The Ghada Amer exhibition is the first retrospective of the artist in France. Born in Cairo in 1963, Ghada Amer moved to Nice in 1974 with her parents. Some ten years later, she trained at the Villa Arson, before joining the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques in Paris. Outraged by the difficulty of asserting herself as a painter in the 1980s, and even more so as a woman painter, Ghada Amer developed an oeuvre of of canvases and embroidered installations as well as sculptures and gardens, through which painting gradually asserted itself. In 1999, she was invited by Harald Szeemann to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, where she received the UNESCO prize. Since 1996 she has lived and worked in New York. In three venues in Marseille, the retrospective brings together the different modes of plastic expression of the Franco-Egyptian artist, from her beginnings to her most recent works.

In three venues in Marseille, the retrospective brings together the different modes of plastic expression of the Franco-Egyptian artist, from her beginnings to her most recent works.