Joseph Dadoune was born in Nice in 1975. He lives and works in Paris.
AWARDS
2024
Appointment to the rank of Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters
2017
Appointment to the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2026
Common traits, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris, FR
Drawing Now, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
Civilizations: Under the Same Sky, Ras Al Khaimah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
2025
Dresden Biennale, Germany
Châteauvallon Summer FestivalChâteauvallon-Liberté, Ollioules
All eras belong to me for a moment, solo exhibition, Olivier Waltman Gallery, Paris
Pavilion of Sleep, commissioned by the National Museums Center, Basilica of Saint-Denis
2023
The cry of flowers, personal exhibition, MHAJ, Paris (Curated by Pascale Samuel)
Mother, when I come back to you, what will I bring?, personal exhibition, Invisible gallery, Marseille
Still & in-body, Images Passages, Annecy (Curator Annie Aguettaz)
When we got lost, when we found each other, why separate?, Active Surface, Sainte-Catherine Chapel, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, France
It is the bouquet, Hyperbien Gallery, Montreuil (Curated by Sophie Toulouse)
Melancholic intoxications, Bernard Jordan Gallery, Rond-Point Theater, Paris
Blood for the acacia, 13 rue Mazarine, Paris (Alexandra Lantz police station)
2022
White, personal exhibition, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Fresh Light, Rupture Arts & Books, Paris (Curated by Barbara Soyer)
Photographs by author or anonymous, Galerie Berthet-Aittouarès, Paris (Curator Alexandra Lantz)
It's not just size that matters, ANNE+ Gallery, Paris (Curator Barbara Lusynska)
The Flowers of Male, Nice Biennale, Anatole Jakovsky International Museum of Naive Art, Nice (Curated by Élodie Antoine)
Had Gadya: Cycle of Horror, The Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem (Curator Sophia Dekel-Caspi)
In Another Green, with Leor Grady, Kolkata Center for Creativity, Kolkata, India (Curator Achia Anzi)
And Also Blooms, Geula Gallery, Jerusalem (Curator Elhai Salomon)
UnBalance, Wegrzyn's house, London, (Curator Ilana Wegrzyn, Keren Bar-Gil, Podrojski Sharon)
Longing Be-longing, Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (Curated by Sharon Toval)
In Betweeners, Cultural Space Memory of the Future, Paris (Curated by Doron Polak, Henie Westbrook, Margalit Berriet, Marie-Cécile Berdaguer)
2021
Deorientalize, FRAC Normandie-Rouen, Jardin des Plantes de Rouen – Pavilion 17e (Véronique Souben Commission)
Incarnation, personal exhibition, Le Minotaure & Alain Le Gaillard Galleries, Paris
In Another Green, personal exhibition, Alliance Française, New Delhi, India (Curated by Achia Anzi)
Transmission, Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal (Curated by Drorit Gur Arie)
Object #1, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (Curator Orit Mor)
On the table, Municipal Art Gallery, Giv'atayim, Israel (Curated by Doron Polak, Rafael Barbibaï)
Airspace, Municipal Art Gallery, Ramat Hasharon, Israel (Curator Ravit Harari)
Communication Disorder, Seminar Kibbutzim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curated by Drorit Gur Arie)
2020
Perspective, personal exhibition, On Arty Minute, online exhibition, Paris (Curated by Doron Von Beider)
Prototype, personal exhibition, Galerie Roanne de Saint Laurent, Paris
1 meter distance, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Vividus, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel (Curator Bar Yerushalmi)
With pleasure #3, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Transmission, APT, London (Drorit Gur Arie Police Station)
Outside Box 2, Old Jaffa, Jaffa, Israel (Curator Liav Mizrahi & Yael Rozin)
Constellations, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires (Curator Diana Wechsler, Benedetta Casini)
2019
