Valentin Noujaïm
Valentin Noujaïm is a French-Lebanese artist and filmmaker based between Paris and Athens.
He studied screenwriting at La Fémis in Paris and was a guest student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He has participated in several long-term residencies, notably at the Fiminco Foundation (Paris), the Ateliers Médicis, Artagon Marseille, the Villa Medici (Rome) and Lafayette Anticipation.
He develops hybrid film projects, combining 16mm and 35mm film, archive footage, digital devices and images from surveillance systems. His installations combine films, sculptures and prints. His work questions the ways in which individuals survive political, spiritual and architectural collapses, paying particular attention to the infrastructures and architectures that structure the contemporary world — business districts, industrial ruins, ports, bunkers and suburban networks — envisaged as psychic territories traversed by power, desire and social violence.
His work has been presented internationally in institutions such as the Kunsthalle Basel and MoMA, as well as in numerous exhibitions, festivals and biennials, including the Istanbul Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the ICA London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Momenta Biennial in Montreal, the Museo Madre, the Fondation Cartier, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, the Cinémathèque française, the IFFR in Rotterdam, CPH:DOX and the Triennale de Nîmes. In 2025, the Kunsthalle Basel will dedicate its first exhibition to him.