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Artissima Unplugged: Frenetic Standstill
Digital catalogue November 11, 2020ARTISSIMA UNPLUGGED
Frenetic Standstill
Digital catalogue
5 November - 9 December, 2020
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce participation in the digital initiatives of Artissima Unplugged with a selection of works by Hassan Sharif, the collective of Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Hoda Tawakol, and Raed Yassin.
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Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, the overarching theme, Frenetic Standstill, prompts reflection on the concept of acceleration as opposed to inertia, and speaks to the increasing urgency to change our paradigms in response to present crises. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Art Basel: Online Viewing Rooms September 21, 2020Art Basel: Online Viewing Rooms
VIP Viewing Access: 23-24 September
Public Access: 25-26 September
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Dubai-based collective Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian featuring an on-going series of works on paper entitled Where To? Wherever it Chances. Probing a world rocked by upheaval and instability, the artists appropriate images from current media streams, destabilising them to uncanny ends.
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Hassan Sharif
Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist September 20, 2020Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Mats Stjernstedt
Until 10 January, 2021
The second European iteration of Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, travels from Sharjah Art Foundation (2018) and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020). The exhibition includes just over 150 pieces, which range from early satirical cartoons and documentation of the performances in the Hatta desert to sculptural works that were produced in the last year of his life. The emphasis in the exhibition is on sculptures and objects. The exhibition will be on view at the musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMC), Saint-Étienne, in spring 2021.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT August 25, 20203 September - 13 December
Online opening: 2 September, 7PM CEST
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is thrilled to announce the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Dubai-based collective of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt entitled Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. Groucho Marx (while getting the patient's pulse), borrowing from the film classic A Day at the Races (1937) by the Marx Brothers.
Curated by Dr. Martina Weinhart, the expansive installation debuts a monumental floor painting created especially for the SCHIRN – a dense web of detailed narratives and references supplemented by sculptures and video works, such as We Are the Eighth of a Kind (2014), in collaboration with the artist and musician Lonnie Holley, From Sea to Dawn (2016), and the new production If I Had Two Paths I Would Choose the Third(2020). The base and center of the trio’s artistic work is their house in Dubai. In the process of living and working together, they create artworks and exhibitions frequently in an exchange with friends and other artists. In line with this principle, the exhibition also includes two textile sculptures by Franco-Egyptian artist Hoda Tawakol.
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not cancelled: Dubai
May 19, 2020Online platform
19 - 26 May, 2020
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to participate in not cancelled: Dubai, a digital art week with a scheduled program of live events and resources to support the artists' voices and to break and/or sustain the rhythm of the presentations.
We thank Vikram Divecha (b.1977, Beirut) and :mentalKLINIK composed of Yasemin Baydar (b.1972, Istanbul) and Birol Demir (b.1967, Ankara), who have reshuffled the deck from New York and Brussels, where they are based, and for embracing these complex times in which we live.
Other participating galleries and artists:
Carbon 12: Amir Khojasteh (b.1988, Iran) and Monika Grabuschnigg (b.1987, Austria)
Green Art Gallery: Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck (b.1972, lives and works in Berlin)
Grey Noise: Charbel-joseph H. Boutros (b.1981, Lebanon) and Stéphanie Saadé (b.1983, Lebanon) Lawrie Shabibi: Shahpour Pouyan (b.1979, Iran) and Ishmael Randall Weeks (b.1976, Perù)
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:MENTALKLINIK
BITTER MEDICINE #01 May 10, 2020Curated by Carl De Smet
Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (MoCAB)
Until the reopening of the museum
PUFF OUT is a Bitter Medicine to museums under lockdown, initiated by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK and curated by Carl De Smet for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade as the first host. :mentalKLINIK’s PUFF OUT installation is physically set in the premises of the museum, but extended onto digital platforms.
It consists of six robot hoovers, programmed to detect dust in a room covered with heaps of glitter particles. The hoovers make their own drawings in a room devoid of humans and filled with glitter, illuminating the museum spaces that are no longer fit for their initial purpose. The scene is filmed and broadcasted live at all times on the museum’s website.
BLACK SWAN IS FLOATING IN THE ART WORLD.
ARE YOU READY TO TAKE THE BITTER MEDICINE BY :MENTALKLINIK?For the live 24/7 stream, click here
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
From March to April... 2020 May 4, 2020We're happy to share Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian’s new video From March to April... 2020 (available on Youtube) along with some of artists' notes below:
"The video is a record of a period of time, working and living in quarantine (which we have always been privileged to do) that is made casually with our phones on our daily activities/routines. It borrows verses from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and references Iranian poet and film director Forough Farrokhzad’s documentary entitled The House Is Black.
The video is trying to show the transient moments of life while the world is on pause and in solidarity over covid-19.
The video is an invitation to be vigilant. Our aim is to show time different from duration - duration is finite but time is like a third path, a product of the imagination.”For the full video, click here
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Art Dubai
March 25, 2020Unit 17, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
24 - 28 March 2020
As we comply with the orders of social distancing in public spaces, we call upon the vastness of social media and the virtual sphere. In light of this, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to bring to you a selection of works displayed in our virtual booth on the Art Dubai 2020 Online Catalogue.
Here, you will be able to see a rich roster of works from our artists, including Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Manal AlDowayan, Hoda Tawakol, :mentalKLINIK, Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem, Haleh Redjaian and Latif Al Ani.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else March 14, 202022nd Biennale of Sydney, Powerhouse Museum
Until 8 June 2020
As part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney Entitled NIRIN, the collective collaborate on a new exhibition using a selection of artefact's from the Powerhouse Museum’s collection. Incorporating and disorganizing objects, the artists make a sweeping arc across themes of grief, the body and healing. The installation also includes video work by Javad Azimi and Hamid Hosseini.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
22nd Biennale of Sydney March 14, 2020Campbelltown Arts Centre
Under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew
Until 8 June 2020Read more
The Dubai-based artists are participating in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). The collective takes part in the Biennale’s exhibition NIRIN featured at Campbelltown Arts Centre under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew. The Biennale is artist- and First Nations-led, presenting an expansive exhibition of contemporary art that connects local communities to global networks.
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ICI NOUS PORTONS TOUS LES RÊVES DU MONDE February 3, 2020Antananarivo, Madagascar
8 February - 26 April 2020
:mentalKLINIK participate in the first multi-disciplinary exhibition organized by The Art and Culture Endowment Fund HY entitled Here We Reach all the Dreams of the World. The exhibition inauguratesthe fund’s new Art Platform HY which will be dedicated to enhance the value of art and culture in Madagascar through artistic residencies and cultural exchanges.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA Fata Bromosa February 3, 2020Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain (MRAC) Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, France
Until 19 April 2020
For his first personal exhibition in a French museum, Abdelkader Benchamma invests three rooms of the MRACin an immersive installation which operates a network of echoes and resonances, playing with the codes of figuration and abstraction. These organic flows bring to mind the movement of natural elements, like air, clouds, earth, space.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist February 3, 2020KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Krist Gruijthuijsen
Until 19 July
KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the first major retrospective of the Emirati artist Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) in Europe. Sharif was one of the most influential artists from the Middle East of the twentieth century. He is considered a leading pioneer of Conceptual Art and new experimental artistic approaches that reconceived a conventional understanding of time, space, form, and social interactions, and which continue to resonate significantly with the younger generation to this day.
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Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s February 3, 2020Grey Art Gallery, New York
Curated and organized by Suheyla Takesh, Barjeel Art Foundation, and Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery at NYU
Until 4 April
Hassan Sharif is included in Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s which explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora. Comprising nearly 90 works by artists from across the region. The selection of works reflect the wide range of nonfigurative art practices that flourished in the Arab world over the course of four decades.
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RAED YASSIN
An Exhibition with Works by... February 3, 2020Witte De With, Rotterdam
Until 19 July 2020
This exhibition explores the immigration of form. It regards a cultural product that is as much the result of local traditions as it is a cosmopolitan artifact. The show invites you to consider a blue-and-white ceramic piece as both a vessel and a port. It gathers artworks in different media made by contemporary artists from the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
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Constructions of Truths February 3, 2020Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manilla
6 February – 12 April 2020
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian participate inConstructions of Truths. The exhibition asks us to reflect on the truths of images that populate our everyday lives and how these affect how we view the world. Artists included in the show present work using the projected image as a metaphor for how images are projected on us as viewers and how artists, through formal, aesthetic and narrative spaces, question these constructions.
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Constructions of Truths is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila in partnership with the Han Nefkens Foundation and in collaboration with Edouard Malingue Gallery, Kurimanzutto, The Ruya Foundation and Silverlens.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
When We First Arrived … February 3, 2020The Corner, Whitman-Walker, Washington D.C
Until 29 March 2020
This exhibition is a call to action with over 100 unique works of art by over 100 leading visual artists that is organized by the artists and activists Mary Ellen Carroll and Lucas Michael. Each work incorporates, or represents an actual account from a child who was separated from their family and detained by the U.S. government.
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MANAL ALDOWAYAN
Desert X AlUla January 30, 2020AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Co-curated by Saudi curators Raneem Farsi and Aya Alireza with Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield
31 January - 7 March 2020
Manal AlDowayan presents an installation of 12 trampolines at Desert X AlUla. Entitled Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (2020), AlDowayan’s work riffs off the humble puddle—an ephemeral concentration of water stopped in its path as it flows to the lowest point of gravity—yet highlights burning issues of irresponsible irrigation practices that have spiked water scarcity in Saudi Arabia today.
Like alien puddles dotting the craggy AlUla valley, twelve trampolines invite viewers to bounce, touch, lounge or simply reflect. At sunset, the structures become Moon Circles, lit by a series of special lighting techniques.
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Organised collaboratively by Desert X and the Royal Commission of AlUla (RCU), Desert X AlUla is the first site-responsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND MANAL ALDOWAYAN
I Love You Urgently January 25, 202021,39 Jeddah Arts
Organized by the Saudi Art Council, Curated by Maya El Khalil
Until 28 April 2020
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Manal AlDowayan and Mohammed Kazem participate in the seventh edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts titled I Love You Urgently.
The art initiative is a call to action in response to the environmental emergency from the specificity of a local context. At a time when Saudi Arabia is undergoing a rapid transformation, the council called on local and international artists, architects, designers and thinkers to seek tangible solutions and to formulate alternative and symbiotic ways to inhabit our planet.
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Art Geneve
January 23, 2020Booth C44
Palexpo, Geneva
Preview: Wednesday, 29 January
30 January - 2 February
We are pleased to announce our participation in the upcoming edition of Art Genéve, with works by HASSAN SHARIF, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, :mentalKLINIK and MOHAMMED KAZEM.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
Points, Lines, Planes January 2, 2020Galerie Krobath, Austria
Until 29 February 2020
Redjaian’s most recent work has been influenced by her reading of French philosopher Gaston Bachelards “The Poetics of Space” . Bachelard was a phenomenologist, holding the view that there was a dynamic interplay between an active mind and its surroundings. He undertook a systematic study, or “topoanalysis,” of the “space we love” and begins his analysis with the house, arguing that it is always more than a purely functional configuration of orthogonal planes
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Vikram Divecha
How to maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics December 27, 2019Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
10 December - 16 February
Publishing is the act of making public. It is not restricted to specific producers, languages of production, sanctified routes of distribution, and privileged readers. This is not publishing as we have come to know it. The Arab World is home to a growing number of book fairs and art book fairs. These two types of public platforms run parallel to each other, representing different, if not opposing, economies of cultural capital, systems of representation of subjects and subjectivities, as well as strategies for encountering and conversing with an audience
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ARTISSIMA
October 7, 2019Booth: Light Blue, 12
Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin
1 - 3 November 2019
Preview: 30 October 2019
For Artissima 2019, we will present a selection of artists from the gallery programme including Hassan Sharif, Hoda Tawakol, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
21st International Biennial of Art Santa Cruz De La Sierra October 7, 2019Curated by Mohamed Reda
12 November 2019 - 30 January 2020
Mohammed Kazem is included in an exhibition curated by Mohamed Reda at the 21st International Biennial of Art Santa Cruz De La Sierra. The biennal's larger theme is the interrogation of both public space and collective spaces, while the curator's response to this is quite the opposite in the sense of space denial. In this exhibition, there is no collective or public space - all space is owned and designated in a totalitarian way.
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RAED YASSIN
Home Works 8: A Forum on Cultural Practices October 7, 2019Beirut, Lebanon
17 - 27 October 2019
We are pleased to announce that Raed Yassin will be included in the 8th edition of Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices, a multidisciplinary forum taking place across Beirut every three years featuring group exhibitions, artist projects and commissions through; talks, panels, and readings; music, dance, and theatre performances; film and video screenings; and publications. Raed Yassin will have a Lecture performance entitled Time Turning: 50 Years Later at 3 pm, Sunday 20 October 2019 at the Sursock Museum, Beirut.
