Salim Bayri surrounds himself with an alter ego that he calls Sad Ali, a shortening of 'sad alien'. This cartoon-like figure has no organs, undertakes no actions and opposite to a cartoon personality he doesn't talk. As a kind of ambulant search machine he runs around checking out situations and things.
Basically the work of Salim Bayri is about letting the eye jump over from one pictorial stone to another. In case an attraction occurs it is a matter of scanning, holding and making. In that sense his art is a compilation of objects and stories that in several titles is defined as 'storage'. Nevertheless it is not only about that; in a recent installation ”Sandwich break” (2018) he addresses the reality of artefacts (cardboard objects) versus a documented film moment becoming part of reality. He says: 'I like to check when there are dead moments. By showing this I may find out where the real action is.'
In his texts Bayri is more analytical and contemplative. There he tells about situations he runs into while moving
around in The Netherlands. At this stage he combines his films with narratives on what struck his eye. His films,
drawings, prints and wearables stimulate to contemplate on semi-social political themes he has contextualised in
a soft-absurdist way.
Salim Bayri (born in 1992, Casablanca) lives and works in Amsterdam, studied at the Escola Massana in Barcelona and in 2017 he got a Masters degree at the Art, Design and Technology of the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. At the moment he is a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
With his brother Tayeb Bayri he is part of music duo Bazoga (soundcloud.com/bazoga) that perform in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam.
In 2018 Salim Bayri was nominated for the Nationale Nederlanden Award 2018, together with other nominees Rafaël Rozendaal, Pauline Curnier Jardin and Sam Samiee. On June 2, 2022, the Prince Bernhard Fund awarded him the Charlotte Köhler Prize, that comes with twenty thousand euros as a financial support.
Basically the work of Salim Bayri is about letting the eye jump over from one pictorial stone to another. In case an attraction occurs it is a matter of scanning, holding and making. In that sense his art is a compilation of objects and stories that in several titles is defined as 'storage'. Nevertheless it is not only about that; in a recent installation ”Sandwich break” (2018) he addresses the reality of artefacts (cardboard objects) versus a documented film moment becoming part of reality. He says: 'I like to check when there are dead moments. By showing this I may find out where the real action is.'
In his texts Bayri is more analytical and contemplative. There he tells about situations he runs into while moving
around in The Netherlands. At this stage he combines his films with narratives on what struck his eye. His films,
drawings, prints and wearables stimulate to contemplate on semi-social political themes he has contextualised in
a soft-absurdist way.
Salim Bayri (born in 1992, Casablanca) lives and works in Amsterdam, studied at the Escola Massana in Barcelona and in 2017 he got a Masters degree at the Art, Design and Technology of the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. At the moment he is a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
With his brother Tayeb Bayri he is part of music duo Bazoga (soundcloud.com/bazoga) that perform in Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam.
In 2018 Salim Bayri was nominated for the Nationale Nederlanden Award 2018, together with other nominees Rafaël Rozendaal, Pauline Curnier Jardin and Sam Samiee. On June 2, 2022, the Prince Bernhard Fund awarded him the Charlotte Köhler Prize, that comes with twenty thousand euros as a financial support.
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Tajeb and Salim Bayri giving a concert at Roodkapje, Rotterdam.
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Amsterdamprijs v.d. Kunst
Salim Bayri
Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst 2020 -nomination
Amsterdamprijs vd Kunst
Performance Award Artfacts.net
This certificate is proudly presented to Salim Bayri for strong Artfacts Artist Rank Advance in 2019. Salim Bayri advanced 167% from rank 37,627 naar 22,582.
On January 4, 2021, once again he was up 1,360 places.
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Market position
Salim Bayri (1992) is at the beginning of his career and a market position is currently detectable mainly through his participations in various group exhibitions at Roodkapje in Rotterdam, CODA in Apeldoorn and various events.
