Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a research-driven conceptual artist from Tunisia, with North African heritage and Ukrainian roots. Her practice emerges from the entanglement of personal history, geopolitical memory, and the material traces of lived experience. Working across installation, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, Kaabi-Linke investigates how power, surveillance, migration, and social structures shape the visible and invisible layers of contemporary life.
Born in Tunis, Nadia Kaabi-Linke has lived in Kyiv, Sharjah, Dubai, Paris and is now based in Berlin. She earned an MA from the Tunis School of Fine Arts and later a Ph.D. from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris. Growing up between Tunis, Kyiv, and Dubai profoundly shaped her artistic approach, grounding her work in themes of cross-cultural movement, political histories, and the unseen forces that structure daily life. Her visually powerful practice often balances beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, drawing viewers into a charged field of attraction and resistance.
Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s artworks are held in major international collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Darat al Funun, Amman; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; FRAC Pays de la Loire; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Her solo exhibitions include presentations at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin; the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv; Darat al Funun, Amman; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Dallas Contemporary; The Mosaic Rooms, London; and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. She has participated in major international group exhibitions and biennials such as the Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Lyon Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Bruges Triennial, Lahore Biennale, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and exhibitions at Martin-Gropius-Bau, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Kaabi-Linke has received numerous awards, including the Ithra Art Prize, the François Schneider Art Prize, the Art Basel Discovery Prize, and the Abraaj Group Art Prize.