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RAED YASSIN
History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary October 7, 2019Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota
Curated by Heba Y. Amin and Maymanah Farhat
Until 5 January 2020
This exhibition recognizes the so-called Arab world and its diaspora as multiform, made up of 22 countries with distinct histories as well as diverse ethnicities, languages, and religions. Through visual art, book art, installation, and video, the exhibition’s artists engage the “Arab imaginary” as a strategy for examining various social, cultural, and political positions, making connections between contemporary geopolitics and the histories that inform them.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
RE: Orient - The Invention of the Muslim Other October 7, 2019GRASSI Museum Leipzig, Germany
16 October 2019 - 19 January 2020
Re:Orient - The Invention of the Muslim Other aims to reorient visitors towards what is all too often left unseen when they look at "the others. This exhibition traces the historical models and current effects of anti-Muslim racism, whilst also aiming to answer questions in a variety of ways and provide visitors with answers as well as pose further questions on this subject. To this end, the museum creates a space for renewed and open dialogue.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
4 X 3: BAUHAUS September 9, 2019alte feuerwache / projektraum - Galerie | Berlin
Curated by Birgit Möckel
Until 29 November 2019
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary year of the Bauhaus, four Berlin-based artists including Anna Borgman, Ines Doleschal, Susanne Piotter and Haleh Redjaian attempt to deconstruct and interrogate the still virulent stereotypes in the art world as a rejection of existing prejudices. In homage to those Bauhaus artists who were forced to follow a different path according to their talents, the exhibition also draws on personalities such as Anni Albers, Otti Berger, Gunta Stölzl, and others, who still live in the shadow of their male Bauhaus artists.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Contemporary Art. Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Selection of the Asia Pacific Triennial of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art September 9, 2019Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
Until 8 December 2019
Hassan Sharif's Pouches (2016) is currently one of the 37 works by 19 artists and groups, selected by the Asia-Pacific Art team of the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, under the direction of Zara Stanhope. The exhibition explores an open curatorial perspective, not thematically directed and presents a diverse contemporary look that recognizes both their original cultures, with the aim of increasing awareness and understanding of the cultural dynamics of the region.
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HODA TAWAKOL
Hi Ventilation - 20 Years September 9, 2019Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
22 September – 10 November 2019
On the occasion of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof's 20th anniversary, the museum is presenting an ambitious exhibition of 20 artists in celebration of this milestone. We are pleased to share that Hoda Tawakol has been invited to participate and will display new hanging soft-sculptures referred to as Lures. Charged with the tactile sensuality of Louise Bourgeois and taking form as a cross between dismembered body parts or childhood toys, they become objects of temptation or attraction. -
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Journey of a Thousand Miles September 9, 2019Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
Curated by Hilde Teerlinck and Eduardo Carrera R.
Until 2 February 2020
The artists in this exhibition build a line of thinking that addresses issues related to concepts of migration, violence, memory, environment and technology. Journey of a Thousand Miles further probes complex ways in which notions about identity, subjectivity, and territory function as instruments for cross-cultural histories and narratives. Included within the exhibition at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito are a curated selection of 13 video installations that are part of the Commissions and Awards Program of the Han Nefkens Foundation.
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Astana Art Show 2019 | RACING THE GALAXY July 9, 2019Palace of Peace and Reconciliation / Palace of Independence, Astana
Curated by Dina Baitassova and Jérôme Sans
4 July - 30 August 2019
For the 2019 edition, RACING THE GALAXY reports on the gradual dissolution of dichotomies between East and West, in the era of global communication and the confrontation or melting of cultures, referencing the idea that artistic forms travel, mingle and enrich each other, from one continent to another. Concerning concepts of nomadism and displacement inherent to all artists and creative practitioners, the exhibition is a survey into artistic approaches in both confronting and organising itself around a central axis of the impermanence of social, political, and economic constructs and conventions.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters July 9, 2019The Pola Museum of Art, Japan
10 August - 1 December 2019
We are pleased to share that Abdelkader Benchamma will participate in Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters which will present a wide range of works of art from the Pola Museum of Art collection, including paintings, sculptures, and Oriental ceramics, along with works by artists active on the front lines of contemporary expression. Various works by contemporary artists, including an immersive wall drawing installation by Benchamma filling an entire room, will shed new light on works by modern masters such as Claude Monet, encouraging a multifaceted discourse and interpretation.
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Symétries et soupirs July 9, 2019IN SITU Patrimoine et Art Contemporain, Abbaye de Lagrasse, Lagrasse
Until 1 September 2019
For IN SITU Patrimoine et Art Contemporain, Abdelkader Benchamma creates an ambitious mural facing the Renaissance fireplace of the ceremonial room of Lagrasse Abbey, which is considered one of the most important Benedictine settlements of France with its origins dating back to the 8th century. Both powerful and poetic in their formal execution, Bechamma's installations go beyond the limits of drawing to create murals that modify and distort our relationship to our perceptions of space and matter, as they probe the frontiers of the invisible and intangible.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND VIKRAM DIVECHA
SECOND HAND July 9, 2019Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
3 July - 23 November 2019Read more
Second Hand brings together works from the Art Jameel Collection that explore materiality in contemporary art practice. Focusing on different modes of expression through sculpture, installation, assemblage, drawing, photography, painting and performance, the artworks challenge the way we perceive material and our understanding of what the material represents.
The exhibition includes works by Mohammed Kazem and Virkam Divecha as well as local, regional and international artists, highlighting the incorporation of banal and everyday objects into their work to construct new forms and ideas.
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TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART 2019 July 9, 2019Curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien
21 September - 1 December 2019
We are delighted to announce that Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are participating in the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art. The Biennial will bring together more than 90 local and international participants, hailing from over 40 places of origin, including Brazil, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iran, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States as well as Nunavut and Indigenous communities in Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and Aotearoa | New Zealand.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
ON THE FRINGES OF IDENTITY July 9, 2019Museo Storico dell Città di Lecce (MUST)
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (MAC)
Curated by Giacomo Zaza
MUST | Until 8 September 2019
MAC | 28 September - 24 November 2019
On the Fringes of Identity is an exhibition exploring and illustrating the degree to which contemporary artistic research is involved in the cultural and social debate regarding the human condition in a globalised world. What emerges from this selection of video narratives is the urgent need for a human focus in the exploration of processes affecting identity, belonging, the awareness of differences and the acknowledgement of otherness. The videos have been selected from the collection of the Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona and from the Premio de Producción de Video Arte Fundación Han Nefkens – CAC Quito 2018.
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INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM (ISP) OF THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART July 9, 2019Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
We a proud to share that Vikram Divecha has been accepted into the highly prestigious Independent Study Program (ISP) under the auspices of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Having been selected as one of 14 participants in the Studio Program, the ISP provides a setting within which students pursuing art practice, curatorial work, art historical scholarship, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical, social, and intellectual conditions of artistic production.
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GET TOGETHER AND GET THINGS DONE June 9, 2019Manchester Art Gallery
Curated by Clare Gannaway
Until 19 September 2019
Rokni Haerizadeh is currently participating in Get Together and Get Things Done which investigates what brings and binds people together from protest to partying, how power and control operate globally and historically, and how history, media and art shape collective action. This exhibition features works from the gallery’s collection as well as national and international loans from the 18th to the 21st century. Together, they examine the importance of the communal action over the past two centuries in relationship to topics such as empire, trade, and economics, as well as the role of public protest.
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Eldorama May 5, 2019Tripostal, Lille
Curated by Jérôme Sans and Jean-Max Colard with the collaboration of Isabelle Bernini
Until 1 September 2019
As part of lille3000, Abdelkader Benchamma and :mentalKLINIK are currently included in Eldorama taking place at Tripostal, conceptually unfolding the great story of Eldorado through a myriad of contemporary works of art borrowed from the four corners of the globe, with more than 40 artists on display. The exhibition stages the universal adventure of these allegories demonstrating the impactful power of the uprooting and displacement of individuals and entire peoples whilst investigating these journeys developing into a narrative that is both dynamic and epic, yet wild and violent, brought to life by the artist’s critical viewpoints on the promises of our contemporary world.
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Art Basel | Feature
May 5, 2019Booth: T10
Messe Basel Messeplatz 10, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
11 - 16 June 2019Read more
We are delighted to announce that we will be participating at Art Basel | Feature with a dedicated solo presentation with the pioneering Hassan Sharif (1951 - 2016) whose influence and enduring legacy remains as potent as ever. On display will be a selection of important works across a broad span of his multivalent practice encompassing his Objects, Semi-Systems, works on paper and paintings.
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Art Basel | Parcours
May 5, 2019Erasmushaus
Bäumleingasse 18, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
10 - 16 June 2019
Preview: Monday 10 June from 1pm to 4pm
Coinciding with Art Basel and in collaboration with Alexander Gray Associates, New York and gb agency, Paris, we are also pleased to share that Hassan Sharif will participate in Art Basel | Parcours in which his monumental Copper No. 32, 2015 will be exhibited in an old antiquarian book dealership known as Erasmushaus within central Basel, combining location and artwork, manifesting as an emblematic expression of the artist’s interrogation of materiality, absurdist experimentation and his affinity towards language and the written word.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
CENTURY.idee bauhaus May 5, 2019Dr. Julius, Berlin
Curated by Simone Schimpf, Sibylle Hoiman, Frederik Schikowski, Frank F. Drewes, Christiane Bail and Matthias Seidel
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Haleh Redjaian is currently included in an ambitious project comprising 100 international artists who have been invited to engage with the ever-enduring legacy of Bauhaus through its multi-various impact on fields of art, architecture, and design. This project has been initiated to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’ founding, forming a curatorial team and inviting artists to submit their personal reflections on the Bauhaus in the form of an A4 sheet of paper. These individual contributions have been brought together in this exhibition illuminating a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and attitudes, encompassing both personal closeness and critical distance to the subject.
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Artists and the Cultural Foundation: The Early Years May 5, 2019Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi
Curated by Maya Allison and Alia Zaal Lootah
Until 8 June 2019
To mark the Cultural Foundation’s re-opening, Hassan Sharif features in the inaugural exhibition organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi. Artists and the Cultural Foundation: The Early Years presents work from a core group of artists who had an active relationship with this space in those early decades, as well as a selection of artworks from a younger generation who grew up in and around the Cultural Foundation's impactful influence.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement May 5, 2019The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell
in partnership with the New Museum, New York
22 June - 22 September 2019
Ramin Haeirzadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are participating in an upcoming exhibition presenting historical and contemporary works by 75 artists who’s work poses urgent questions around the experiences and perceptions of migration and the current global refugee crisis. Through installations, videos, paintings, and documentary images, the exhibition will explore both real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing personal and collective tales of migration, overlaying historical experiences of migration to and within the United States with the current plight of refugees around the world.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Homeless Souls May 5, 2019Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
27 June - 22 September 2019
Central to this exhibition is art's unique ability to portray our times, as it bears witness to historical events and focusses on urgent agendas. Homeless Souls depicts a world marked by migration, conflict, upheaval and general instability. The exhibition examines our unstable times through a multiplicity of artistic positions and voices that bring new perspectives to bear on themes such as forced migration, personal and collective accounts of the drawing of frontiers and territories, citizenship, movements, clandestine journeys and identity.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition 2019 May 5, 2019Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University, New York
Curated by Regine Basha
28 April - 26 May 2019Read more
MFA degree candidates in the Columbia University School of the Arts Visual Arts program present their thesis projects culminating two years of intensive artistic development. For Vikram Divecha’s inclusion, the artist presents both an ambitious and immersive installation within the exhibition space entitled Gallery 354, 2019, considering the many objects housed from Melanesia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Taking the subdued lighting at Gallery 354 as a departure point, this work is a mediation on exposure, failure, time, loss and darkness.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
In Response: Leonard Cohen May 5, 2019The Jewish Museum, New York
Sunday, 5 May from 6.30pm to 9pmRead more
We are pleased to share that Vikram Divecha will participate in a performance programme hosted at The Jewish Museum alongside Columbia University Visual Arts MFA candidates and recent alumni as they present new video, sound, performance, and installation-based artworks in response to the exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything.
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GALLERIES AT MAS
April 7, 2019Booth: 7
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
8 April - 8 June 2019
Opening Reception: Monday 8 April from 6.00 to 8.00 pm
We are pleased to participate at Galleries at MAS, an external collective exhibition platform, featuring works by Mohammed Kazem, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, and Nargess Hashemi. The opening night will coincide with the first day of the Culture Summit – Abu Dhabi which is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
M Woods x The Dubai Mall April 7, 2019Pavilion 2, Fashion Avenue, Dubai Mall
Curated by Michael Xufu Huang
Until 30 April 2019
As part of a partnered multi-platformed exhibition with M WOODS Museum, Beijing and Dubai Mall, Michael Xufu Huang has curated a two-person show with Mohammed Kazem and Chinese minimalist Richard Lin. On display is Mohammed Kazem’s signature minimal work, Sound of Angles, 2014 from his Scratches series as well as Measuring, 2015, a sculpture of a white cube highlighting the length of lines crossing the sides and angles of the cube at different positions. In doing so, Kazem finds new ways to apprehend his environment and experiences in which establish a dialogue with Chinese minimalist Richard Lin highlighting both artists' focus on the abstracted concepts behind their inherent aesthetics and artistic beliefs.
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Mohammed Kazem
Collecting Light April 7, 2019Cadoro-Zentrum fur Kunst und Wissenschaft, Mainz, Germany
6 April - 19 June 2019
Since 1990, Kazem has created visual representations of intangible phenomena, such as sound and light, using a technique that he calls ‘Scratching’– vigorously scratching the surface of a piece of paper with scissors. He uses this technique to describe sounds in an abstract visual language, where lines and dots punctuate his works. His new solo exhibition furthers his Scratches series in an attempt to capture the 'sound of shapes' or the 'sound of keyboards'.