He lives and works in Amsterdam and recently he was appointed as a teacher at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
Awards
2022 Charlotte Köhler Prize / Visual Arts
2021 Artfacts performance Award 2021
2019 Artfacts performance Award 2019
Nominations
2020 Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst 2020 - nomination
2018 NN Group Award 2018 - nomination
2017 George Verberg Stipendium - nomination
2017 Hendrik de Vries Stipendium - nomination
2017 Young Blood best of graduates- nomination.
2016 Groot Brugmans Fonds- Travel fund
2015 Holland Scholarship for international students
He lives and works in Amsterdam and recently he was appointed as a teacher at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
Awards
2022 Charlotte Köhler Prize / Visual Arts
2021 Artfacts performance Award 2021
2019 Artfacts performance Award 2019
Nominations
2020 Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst 2020 - nomination
2018 NN Group Award 2018 - nomination
2017 George Verberg Stipendium - nomination
2017 Hendrik de Vries Stipendium - nomination
2017 Young Blood best of graduates- nomination.
2016 Groot Brugmans Fonds- Travel fund
2015 Holland Scholarship for international students
CV
Born in 1992, Casablanca, Marocco
lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Education
2010 - 2014 Arts and Design, Escola Massana, BFA with honours Barcelona, Spain
2015 - 2017 Frank Mohr Instituut, Groningen, Netherlands
2019 - 2021 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Residencies
2016 Residency at Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2016 Artist in residence at l'Estruch: Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu, Sabadell, Spain
Awards and nominations
2024 Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre
2023 NN Group Award - nomination
2022 winner of De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2022
2022 winner Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds 2022
2021 Artfacts performance Award 2021
2020 Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst - nomination
2020 Vordemberge-Gildewart Award - nomination
2019 Artfacts performance Award 2019
2018 NN Group Award - nomination
2017 George Verberg Stipendium - nomination
2017 Hendrik de Vries Stipendium - nomination
2017 Young Blood best of graduates- nomination
2016 Groot Brugmans Fonds - Travel fund
2015 Holland Scholarship for international students
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Waiting, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (scheduled)
2022 A Hyperconnected Humanity Free From Loneliness, Hot Wheels Gallery, Athens, Greece
2021 Moving Archives, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, brochure
2019 Naturalisation, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018 Sad Ali mapping the place, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2017 Welcoming, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Group exhibitions
2025 Art Intelligence versus AI, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2025 Nothing But The Truth, Kadist, Paris, France
2024 Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Sonata, MACRO / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy, with Ghita Skali
2024 Barn to Stable, Stadsgalerij, Breda, Netherlands
2024 Everything Is On The One, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, initiator Frederique Jonker
2024 Peers and Pairs, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2023 Unbound: Performance as Rupture, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2023 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curator Johan Gustavsson, cat.
2023 Dead Skin Cash, W139, Amsterdam, with Gita Skali
2022 It's not me, it's you, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, with Eimear Walshe and Pedro Oliveira, curator Mattia Capelletti
2022 Purple Sky and Blue Waves, Omstand / Space for Contemporary Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
2022 Zeshonderdtwintig, Kunstruimte Langhuis, Zwolle, Netherlands, cat.
2022 Active Archives, Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts, HKW/Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2022 Horiezontalisme, Artorium Foundation THCC / Institut Français, Casablanca, Marocco
2022 Exclamation Mark, The Ravenstein Gallery, Amsterdam
2022 When artists form ideas, Parts Project, The Hague, Netherlands, curator Kees van Gelder, cat.
2021 That Those Beings Be Not Being, W139, Amsterdam
2021 With Permission From the Officer, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2020 Aah-Aah-Way/AAW 2020 multiples, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2020 Hotel Sahara, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France
2020 Heimatmuseum, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
2020 Vordemberge-Gildewart Award, Kunst Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, cat. (with text on Salim Bayri by Kees van Gelder)
2020 Wet rent wrong, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, with Ian Page and Özgür Atlagan
2020 A collective project by Amsterdam based artists, Rozenstraat / a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam
2019 Rozenstraat / a rose is a rose is a rose, Georgia Lucas-Going and Salim Bayri in "Rosebud #2", Amsterdam
2019 Slaap lekker Studio, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2019 Naturalisation, Galerie van Gelder & AP, Amsterdam
