Tiana Kader (she/they), born in France in 1997, is a French-Malagasy visual artist based in Alexandria, Egypt since 2021. Their artistic work mainly focuses on memory and oblivion, idleness, and the absurd necessity of compulsory archiving - along with a work-in-progress about the relationship between the (women’s) bodies, the home and the traditional art space.
Their practice, centered around collections of drawings and poetic writing, is recently opening to more diverse settings - sculptures, installations and participatory experiences ; and their process is rooted in experimentation, iteration, mistake-making and building in general. They enjoy telling stories, often their own, with a raw and cynical sensibility.
They studied filmmaking then visual arts in university for 8 years between France, Canada, and Egypt. In 2022, Tiana graduated from the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne with a Master’s degree in research and creation in contemporary arts and now works as an illustrator, art director and cultural practitioner.
Since 2019, they have presented their works in several group exhibitions, festivals, and public screenings in France and Egypt, and opened their first solo show early 2025.
Exhibitions & Screenings
upcoming
Bouts de carnet
Solo show
2025
Let the spring come to you - Paintings, embroidery, prints, sculpture
Solo show & Performance - German Seafarer’s House (Alexandria)
HAVEN - a collaboration with Frantisek Felix
Collective space design, invitation, participatory experience - Shelter Art Space (Alexandria)
Everything Must Disappear - Sculptures, paintings, prints, poetry
Solo show - Kulturgarage (Goethe in Alexandria)
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition Hypatia Art Week - Al Horreya (Alexandria)
2024
Artifacts from my backpack’s bottom - Ceramics, drawings, poetry
Intervention during Abulkassem Salama’s open studio - Kulturgarage (Goethe in Alexandria)
Cairoprints 5 - digital illustrations
Collective exhibition - Cairopolitan (Cairo)
Madinet El-Nafoura - Drawings, poetry, installation
Collective exhibition - Wekalet Behna (Alexandria)
The Analog dreamer - Comic, drawing
Collective exhibition in Comixandria Festival vol. 2 - Jesuits Cultural Center (Alexandria)
2023
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition SOS - Darb1718 (Cairo)
Under the dust - Comic, drawing
Collective exhibition in Comixandria Festival vol. 1 - Museum of Fine Arts (Alexandria)
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition Frenzied - Bibliotek Gallery (Sheikh Zayed)
Cairoprints 4 - digital illustrations
Collective exhibition - Cairopolitan (Cairo)
2022
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition Alexandria Today - 6BabSharq (Alexandria)
Du plaisir de se tourner les pouces - Animated short-film
Public screenings in Cinéma Christine21 in 2021 and at Sorbonne Short Film Festival in 2021 and 2022 (Paris)
2021
Paris, banlieues vues du ciel - Illustration
Collective exhibition Cycle à vol d’oiseau - Parc de la Brèche (Créteil)
Postcards from my mind - Ink drawings
Collective exhibition Fréquence - L’Impasse (Paris)
The Coat Rack - Installation, photographs, textile
Collective exhibition (In)errance 2 - Sorbonne (Paris)
Residencies & Prizes
2025
Artistic residency in Shelter Art Space, 2 months in collaboration with Czech artist Frantisek Felix - space design, invitation, intervention within his project Haven
Artistic residency in Goethe’s Kulturgarage, 6 weeks with the interdisciplinary project Everything Must Disappear
2024
Fellowship program in Wekalet Behna, 5 months - with the interdisciplinary project Madinet El Nafoura
2021
Jury’s Favorite Award for Du plaisir de se tourner les pouces in the Sorbonne Short Film Festival (Paris)
2019
Poetry Award for Charlotte at the Inter-University Comics Contest (Montreal)