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:mentalKLINIK
Golden Room April 7, 2019Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Curated by Jérôme Sans and Jean-Max Colard with the collaboration of Isabelle Bernini
27 April - 2 September 2019
Opening parade: 27 April 2019
During Eldorado, the new cultural season of lille3000, several artists :mentalKLINIK, Mircea Cantor, Olga De Amaral,
Kendell Geers, Laurent Grasso, Thomas Lélu invest in the "underground" room of the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Lille where the permanent collections of the museum, spanning Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, are housed and exhibited. Like a treasure hunt without rules or order, artists develop the possible chapters of history as universal as it is turbulent, in which their work resonates with pieces in the collections that are inlaid with gold. In this exhibition, the quest to find treasure, a metaphor for the thirst for power, takes the form of a rite of passage, but also of a reversal of values.
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Art Brussels
April 7, 2019Booth: C37
Tour & Taxis
Avenue du Port 86c
1000 Brussels, Belgium
25 - 28 April 2019
Preview: Thursday 25 April from 5.00 to 10.00 pm
We are pleased to participate in the upcoming edition of Art Brussels, with works by :mentalKLINIK, Mohammed Kazem, Haleh Redjaian, Hassan Sharif, and Hoda Tawakol.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Public Commission at Reem Skatepark April 7, 2019Al Reem Park, Abu Dhabi
For ALDAR's public commission at Reem Skatepark in Abu Dhabi, and in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Art, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian together with their frequent collaborators, artists Nargess Hashemi and Sara Rahmanian, have created kaleidoscopic paintings across structural columns that pay homage to the site, its users and the country in the inimitable style that emerges from the hands of the trio. The work invites the visitor to consider liminal spaces. The lines between the private and the public, the formal and the informal, utility and artistry, and other blurred existences. It also makes one question where art belongs, while also firmly insisting that its place is everywhere. (excerpt from Alexa Mena's text)
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Vikram Divecha
Beej April 7, 2019Beej
Intervention at roundabout, Al Naba’ah, Sharjah
Originally conceived and commissioned on occasion of Sharjah Biennial 2017, Vikram Divecha’s long-term project Beej, the Urdu word for seed, activates the potential for agricultural farming within the municipal workforce of Sharjah, predominantly labourers from Pakistan, who tend to Sharjah’s urban landscaping. In doing so, the artist had requested two gardeners to travel home to bring vegetable and grain seeds from their family farms in Lahore and Punjab. Along with others in the community, they sowed the seeds within a roundabout, a site of convening and dispersal hosting the cycles of sowing and harvesting, in the Al Naba’ah residential neighbourhood of Sharjah. This project is supported by Sharjah Municipality and Maraya Art Centre.
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Art Dubai
March 4, 2019Booth: E3
Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
20 - 23 March 2019
Preview: Tuesday, 19 March
We are pleased to participate at Art Dubai, featuring works by :mentalKLINIK, Vikram Divecha, Mohammed Kazem, Hassan Sharif, Hoda Tawakol, and collective works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian.
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Hoda Tawakol
Immaculate March 4, 2019Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg, Germany
31 March - 12 May 2019
Hamburg-based Franco-Egyptian artist Hoda Tawakol's upcoming exhibition at Galerie im Marstal, a public art space will stage an ambitious large-scale room installation, in which the artist examines the body as an important facet of identity and as a reflection of society itself. Her practice is a personal inquest into female corporeality and the universal perception of it, both in Middle Eastern and Western contexts, attempting to deconstruct symbols and archetypes that beset female agency.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Publication: The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes March 4, 2019Text by Amanda Donnan
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Distributed by the Frye Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian. Includes an interview between curator Amanda Donnan and artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian.
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Rokni Haerizadeh
Media Networks March 4, 2019Tate Modern, London
Curated by Helen Sainsbury
Four portfolios of Rokni Haerizadeh's Fictionvile series are included in the exhibition Media Networks, displaying works from Tate Modern’s permanent collection examining how artists have responded to the impact of mass media and the ever-changing technologies that shape our world.
The invention of photography prompted speculation about the future of painting and whether this ancient medium remained relevant. But nearly two hundred years later, artists continue to explore the possibilities of making images with paint. For many, the flood of images from film, television, newspapers, social media and the internet has proved rich material for exploring the nature of representation.
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Vikram Divecha
Living Room: UIT (Use it together) February 12, 2019International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York Curated by Amanda Abi Khalil
12 February - 10 May 2019
Preview: 12 February from 6 - 9 pm
We are pleased to share that Vikram Divecha will take part in a group exhibition at The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, entitled Living Room: UIT (Use it together) a collective sitespecific proposition by resident curator Amanda Abi Khalil.
This exhibition includes a television channel with videos that comment on the aesthetics of participatory approaches in social art practices. Inspired by artist Hélio Oiticica’s discussions of Eden and theorist Stephen Wright’s concept of Arte Útil, Living Room takes over an exhibition space that usually triggers modes of spectatorship. Turning ISCP’s Project Space into a room for living, a shared space—by altering its function to a space of usership, created, used and activated (together) by the people who inhabit it—transforms its capacity to frame what is displayed inside it as art.
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Vikram Divecha
Aesthetics of Extraction February 7, 2019GSAPP Incubator at NEW INC, 231 Bowery, New York
Thursday, 7 February 2019
We’re thrilled to bring to your attention that Vikram Divecha will participate in the next edition of Columbia University's Works in Progress artist event series, entitled Aesthetics of Extraction, taking place at 6pm on 7th February at GSAPP Incubator at NEW INC, New York.
This edition of Works in Progress brings together artists and researchers who deal with the visual cultures of extraction from material harvesting to data extraction industries, from regimes of spatial imaging technologies to instruments of financial exaction. Aesthetics of Extraction hopes to offer new ways of “looking” at environmental, sociopolitical, and economic sites of extraction, the abstractions and realities they coproduce, and render visible latent or actual pressures, paradoxes and fissures imbricated in such fabrics.
Vikram Divecha is an artist whose diverse practice addresses time, value and labor. His projects often developed around 'found processes’—those forces and capacities at work within social and economic systems.
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Hassan Sharif
Cahiers écrits, dessinés, inimprimés February 4, 2019Fondation Bodmer, Geneva Curated by Thierry Davila
Until 25 August 2019
We are pleased to share that Hassan Sharif’s works are currently exhibited at Fondation Bodmer, Geneva, as part of ‘Cahiers écrits, dessinés, inimprimés’ (Notebooks written, drawn, nonprinted), curated by Thierry Davila.
The exhibition displays notebooks and diaries of artists, writers and philosophers. These are more than just sketchbooks or drafts. Most have been intricately worked, assembled and structured, even adorned, which makes them unique: they are single copies, never printed as such.
The objects are not exhibited based on chronology, but rather on appearance; visual and pictorial affinities justify correlations and dialogues between each other. Beyond text and substance, universes are written, drawn, traced and coloured presented through notebooks and diaries creating visual ties.
The exhibited contemporary works are jointly part of the MAMCO (Geneva Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) collection and from the Martin Bodmer Foundation.
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Art Genève
January 7, 2019Palexpo, Geneva
31 January - 3 February 2019 | Preview: 30 January
We are pleased to participate at this year’s edition of art genève 2019, with a dedicated feature to the pioneering conceptual artist Hassan Sharif (1951 – 2016) and Dubai-based artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Our presentation will include an array of paintings, works on paper, objects, sculpture and installation manifesting as a dialogue between the artists whilst providing further scope of their practices, both individually and collectively.
Additionally, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian have been invited to include their collaborative 'moving painting' animation, Macht Schön, 2016, at a special video section of the fair curated by Samuel Gross entitled Turbulent Horizon.
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Mohammed Kazem
The Illusion of Summer January 7, 2019Dorothy W. & C. Lawson Reed, Jr. Gallery | University of Cincinnati
17 January - 10 March 2019
Preview: Thursday, 17 January 5 - 7 pm
We are pleased to share that Mohammed Kazem will have a two person exhibition alongside Cristiana de Marchi entitled The Illusion of Summer at Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Reed Gallery (DAAP) at The University of Cincinnati. The exhibition will feature works produced during the course of his concurrent artist residency from November 2018 - January 2019 through which Kazem and de Marchi are by invitation of Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, Joseph Girandola in order to interact with University students and the city to produce work informed by their practice and in response to their experiences and exposures while visiting the US and Cincinnati.
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Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes January 7, 2019Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Curated by Amanda Donnan
26 January - 28 April 2019
We are thrilled to announce that Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian will have a collective exhibition entitled The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes at Frye Art Museum in Seattle, USA. Together, they collaboratively work to create installations, paintings on paper, and stop-motion animations that transform found materials in order to recast and critically examine contemporary history-in-the-making. The Dubai-based Iranian artists’ animations are composed from thousands of individual works on paper, in which they collage and paint over printed stills from internet videos and television newscasts. Detaching this imagery from its original context to estrange its meaning, their works interrogate the entertainment value of the news and the voyeuristic role of the spectator as a passive consumer of mass media spectacle.
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Vikram Divecha, Rokni Haerizadeh and Mohammed Kazem
Letters to a Young Muslim November 12, 2018Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Curated by Athr Gallery
12th November 2018 - 26th January 2019
Letters to a Young Muslim, will present works by UAE and KSA artists that engage with themes raised in a book of the same title by Omar Ghobash. The exhibition takes these thematics explored in Ghobash’s book, addressing questions of dual landscapes, memory, hope, and the ‘grey area’ amongst other topics, as the basis for which the participant artists present works - be it as a direct commentary, themed inspiration or candid response.
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Hassan Sharif
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) November 11, 2018Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
24 November 2018 – 28 April 2019
Featuring more than 80 artists and groups from over 30 countries, APT9 challenges conventional definitions of contemporary art by asking us to consider its relationship to shifting social structures across the region. Explore a number of never-before-seen installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs and video from emerging and senior artists, together with leading works from Indigenous communities and artists. Emblematic early works by Hassan Sharif's Objects will be presented at the triennale.
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Rokni Haerizadeh
Punk Orientalism November 10, 2018MacKenzie Art Gallery, Canada
Curated by Sara Raza
10 November 2018 - 17 February 2019
Punk Orientalism explores artistic voices that actively embrace non-conformity and resistance. Incorporating themes, spaces and places associated with pre and post-Soviet cultural and social topographies of Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East, this timely exhibition re-evaluates political turns and reruns from the Cold War era in the present tense. Rokni Haerizadeh will be participating with his 'moving painting' entitled Letter! (2014) alongside works on paper.
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Focal Point
SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION, BAIT OBAID AL SHAMSI, ARTS SQUARE November 8, 20188 - 10 November
We are delighted to participate at the inaugural edition of FOCAL POINT, taking place at Sharjah Art Foundation - an annual art book fair that presents, engages, circulates, sells and distributes varied printed matter and products by publishers from the region and across the world.
Running from 8 to 10 November 2018, the three-day art book fair features publishers—both independent and mainstream—presenting their content individually or within curated sections. The book displays will be accompanied by a public programme of talks, screenings, a lecture-performance, book launch, art project, an open studio, themed educational workshops and live music.
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Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif
The Monochrome Revisited October 23, 2018Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai
23 October 2018 - 28 February 2019
Including works by Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif, The Monochrome Revisited explores the history and evolution of the monochrome, a provocative and innovative art form that invites introspection as it challenges perception. The exhibition begins by inviting audiences to question the origin of the monochrome - the ‘first’ documented monochromes can be found in publications as early as the seventeenth century. Ultimately, this survey of works investigates how contemporary artists today still engage with the art form to address contemporary issues, demonstrating the vitally important role the monochrome continues to play.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Echo de la Naissance des Mondes | Le Festival Nuit Blanche 2018 October 9, 2018Collège des Bernardins, Paris
4 October - 10 November
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the Collège des Bernardins, Paris, Abdelkader Benchamma will transform the entire nave of the building into an immersive wall drawing installation. Both powerful and poetic in its formal execution, the artist's attempts to disrupt visceral perception of space and time. Co-aligned with his exhibition, Benchamma will participate in Nuit Blanche 2018 in Paris, an annual all-night arts festival taking place on 6th October. This year's edition thematically inspired by the research of George Lemaître, a priest astronomer and physicist who was one of the first men to have thought of the expansion of the universe. Benchamma's contribution, alongside Melik Ohanian, have been invited to realise a vast installation specifically for the floor of the nave of the Collège des Bernardins.
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Abu Dhabi Art
October 9, 2018Booth: Focus, A24
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
14 - 17 November
Preview: 13 November
We are pleased to participate at this year’s 10th-anniversary edition of Abu Dhabi Art, with a presentation surrounding the conceptual practice of Mohammed Kazem, highlighting recent works in tandem with key photo documentation of his performances since the 1990s.
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Artissima
October 9, 2018Booth: Dialogue, Orange 11
Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin
2 - 4 November
Preview: 1 November
Dedicated to the collective and individual practices of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, the booth will manifest as an unfolding continuation of their major exhibition forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home at Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin, which recently took place from 12 July till 30 September 2018.
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Hassan Sharif
Crude October 9, 2018Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
Curated by Murtaza Vali
11 November 2018 - 23 March 2019
We are very pleased to share Hassan Sharif's inclusion in Crude, curated by Murtaza Vali, in the inaugural series of exhibitions at the new venue of Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Bringing together 17 artists and collectives from the region and beyond, Crude explores oil as an agent of social, cultural and economic transformation across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as a driver of geo-political upheaval.
