Artist Kader Attia opens new art hub in Paris

Multidisciplinary space will focus on provocative political and cultural issues

by GARETH HARRIS  |  17 October 2016

The Paris-born artist Kader Attia opens a new, three-storey exhibition and events space today (17 October) in Paris.  The space is a new kind of artistic “laboratory” for sharing ideas and showing works in the post-Brexit age, he says. The new venue, close to the Gare du Nord train station and co-founded with the restaurateur Zico Selloum, is called La Colonie.

The space will host workshops, conferences, lectures and readings. “Far from a museum or institutional context, the artistic proposals are as much conceptual as they are formal, a-formal or performed,” says a project statement. Details of the exhibition programme are yet to be announced.

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More info about 'La Colonie' (128 Rue Lafayette, 75010 Paris) close to the Gare du Nord train station and cofounded with the restaurateur Zico Selloum