Family Trees, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Rouen Botanical Garden (Curated by Véronique Souben)
With pleasure #2, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Revelation, ANNE+ Gallery, Paris
Naked Soul: Chaïm Soutine, Ein Harod Museum, Kibbutz Ein Harod, Israel (Curator Yaniv Shapira, Surya Sadekova, Batsheva Goldman-Ida)
Hshuma, Museum and Center of Contemporary Art, Bellinzona, Switzerland (Curator Sharon Toval)
Jacqueline Kahanoff: The Levant as a Parable, MUSA Museum, Tel Aviv (Curator Sara Turel)
2018
RESONANCE, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Rouen Museum of Fine Arts
To the end of Land, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India (Curator Drorit Gur Arie, Or Tshuva)
Family Albums, solo exhibition, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (Curator Leor Grady, Orit Mor, Barbara Wolffer)
Roots, personal exhibition, Galerie Éva Vautier, Nice (Text Raphaël Sigal)
THE LAND OF PROMISE, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary (Curator Tamás Don)
Make Up, Labirynt Galerie, Lublin, Poland (Curator Drorit Gur Arie, Tal Schwartz)
2017
Furrows, personal exhibition, Espace Richaud, Versailles (Curated by Isabelle Bourgeois)
Blues Prints II, Models, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (Curator Orit Mor)
I love you Ronit Elkabetz, Design Museum, Holon, Israel (Curator Yaara Keydar)
Modern discomfort, La Fabric, Salomon Foundation, Annecy (Curated by Annie Aguettaz / Imagespassages)
To and From, The Jerusalem Biennale, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem (Curated by Dr. Batsheva Goldman-Ida)
Materials for Thought Selection from the Museum Collection, Negev Museum, Beer Sheva, Israel (Curator Dalia Manor, Nirit Dahan)
2016
In Praise of the Sequence, solo exhibition, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv (Curator Leor Grady, Orit Mor)
Who are these snakes hissing over your heads for?, personal exhibition, Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdod Yaakov Meuhad, Israel (Curator Isabelle Bourgeois)
At the time of drawing 4th time, Château de Servières, Marseille (Curated by Martine Robin)
FROM ONE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE OTHER, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (Curated by Francesco Bonami, Emanuela Mazzonis, Pascal Neveux, Ricardo Vazquez)
ESSENTIAL, 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland (Curated by Drorit Gur Arie)
Post-postmodernism ≠ Utopia, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (Curator Svetlana Reingold)
Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrism, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (Curator Bat Sheva Ida Goldman)
STRATA, CIRCLE1 Gallery, Berlin (Curator Drorit Gur Arie)
Alt-Neu, Rosenbach Contemporary Gallery, Jerusalem (Curated by Nogah Davidson)
2015
Border Notes, with Eyal Assulin, Be'eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel (Curator Ziva Yalin)
Image Mundi – Mappa dell’arte nuova, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (Curator Naomi Aviv)
Bibliology: The Book as Body, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel (Curator Drorit Gur Arie, Raphael Sigal)
Recurrence: Rituals, Place, and History, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Center & the Pierides Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus (Curator Drorit Gur Arie)
RESIDENTIAL HOMES
2017
Hangar/ADM Mexico Residency, Mexico City
2015
Tokyo Wonder Site / El Ranchito Residency, Tokyo
Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Japan
2006
INJUVE, Mollina, Malaga
2024
University of the Americas (UDLA), Cholula, Mexico
AWARDS
2024 Officer of Arts and Letters
2022 Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2022, Tokyo
2021 ADAGP Monograph Collection Scholarship, Paris
2018 Renée and Léonce Bernheim Prize, Paris
2017 Knight of Arts and Letters
COLLECTIONS
Public
Georges Pompidou Center, Paris