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Raed Yassin
Ten Years of Production Programme October 9, 2018Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
29 September - 10 November
Celebrating ten years of Production Programme grants, Sharjah Art Foundation will present a selection of works from previous editions of the Production Programme this autumn, of which Raed Yassin is included. Yassin, the 2014 awardee, participates with his work entitled Exhibition No. 8 (2016) from his Warhol of Arabia series. One of Sharjah Art Foundation’s core initiatives, the Production Programme challenges artists, mostly from the region, to conceive and realise innovative work that transforms the way art is understood and experienced.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian
Special Project & Book Launch October 9, 2018Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), TurinRead more
The major exhibition of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian forgive me distant wars for bringing flowers home has come to an end on September 30, 2018 coinciding with the launch of a beautiful catalogue published by OGR and edited by Abaseh Mirvali. Copies of the book will be available at our gallery in Dubai from November.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Like clouds, the forms of the world turn into one another September 22, 2018Centre d’art Contemporain Chanot, Clamart
Curated by Madeleine Mathé
22 September - 9 December 2018
Screening: 17 November at 5pm
As part of the current exhibition, Like clouds, the forms of the world turn into one another, at CACC in Clamart, France, Madeleine Mathé is curating a special one night event manifesting as a film project related to the medium of drawing. The project will thematically focus on drawing borders, both geographical and geopolitical, with the screening taking place on 17 November at 5pm. Amongst other participant artists for this one night occasion, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will present their 'moving paintings', entitled From Sea to Dawn (2016) and Big Rock Candy Mountain (2015-16).
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:MENTALKLINIK
The Thirtieth Year September 9, 2018Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Curated by Jérôme Sans
13 September - 13 October
This exhibition revolves around a collection of short stories (The Thirtieth Year, 1961) by Ingeborg Bachmann, an Austrian poet and a leading female protagonist of Viennese culture in the post-war years. If poetry is a way of engaging with the world through the message it conveys, in Bachmann, this engagement is also expressed by her opposition to all forms of ideology and wars, to the history of imperialism and fascism and its continuation under new guises. Bachmann’s cosmopolitan life in different European cities offered her an early understanding of borders, which she crossed or transcended throughout her own life. She also became an icon of woman’s liberation and embodied this contemporary phenomenon of nomadism, which is so typical of the lives of cultural actors in a globalized world.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Echo de la naissance des mondes September 9, 2018Collège des Bernardins, Paris
4 October - 10 November
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the Collège des Bernardins, Paris, Abdelkader Benchamma will transform the entire nave of the building into an immersive wall drawing installation. Both powerful and poetic in its formal execution, the artist's attempts to disrupt visceral perception of space and time.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Le Festival Nuit Blanche 2018 September 9, 2018Collège des Bernardins, Paris
6 October
Abdelkader Benchamma will participate in Nuit Blanche 2018 in Paris, an annual all-night arts festival. This year's edition thematically inspired by the research of George Lemaître, a priest, astronomer and physicist who was one of the first men to have thought of the expansion of the universe. Benchamma's contribution, alongside Melik Ohanian, have been invited to realise a vast installation specifically for the floor of the nave of the Collège des Bernardins.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Le Prix Occitanie - Médicis September 9, 2018
We are thrilled to announce that Abdelkader Benchamma has been awarded Le Prix Occitanie - Médicis. The judges elected to honour Abdelkader Benchamma as the winner of the 1st edition. As part of this distinction, he will receive a 3-month residency at the Villa Medici, Rome, beginning later this year. During his stay, the artist will have the opportunity to develop his personal projects and participate in the activities of this prestigious and inspiring institution. He has also been granted to exhibit his work in 2019 at Musée régional d’art contemporainn de Sérignan.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
in sequence September 9, 2018We are pleased to share details of a new monograph for Haleh Redjaian entitled in sequence (2018), edited by Wolfgang Fetz and Jörg van den Berg. Published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, the book provides a backbone overview of Redjaian’s practice in tandem with acute insight into her formal ideologies of art making. The author pointedly remarks, “One sees geometric forms | strict order | grids | patterns | but primarily one sees Redjaian’s base material: the line | rather many lines| in many instances in the mode of serial repetition."
in sequence will also be available at Gallery IVDE in October.
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Hassan Sharif
Ways of Seeing September 9, 2018NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
3 September - 17 November
Hassan Sharif has been included in Ways of Seeing, bringing together 26 internationally acclaimed artists and art collectives from the region and the world, working in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, sound, film, and installation. Displayed in this exhibition is a monumental installation from Sharif entitled, Knots (2012 - 16).
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Night of Another Spring September 9, 2018In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
Part I: PREVIEW: 15.09.2018, 18 – 21H, 15.09 – 13.10.2018
Part II: OPENING: 20.10.2018, 18 – 21H, 20.10 – 17.11.2018
In Situ Fabienne Leclerc is pleased to announce Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian’s first solo show at the gallery entitled, Night of Another Spring, that is happening in two parts.
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Photo: Miquel Coll
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Busan Biennial 2018 September 9, 2018Busan, South Korea
Curated by Artistic Directors: Cristina Ricupero and Jörg Heiser
8 September - 11 November
We'd like to congratulate Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian on their inclusion at The Busan Biennale 2018. As an independently created international contemporary art exhibition, the Busan Biennale has distinguished itself from other biennials with its expression of Busan’s city identity and its experimental and dynamic exhibitions.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) September 9, 2018Various locations in New York
5 September - 2 November
Studio visit: Monday, October 29, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Vikram Divecha’s engagements with institutions, urban processes and commercial operations leave behind a repository of material at his studio. His strategies of intervention and collaboration are evidenced throughout these various art objects and Divecha takes his visitors through each investigative journey: Gare Saint Lazare station, Paris; an inconspicuous venture at Frieze Art Fair, New York; participation from Manhattan’s Road Marking crew; and his growing interest about how light descends upon objects from Melanesia at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York. -
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Obnoxiously Happy September 3, 2018La Patinoire Royale, Brussels
Curator: Jérôme Sans
7 September - 8 December
La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach is happy to present OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, :mentalKLINIK’s first solo exhibition in Belgium, curated by Jérôme Sans. "The exhibition, which brings together a whole fifteen years of their activity - such an introspective rather retrospective - presents a symptomatic set of the multifaceted approach of their universe that constantly blurs borders. :mentalKLINIK is an allusion to the laboratory where coexist practice and theory, as the :mental refers to the spirit and the KLINIK to practice " (Jérôme Sans).
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:MENTALKLINIK
Catastrophically Gorgeous September 3, 2018Eugster || Belgrade
Curator: Yasmina Reggad.
12 September - 1 December
Eugster || Belgrade is thrilled to present the first Belgrade solo presentation of artist duo :mentalKLINIK: CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS, curated by Yasmina Reggad.
"In this exhibition the artists probe a speculative approach of the future in a world triggered by hyper consumption and governed by hyperobjects."
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:MENTALKLINIK
Obscure Object: Performed-Forms, The (0)(A)BJECT* June 10, 2018Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
24 - 28 June
:mentalKLINIK will participate in a week-long artist residency as part of Abu Dhabi Art's partnership with Khalifa University of Science and Technology. Engineering and science students have been invited to work on a collaborative project by Brussels-based Turkish artist duo and Carl De Smet (noumenon), which will be presented at the upcoming edition of Abu Dhabi Art from 14 - 17 November 2018.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
JAOU Tunis June 10, 2018Zaouia of Sidi Boukhrissane, Tunis
Curated by Khadija Hamdi Soussi
27 June - 1 July
Organised by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, JAOU Tunis returns for its 5th edition to explore the cultural heritage in post-revolution Tunisia. The exhibition surveys the idea of 'approved heritage' through four elements: fire, air, water and earth. German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian creates spatial thread installations and murals for the exhibition Imaginary Museum, which takes French novelist André Malraux's writings as a starting point to question the notion of contemporary art in the Arab world.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home June 10, 2018Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin
Curated by Abaseh Mirvali
12 July - 30 September
We are pleased to announce Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's solo exhibition Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home at Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) - a former late 19th-century train repair facility, which has recently reopened as a multipurpose cultural centre. The exhibition aims to unveil the artistic practice of the trio by focusing on their methodology, communication, and construction of their works. Over the past few decades, Ramin, Rokni, and Hesam have shared a life philosophy that has allowed for mutual creation, during which their individual practices interact with their collaborative ones and which is informed by the understanding and technical skills of other people. From the dialogues they build among themselves and with other artists, friends, and collaborators-including stage director Joan Baixas, robotic engineer John Cole, community artist Niyaz Azadikhah, and writer and film producer Mandana Mohit, these artists have established a personal language that has enabled them to present different layers of content and texture in their work. -
ROKNI HAERIZADEH
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century June 10, 2018First Art Museum, Nashville
Curated by Mark W. Scala
22 June - 16 September
Borrowed from the collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a selection of works from Rokni Haerizadeh's on-going Fictionville series is presented in Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century. The exhibition features paintings by an international array of artists that induce feelings of disturbance, curiosity, and expansiveness through the portrayal of forces shaping and disrupting society, such as economics, ideological conflict, language, technology, science, and philosophy. "Haerizadeh's exaggerations bring out the savagery of the actions they depict, highlighting the bestial undertones of political rituals. Victim and aggressor are equally grotesque, as are landscape and architecture," notes writer Media Farzin in her essay Unpeopled: Cosmopolitan Figurations in Recent Paintings, published in the catalogue. Chaos and Awe will tour the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia in November 2018.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
Who Are We Now? June 10, 2018Land Art Mongolia 360°, Khentii Province
Curated by Lewis Biggs
30 July - 8 August
Vikram Divecha collaborates with a local coal supplier as part of his residency to create works for the 5th edition of Land Art Mongolia (LAM). The exhibition asks pertinent questions such as how do we situate art, and specifically art made in the Mongolian context, in relation to Humanism and the Anthropocene Age. LAM focuses on Land Art as a form of spatial visualisation of the relations between nature, culture and social policies. It promotes freedom of expression in joining people and institutions from all sectors of Mongolian society by meshing their respective backgrounds and perspectives through collaboration and networking actions of regional and global scope.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA AND MOHAMMED KAZEM
Uncommon Dubai + June 10, 2018Edited by Sharmeen Inayat
Published in April 2018
Vikram Divecha and Mohammed Kazem contribute to Uncommon Dubai +, a publication that offers a sliver of quotidian and artistic reflections on spaces of change and exchange, imbued with meaning and memory for individuals, communities and diasporas that enrich the city and its neighbouring emirates. Against the backdrop of the morphing coastline and the alluring locus of the creek, explore memoirs, investigations and poetic landscapes of the mind that are meant to engage with the contrasts of the city and offer collective aspirations for its past, present and possible futures.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art May 6, 2018LACMA, Los Angeles
Curated by Linda Komaroff
6 May - 9 September
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, a groundbreaking exhibition of both historical and contemporary Iranian works that highlight ways in which artists have used and continue to use the past as a metaphor for the present day. This notion is revealed in art and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as examples of virtue or as objects of derision, while long-gone Shi'ite saints are evoked as champions of the poor and the oppressed. The exhibition examines this appropriation of the past, largely in the context of the present including a large scale concrete poetry by Ramin Haerizadeh based on two significant newspaper headline during the Iranian Revolution.
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HASSAN SHARIF
We Began By Measuring Distance May 3, 2018Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Curated by Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi
30 May - 9 September
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (mamco) is inaugurating the first phase of its reflections concerning the internationalisation of its exhibition corpus and the emergence of a world art history with four summer exhibitions. We Began By Measuring Distance features works by Hassan Sharif, Marwan Rechmaoui and Basma Al Sharif from the collection of the Sharjah Art Foundation, and responds to the invitation to broaden the frame of reference of practices under review at mamco.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Community Activation: (Re)Making National Memories - Playing with Narratives May 3, 2018Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi
5 May
Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will host a participatory community activity at Warehouse421, experimenting with archival images from the UAE's history. Originally created for the UAE's National Pavilion at Venice Biennale, Rock Paper Scissors: Positions in Play, this exercise re-interprets archival photographs, including images of Sheikh Zayed and pivotal moments in the history of the UAE by magnifying some of their less obvious peripheral elements. Visitors are invited to take part using their mobile phones or cameras, re-photographing the archival images and finding their own story in them.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Mountain of Tongues May 3, 2018BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham
26 May - 17 July
Featuring Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's video animation Big Rock Candy Mountain, alongside works by Slavs and Tatars, Samson Young, Taus Makhacheva, Leila Al-Yousuf and Ryan Heath, the exhibition refers to the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, known for its large number of distinct languages and cultures.
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:MENTALKLINIK
Evrim / Evolve April 3, 2018Galerie A, Izmir
Curated by Dr Necmi Sönmez
Organised by K2 Contemporary Art Centre
Until 8 April
The 4th edition of PortIzmir - Izmir International Contemporary Art Triennial looks into the future that appears pressured by the ever-present avant-garde archive, backward glances and repeated modernist discourses. Featuring works by :mentalKLINIK, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Claus Föttinger and Füsun Onur, among others, the exhibition seeks to examine the current state of contemporary image-making and highlights ways of political and poetical reflections.
