Youssef Tabti - Mission Statement

Mission Statement

Current political topics are of high importance in his artwork. His work includes a series of creative and social aspects. He wants to invite spectators and listeners to focus their attention towards art and politics at the same time. It is an attempt to dissolve the barriers of past and present in relation to arts and political topics.

_{"...As a critic and curator based in Hamburg, Germany, I have followed Youssef’s work for a number of years and have written about his soundscapes, installations, and video pieces and introduced these in the context of various exhibitions. What continues to fascinate me about his both complex and poetic approach as an artist are the sensitivity and intensity with which he addresses and investigates current and historical social and political questions, often conflating issues of the cultures that have formed his aesthetics and his view of our world in his work. Born in Paris as the son of a French mother and an Algerian father, and currently based in the North German harbor city of Hamburg, Youssef conjoins his Arab and his Western heritage in the themes he explores. His dual socialization has given him a unique, polyvalentperception that incorporates a simultaneous ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ awareness, which serves as a rich, multi-level basis for his art practice."
Extract about the nomination for 2013 Abraaj Capital Art Prize by[Belinda Grace Gardner}