Neïl Beloufa

French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa's (*1985 in Paris, FR) video works, sculptures, and installations focus on today's society permeated by digital technology, its value systems, and representational strategies. His artistic language reveals poetic overlays of reality and fiction on current issues ranging from power relations, digital surveillance, and nationalist ideologies to questions of identity, environmental awareness, and a postcolonial understanding of the world. In doing so, Beloufa references the aesthetics of video games, reality TV, and political propaganda, thus using the vocabulary of the information age to create complex and precisely crafted works that call for rethinking beliefs and stereotypes. The artist negotiates questions of cause and effect, existence and absence, and the interpretation of the same, in various materialities that often embed technological components.
Neïl Beloufa's work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, most recently in an expansive installation at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2021), as well as at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018 and 2012), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016). Beloufa was represented at the 58th and 55th Venice Biennale (2019 and 2013), as well as at the Lyon Biennale (2013), and was nominated for the Nam June Paik Award (2016) and the Prix Marcel Duchmap (2016).


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