2019 Art Rotterdam / New Art Section, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curator Tiago Abreu de Pinto
2018 Iconographie de la Rue, Galerie DelaCroix de l'Institut Français, Tanger, Marocco
2018 Before the Fire Starts, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018 Power of Ten Art Prize, Spaces, Amsterdam
2018 The Red Pack, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 Smartshop Kaaskoes, TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands
2017 Pulse 21, Studio Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands
2017 Big Art, De Zonnewijser, Amsterdam, curator/founder Anne van der Zwaag
2017 Les conteurs et les montreurs, Dasthe Art Space, Casablanca, Marocco
2017 Welcoming, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2017 A state of mind, Haus 34a, Bad Bentheim, Germany
2016 Adiós al rombo, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain - participation
2016 Mastermind Art Program For Young Moroccan Artists, GVCC Casablanca, Marocco
2016 OMG, Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2015 Triple Mortal - Dwelling, Feeling, Thinking, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
Art fairs
2025 Art Island, Galerie van Gelder / EdB projects, Fort IJmuiden, booth 01
2023 Art Rotterdam - Prospects 2023, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021 Art Rotterdam - NN Award 2021, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020 Art Rotterdam - Art Now 2020, Galerie van Gelder, with Nokukhanya Langa
Selected articles
2021 Er zit een deeltjesversneller in de keel van kunstenaar Salim Bayri, Maarten Buser, De Lage Landen, 10 oktober
2020 Een Tower Bridge van Toblerone, Kees Keijer, Het Parool/Cultureel Supplement, 10 juli, p.17
2020 Grote hoeveelheden zonnebloempitjes voor de vogels en het publiek - Salim Bayri en Ghita Skali bij Motel Spatie in Arnhem - On Hold #4, Maarten Buser, Metropolis M, 31 maart
2018 Geopolitiek in de ogen van een nieuwe generatie, Tubelight #106, March-May, Menno Dudok van Heel, p.6 + center pages: p.6
2017 Künstler stellen in Bentheim gemeinsam aus, initials author GN, newspaper NN, 9 March
2017 Kontroverse Kunst im "haus34A", Susanna Austrup, Grafschafter Nachrichten, 13 March
Interviews
2021 Langs de ongrijpbare kern van Salim Bayri, Milo Vermeire, Mistermotley.nl, 9 november
2020 Kunstenaar Salim Bayri reist heen en weer tussen culturen, vormen en media, Het Parool, Kees Keijer, 28 september
2017 Kunst Spot Het atelier van Salim Bayri
2012 Salim Bayri Coeval Magazine, Perwana Nazif
Performances
2022 Active Archives, Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts, HKW/Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2017 Mr. Worldwide, Clash Festival, Simplon Poppodium, Groningen, Netherlands
2016 Mr. and Ms. Worldwide, 'Happylucky n1' Brooklyn - New York, USA, with to Giovanna Olmos
Music
2013-present Co-founder music with Tayeb Bayri duo Bazoga.biz
lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Education
2010 - 2014 Arts and Design, Escola Massana, BFA with honours Barcelona, Spain
2015 - 2017 Frank Mohr Instituut, Groningen, Netherlands
2019 - 2021 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Residencies
2016 Residency at Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2016 Artist in residence at l'Estruch: Fàbrica de Creació de les Arts en Viu, Sabadell, Spain
Awards and nominations
2024 Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre
2023 NN Group Award - nomination
2022 winner of De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2022
2022 winner Charlotte Köhler Prijs van het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds 2022
2021 Artfacts performance Award 2021
2020 Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunst - nomination
2020 Vordemberge-Gildewart Award - nomination
2019 Artfacts performance Award 2019
2018 NN Group Award - nomination
2017 George Verberg Stipendium - nomination
2017 Hendrik de Vries Stipendium - nomination
2017 Young Blood best of graduates- nomination
2016 Groot Brugmans Fonds - Travel fund
2015 Holland Scholarship for international students
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Waiting, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (scheduled)
2022 A Hyperconnected Humanity Free From Loneliness, Hot Wheels Gallery, Athens, Greece
2021 Moving Archives, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, brochure
2019 Naturalisation, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018 Sad Ali mapping the place, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2017 Welcoming, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain
Group exhibitions
2025 Art Intelligence versus AI, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2025 Nothing But The Truth, Kadist, Paris, France
2024 Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
2024 Sonata, MACRO / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy, with Ghita Skali
2024 Barn to Stable, Stadsgalerij, Breda, Netherlands
2024 Everything Is On The One, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, initiator Frederique Jonker
2024 Peers and Pairs, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2023 Unbound: Performance as Rupture, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2023 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curator Johan Gustavsson, cat.
