Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a Tunisian multi-media conceptual artist based in Berlin, Tunis, and Kyiv. After graduating with an MA from the Tunis School of Fine Arts, she received a Ph.D. from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris. Growing up between Tunis, Kyiv, and Dubai, her personal history developed through migration across cultures and borders, which greatly influenced her artistic practice. Her work gives physical presence to that which tends to remain invisible in contemporary societies, be it people, structures, or the geopolitical forces that shape them. In a visually powerful way, she straddles beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, as well as the sublime and the vulgar, engaging the viewer in the play of conflicting forces of fear and attraction, repulsion and desire.
Her artworks were shown and are part of worldwide renowned collections, among which are the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, the Mathaf – Museum of Contemporary Art, Doha, Darat al funun, Amman, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Sharjah Art Foundation in UAE, the Dallas Muse-um in Texas, FRAC Pays de Loire, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, among others. She had solo institutional exhibitions at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie für Gegenwart, Berlin; the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; Darat Al Funun in Amman; the Kunstmuseum Bonn; the Dallas Contemporary; the Mosaic Rooms in London; and the Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, among others. Her works featured in international group shows and Biennials such as the Lyon Biennale, Bruges Triennial, Liverpool Biennale, Sharjah Biennale, Venice Biennale, Lahore Biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, the Martha Herford Museum, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, KW Institute and House of World Culture (HKW) in Berlin. She got awarded the Ithra Art Prize, the Francois Schneider Art Prize, the Art Basel Discovery Prize, and the Abraaj Group Art Prize, among others.