Biography

Héla Ammar

Tunisia

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Photography

Héla Ammar

Born in 1969, Tunis, Tunisia.
Lives and works in Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia.

Héla Ammar joins in the lineage of this artists' new generation arab women whose approach often expresses an internal, social and cultural duality in their quest of identity. Born in june 1969, she lives and works in Sidi Bou Said (Tunisia). She is directly inspired of her daily experiences, her life, of the way she communicates to bring her vision on identity, social and political issues.

Taking advantage of her meetings, she continues to intersect the individual to society and to confront their legitimate aspirations with their reality at once cultural political or social. Since 2003, her work has been regularly showcased in Tunisia and abroad. She took part in numerous solo and group shows in Tunisia and abroad (Egypt, Germany, France, Belgium, Swizerland,Spain…). Her work has been shown in various international art fairs including Printemps des art Fair Tunis 2012, Rencontres photographiques de Bamako 2011, Marrakech Art Fair 2010, Dream City Tunisia 2010 and 2012, ArtDubai 2008, Barcelona Biennial 2007, ArtParis-AbuDhabi 2007…So far, her work has been the subject to many articles and comments in Tunisian and foreign publications.

Solo exhibitions:

2010. Inter-dit, Galerie El Marsa, La Marsa, Tunisia
2007. Galerie El Marsa, La Marsa, Tunisia
2006. Galerie Kenais, St Prex, Switzerland
2005. Galerie El Marsa, La Marsa, Tunisia
2003. Galerie Mille Feuille, La Marsa, Tunisia

Art fairs: 

2012. Dream City, Biennial of Contemporary Art ,Tunis and Sfax
2012. Printemps des Arts Fair Tunis, Tunisia
2011. Festival des Droits Humains et des Cultures du Monde, Lahay-la-rose, France
2010. Marrakech Art Fair
2010. Dream city, Biennial of Contemporary Art , Tunisia
2008. ArtDubai 08, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE,
2007. ARTMAR, Biennial of Barcelona, Spain
2007. ArtParis-AbuDhabi 07, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE,
2006. Salon International d’Art contemporain, Grenoble, France
2006. Montreux Art Gallery, Switzerland
2005. Rencontres d’Art contemporain, Genève, Switzerland


Group exhibitions: selection

2013. World Nomads, New York, USA
2013. L’avenir en rose, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012. The harassement exhibition, Darb center, Cairo, Egypt
2012. Frontières, B’chira Art Center, Tunisia
2011. Artocratie/ Inside-Out Tunisia, JR Project
2011. No sky, No earth, Curatorial project Alina Dalva, Dar Mima, Gammarth
2010. La part du corps, Curated by Rachida Triki, Palais Khereddine Musée de la ville de Tunis
2009. Sur les traces de la peinture contemporaine (Contemporary Tunisian artists), Galerie El Marsa, Tunisia
2009. Noir et blanc (Black and white), Galerie El Borj, Tunisia
2009. Essmaâni (Listen to me), Palais Abdelya, Tunisia
2008. Objets, Galerie Ammar Farhat, Tunisia
2008. Art Connexions, Galerie El Marsa, Tunisia
2007. L’un et l’autre ( The one and the other), Osnabruck, Germany
2007. Group exhibition, Tunisian artists, Palais Khereddine, Tunis, Tunisia
2005. Création féminine, sponsored by the Ministry of culture and UNESCO, Paris, France
2005. Gallery Arcima, Paris, France
2005. Espace d’Art El Téatro, Tunis, Tunisia
2005. Mémoire de Demain, Galerie El Marsa, Tunisia
2004. Rencontres Paix et Civilisation, organized and sponsored by NATO, Palais Khereddine, Tunis, Tunisia