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ART BRUSSELS 2018
April 3, 2018Booth C35
Tour & Taxis, Brussels
19 - 22 April
We are pleased to participate in the 50th edition of Art Brussels with works by Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem as well as collaborative and individual works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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HALEH REDJAIAN
La Collection BIC April 3, 2018Le CENTQUATRE-Paris
Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff and Ingrid Pux
14 April - 13 May
Haleh Redjaian's work is included in the exhibition of works from the BIC collection, which brings together more than 140 works by 80 artists. Featuring drawings, installations, sculptures and videos resonating with the philosophy of the company, the exhibition highlights how everyday objects such as pens, razors or lighters open up new practices and territories of creation.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Asia Pacific Triennial 9 April 3, 2018Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
24 November 2018 - 28 April 2019
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) announced the list of participating artists for its upcoming edition, including Hassan Sharif. The exhibition will feature a wide range of art forms and give particular focus to artists exploring the ongoing presence of spirituality in digital times, the multiple ways that wealth, value and labour operate, the agency of the body, and concerns for others as well as the vulnerability of the natural world.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH
Una Tempesta dal Paradiso April 3, 2018Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan
Curated by Sara Raza, Paola Zatti, Omar Cucciniello
11 April - 17 June
Borrowing its title from a series of drawings by Rokni Haerizadeh, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise - Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africaat Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) marks the final exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Featuring works by Lida Abdul, Abbas Akhavan, Kader Attia, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Ali Cherri, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rokni Haerizadeh, Susan Hefuna, Iman Issa, Gülsün Karamustafa, Hassan Khan, and Ahmed Mater, this exhibition features a diverse range of artistic voices and critical concerns from a rapidly evolving region and its international diaspora. The exhibition offers a cross-circulation of ideas rooted in science, mathematics and philosophy and raises urgent issues of migration and displacement in areas around the world, including Italy.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
First Year MFA Exhibition April 3, 2018Wallach Art Gallery, New York
Curated by Natalie Bell
Until 8 April
As part of his first-year exhibition at Columbia University, Vikram Divecha presents a single partition panel that is acquired from the contractors of Frieze art fair. The panel will be returned to the contractor to be installed as a functional partition panel at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde's booth during Frieze New York in May. Panel (2018), is an ongoing project and examines how objects and practices accrue value, as they circulate via galleries, institutions, fairs and exhibitions. Divecha intends to keep fluctuating the role of the panel post the art fair.
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Abdelkader Benchamma
L'horizon des évènements March 4, 2018Le Centquatre-Paris
Curated by Yasmina Reggad
24 March - 6 May
Abdelkader Benchamma's exhibition at Le Centquatre-Paris goes beyond the limits of drawing to create huge mural drawings that modify and upset our relationship to space as well as our perceptions. Benchamma's drawings draw inspiration from visual scenarios that stem from reflections on space and its physical reality, its limits and its zones of contact with mental space. They operate with diversions, modulating objects to testify of possible malfunctions in our relationship with the other and with things. Shifting of reality, intrusion of the invisible, indeterminate matters undergoing transformation, minuscule catastrophes are all at the heart of Benchamma's work.
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Installation view from Sharjah Biennial 13
Abdelkader Benchamma
Melancholia March 4, 2018Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
Curated by Louma Salamé
15 March - 19 August
Abdelkader Benchamma presents a new composition for the upcoming group exhibition at Villa Empain, which examines the origins of the feeling of melancholia - manifested in both the East and the West since ancient history - which unremittingly reminds us of a lost origin, and instills in us a sense of mourning for a past world. This feeling of melancholy remains at the heart of the problems we are confronted with today because the world we face is an inevitable cause for concern, especially given the irreversible climate change.
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Hassan Sharif
Odradek March 4, 2018Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Curated by François Piron and Mats Stjernstedt
Until 6 May
Odradek invited eight artists including Hassan Sharif, Judith Scott, Laura Lamiel, Henri Jacob, Oscar Tuazon, Franz Erhard Walther, Katinka Bock and Nairy Baghramian whose works similarly transgress the fixed dualities between subject and object. The exhibition aims at making links and weaving affinities between the practices of these artists from various backgrounds and generations.
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Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif
From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi March 4, 2018Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Curated by Ferran Barenblit and Nasser Abdullah
Until 17 March
Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif participate in From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi: Works from the MACBA Art Collection in dialogue with the Emirates. The exhibition, which is part of the Abu Dhabi Festival and held in partnership with Manarat Al Saadiyat, showcases highlights from the MACBA collection in dialogue with artworks by 20 Emirati artists from ADMAF's collection and borrowed from private collectors.
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Nargess Hashemi
Good Morning... Good Night! March 4, 2018Museo di Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
Curated by Tarlan Rafiee and Peter Assman
10 March - 13 May
Organised by Bread and Salt Project, this exhibition features works by Nargess Hashemi, Parvaneh Etemadi, Farah Ossouli, Rozita Sharafjahan and Golnaz Taheri to highlight how Iranian women positioned and adapted themselves in a society which was rapidly changing post-1979 Islamic Revolution. The works carefully survey elements from history, culture, tradition, environment and urbanisation, both in their homeland and in the west.
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Photograph by Miquel Coll. Courtesy of MACBA, Barcelona.
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Art Dubai - Global Art Forum March 4, 2018Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah
Commissioned by Shumon Basar
Wednesday 21 March, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, alongside Yuri Pattison, Ania Soliman and Melissa Gronlund will discuss how artists are engaging with technologies of automation, as well as the ever-increasing automation of the world. What new kinds of aesthetics, experiences and knowledge emerge. From interactive puppetry to robot choreography via the unconscious intent of algorithms, the artists discuss their ideas and work, and the complex concerns facing the current moment.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages March 4, 2018Concrete, Alserkal Avenue
Curated by Karim Sultan
5 March - 1 April
UAE Unlimited, in collaboration with Alserkal Programming presents Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages featuring works by 10 UAE-based artists Amna Al Dabbagh, Cheb Moha, Chndy, Dina Khorchid, Farah Al Qasimi, Flounder Lee, Nasir Nasrallah, Saba Qizilbash, Salem Al Mansoori, and Shaikha Al Ketbi, in addition to visual poetry by guest artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. The concept of the exhibition is derived from a broad understanding of the meaning and use of language. The curatorial process for the exhibition has been thematically informed by the idea of "lingua franca," which hints at constructed, second or third languages that were used to aid communication between various groups or in situations where communication was difficult.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages March 4, 2018Screening and Discussion
Concrete, Alserkal Avenue
Wednesday 7 March, 7:00 pm
As part of the public programme for Ishara, guest artists Ramin, Rokni and Hesam will be in conversation with exhibition curator Karim Sultan to discuss ideas of communication, language and storytelling. This dialogue will explore the references accumulated by the artists, tracing their influences that relate to the theme of language and sign-making.
The screening will focus on Aakkaandi (2014-15) a 35 minute 17 second long video that depicts a pig-faced tourist-curator clutching a tote bag visit a tailoring shop to get a new dress copied. A doctor and his violently shushing nurse administer everything from injections to dental reconstruction. Improvised with Idrani Sirisena and Edward St, who live and work at the villa that the artists share, these short, simple vignettes are interspersed with the couple's recollection of the Sri Lankan Civil War and the political machinations that stoked the conflict. The work culminates in a collaboratively painted canvas that they steadily layer with Tamil lettering. Several sections of Aakkaandi were filmed by Edward St and many of the images in the film are inspired by the works of exiled Tamil poets, particularly 'The Aakkaandi Bird' by Shanmugam Sivalingan and '21 May 1986' by R Cheran.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Selections Magazine March 4, 2018Curriculum Vitae # 44
Spring 2018
Ramin Haerizadeh's work graces the cover of Selections Magazine's recent issue, which invited 22 artists to share their Curriculum Vitae in the most artistic way possible and in the manner in which they'd like to present themselves. The trio is featured in the magazine, each artist's submitted Curriculum Vitae below:
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Rokni Haerizadeh
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise March 4, 2018Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan
Curated by Sara Raza, Paola Zatti, Omar Cucciniello
11 April - 17 June
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa at Galleria d'Arte Moderna (GAM) marks the final exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Featuring works by Lida Abdul, Abbas Akhavan, Kader Attia, Ergin Cavusoglu, Ali Cherri, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rokni Haerizadeh, Susan Hefuna, Iman Issa, Gulsun Karamustafa, Hassan Khan and Ahmed Mater, this exhibition features a diverse range of artistic voices and critical concerns from a rapidly evolving region and its international diaspora. The exhibition offers a cross-circulation of ideas rooted in science, mathematics and philosophy and raises urgent issues of migration and displacement in areas around the world, including Italy. A selection of drawings from Haerizadeh's But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, which lent the exhibition its title will be presented.
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Vikram Divecha
Co-Lab: contemporary art and savoir-faire March 4, 2018Louvre Abu Dhabi
Curated by Alia Zaal Lootah
Until 25 March
As part of the French-Emirati Cultural Programme, in collaboration with the Louvre Abu Dhabi, this exhibition is based on the collaboration between four artists living in the UAE and four well-known historical French manufacturers. Responding to the role of railways in the standardisation of time during the Industrial Revolution, Divecha introduces an intervention within the French Railway schedule as part of his collaboration with MTX - Broderie Architecturale. Through Saint-Lazare train station, a train journey from Paris to Rouen is captured by Claude Monet and revisited by Divecha in an attempt to question our perception of time.
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Vikram Divecha
Untold Stories Retold March 4, 2018Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi
7 March - 24 June
Warehouse421 restages UAE's participation at two recent national exhibitions from the Venice Biennale's International Art Exhibition (2017) and International Architecture Exhibition (2016). Curated by Hammad Nasar, Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play features works by Vikram Divecha, Nujoom Alghanem, Sara Al Haddad, Lantian Xie and Dr Mohamed Yousif, and explores a strand of artistic practice in the UAE through the analogy of play.
Commissioned by the UAE Pavilion, the Haerizadeh brothers and Hesam Rahmanian fashioned a playground in book form, which is included in the accompanying catalogue and serves both as an additional site of the exhibition and as its speculative expansion featuring works over 40 pages by the artists.
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Vikram Divecha
Beej, 2017 March 4, 2018Al Naba'ah, Sharjah
With support from Shurooq and Sharjah Art Foundation, an underground water tank and pump were recently installed in a roundabout in Al Naba'ah residential area to meet the harvest season from February - April and November - January for Vikram's project for Sharjah Biennial 13.
In June 2017, Divecha created a site-specific installation by activating a potential for farming in a roundabout in Al Naba'ah residential area. He invited municipal workforce, who look after Sharjah's landscaping, to bring vegetable and grain seeds of their choice from their family farms in Lahore and Punjab. They sowed these seeds in the roundabout, which now becomes host to span several cycles of sowing and harvesting. Beej calls into question the position of the gardeners' in relation to the land that they cultivate, both in Pakistan and in the UAE. The unregistered seeds highlight the movement, presence and status of those who tend them. Participating gardeners are Sajad Hussain Bughio, Muhammad Saleem Manzoor Ahmed and Muhammad Shabbir Ahmad Din.
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HASSAN SHARIF: INTEREXCHANGE SYMPOSIUM
January 31, 2018Gallery 5, Al Mureijah Square
Sharjah Art Foundation
Wednesday, 31 January
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Coinciding with the major retrospective Hassan Sharif: I am the Single Work Artist, Sharjah Art Foundation is organising Hassan Sharif: Interexchange Symposium, which will host a group of critics and artists to explore Sharif's five-decade career.
The exhibition runs until Saturday, 3 February
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Hassan Sharif Experiment - Watercolour, 2009 Set of 4 works Watercolour and pencil on paper 38.3 x 28.4 cm each
ART GENEVE 2018
January 15, 2018Booth C39
Palexpo Geneva
1 - 4 February
Preview: 31 January
We are pleased to participate in Art Genéve with works by German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian and Hassan Sharif. The booth highlights Sharif and Redjaian's critical approach of using the grid as a measurement tool and foundation for their compositions, allowing for chance and repetition.
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Hassan Sharif, The Laws of Chance, 1984, ink and pencil on paper, mounted on board, 49 x 66.5 cm
Hassan Sharif : Semi Systems
Alexander Gray Associates January 4, 2018Exhibition Dates: 4 January - 10 February, 2018
Alexander Gray Associates presents Hassan Sharif: Semi Systems, the Gallery's fourth exhibition of work by the artist (b.1951, Iran - d.2016, Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Focused on Sharif's use of the grid, geometry, and repetitive gesture, the exhibition includes work in a variety of media made as early as 1982 until his death in 2016.
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The Materials Man of the Emirates
HASSAN SHARIF December 28, 2017The Emirati artist Hassan Sharif (1951-2016), who has a sensational retrospective at the Sharjah Art Foundation here on the edge of the Persian Gulf, was a born contrarian. Working in a range of seemingly unrelated media and styles, he made art that belongs to no locatable culture, or maybe to several. Dodging definitions, he referred to himself, half-jokingly, as a nomad, though he didn't live like one. Apart from a few youthful years in England, he spent his entire life in the Gulf region, where he is revered today as a pioneer.
Extract from The New York Times, click here to read the full article
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Hassan Sharif Chair No. 2, 2008 Acrylic on paper 59.3 x 42 cm
ABU DHABI ART 2017
November 8, 2017Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Focus: Beyond Territory
Booth X1-12
8 - 11 November
Preview: 7 November
We are pleased to participate in Abu Dhabi Art with works on paper, paintings and objects by Hassan Sharif in Focus: Beyond Territory, the newly-added solo section curated by Omar Kholeif. Additionally, a large-scale work by Vikram Divecha will be featured in the main atrium of Manarat Al Saadiyat, alongside works by Mohammed Kazem from the Kisses series in Gateway, curated by Maya Allison.