Louvre Museum, Paris
FNAC, National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris
FRAC Normandy Rouen, Rouen
Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Negev Museum, Beer Sheva, Israel
Janco Dada Museum, Hein Hod, Israel
French Institute, Tel Aviv
Private
Zabludowicz Collection, London
ArtBox, Thessaloniki, Greece
Shoken Collection, Tel Aviv
Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
Monographs
Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune, 1996 – 2022, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Lucia Sagradini-Neumann, Doron Von Beider, Donatien Grau, Drorit Gur Arie, Arnaud Bizalion publisher, 2023
Melancholic intoxications, Francis Lallemant, Paris, 2022
In another Green, Leor Grady, Achia Anzi, Alliance Française of Delhi and Kolkata Center for Creation, Calcutta, India, 2022
White, Doron von Beider, Mario Casanova, Barbara Wolffer, Arnaud Bizalion publisher, 2022
Incarnation, Ariel Schweitzer, Editions Galerie Le Minotaure, 2021
Fresh Light, Donatien Grau, Arnaud Bizalion publisher, 2021
Furrows, Isabelle Bourgeois, Drorit Gur Arie, Mikel Touval, Raphaël Zagury-Orly, Doron von Beider Arnaud Bizalion editor, 2017
Protective barrier, Fabrice Flahutez, Arnaud Bizalion publisher, 2017
In praise of the Sequence, Doron von Beider, The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, 2016
Who are these snakes hissing on your feet for?êyou?, Isabelle Bourgeois, Uri & Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Ya'akov Meuhad, 2016
Icons 61, Lucia Sagradini, Multitudes, 2015
The open work of Joseph Dadoune, TRACE, Fabrice Flahutez, Le Moulin art space, Publisher City of La Valette-du-Var, 2015
Catalogues
Hshuma, Toval Sharon, MACT/CACT Publisher, Bellinzona, Switzerland, 2019
Naked Soul: Chaïm Soutine and Israeli Art, Yaniv Shapira, Mishkan Museum of Art, Israel, Ein Harod, 2019
Jacqueline Kahanoff: the Levant as a parable, Sara Turel, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, 2019
To the end of the land, Tshuva Or, Drorit Gur Arie, National Gallery of modern art, New Delhi, India, 2018
Ephemeral Arts 2009 > 2018, Isabelle Bourgeois, Martine Robin, Parc & Salon de Maison Blanche, publisher of the Marseille town hall, Marseille, 2018
'Resonance', the FRAC reveals its latest acquisitions (2013-2017)), Souben Véronique, Dupinet Coralie, Editions Snoeck, Rouen, 2018
In Book Forgotten from the Frame, Kozlovsky Golan Yvonne, Resling, Tel Aviv, 2017
I love you, Ronit Elkabetz, Keydar Ya'ara, Nizri Yigal Shalom, Design Museum, Holon, 2017
Between Seas and Deserts, in ART + MEDIA Journal of Art and Media Studies (Issue No. 14),Touval Mikel, Belgrade, 2017
ORIENT JERUSALEM Contemporary Art Collection, Toval Sharon, Orient Jerusalem Hotel, Jerusalem, September 2017
Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrism, Ida Bat Sheva, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2016
Circle of Life, NordArt 2016, Blumensohn Carmit, Büdelsdorf, Germany, 2016
At the time of drawing, 4th time, Martine Robin, Château de Servières, Marseille, 2016
Error: X , Ostrale'016, Künste, Drorit Gur Arie, Takita Risa, Kyambi Syowia, Schmidt Harro, Wendland Tomasz, Higler Andréa, Dresden, Germany, 2016
Recurrence: Rituals, Place, and History, Drorit Gur Arie, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Center & the Pierides Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2015
FILMOGRAPHY (selection)
Joseph Dadoune (2023) by Museum of Jewish Art and History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptXXmUAdic
Ronit Elkabetz: Filming the Israeli Melting Pot, with Joseph Dadoune (2022) by Michel Zlotowski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY3k67F_5AU
Joseph Dadoune: From the Gates of the Negev Desert to Versailles (2017) by TV5MONDE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boJOR6a4gng
Ofakim (2010), by Joseph Dadoune, (15 min)
Sion (2006), by Joseph Dadoune, (11 min)