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Youssef Taki (1995)
Education
PhD candidate in Arts and Humanities at the University of Castilla-La Mancha
Master's Degree in Research in Artistic and Visual Practices . Faculty of Fine Arts of Castilla La Mancha, Cuenca. 2022/2023
Graduated in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Castilla La-Mancha, Cuenca, 2018-2022
Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design , Antonio López School of Arts, Tomelloso, Ciudad Real 2016/2018
Group Exhibitions
Whispers, Noise, and Paradoxes: Attempts at a Politics of Enunciation
Santa Monica, 2025, Barcelona. (Link)
XVIII Tenerife International Photography Biennial, Atlantic Collective Exhibitions: The Thickness,
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna. 2025, Tenerife. (Link)
Floral installation, Carolin Ruggaber and Al' Akhawat Collective ,
Flipas Urban Cultures Laboratory and Casa Encendida, 2025. (Link)
The Wake, Dakar Biennial,
Courthouse, 2024, Dakar. (Link)
The heretical proclamation, TEA Contemporary Biennial ,
Tenerife Arts Space, 2024 , Tenerife. With Al' Akhawat Collective. (Link)
The production of otherness,
Design Hub, 2024, Barcelona . (Link)
Appropriations and memories,
Freijó Gallery, 2024, Madrid. (Link)
Memories, In Nobody Never Nothing No,
Instituto Cervantes and the Goethe-Institut, 2024, Madrid. With Al' Akhawat Collective . (Link )
The Sagrada Familia is still under construction.
Ateneo de Madrid, 2024, Madrid. (Link)
Memory: Words and Wounds,
Tangents Projects, 2024, Barcelona. (Link)
I pressed you between the leaves,
Sala Arte Joven, 2024, Madrid. (Link)
Postcards from the edge,
Berry Campbell Gallery, 2024, New York. (Link)
Home Away from Home,
Larnaca Biennale. Municipal Art Gallery, 2023, Cyprus. (Link)
Land, Safety And Grief,
MENA Art Gallery, UntoldStories, 2023, Oyun, Berlin. (Enlace)
A home in the diaspora,
Casa Felipa Manuela, 2023, Madrid. (Link)
Interstices, Diaspora,
Nobody Never Nothing No Gallery, 2023, Madrid. (Link)
Place of origin, displaced perception,
Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCLM, 2023, Cuenca. (Link)
Leaving a Footprint,
Acua Hall, Historic Center. 2023. Cuenca. (Link)
Mauve and Intimacy,
Princess Zaida Museum, 2022, Cuenca. (Link)
XVII Meeting of Artists,
El Dorado Art Space - Amelia Moreno Foundation, Quintanar de la Orden, 2022, Toledo. (Link)
I ceased to be,
Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCLM. 2022. Cuenca. (Link)
Solo Exhibitions
At the Image's Edge,
AWL Gallery, 2026, Girona. ( Link )
Sūq, Memories in barter,
Antonio Pérez Foundation, 2025, Cuenca. (Link)
Out of place-Displaced ,
Colegio de España en la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris , 202 5 , Paris. (Link)
External Memories,
Pedro Iturralde Civic Center, 2025, Falces, Navarra. (Link)
External Memories,
La Parcería, 2024, Madrid. (Link)
External Memories,
Marcablanca , 2024, Madrid. (Link)
Out of place,
Muñoz Sola Museum, 2023, Tudela, Pamplona. (Link)
Out of place,
Burlada Cultural Center , Pamplona, 2023. (Link)
No signal,
Los Silos International Festival, 2023, Tenerife. (Link)
Cross Bodies,
Artistic program of the Youth Center, 2023, Cuenca. (Link)
Out of place ,
Pedro Iturralde Civic Center , 202 3 , Falces, Navarra. (Link)
Out of place,
Main Hall UCLM Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, 2023. (Link)
Out of place,
Acua Hall, 2022. Ciudad Real. (Link)
Out of place,
Los Silos International Festival, 2022, Tenerife. (Link)
Out of place,
University Auditorium of the UCLM, 2022, Cuenca. (Link)
Publications and catalogues
XII Doctoral Conference, 2025.
Vicerectorate for Scientific Policy, UCLM: ISBN: 978-84-09-70652-5
Research in Performing Arts and Visual Culture , 2025.