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The Sun Shines on a Graveyard and a Garden Alike, and the Rain a Loyal Man from a Traitor Knows Not, 2015-17
ROKNI HAERIZADEH
ROKNI HAERIZADEH WINS THE OGR AWARD November 6, 2017Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde congratulates Rokni Haerizadeh for winning the OGR Award for his on going Fictionville series. The works were chosen for their engaging images that find overtones in the contemporary world. The artist extends the boundaries of painting to transform news, photographs and images of current events into mythological visions that reveal a corrupt circus of humanised beasts and other unreal creatures, all inserted in a fantasy landscape. Haerizadeh sees art in everyday life, without drawing boundaries between the two worlds. The international jury composed of Fawz Kabra, New York-based independent curator, Abaseh Mirvali, independent curator of contemporary art and architecture based between Mexico City and Berlin, and Nicola Ricciardi, artistic director of OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino, chose Haerizadeh's works from 206 galleries participating at Artissima. The exceptional approach taken by the OGR Award makes collaborations with the winning artist possible; to further explore enlightening and immersive artistic practices.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Hassan Sharif: I am the Single Work Artist November 4, 2017Sharjah Art Foundation
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi
4 November 2017 - 3 February 2018
In the making for several years, this landmark retrospective will include Hassan Sharif's diverse body of work from the early 1970s to 2016. On view in Al Mureijah Square and Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square, the exhibition will encompass Sharif's early newspaper caricature and comic strip drawings, Semi-System works, performances, paintings and 'urban archeology' objects.
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Rokni Haerizadeh The Sun Shines on a Graveyard and a Garden Alike, and the Rain a Loyal Man from a Traitor Knows Not, 2015-17 Gouache, gesso, watercolour and ink on printed paper 29.7 x 42 cm
ARTISSIMA 2017
November 3, 2017Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin
Disegni
Booth DS 05
3 - 5 November
Preview: 2 November
We are pleased to participate in Artissima in the newly-added Disegni section with works by Dubai-based Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh from his celebrated Fictionville series. The booth will explore the visual narrative of these works, where the artist isolates still and moving images from news media and transforms them with expressive painterly gestures into scenes of grotesque fantasy and ribald humour.
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The Maids, 2017 Chromogenic print 55 x 75 cm Edition of 3 + 3 AP
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Maids October 28, 2017MACBA: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
28 October 2017 - 8 January 2018
Recipients of the second edition of Han Nefkens/MACBA prize, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian present a collaborative exhibition at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The Maids is a multi-part exhibition created in response to the city of Barcelona, and the result of a two-year process the artists call "an assembling of a collective body." As artists, collaboration is central to their practice. Their goal is to create more equitable forms of artistic exchange by inviting different makers to contribute freely and independently to ongoing works in progress.
For their MACBA project, the artists sought out Joan Baixas, the famed Catalan puppet artist and stage director whose work they have long admired. They also extended invitations to artist Niyaz Azadikhah, who has been leading community-based women's sewing workshops in Tehran; John Cole, a robotics engineer who specialises in sensors; and an international group of writers, including Mandana Mohit and Sohrab Mahdavi.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Ways of Seeing September 22, 2017Villa Empain | Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
22 September 2017 - 18 February 2018
Taking its cue from John Berger's 1972 groundbreaking text on visual culture, the eponymous exhibition explores the various formalistic strategies that artists employ to re-configure our perception of the world. After its debut at ARTER, Istanbul, Ways of Seeing is on view at Villa Empain in Brussels and brings together works by 33 artists including Hassan Sharif's playful work Slippers (2016). The exhibition invites the viewer to investigate the manifold ways by which artists accord forms and concepts that are otherwise familiar with renewed appearances and meanings. Each of the artworks on display beckons us to take a second look, upon which the contours of a new reality begin to emerge.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
Hajj: Memories of a Journey August 30, 2017Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Until 19 March 2018
Mohammed Kazem presents works from his ongoing Space and Direction series in Hajj: Memories of a Journey that documents the legacy of the arduous and challenging routes that pilgrims travelled across continents, through the show's largest section dedicated to Journeys. Organised by Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre in collaboration with TCA Abu Dhabi, this exhibition coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Grand Mosque's opening.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds) August 1, 2017The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit
Curated by Reem Fadda, Fawz Kabra and Yara Abbas
Until 15 December
Mohammed Kazem participates in Jerusalem Lives, a group exhibition that attempts to study and examine the city of Jerusalem as a case study, a microcosm or condensed laboratory that metaphorically represents globalisation and its failures, and to find answers that inspire us to struggle for a better future.
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Haleh Redjaian The Journey of a Volume Along the Line of Time, 2017 Watercolour on note paper 28.5 x 19.5 cm
FRIEZE NEW YORK 2017
May 5, 2017Focus, Booth D11
Randall's Island Park
5 - 7 May
Preview: 4 May
We are pleased to return to the sixth edition of Frieze New York with works by Emirati artist Hassan Sharif and Berlin-based Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian. The booth highlights the artists' critical approach of using the grid as a measurement tool and foundation for their composition, allowing for chance and repetition. Both Sharif and Redjaian's works are presented within a more formally and visually similar framework to investigate how this philosophy translates into their three-dimensional objects, hand-woven carpets and works on paper.
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HASSAN SHARIF
Expérimentations April 6, 2017La Patinoire Royale, Brussels
Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff
Until 27 May
This exhibition renders an overview of Hassan Sharif's eclectic practice, from his early cartoons and performances to his recent paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations. The works included in the show continue his career-long investigation on where art can be found, what art is for, what our expectations are of it and how those limits can be usurped. "When I met Hassan in Dubai in 2014 and 2016, I discovered a few sketches of unrealised monumental sculptures that he later wanted to create for his exhibition at La Patinoire Royale. The scale of these Objects further reflects on Sharif's ideas of redundancy and uselessness," notes curator Hervé Mikaeloff.
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Vikram Divecha 300mm (W), 5mm (T), Yellow, Random Mark, Hand Marking, D88 Omar Bin Al Khattab St, LP 47, 2017 Thermoplastic paint and reflective glass particles on grey board 50 x 35 cm
ART DUBAI 2017
March 15, 2017Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
Booth E6
15 - 18 March
We are pleased to participate in the 11th edition of Art Dubai with works by Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem, Abdelkader Benchamma, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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HASSAN SHARIF
57th Venice Biennale February 13, 2017Viva Arte Viva
International Art Exhibition13 May - 26 November 2017
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to announce the inclusion of Hassan Sharif in the International Art Exhibition Viva Arte Viva, curated by Christine Macel for the 57th Venice Biennale.
Hassan Sharif is represented by Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, and gb agency, Paris.
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ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Artist in Residence February 12, 2017Beirut Art Residency
Until 28 February
Abdelkader Benchamma will be in residence at the Beirut Art Residency, a live-work space for artists/collectives looking to develop projects in a stimulating environment. The goal of the program is to facilitate collaboration between international as well as local artists. During their time, residents are encouraged to diverge from their usual practice and experiment with new ideas with the comfort of knowing that they are not expected to produce finished work at the culminating Open Studio event.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND HASSAN SHARIF
THE CREATIVE ACT: PERFORMANCE, PROCESS, PRESENCE February 12, 2017Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Curated by Valerie Hillings, Sasha Kalter-Wasserman, Sarah Dwider and Maisa Al Qassimi
Beginning 8 March
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection's second exhibition brings together artists of different nationalities and generations who have emphasised performance, process, and human presence in their practice, offering a transcultural perspective on these defining aspects of contemporary art. Among several early performances by Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem's Directions 2002, the exhibition will feature more than 25 works in a variety of media - installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video and works on paper, representing more than 18 artists.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND HASSAN SHARIF
But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Underground, 1988 - 2008 February 12, 2017NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Curated by Maya Allison and Bana Kattan
2 March - 25 May
Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem participate in But We Cannot See Them, an exhibition that surveys one of the most important artistic communities in the UAE's history with works by Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Saadi, Hussein Sharif, Vivek Vilasini, Jos Clevers and Ebtisam Abdulaziz. Community has played a key role in every modern art historical breakthrough, with artists banding together around manifestos, or turning to one another for support when art institutions rejected their innovations. Art communities grow out of critical and creative exchange among peers and mentors. This exhibition focuses on one community of artists, sometimes called "the five", at an intersection of visual artists, writers, and filmmakers based in the UAE. Its members identified with a "new culture" of encouraging radical, formal and conceptual experimentation. Eventually, some of these artists founded the celebrated Flying House.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND HASSAN SHARIF
Is Old Gold? February 12, 2017DUCTAC, The Gallery of Light, Dubai
Curated by Cristiana de Marchi and Muhannad Ali
21 February - 7 April
Predicated on curious desire to locate the spirit of experimentation that was present in the genesis of UAE avant-garde contemporary art practice, Is Old Gold? indirectly questions if, how and why this narrative has been aborted, lost or evolved and if it can or should be recovered in the current context. In a comparative experiment that takes the form of a fictional narrative, two artists from the contemporary 'younger' generation of Emirati artists were assigned to work separately on a 'character' from the '5 UAE'. The experimental, productive structure of the exhibition reflects on the atelier atmosphere of innovative exchange initiated by Hassan Sharif and transmuted and sustained by four of his students - Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, Mohammed Kazem, Abdullah Al Saadi and Hussain Sharif.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence February 12, 2017Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Curated by Valerie Hillings, Sasha Kalter-Wasserman, Sarah Dwider and Maisa Al Qassimi
Beginning 8 March
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority has commissioned Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian to create an immersive and interactive installation for the second exhibition of works from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection. Entitled Another Happy Day (2016-17), the installation emphasises the resonance of the past in the present and the power of representation across time by charting a historical continuum from the 1930s to today. The multi-room installation will feature site-specific paintings, videos, and artworks by artists including Nargess Hashemi and Laleh Khorramian and from the artists' art collection. It will take visitors on a journey through distinctive yet interconnected episodes or acts that offer reflections on the nature of art and how we represent ourselves and the world in which we live through words, images, gestures, and movement.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Speak, Lokal February 12, 2017Kunsthalle Zurich
Curated by Daniel Baumann
4 March - 7 May
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian participate in Speak, Lokal, a group exhibition that focuses on how artists worldwide investigate and broach local conditions. All sorts of artistic practices come into play, from activism to "archivism", from photography to graphic novels, from documentaries to performances and research based communal efforts. Paradoxically, the restricted and highly connoted territory of the Local is perceived as a place of autonomy and liberation, a space where precision is possible and needed to uncover discrepancies and make a difference. If Speak, Lokal is foremost an optimistic proposition, it does not gloss over the ambiguity of the Local as it neighbours on the dangerous territories of nationalism, provincialism, and commercialism - a trend typified in the well-known slogan "Buy Local!" Perhaps, after all, the Local is just a fiction (or a phantasy) - albeit a powerful one. The trio will premiere their new rotoscope animation From Sea to Dawn, which sees them print almost 3000 stills from news footage, paint on each of the printed images, photograph the results and stitch them together to form the 6 minute 21 second video.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians February 12, 2017Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
Curated by Fereshteh Daftari
Until 4 June
Rokni Haerizadeh participates in Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, which looks at the use of power, humour, mysticism, and poetry in contemporary Iranian art to both openly and subversively critique subjects such as gender, politics, war, religion, and spirituality. Whether in Iran or in the diaspora, the artists' narratives have been informed by conditions triggered by the 1979 Revolution and by the pressures in the larger world. While some of the works in the exhibition reflect the socio-political tensions of the past 25 years, others transcend them to create all-embracing spaces free of strife.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA AND ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA
Sharjah Biennial 13 February 12, 2017Various Venues
Curated by Christine Tohme
10 March - 12 June
We are pleased to announce Vikram Divecha and Abdelkader Benchamma's participation in Sharjah Biennial 13, which unfolds in five parts from October 2016 through October 2017. Tamawuj, a noun in Arabic which is defined as a rising and falling in waves, but also a flowing, swelling, surging, fluctuation or a wavy undulating appearance outline or form, is reflective of SB13's aims to cultivate collaborations, infrastructures and strategies within Sharjah and the project localities. Divecha and Benchamma will create site-specific commissions for the Biennial, which poses questions around, and proposes answers to the conditions for the possibility of an art world.
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Vikram Divecha, Warehouse Project, 2016, Wholsesale goods, warehouse 82 (3444 sq. ft.), Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai
VIKRAM DIVECHA
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play January 18, 2017National Pavilion United Arab Emirates
57th Venice Biennale
Curated by Hammad Nasar
13 May - 26 November
The National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates at the 57th Venice Biennale presents works by five diverse artists including Vikram Divecha, Nujoom Alghanem, Lantian Xie, Sara Al Haddad and Mohamed Yousif. The exhibition will explore a strand of artistic practice in the UAE through the analogy of play. Featuring existing works, re-fabrication of 'lost' works and new commissions, the exhibition will stage a set of nested questions: Where does 'playfulness' in artistic practice come from? How and where is 'play' nurtured? What does 'play' do?
