Mohamed-Ali Ltaief
born in Tunis and lives in Berlin
biography PDF —  Auf Deutsch
email: ltaiefmdali(at)gmail.com



Selected performances/theater/lectures & projects
2025 • Chronicles of the Half-Moon | Feel the sound - An exhibition experience on a different frequency, Barbican Centre, London, England
2025 • The Concretely WE: Voices From Within The Camp | performance, Mophradat Consortium Commissions, kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
2024 • Wayward Voices in Interwar Modern Art: Grammatology versus Geo-Philosophies | lecture performance, TheMuseumsLab, Berlin, Germany
2024 • The Concretely WE: Voices From Within The Camp | performance, Live Works Summit, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy
2024 • Parallel Hands — Co-Existence of Times and The Good Will to Listen | performance, Tanzfabrik, Uferstudios1, Berlin, Germany
2023 • Poeisis, Praxis & Cultures of Resistance, or the non-established Histories of Art in Tunisia | lecture performance, Archive books, Berlin, Germany
2022 • What Can We Learn & Unlearn When We Speak Together? | panel / Q&A with Joan Kee and the Otolith Group, Jaou encounters, Tunis, Tunisia
2021 • The Strangeness of the Stranger | sonic performance, Radio Resonance Extra and Book Works, London, England
2021 • The Path of The Sun or the Bare Life | performance, L’art Rue, Madrasa El Achouria. Medina of Tunis, Tunisia
2019 • Manifesto of a trans-orientalist aesthetic | performance, silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany
2019 • Hundert Jahre weinen oder hundert bomben werfen | play (theatre) with Darja Stocker, Theater Basel, Switzerland
2019 • Ghosts of Meaning | performance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) Berlin, Germany
2018 • Kairos and Chronos | guest lecture, Artistic Practice and Society, Bard College Berlin, Germany
2018 • Transresist | performative workshop, with Darja Stocker, Teatro El Granero, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 • Hello stranger | publication, with Motus, Damiani editore, Bologna, Italy
2017 • Mobility of discourses | lecture performance, Camargo Foundation, Marseille, France
2016 • Foreigner(s) in Philosophy | lecture performance, Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Germany
2015 • Animale-politico project | workshop & performance with Motus, Black Box Teater, Oslo, Norway
2015 • The walls of Tunis—Signs of Revolt | publication, with Luce Lacquaniti, Exorma edizioni, Rome, Italy
2015 • Animale-politico project| performance, with Motus, Pathos theater, Spielart Festival, Munich, Germany
2015 • Lajiayn | lecture performance, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 • Caliban Cannibal | performance with Motus at NEXT Arts Festival Lille, France
2014 • CALL ME X | video-installation, with Motus Festival Santarcangelo 14, Rimini, Italy
2014 • Caliban Cannibal | performance, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle Arti, Rome, Italy
2014 • I try to different understand | performance, with Motus, Ateliersi, Bologna, Italy
2014 • Bombardamento Nomade | happening, with Motus, Angelo Mai Altrove Occupato, Rome, Italy
2013 • Pixelised Violence | installation, The Council for Liberties, at the National Library of Tunisia
2013 • Caliban Cannibal | performance, with Motus at La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2013 • Nomadism as a form of resistance | mucchio—Misto, with Motus, Cinéma le Mondiale Tunisia
2012 • Cinema of Leak | happening, with Ahl-Al Kahf collective, Djerba, Tunisia
2011 • For the practice of the common | lecture performance, Sale Docks, Venezia, Italy
2011 • Free Jazz in Carthage | happening & collective exhibition, Jazz à Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia



Awards and Grants 
2025 Ibraaz, London (England)
2023/25 Mophradat Consortium Commissions (Belgium)
2023/24 KLF Foundation, Tunis (Tunisia)
2023 Spartenoffene Förderung für Festivals und Reihen, Archives Books Berlin (Germany)
2021 DAAD—Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Raumstrategien at KHB (Germany)
2019 Berlin Senate, Research grants in the field of dance/performing arts (Germany)
2018 AFAC—Arabculturefund, performing arts grant (Lebanon)
2017 Camargo Foundation—Jerome Hill, Cassis (France)
2016 STEO Stiftung, Basel (Switzerland)
2015 Al Mawred Al Thaqafi Foundation, Beirut (Lebanon)



Fellowships/Residencies
2023/24 Live Works Fellow, Centrale Fies, Dro (Italy)
2023 Beyond Wishful Thinking, Villa Romana, Florence (Italy)
2022 Ennejma Ezzahra Museum,Tunis (Tunisia)
2020/21 L'Art Rue, Tunis. Residency suported by Goethe-Institut (Tunisia)
2017 Camargo Foundation, Cassis (France)
2014 Santarcangelo 14, Rimini (Italy)