Nicène Kossentini

Nicène Kossentini’s work invites viewers to engage with spaces that are both close and uncertain, she works by dichotomy using contrasts and semi-visibility to create contemplative environments. Her work spans photographs, videos, sculptures, works on paper, and paintings, addressing disappearance and loss at the core while reflecting on current global events.

In this perspective, she seeks aesthetics and poetry to confront cold violence. Kossentini's research area draws its resources from her family history, intimate and intergenerational tradition of storytelling, as well as Arabic poetry, literature and philosophy.

Kossentini’s works have been shown internationally in prominent institutions and biennials such as the Louvre Museum’s Jardins des Tuileries, France, Les Abbatoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie, the 12th Bamako Encounters – African Biennial of Photography, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea, Photoquai, the Biennale of World Images, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.

Kossentini graduated with a degree in Applied Arts from the Fine Art Institute of Tunis, Tunisia and pursued Advanced Studies in Art from Marc Bloch University, Strasburg, France. She is currently an assistant professor of Experimental Cinema at the University of Tunis, Tunisia.

Kossentini’s work forms part of many prestigious collections of art, including The British Museum, London (UK) Musée - Frac Occitanie, Les Abattoirs (France), Fondation Blachère, (France), The Kamel Lazaar Foundation Tunis (Tunisia), Museum of Modern Art, Tunis, Tunisia and Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Angola.