2023 Dead Skin Cash, W139, Amsterdam, with Gita Skali
2022 It's not me, it's you, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy, with Eimear Walshe and Pedro Oliveira, curator Mattia Capelletti
2022 Purple Sky and Blue Waves, Omstand / Space for Contemporary Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
2022 Zeshonderdtwintig, Kunstruimte Langhuis, Zwolle, Netherlands, cat.
2022 Active Archives, Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts, HKW/Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2022 Horiezontalisme, Artorium Foundation THCC / Institut Français, Casablanca, Marocco
2022 Exclamation Mark, The Ravenstein Gallery, Amsterdam
2022 When artists form ideas, Parts Project, The Hague, Netherlands, curator Kees van Gelder, cat.
2021 That Those Beings Be Not Being, W139, Amsterdam
2021 With Permission From the Officer, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2020 Aah-Aah-Way/AAW 2020 multiples, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2020 Hotel Sahara, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France
2020 Heimatmuseum, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
2020 Vordemberge-Gildewart Award, Kunst Museum, The Hague, Netherlands, cat. (with text on Salim Bayri by Kees van Gelder)
2020 Wet rent wrong, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, with Ian Page and Özgür Atlagan
2020 A collective project by Amsterdam based artists, Rozenstraat / a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam
2019 Rozenstraat / a rose is a rose is a rose, Georgia Lucas-Going and Salim Bayri in "Rosebud #2", Amsterdam
2019 Slaap lekker Studio, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2019 Naturalisation, Galerie van Gelder & AP, Amsterdam
2019 Art Rotterdam / New Art Section, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curator Tiago Abreu de Pinto
2018 Iconographie de la Rue, Galerie DelaCroix de l'Institut Français, Tanger, Marocco
2018 Before the Fire Starts, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
2018 Power of Ten Art Prize, Spaces, Amsterdam
2018 The Red Pack, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 Smartshop Kaaskoes, TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands
2017 Pulse 21, Studio Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands
2017 Big Art, De Zonnewijser, Amsterdam, curator/founder Anne van der Zwaag
2017 Les conteurs et les montreurs, Dasthe Art Space, Casablanca, Marocco
2017 Welcoming, ADN Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2017 A state of mind, Haus 34a, Bad Bentheim, Germany
2016 Adiós al rombo, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain - participation
2016 Mastermind Art Program For Young Moroccan Artists, GVCC Casablanca, Marocco
2016 OMG, Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands
2015 Triple Mortal - Dwelling, Feeling, Thinking, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
Art fairs
2025 Art Island, Galerie van Gelder / EdB projects, Fort IJmuiden, booth 01
2023 Art Rotterdam - Prospects 2023, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2021 Art Rotterdam - NN Award 2021, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020 Art Rotterdam - Art Now 2020, Galerie van Gelder, with Nokukhanya Langa
Selected articles
2021 Er zit een deeltjesversneller in de keel van kunstenaar Salim Bayri, Maarten Buser, De Lage Landen, 10 oktober
2020 Een Tower Bridge van Toblerone, Kees Keijer, Het Parool/Cultureel Supplement, 10 juli, p.17
2020 Grote hoeveelheden zonnebloempitjes voor de vogels en het publiek - Salim Bayri en Ghita Skali bij Motel Spatie in Arnhem - On Hold #4, Maarten Buser, Metropolis M, 31 maart
2018 Geopolitiek in de ogen van een nieuwe generatie, Tubelight #106, March-May, Menno Dudok van Heel, p.6 + center pages: p.6
2017 Künstler stellen in Bentheim gemeinsam aus, initials author GN, newspaper NN, 9 March
2017 Kontroverse Kunst im "haus34A", Susanna Austrup, Grafschafter Nachrichten, 13 March
Interviews
2021 Langs de ongrijpbare kern van Salim Bayri, Milo Vermeire, Mistermotley.nl, 9 november
2020 Kunstenaar Salim Bayri reist heen en weer tussen culturen, vormen en media, Het Parool, Kees Keijer, 28 september
2017 Kunst Spot Het atelier van Salim Bayri
2012 Salim Bayri Coeval Magazine, Perwana Nazif
Performances
2022 Active Archives, Performing Social Realities in Archival Contexts, HKW/Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
2017 Mr. Worldwide, Clash Festival, Simplon Poppodium, Groningen, Netherlands
2016 Mr. and Ms. Worldwide, 'Happylucky n1' Brooklyn - New York, USA, with to Giovanna Olmos
Music
2013-present Co-founder music with Tayeb Bayri duo Bazoga.biz
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