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Her Majesty?, 2014-15, Gesso, ink, acrylic and collage on printed paper, 150 spreads
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play January 18, 2017National Pavilion United Arab Emirates
57th Venice Biennale
Curated by Hammad Nasar
13 May - 26 November
While the exhibition explores notions of 'playfulness' in artistic practice, the role of 'play' and how it is nurtured, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will respond to this theme in the accompanying publication by overhauling a significant section of its pages. The book becomes an additional site of the exhibition and speculatively, its expansion. Through the hand of the three artists, a book is no more a book, relinquishing its original purpose to the conquering folds of a new work, which in turn spins a complex web of alternative images. The intervention will be at the fulcrum of their unique collaborative practice: characters fusing into one another, one artist may execute the ideas articulated by the others, the three often blurring together becoming composite.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
Residuals and the Anthology of Narcissism January 2, 2017Mandalay Hall, Kochi
Curated by Mo Reda
Unil 25 March
Mohammed Kazem's Pepper House residency culminated in a group exhibition Residuals and the Anthology of Narcissism, where he presents new works from his Direction series alongside works by Emirati artist Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim. Running in parallel with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the exhibition is supported by the Kochi Biennale Foundation and Maraya Art Centre, and is part of the Trans-Indian Ocean Artist Exchange that aims to facilitate and stimulate artistic exchange between the different regions of the Trans-Indian Ocean.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
Honolulu Biennial Foundation Residency January 2, 2017Shangri La Centre for Islamic Arts and Cultures, Honolulu
9 - 22 January
We are pleased to announce Mohammed Kazem's residency at Shangri La Centre for Islamic Arts and Cultures, as part of the inaugural Honolulu Biennial. At the end of the residency, Kazem will preview his work during the museum's Night Shift programme - an event that is part of Shangri La's on going experimental #OpenShangriLa series. Built in 1937, Shangri La supports several artists and scholar residencies each year. Previous residencies include visual artists Shahzia Sikander, Walid Raad and Afruz Amighi, among others.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
Sweeping January 1, 2017March Project 2016
Sharjah Art Foundation
Until 19 February
Vikram Divecha participates in the third edition of March Project 2016 exhibition, which features site-specific works developed by five artists during an educational residency programme. Divecha presents a new body of work, entitled Sweeping (2016) where he remaps the routes of five sweepers to converge towards the Sharjah Art Museum building. Every day a team of sweepers clean the streets of Al Shuwaihean neighbourhood that surrounds the museum building. Each sweeper is assigned a specific route, which they silently map while collecting the refuse in green trash bags and depositing them on the sidewalk to create a temporary public sculpture in sight of the museum building. The work disorders the waste management process and frames an encounter between the quotidian neighbourhood and the public institution that sits within it, enacted by the sweepers' routines and the detritus they sweep.
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VIKRAM DIVECHA
Binary States, India - UAE January 1, 2017Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Until 29 March
As part of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the satellite exhibition Binary States, India - UAE explores the bilateral relations between India and UAE across multiple disciplines, where Vikram Divecha presents Veedu (Malayalam for house), a film highlighting aspects of the strong community from Kerala living and working in the UAE. Building a house in their native city holds a lot of importance for these expats. These houses take many shapes, and are at times influenced by architecture from the Gulf. The remittances that are directed towards these houses take many forms - from aesthetics to arab-ness, from longing to pride. Following the design process of two house plans, this film will be shaped by exchanges between UAE-based clients and a Kerala-based architectural firm. Besides highlighting Emirati-Indian ties through various media and topics, the exhibition also celebrates the overlapping elements in Emirati-Indian cultures, which date back to decades of social, urban, and economic ties.
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AISHA KHALID
Two Worlds As One December 1, 2016Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Until 19 February 2017
Aisha Khalid presents a solo show Two Worlds as One at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Inspired by Islamic mysticism, known as Sufism, Khalid focuses on issues such as women's roles, identity, power structures and Western preconceptions about her native Pakistan through detailed, poetic miniature patterns and sensuous works made out of textiles and embroidery. In this exhibition, she examines how familiar elements associated with safety, home and domesticity can be transformed in her imagery, taking on new - and very different - meanings.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Social Calligraphies December 1, 2016Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Curated by Magda Kardasz, in cooperation with Magdalena Komornicka
Until 31 January 2017
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's participate in Social Calligraphies, a group exhibition featuring works by artists from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. The exhibition looks at history, culture, or the political, social, and economic problems of the artists' home countries from a distance, and presenting them in a broader framework. The theme of the show touches upon issues of identity, aesthetics of disappearance, war and culture, the archeology of future (set between the realm of local legends and science fiction), geometry and architecture, the position of women (in between tradition and global dreams), and the role of the artist. The Haerizadeh brothers and Rahmanian present a video animation Big Rock Candy Mountain (2015) and a film Chai-e Iran (2013).
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ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Inverted December 1, 2016Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno - CAAM, Las Palmas
Curated by Katrin Steffen
Until 8 January 2017
Zoulikha Bouabdellah presents more than 30 works featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, video and performance for her solo exhibition at CAAM. This exhibition marks Bouabdellah's largest solo in Europe, and traces her multidisciplinary practice echoing a profound historical and political significance, deeply rooted in formal and conceptual subtleties. The challenge of gender roles, social norms and taboos and of their influence on identity formation is a central theme in Bouabdellah's artistic creation. With a fine sense of subversive humour, she stands up against projections, stereotypes and clichés. Bouabdellah actively references European art history in order to focus on concepts of femininity and to provide re-interpretations.
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Hassan Sharif, Elementary Colours, 2014, Iron, copper wire and acrylic on canvas, 109 x 55 x 6 cm
ARTISSIMA 2016
November 4, 2016Hassan Sharif
Main Section
Booth Black 12
Oval, Lingotto Fiere, Turin
Preview and Vernissage: 3 November
4 - 6 November
As a continuation of Involved in Nonsense - a solo presentation dedicated to Hassan Sharif's early practice in Back to the Future at Artissima in 2015 - this year we are pleased to present the artist's recent Objects, which he started creating in the 1980s.
Always questioning the functional and the useless, the found and the created, Sharif transformed consumer products and waste into complex assemblages and weavings. In his Objects, he raised concerns about consumerism and social order, the human body and the physical evidence of our times. According to the artist, his Objects are the vernacular aesthetics of everything that is 'useless, meaningless and artificial' and illustrate an important truth about the world we live in. Weaving them together with rope, coil and twine, the heaps and bundles that he created became a visualisation of the surplus of mass-production - the commonly unseen by product of the UAE's globalised, consumerist society that developed since the country's formation.
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AISHA KHALID
Two Worlds as One October 7, 2016Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
7 October - 19 February 2017
We are pleased to announce Aisha Khalid's solo show Two Worlds as One at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Inspired by Islamic mysticism, known as Sufism, Khalid focuses on issues such as women's roles, identity, power structures and Western preconceptions about her native Pakistan through detailed, poetic miniature patterns and sensuous works made out of textiles and embroidery. In this exhibition, she examines how familiar elements associated with safety, home and domesticity can be transformed in her imagery, taking on new - and very different - meanings.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
Artist in Residence October 6, 2016Pepper House, Kochi
Curated by Mo Reda9 October - 6 November
In collaboration with Maraya Art Centre, the Kochi Biennale Foundation has invited Mohammed Kazem for a one-month residency, which will culminate in an exhibition at the Mandalay Hall during the Kochi-Muziris Biennale this December.
The Pepper House Residency programme is an international residency opportunity for artists from all disciplines to work and collaborate within a studio space situated at the Pepper House, Fort Kochi. The space of the Pepper House Residency consists of extensive studio facilities (for production), the Laboratory of Visual Arts library (for research), and the Pepper House cafe (for dialogue). The residency is structured on the idea of a three-dimensional approach to creativity in which the idea of artistic practice is supported by its two necessary extensions - public interaction and inquiry.
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ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Inverted October 6, 2016Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno - CAAM, Las Palmas
Curated by Katrin Steffen
27 October - 8 January 2017
Zoulikha Bouabdellah presents more than 30 works featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, video and performance for her solo exhibition at CAAM. This exhibition marks Bouabdellah's largest solo in Europe, and traces her multidisciplinary practice that has a profound historical and political significance, deeply rooted in formal and conceptual subtleties.
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Vikram Divecha
September 28, 2016We are very pleased to announce that Vikram Divecha has joined the gallery's roster of artists.
Vikram Divecha (born 1977, Beirut) is a Mumbai-raised artist based in the UAE. He has developed a research-based, pedestrian practice in Dubai, where he is constantly negotiating for existing space, material and labour, to work with what he terms 'found processes' - forces and capacities that prevail in a society. Divecha works with urban processes and systems within state, social and industrial spheres and situates his practice in these operations to examine, intervene and extract the various layers of a given situation. In doing so, he withdraws himself from the final result to let the 'found processes' take over the works, which are not necessarily for the hermetic world of white cubes, but out in the streets and populated places. After introducing a set of parameters, Divecha engages in slow processes that would then evolve in an autonomous manner. Through his engagement with members of the community such as municipal gardeners, rock-blasting engineers, street sweepers and other diverse faculties, he creates idiosyncratic situations that translate into public art, permanent fixtures, sculptural installations and video works.
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Photo by Maaziar Sadr
Hassan Sharif | 1951 - 2016
September 19, 2016We remember the life and artistic legacy of Hassan Sharif who passed away on Sunday, September 18, 2016 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the age of 65 years old.
Sharif's exact date of birth is unknown, nor did it really matter to him. He didn't put stock in conventions of age, identity or the need for comfort. Only art and the restless making of art grasped his attention. He was a prolific cultural producer and facilitator, moving between roles as artist, educator, critic, activist, and mentor.
His career as an artist began in Dubai and Sharjah in the 1970s, working as a satirical caricaturist, highlighting a rapidly changing United Arab Emirates at the dawn of its formation. In 1979, Sharif is awarded a scholarship to the United Kingdom where he studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and returned five years later to the UAE, with the goal of establishing an art practice and building an audience for contemporary art in the Gulf region. The young country was an unlikely setting for an artist with a taste for provocation but his work found exactly the resistance that stimulated him. With determination, Sharif began a life-long pursuit to expand the definitions of art and the role of artists.
For his earliest experimental work of the 1980s, Sharif brought friends to the edges of Dubai and they were the audience for his performances - jumping in the desert, tying rope between rocks - using apparently simple gestures to pointedly question ideals of technical skill, mastery, and accomplishment. Always questioning the functional and the useless, the found and the created, he transformed consumer products and waste into complex assemblages and weavings in his ongoing series "Objects". In these works, Sharif raised concerns about consumerism and social order, the human body and the physical evidence of our times. He was fascinated by the errors and flaws that arise in rigid systems, utilizing them in his large body of "Semi-system" drawings. Across his diverse work, he believed that flaws in such systems are ultimately creative ruptures.
Internationally recognized as a pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Sharif served as a colleague and mentor to generations of Emirati artists. He believed that art was not only practice to be expanded and shared, but also a catalyst for community. In the early 1980's, he founded the Al Marijah Art Atelier in Sharjah, and was a founding member of the Emirates Fine Art Society and of the Art Atelier in the Youth Theater and Arts, Dubai. In 2005, he was one of four artists to establish The Flying House, a Dubai art space dedicated to promoting contemporary Emirati artists. The first Emirati to have his work shown in the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, Sharif was also among the selected artists to represent the U.A.E. during its first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Sharif's artwork is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, U.A.E.; the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, U.A.E.; the Sittard Center, The Netherlands; and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., and Guggenheim, New York, U.S.A.
Hassan Sharif will be remembered for his gentle and generous spirit and his playful attitude. The legacy of his artistic journey will inspire artists and audiences, having left an indelible mark on Middle Eastern art history and the global art world.
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Abdelkader Benchamma
The Great Invisible Battle September 9, 2016Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona
9 September - 6 November
We are pleased to announce Abdelkader Benchamma's solo exhibition The Great Invisible Battle at the Sala Project, where he directly intervenes with the walls to create a large scale installation in which he also incorporates some of his earlier drawings on paper. Benchamma takes the 1942 photograph and short film The Los Angeles Battle as the departure point for this exhibition and highlights the impossibility of an objective interpretation of an iconic event.
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Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif
Yinchuan Biennale September 8, 2016For an Image, Faster Than Light
MOCA Yinchuan
Curated by Bose Krishnamachari
9 September - 18 December
We are pleased to announce Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem's participation in the inaugural edition of Yinchuan Biennale, which will witness more than 80 international artists representing all facets of the global spectrum and from all parts (east-west, north-south) working on contemporary issues that the world has to contend with. The exhibition will be held on the premises of MOCA Yinchuan and will include an engaging display of artworks both inside and outside the museum.
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Vikram Divecha
Portrait Sessions September 7, 2016Tashkeel, Dubai
7 September - 13 October
During the year-long Critical Practice Programme 2015-16 at Tashkeel, Vikram Divecha closely collaborated with Debra Levine to present a project that questions positions of value through the context of time and money. Portrait Sessions invites a spectrum of self-identified 'non-professional painters' to become 'the artist' and to paint Divecha's portrait. The duration of each portrait session is determined by how much time AED 150 can buy according to each 'artist's' professional rate. Providing participants with a 65 x 50 cm primed canvas paper, acrylic paints and brushes, Divecha will be the only model during the sessions until the end of the exhibition on 13 October.
