Yassine Ben Abdallah is a designer & artist based between La Réunion and The Netherlands. His research-based practice focuses on issues of heritage, cultural identity, and belonging. His work addresses the historical and contemporary afterlife of colonial wounds in postcolonial societies. Yassine tells and gives shape to per­sonal and col­lec­tive stories through objects, installations, writings, and performances.

Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, Utrecht University & Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven, NL)

M.A. GEO–Design, Design Academy Eindhoven (Eindhoven, NL)

*Cum Laude

DUAL M.A. Innovation & Digital transformation in Design,
Sciences Po / Strate design (Paris, FR)

*Cum Laude

M.A. Communications, Media & Creative Industries, Sciences Po (Paris, FR)

B.A. Humanities, Sciences Po (Paris, FR)

‘Dutch More or Less’, Nieuwe Instituut, (Rotterdam, NL) 2024

‘A l‘Ombre de l‘Empire’, Villa Noailles, (Hyères, FR) 2024

‘Alamari’, Cité des Arts, (St Denis, RUN) 2024

‘Kolonialisme en Rotterdam’, Wereldmuseum, (Rotterdam, NL) 2023

‘The Space Between Us’, Van Abbemuseum, (Eindhoven, NL) 2023

‘Transmission(s)’, Union de la Jeunesse Internationale (Paris, FR) 2023

‘Design Parade’, Villa Noailles (Hyères, FR) 2023

‘Sur le feu’, Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris, FR) 2023

‘Kazerne Awards’, Kazerne (Eindhoven, NL) 2023

‘The Bittersweet Memory of the Plantation’, Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL) 2022

‘Mutual Core’, FRAC Réunion (St Denis, RUN) 2021

‘Camera Control Receiver’ GEO–Design, Milano Design Film Festival (Milano, IT) 2021

‘Plantation of the Mind’ Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL) 2021

‘The Bitterness of Sugar’ at Pedagogies of the Sea, MAAT (Lisboa, PT) 2021

‘Ilet la mer’, La Friche (Le Port, RUN) 2020

Speaker at DesginTO Youth Program, (Toronto, CA) 2024

Guest tutor at École Duperré, (Paris, FR) 2024

‘Un champ d‘îles’ symposium at la Friche la Belle de Mai, (Marseille, FR) 2024

‘Re-worlding Relations’ a symposium by Anthropology and the Arts Network, Newcastle University, (Newcastle, UK) 2023

Guest lecturer at Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo, AHO, (Oslo, NO) 2023

‘World Traveling’ a symposium at the Royal Academy of Art, KABK, (Den Haag, NL) 2023

‘Learning with’ a symposium by Formafantasma, Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven, NL) 2022

‘Decolonizing the museum’ at School of the Untold, Kunstgewerbemuseum (Dresden, DE) 2022

‘Disappearing of a Nation’ at PRADA FRAMES (Milano,IT) 2022