Formed at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR, 2015), Ouissem Moalla (born in 1990 in Stockholm) explores themes of space and memory in his work, drawing inspiration from the research of historian Frances A. Yates. He draws from popular and literary culture, myths, and major texts, with language as a recurring thread. This takes shape through performances, installations, and paintings in which he questions space, our relationship to places, cosmogony, and beliefs.

Whether in Mulhouse, where his studio is located, or during residencies (Motoco&co Tokyo 2018; CEEAC - Basis E.v. Frankfurt 2023; Villa Salammbô Institut français Tunisia 2024), he works with the remnants of industrial ruins (G.O.L.D, 2017), explores myths and representations of urban gateways (Impressions d’Espaces, 2024), wanders around a Shinto shrine carrying chairs strapped to his back to form the character 目 (mù / eye) (Monkey, 2018), or reinterprets mystical texts by intertwining language and the body (Clavis Tabula, 2023). His work, enriched by multicultural influences, flirts with the human and social sciences, questioning archives and communities.

Ouissem Moalla classifies his works into «series», each forming a universe that he continuously expands with new projects exploring the same themes.

Residency / Performance : Territoire #7 by Openspace in Nancy
05. août 2025
Territoire is a performance program in public space that takes place in Nancy during the summer. Territoire is about invited artists who are asked to reflect on and question, through their respective practices, the use of the city and its spaces. Territoire is thus the encounter between the unexpected, the unusual, and the everyday; it is an invitation to look at and engage with the city differently. Territoire therefore questions the notion of space, both physical and artistic.

Exhibition : " HAUNTED " - La Galerie Mulhouse 18/07 - 02/08/2025
16. juillet 2025
Part of "HAUNTED" : a group show curated by Anna Sozinova, initiated by la Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR). 18.7.25 – 2.8.25 Location: La Galerie, 54 Rue du Sauvage, Mulhouse

Exhibition : " CLAVIS TABULA" - CEAAC Strasbourg 11/01 - 23/02/2025
01. janvier 2025
Solo exhibition by Ouissem Moalla, 2023 laureate of the Strasbourg <> Frankfurt exchange program. For Clavis Tabula, Ouissem Moalla has reinterpreted the results of his research on mnemonic techniques to resonate with Endre Tót's work, presented simultaneously at the art center in the exhibition Dirty Rains.

Residency showcase of our duo PROCESSUS (Moalla & Descamps) at Villa Salammbô of the French Institute of Tunisia, on December 21, 2024, in Sousse.
25. décembre 2024
Some photos and press articles about our residency showcase at Villa Salammbô of the French Institute of Tunisia.

Our duo "PROCESSUS" (with Jérémie Descamps) in residence at Villa Salammbo at the French Institute of Tunisia from November 15 to December 30, 2024.
15. novembre 2024
Beginning of our duo PROCESSUS residency at Villa Salammbô of the French Institute of Tunisia (Sousse) from November 15 to December 30, 2024.

Exhibition : "GRENZEN" at Stapflehus Galerie Weil am Rhein (DE) , opening 30/11/24
07. octobre 2024
REGIONALE 25 30.11.24 – 19.01.2025 "GRENZEN" at STAPFLEHUS Galerie Weil-am-Rhein (DE) Opening: Saturday, November 30, 12:30 PM

Performance by Jérémie Descamps,« Le Colporteur de Rue » ("The Street Peddler") produced by our duo PROCESSUS.
07. septembre 2024
On the occasion of the closing of Jérémie Descamps' studio, after five years of residency at Motoco, an exhibition, a performance, and a public display took place to mark his departure from the space. Under the theme "The Street Peddler," Jérémie Descamps paid tribute to the many peddlers he encountered during his time in Beijing, who gradually disappeared as the city expanded and transformed.

"CLAVIS TABULA" - 2023
07. décembre 2023
"Clavis Tabula" is a project developed in the framework of an artist residency at Basis (Frankfurt Am Main) with Ceaac (Strasbourg).

"Aquarius : Eros" - 2023
07. novembre 2023
"Aquarius : Eros", Ready made items, painting, water, mirror & glass aquarium, 100x100x30 cm, 2023.

Launch of the "Impressions d'Espaces" Project by our Art-Science duo, PROCESSUS.
07. octobre 2023
PROCESSUS is an art-science duo created with Jérémie Descamps, urban planner and doctor of geography, whom I met during a residency at MOTOCO (an artistic production space in Mulhouse). Since 2023, we have been exploring together the mental representations of space and territory, and their collective memory, through dedicated research-creation protocols. Notably, through the prism of urban gates, we probe notions of thresholds, passages, and borders, leading us to question ideas of territory,...

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