Halida Boughriet

Born in Lens in 1980, Halida Boughriet is a French and Algerian artist. 

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the SVA exchange program in New York in cinematography through 2005, 

Exploring the dichotomies between reality and fiction, she works with various artistic languages influenced by the Situationists and Fluxus in her use of performance, photography, and video.

At the intersection of aesthetic, social, and political concerns, her works seek to capture the tensions in human relationships highlighted by society. The body is omnipresent, serving as an instrument of experimental poetic gesture. The artist devotes her research to expanding the deconstruction of stereotypes, with the aim of making visible the subjectivities that have historically been underrepresented in visual culture.

His works are held at the New Media Center at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Val-de-Marne Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitry-sur-Seine, the Museum of Modern Art in Algiers, and the Hood Museum (USA). 

Halida Boughriet has participated in international events, including Elles@centrepompidou in Paris (2010), at the Algiers Contemporary Art Festival (2011), and at the Arab World Institute in Paris (2012, 2019, 2022). She participated in “ Video and Beyond " at the Centre Pompidou, at the 2014 Dakar International Biennale, and on the radio program Documenta 14 (2017, Athens, Kassel). 

In 2018, she was one of the artists featured in the exhibition “ Persona Grata " at the National Museum of the History of Immigration. In 2019, she also participated in the first edition of the Rabat Biennial, dedicated to women artists, and recently in the exhibition devoted to Picasso & The Women of Algiers at the Berggruen Museum (Berlin).