Sadek Rahim
Lives and works in Oran
Born in 1971
Born in 1971 in Oran, Algeria, Sadek Rahim is a multidisciplinary artist, using drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography or video. In the 1990s, he traveled and lived in Syria and Jordan, before beginning studies at the School of Fine Arts in Beirut (Lebanon), then at the prestigious Saint Martin's School of Arts and Design in London from which he graduated. He is a multidisciplinary Algerian artist whose work often addresses globalization, mobility, and cultural exchange. He has notably been the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Oran and is a co-founder of the Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art of Oran. In his artistic practice, he reinterprets and transforms carpets and everyday objects to explore the circulation of goods, ideas, and cultural values across borders...Read more
Sadek Rahim explores intercultural dialogue and the circulation of culture beyond markets.
Featured works
Home, 2013
Exhibitions
Do you hear the landscape?
1-54 London presents Do you hear the landscape?, an exhibition gathering Algerian artists through painting, photography, and video. It explores landscape as a mirror of the self and a site of collective memory, resistance, and resilience...Read More
1-54 London
Summer Group Show Level 1 & 2
Next Level. The Hamid Khellafi gallery changes level for a summer. After the opening of its cycle dedicated to Algerian artists in February 2025, and the first solo exhibitions of Chemsedine Herriche, Adlane Samet and Mehdi Djelil, the gallery inaugurates a new stage with Summer Group Show, an evolving collective exhibition...Read More
Galerie Hamid Khellafi
Gravity³ is a major solo exhibition by Sadek Rahim presented at the MAMO in Oran in 2019. It brings together large-scale installations, paintings, and video works that explore the idea of weight, tension, and balance. Through this immersive environment, the artist reflects on both physical forces and social or psychological pressures...Read More
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain d’Oran (MAMO)