Rachida Triki

Rachida Triki, also known as Rachida Boubaker-Triki (born 24 March 1949) is a Tunisian philosopher, art historian, art critic, and art curator. She is a full professor of philosophy at Tunis University, specialized in Aesthetics. Her thesis was titled, Aesthetics and Politics at the Renaissance, and was directed by . In 1983 she obtained her PhD from University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. In 2001, she obtained a Habilitation in Philosophy from Paris 8 University, under the direction of .

Since 2010, Triki is full Professor of Philosophy at Tunis University. and for Prince Claus Awards 2013.

She has organized numerous international meetings on the contemporaneous problems of the creation in Arts, and has published books and articles on the subject. She is also a member of editorial boards of “Recherches poïétiques” and “Art’in”.

During the Tunisian revolution 2011, Rachida Triki, as a president of the Tunisian Association of Aesthetics and Poetics initiated an appeal for the democratization of culture, for the support of free and independent art criticism, and for the encouragement of young artists and cultural NGOs.