
- Narrative Machines: Episode 1 - Duuu Radio
- Formes d'art et militantismes - Duuu Radio
Collections
Fondazionne Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, LAM Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Kadist Foundation, FRAC Lorraine and private collections.
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