Nida Sinnokrot
Nida Sinnokrot’s work is informed by cinema, colonial history, narrative structures, and the politics of technology. Through tactical acts of technical and conceptual détournement, his work aims to subvert various technologies of control that give rise to shifting social, political, and geographic instabilities.
Nida Sinnokrot (b. 1971) grew up in Algeria and currently lives and works in Boston and Jerusalem. His films and installation works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including including KIOSK, Ghent (2018); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2015); Darat al Funun, Amman (2014); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2014); the travelling exhibition Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf, Doha; Institut du monde arabe, Paris; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain and Staatliches Museum Ägypticher Kunst, Munich (2012-2014); Bozar Museum, Brussels (2008) and Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2004). Palestinian Blues, his first film, has won numerous awards in international film. Nida Sinnokrot also participated in the 57th Venice Biennial (2017), the 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017) and the 10th Tapei Biennial (2016). He is currently Assistant Professor in MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) and co-founder of Sakiya – Art | Science | Agriculture.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 11/22 Nida Sinnokrot, Horizontal Cinema
- 04/22 Cecilia Edefalk / Fred Eversley / Asta Gröting / Lena Henke / Arturo Herrera / Ann Veronica Janssens / Tarik Kiswanson / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Thomas Schütte / Nida Sinnokrot / Marianna Uutinen / Rosha Yaghmai / Dolores Zinny, Looking Through the Threshold
- 03/22 Maria Thereza Alves / Tacita Dean / Jimmie Durham / Cecilia Edefalk / Michel François / Asta Gröting / Mathew Hale / Pakui Hardware / Lena Henke / Iman Issa / Tarik Kiswanson / Guillaume Leblon / Juan Maidagan / David Maljković / Aernout Mik / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Nida Sinnokrot / Mark Wallinger / Dolores Zinny, Standing
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 04/19 Nida Sinnokrot, Exquisite Rotation | Madrid
- 11/18 Nida Sinnokrot, Expand Extract Repent Repeat
News
Biography
Texts
- Hiding Out In My Own Place Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare, for Ibraaz.org, May 2016.
- Rebecca Jane Arthur, Nearby, 25 April 2018
- KIOSK, Ghent, BE, Nida Sinnokrot: Exquisite Rotation, 17.02.18 - 08.04.18, Press release and Exhibition text, 2018.
- Darat al Funun, Nida Sinnokrot: Caravans, May 27–October 16, 2014, Press release.