University of Castilla-La Mancha Press. ISBN: 978-84-9044-735-2
Uncivilized 0: ummah, divine oneness worship plurality. 2025
Uncivilized Collective: ISBN: 979-10-978002-1-5
The Earth rotated to bring us closer . 2025
Graviola Publishing House and the Ministry of Culture . NIPO : 190-25-099-3 (Link)
Space for an encapsulated statement, 2024
Arabpop n.7. Magazine of contemporary Arabic art and literature
Tamu Ediciones. ISBN: 9791280195616 (Link)
I pressed you between the leaves . 2024
Young Art Gallery of the Community of Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-451-4133-5 (Link)
Latest critical poetry. Young poets in times of collapse .
Lastura Ediciones, 2023. ISBN: 978-84-127521-8-2 ( Link )
Poetic Motherland, an ontology of migrant poets, 2023
The printing press, ISBN: 978-84-126383-2-5 ( Link )
Transversal, 2023
Publication made within the framework of the teaching innovation project.
University of Castilla-La Mancha. ISBN: 978-84-09-50644-6
‘Home Away from Home’ Biennale Larnaca, 2023
ARTION Cultural Association of Larnaca. ISBN: 978-9963-2358-1-0.
Living on the edge, 2023
Self-published. ISBN: 970-84-09-52068-8 (Link)
Leaving a Footprint , 2023.
ISBN: 978-84-0952114-2
Artists in the Interstices . 2023
La Parcería, ISBN: 978-84-128992-1-4 (Link)
Out of Place, 2022
UCLM University Board of Trustees. Cardinal Gil de Albornoz.
ISBN: 978-84-09-41015-6
No signal: Disconnection and hyperconnectivity. Algorithmic discrimination in the digital age. 2022
Bernin's Bird, ISSN: 2530-9536 (Link)
Who speaks for us? Visual and logocentric constructions of migrant identities.
A path towards rights of representation and self-representation , 2022
Visualities and Narratives of Resistance, ISBN 978-84-09-50499-2 ( Link)
The migration process from the perspective of the migration experience. 2022
Mnemósyne, ISSN: 1578-181X (Enlace)
XVII Meeting of Artists , 2022.
Amelia Moreno Foundation, ISBN: 976-64-09-44022-1 (Link)
Artist residencies and stays
1# Polysemy for other times,
Barcelona , 2025 . Migrant knowledge in Union of the Image UPIFC.
Residency A living record, (With the Al'Akhawat collective (Youssef Taki, Sanae El Mokaddim Ayadi, Karim Khourrou Gadour,
Oumaima Manchit Laroussi y Aicha Josefa Trinidad Gououi) . Madrid. 2025. Espacio de Todo.
Residencia Meca, (Con el colectivo Al'Akhawat Youssef Taki, Sanae El Mokaddim Ayadi, Karim Khourrou Gadour,
Oumaima Manchit Laroussi y Aicha Josefa Trinidad Gououi) . Almeria , 2025. Mediterraneo Centro artístico .
Residencia Tangent Projects,
Barcelona , 2024. L'Hospitalet de Llobregat .
Conferences and presentations
“Thinking about memory, imagining the story.” Congress with a Q for love.
Faculty of Fine Arts. UCM. Round table coordinated by Aicha Josefa Trinidad. 2025.
“Incision drawing: Tracing absences, redrawing presences. Inquiries through artistic practice.”
[d]grapho III Inter-University International Congress on Research in Contemporary Drawing. UPV/EHU. Bilbao. 2025.
“ Memories and territories open to listening .” VII IEFC Photography Conference: Migrations.
La Virreina Image Center, Barcelona. 2025.
“What geopolitics cannot say, art can shout. Counter-hegemonic resistances in the visual arts.”
Sagitta Magma. University of Castilla-La Mancha.
"Counter-hegemonic resistances in the visual arts. Minor aesthetics of minorities that occupy space."
International Congress on Aesthetic Deterritorializations. Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. 2025
"Work that provides more than just sustenance," within the framework of the "Slow-burning Culture" program of 21 Districts in the
Eduardo Úrculo Cultural Centre in Madrid. Organized by Hablarenarte. 2025 .
“Al Akhawat Collective. United in artistic creation.” Meeting of Ordinary Sociology.
Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum and Annexes. Meetings of doctoral students at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UCLM,
(Con el colectivo Al'Akhawat Youssef Taki, Sanae El Mokaddim Ayadi, Karim Khourrou Gadour,
Oumaima Manchit Laroussi y Aicha Josefa Trinidad Gououi) . 2025.
"Round Table: Kafkaesque". (young poetry & other literatures). Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (With Youssef Taki,
Salma Bechar Aatig and Sanae el Mokaddim). 2024.
“External memory archive. Extension and reinterpretation of ordinary memory.”
Meeting on ordinary sociology. Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum, 2024.
“Borders and Citizenship”. I Congress on Biopolitics and Borders: Vulnerability, Resistance and Human Rights.
Faculty of Education and Humanities, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Cuenca, 2023 .
“Table etiquette. Codes of conduct as a colonial legacy.”
Meeting of ordinary sociology: an uncomfortable proposal. Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum, 2023.
“Civilized and savage perceptions; international representations of peripheral art.”
Symposium of Young Talents in Art History, Museu Fundación Juan March, Mallorca, 2023.
“The filter of interest. The media image as an inversion of the truth.”
First International Congress. Sensible Evidence. Aesthetics, Epistemology and Skepticism.
Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Seville, 2023.
“Margins without contour”. Writing a thesis/making a university, Meeting to think/Caring for practice in arts research.
Library of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid, 2023.
“Civilized and savage perceptions. Genealogy of peoples without history.”
First International Congress on Sensible Evidence: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Skepticism. Córdoba, 2023.
“Who speaks for us? Visual and logocentric constructions of migrant identities.
A path towards rights of representation and self-representation.”
III International Congress of Art and Identity Politics, University of Murcia, 2022.
“No signal: Disconnection and hyperconnection. Algorithmic discrimination in the digital age.”
First International Congress on Digital Arts. Seville, 2022.
Workshops and seminars.
Vanishing points,
National Prado Museum in collaboration with Flipas , Madrid, 2025.
(With the Al' Akhawat collective)
I Spy. Images that resonate.
Casa San Cristóbal, Fundación Montevideo Casa Encendida, in collaboration with Flipas,
Madrid, 2025. (With the Al' Akhawat collective)
External Memory Archive. Collage and Visual Narrative Workshop.
Pedro Iturralde Civic Center, Falces, Navarra , 2025.
External Memory Archive. Collage and Visual Narrative Workshop.
SOS Racism, Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum , 2025.
Representation and self-representation. Artistic practice as a means to subvert imaginaries of visual culture.
Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid, 2025.
Tales from Al' Akhawat,
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes y Center d'Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona. 2024. (With the collective Al' Akhawat)
Back up workshop, means to recover memory.
Marcablanca, Madrid, 2024
In the presence of absence,
Workshop at the House of Culture of Falces, Cultural Center of Burlada,
Muñoz Sola Museum of Tudela and Cultural Center of Lerín, Navarre. 2023.
The creative process. A means of transmitting experiences.
Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, 2023.
Awards and scholarships
XVIII Tenerife International Photography Biennial,
Artist selected to be part of the exhibition, 2025 .
Colegio de España, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris,
Artist selected for solo exhibition, 2025.
Gil de Albornoz Foundation, University of Castilla-La Mancha
For the ongoing exhibition Framing is Excluding, 2025.
Predoctoral Contract for University Teaching Staff Training (FPU)
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in Spain, 2025–2028.
UCLM Alumni Award for Outstanding Individuals. Cultural Agent of Change, 2024.
Vice-Rectorate for Coordination, Communication and Promotion of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. (Link)
Excellence scholarship award for master's students.
University of Castilla La-Mancha in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Award XII Edition of the UCLM University Cultural Competitions, 2021/2022.
Extraordinary Prize for Artistic Studies.
Professionals from Castilla-La Mancha. 2017 - 2018 .
Research Initiation Grant,
Department of Art History of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2022/23.
Collaboration Grant in the Department of Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology and Aesthetics
from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2021/22.
Collaboration Grant in the Editing and Printing Laboratory (LED)
of the Faculty of Fine Arts. 2020/21.
Works in collections
Spanish College in Paris
Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus
Dakar Biennale in Senegal
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