Nadia Kaabi-Linke

Nadia Kaabi-Linke is a research-driven conceptual artist from Tunisia, with North African heritage and Ukrainian roots. Her practice explores the intersections of personal history, geopolitical memory, and material traces of lived experience. Working across installation, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, she investigates how power, surveillance, migration, and social structures shape the visible and invisible layers of contemporary life.

Born in Tunis and now based in Berlin, Kaabi-Linke has lived in Kyiv, Sharjah, Dubai, and Paris. She holds an MA from the Tunis School of Fine Arts and a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her work, which often balances beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, has been widely exhibited and collected internationally. Her artworks are held in major collections including MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; and Sharjah Art Foundation, among others. She has participated in leading international exhibitions and biennials, including the Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, and Lyon Biennale, and has received numerous awards, including the Ithra Art Prize and the Art Basel Discovery Prize.