The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary
Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University

About Touhami Ennadre

French Artist Touhami Ennadre was born in Casablanca in 1953. He has received numerous awards and has exhibited his work throughout the world. He describes his technique:

"I work in 60 mm x 60 mm. I develop all film myself and make copies of everything for working prints. Then, selecting some one of thirty or forty prints, I put together the series to be worked on. This is the beginning of a long process.

"Each of my enlargements, up to 1,20 x 1,50 m, is unique. They are not unique because I make no copies but because of the way I work. For every photo I draw a series of masks and experiment with exposure times. One print can be similar to another but it cannot be identical, hence its uniqueness. One print, with tests and the drawing and making of masks, takes a minimum of 12 hours. I am far removed from photographers who, once satisfied with a negative, proceed rapidly, making as many copies as they want, in whatever format. My work is closer to the plastic arts than to photography.

"The setting and the stretching of the photograph mounted on the canvas is an extremely delicate operation, which can only be realized by one person in Paris."

Below is a list of some of Touhami Ennadre's exhibitions, published books and awards.

ENNADRE'S EXHIBITIONS

2006
"White and Black : Between East and West", Galway Arts Centre, April, Galway Ireland, Curators : Abdelwahab Meddeb.
"De ida y vuelta. África", La Casa Encendida, March-June, Madrid, Spain, Curators : Danielle Tilkin.
The Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, February, London
Arte Fiera, January, Bologna Italy.

2005
Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, December-January 2005-2006 Paris.
FIAC, Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, October, Paris.
"Occident vist des d’Orient", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (May-September), Barcelone and Fundacion Bancaja (October-January 2005-2006), Valence, Spain, Curators : Abdelwahab Meddeb

2004
Shanghai Biennale, "Techniques of the Visible", Shanghai, China, Curators : Sebastian Lopez.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Book signing of "If You See Something Say Something", Conversations on Art with Adam D. Weinberg and the Whitney's  Alice Pratt Brown Director, New York
Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ‚”Speaking with hands” Photographs from the Henry Buhl Collection.
Museo dell'Academia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy, “Periplo del Mediterraneo”.

2002
Documenta 11, Platform 5, Kassel, Germany.
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich “New York, September 11”, Munich.
Artists Space, New York, “Human Face”.

2001
“The short century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 -1994”, Museum of contemporary Art, Chicago, P.S. 1-MOMA, Contemporary Art Center, New York, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich.

2000
Biennale de Lyon d'Art Contemporain, “Partage d'exotisme”, Lyon, France.
Diözesanmuseum Obermünster “Geist in Stein - Lebensbilder einer Kathedrale” Regensburg, Germany.

1999
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, “Black Light”, Paris.
Diözesanmuseum Obermünster “Materia Prima”, Regensburg, Germany.

1998
Museo de arte contemporaneo, “Transatlantico”, Las Palmas, Spain.

1997
Sexta Bienal de la Habana, “El individuo y su mémoria”, Havanna, Cuba.
               Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 'Die anderen Modernen', Berlin.

1996
Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Glyptothek‚ ”Herculaneum”, Munich.
Dany Keller Gallery ‚ “Black Light”, Munich.
Nederlands Foto Institute, Touhami Ennadre, Rotterdam.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “In/sight: African Photographers 1940 to the Present”, New York.

1995
Tate Gallery‚ “Three Contemporary African Artists”, Liverpool, Great Britain.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, “L'Alhambra”, Berlin.

1994
Exit Art, 548 Broadway, Touhami Ennadre, New York.

1993
Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites, “Notre Dame de Paris”, Paris.

1992
“Trans Voices”, Multimedia project, Posters exhibited in New York and Paris Subway, Centre Beaubourg, Paris and American Center, Paris (Project by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Touhami Ennadre “Œuvres Photographiques 1980–1990”, Paris.

1990
Fondation Gulbenkian and Frankfurter Kunstverein, “Photographie en liberté”, Lissabon and Frankfurt.

1988
Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris and Museum für Kunst und Geschichte, Freiburg, Germany “Splendeurs et misères du corps”.
Frankfurter Kunstverein, “Junge europäische Photographen”, Frankfurt, Germany.

1986
Bibliothèque Nationale, “La photographie créative”, Paris.

1985
Museum für Moderne Kunst, “Das Aktphoto”, Vienna, Austria.

1984
Cité Internationales des Arts, ”Touhami Ennadre-Photographies”, Paris.

1977
Musée d'Art Moderne, “Tendances actuelles de la Photographie en France”, Paris.

ENNADRE'S BOOKS

Ennadre - If you see something say something, photographs by Touhami Ennadre, text by Nancy Spector, Hatje Cantz, 2004.

Ennadre -  Black Light, photographs by Touhami Ennadre, text by Francois Aubral, Prestel Verlag, Munich / New York, 1996.

Geist in Stein - Der Regenburger Dom, photographs by Touhami Ennadre, text by Bertram Stubenrauch und Eva karcher, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg, 2000.

Notre Dame de Paris, photographs by Touhami Ennadre, text by Alain Jouffroy, Caisse des monuments historiques et des sites, 1992.

ENNADRE'S GRANTS AND AWARDS

2006       Atelier New York, AFAA, USA.
1998       Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, AFAA, Japan.
1995       UNESCO Aschberg Grant, Fondation Afrique en Création.
1993       Grant Villa Medicis Hors les Murs.
1989       Prix Leonardo da Vinci, French Minister For Foreighn Affairs.
1987       Young European Photographers Award of Deutsche Leasing, Frankfurt.
1984       Years Scholarship, Villa Arson, Nizza, CNAC.
1976       “Prix de la Critique”, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles France.