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Haleh Redjaian
in sequence September 2, 2016Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Curated by Wolfgang Fetz and Jörg van den Berg
2 September - 20 November
German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian's solo at Bregenzer Kunstverein looks at the line and its subsequent multiplication by inviting the viewers to engage with its supposed regularity and then losing themselves in its underlying faults. By taking the line as a departure point in her works on paper, handwoven rugs and installations, Redjaian creates ornate, gridded patterns that suggest a rational tangibility of the world. Her work undermines any logical explanation and opens up to poetical interpretation.
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Abdelkader Benchamma
Another world (((in our world))) June 12, 20162 June - 16 July
Galerie du jour, Paris
Another world (((in our world))) is a comprehensive exploration of fields of learning on the frontiers of science, tradition, science fiction, the fantastic and, in fine, the real. It reactivates a quest for wisdom aiming to transcend the apparent contradiction between materialism and spiritualism, positing an ontology of the mystery based on an interdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of art and technology, transhumanism and shamanism, alchemy and nanotechnology, esotericism and quantum physics, the demonstrable and the imaginary. Focusing on the notion of fantastic realism, as laid out by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in Le matin des magiciens (The Morning of the Magicians, 1960) and Planète (Planet), the book's spinoff periodical, Another world (((in our world))) seeks to revitalize the concept and bring it to new audiences in a hybrid event-part-group exhibition, part-colloquium, part-laboratory for epistemological experimentation. -
Zoulikha Bouabdellah
Loop Art Fair, Barcelona June 2, 20162 – 4 June
Zoulikha Bouabdellah participates in Loop Art Fair in Barcelona and presents Envers/Endroit (Obverse/Reverse), which consists of an overlay, in the same plane, of scenes inspired by paintings that made a mark on Art History: Olympia by Edouard Manet, 1863, Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of her Sisters by an unknown artist from the School of Fontainebleau, 1594, and The Three Graces by Raphael, 1505. This juxtaposition of details from different paintings creates a visual dynamic in which feet meet a hand, sponging a leg, that itself seems to caress the cheek of a sleeping woman.
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Mohammed Kazem
Artist in Residence May 12, 2016Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon
12 May - 23 June
Mohammed Kazem will take part in a six-week residency at Seoul Art Space in collaboration with Maraya Art Centre, during which Kazem will also participate in Geumcheon's Open Studios exhibitions.
Seoul Art Space is a creative space dedicated to visual art, remodeled in October 2009 from an old print works located in Doksan-dong. It provides the local community with an opportunity to enjoy culture through its various programmes. 130 visual artists (or teams) from 24 countries have moved in since it opened. Its programme includes exhibitions, workshops shared with with students and residents, and open studios. Maraya Art Centre's residency programme is designed to support emerging and mid-career contemporary UAE artists and designers. Working with institutions internationally, Maraya sends UAE-based artists overseas and hosts up to three residents per year.
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Photo by Maaziar Sadr
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Liverpool Biennial 2016 May 8, 20169 July - 16 October 2016
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian have been commissioned to create a series of installations, performances and sculptures for Liverpool Biennial 2016. This will be realised through a wide range of media permeating throughout the city, with artwork revolving around the question "What if?", creating new narratives as audiences explore Liverpool Biennial. At Cains Brewery, they will create work on-site, using 'smuggled' objects shipped from Dubai to Liverpool by container.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Frieze New York | Covered the Fingernails in Petals of Dahlia May 5, 2016Focus, Booth A16
Randall's Island Park, New York
5 - 8 May
We are pleased to announce our participation in Frieze New York with Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, where the conquering folds of a new work imagined by the Iranian artist trio have transformed the New York Times-published Obama: The Historic Journey (2009) into a tale of our times. An onslaught of tropes sprung from globalized corporate visual culture, collaged onto the individually traced pages of the original book, cast a silhouetted Obama as the ultimate business manager. Strategies of concealing and revealing unfold across these pages, as the original images peer out from behind the masking of collaged imagery. The 27 drawings are excerpted moments from the wider sequence, freeze-framed and contemplated-a glimpse of the curtain being lifted on a largely unfathomable collaborative creation that ultimately seems to be the product of a sole hand.
Read full essay by Kevin Jones
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Zoulikha Bouabdellah
Objets de desir May 4, 2016Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid
Until 3 June
We are pleased to announce Zoulikha Bouabdellah's third solo show at Sabrina Amrani gallery. In Objets de désir, Bouabdellah explores the space between the desire to possess and the object of desire itself. The object of desire does not exist in itself, but is its inaccessibility that gives value to it. The aura vanishes in the moment the object of desire is accessed, the platonic love is metabolised into a body, the fetish is emptied of meaning.
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Mohammed Kazem
Honolulu Biennial April 24, 2016Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Curated by Fumio NanjoSpring 2017
We are pleased to announce Mohammed Kazem's participation in the inaugural Honolulu Biennial, which will be curated by Mori Art Museum's Fumio Nanjo and opens in Spring 2017.
The Honolulu Biennial Foundation (HBF) supports the local arts infrastructure with a global outreach and launches the Honolulu Biennial next year, which marks Hawaii's first entry into the international biennial circuit. The first edition of the Honolulu Biennial will focus on art from the Pacific, the Asian continent and the Americas. Throughout the year, HBF serves the local community by presenting educational outreach programs with an emphasis on programming for Hawaii's youth, focused on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math), as well as exhibitions for the local arts community.
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Hassan Sharif, Haleh Redjaian and Rokni Haerizadeh
ART BRUSSELS April 22, 201622 - 24 April
Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
Prime Booth B50
We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Brussels with a prime booth featuring works by Emirati artist Hassan Sharif and German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian, where a formal comparison will be drawn between the 3D weaving techniques and works on paper by both artists. The booth will be an investigation of Sharif and Redjaian's critical approach of using the grid as a measurement tool and foundation for their composition, allowing for chance and repetition.
Solo Booth B50-S
The solo booth will centre on a video animation Letter! (2014) by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh, which uses footage from a Femen protest, and shows how the protest is turned into its own hysterical, violent and performative spectacle once the gaze of the media is present. Haerizadeh refers to his videos as 'moving paintings' to emphasise the pulse of the video. He purposely doesn't refer to them as animations as he's not tracing a movement between frames, instead, each movement is enacted in these individual hand-painted frames to create an erratic pulse, and also merges thousand of individual paintings into one durational piece.
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Hassan Sharif
Embodying | Published by Sharjah Art Foundation April 21, 2016Hassan Sharif and Cristiana de Marchi's book Embodying, reflects on Sharif's early performances, each corresponding to 29 poems by de Marchi, where she is narrating and animating, almost bringing these documented performances back to life. In the early 1980s and 1990s, Sharif carried out a series of performances without an audience and had them photographed in colour or black and white by close friends or other artists. This documentation of the artist's movements shows how pointless and meaningless these actions and mundane activities appear to be when taken out of context.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH AND MOHAMMED KAZEM
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise April 21, 2016Guggenheim, New York, USA
Curated by Sara Raza
29 April - 5 October
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise is the third exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative and borrows its title from the 24 recently-acquired drawings by Haerizadeh. The exhibition illuminates contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East and North Africa and the region's diaspora by presenting a selection of newly acquired works for the Guggenheim's permanent collection. Kazem will participate with a large scroll work, entitled Scratches on Paper, which was also part of the 12th Sharjah Biennial. Following its presentation in New York, the exhibition will travel to Istanbul's Pera Museum in 2017.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM AND HASSAN SHARIF
Portrait of a Nation April 11, 2016Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE
11 April - 10 MayMohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif participate in Portrait of a Nation, a group exhibition celebrating the 20 years of Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (ADMAF) and featuring works by 50 Emirati artists. Divided in seven different thematic areas, the works explore topics of Nation and Unity, Geography and Nature, Architecture and Urbanism, Portraiture and Identity, Religion and Spirituality, Language and Calligraphy, and Tradition and Heritage. The exhibition captures the ever-changing face of the visual arts in the United Arab Emirates through a work from Sharif's Objects, which are sculptural assemblages constructed from mass-produced materials and created via random and arbitrary rules, and Kazem's performative work Photographs with a Flag, in which the artist stands next to small flags that neither represent countries, corporations or institutions, but are merely pieces of cloth in different colours, set into a space of ground in Dubai's Al Mamzar area.
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Hassan Sharif
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA April 7, 20167 April - 14 May 2016
Hassan Sharif presents a solo show at New York's Alexander Gray Associates, featuring sculptures and woven assemblages. Recognised as a pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practices in the United Arab Emirates over the past four decades, Sharif has transgressed traditional frameworks for art making by extending his practice to performance, installation, drawing, painting, and assemblage that integrates ordinary objects as the primary medium. The tapestry-like works in this exhibition are conceptually linked by their relationship with the human body and social structures.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Madame Tussauds Cellar, 2015-16
Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
March 24, 2016Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Booth 3C2724 - 26 March
We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Hong Kong with a collaborative booth by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, where the trio will continue a theatrical approach to exhibition making by presenting an accumulation of collages, watercolours, paintings and assemblages produced collectively and individually. The booth conveys as much insight into their practice - the ritual of living and working together - as it is a playful affront to the romantic notion of the solitary, singular artist, and his work.
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Hassan Sharif, Weaving, 2015 Various fabrics, cotton thread, cotton rope, paper, glue and emulsion paint 172 x 115 x 10 cm
ART DUBAI 2016
March 16, 2016Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
Booth E816 - 19 March
We are pleased to participate in the 10th edition of Art Dubai with works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Hassan Sharif, Haleh Redjaian, Mohammed Kazem and Xu Qu. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Her Majesty? March 15, 2016Published by Edition Patrick Frey
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's Her Majesty? is a limited edition facsimile where the trio have completely overhauled the XL coffee table publication, which was published by Taschen Verlag in 2012 about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty? is now available at the gallery and each book comes with a unique, handmade cover of only 600 copies.For more information and to order a copy online, please click here.
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MOHAMMED KAZEM
My Neighbours March 14, 2016Main Entrance, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
Until 6 July
As part of Alserkal Avenue's Programming for Art Week 2016, Mohammed Kazem presents a site-specific installation My Neighbours, which consists of images from his 2006 photograph series of the same name. These photographs were taken over the course of several days looking outside from the artist's window in Al Quoz. A clothesline hangs at the bottom of each image, his neighbour's clothes hung out to dry, changing with every passing day. The only constant among the photos is a wide expanse of clear blue sky. In a city like Dubai, with very little public spaces, the sky holds out the promise of a shared space, a common that encompasses us all.
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Hassan Sharif: Objects and Files
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar Curated by Laura Barlow March 10, 2016Until 4 September
Hassan Sharif's solo exhibition at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art includes a selection of works from the museum's collection such as object installations and artist archives made between 1981 and 1987. During these years, Sharif established new, self-imposed system of repetition, duration, and chance in the execution of his work. These methodologies have driven a practice spanning 40 years that mischievously confront our material and immaterial complicity with production of art and culture, as well as commodoties and industry. The exhibition shows key works through which Sharif asserts the role of art and the artist in writing new visual languages to disseminate critical debates on the political, economic and cultural layers of the society.
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BITA FAYYAZI
Ceramix March 9, 2016La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Until 12 JuneBita Fayyazi participates in Ceramix at La Maison Rouge with her iconic ceramic Cockroaches installation, which was first exhibited at the 6th Biennial of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Tehran in 1998. With over 250 pieces from international museums and private collections, this exhibition presents works by 20th and 21st century artists such as Matisse, Rodin, Picasso, Thomas Schütte and Ai Weiwei, among others.
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Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Still from the animation Big Rock Candy Mountain, 2015
ARCOMadrid
February 24, 2016IFEMA - Feria de Madrid, Spain
Booth 7D12
24 - 28 February
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We are pleased to participate in the 35th edition of ARCOmadrid where Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will present works from the Big Rock Candy Mountain series.
Much of the artists' work involves the appropriation of images and objects from magazines, markets, the Internet and mass media. In preparation for Big Rock Candy Mountain, they printed 1000 stills from news footage, painted on each of the printed images, photographed the results, and stitched them together to form the video. The source imagery depicts the destruction of cultural artefacts in war-torn countries like Syria and Iraq by individuals affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS). By slowing down the imagery, the artists discover obscure details, relationships, and editing techniques that they intensify through their own manipulations, including doubling, collage, and figurative drawing. -
Ramin Haerizadeh
Memory and Continuity February 24, 2016Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Until 1 May
Ramin Haerizadeh participates in Memory and Continuity, which features works from the Huma Kabakci Collection that Nahit Kabakci began to put together in the 1980s. The collection is considered one of the most important examples of the few consciously created and well-sustained collections in Turkey. Preserved and upheld by two generations, the collection's affiliated and divergent points are brought to the fore in this exhibition.
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Zoulikha Bouabdellah
Cross-Border: Video works by contemporary artists from the Southern Mediterranean February 21, 2016Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirura, New Zealand
Until 15 MayWe are pleased to announce Zoulikha Bouabdellah's participation in Cross-Border: Video works by contemporary artists from the Southern Mediterranean, which coincides with Wellington's International Arts Festival and features video works from the ZKM's 2013 exhibition Cross-Border by artists such as Amal Kenawy, Rana ElNemr, Reem Ghazzi, Susan Hefuna, Emily Jacir and Katia Kameli.
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Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif
1980-Today: Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates February 13, 2016The Flying Saucer, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah UAE
Curated by Hoor Al QasimiUntil 14 May
As presented at the National Pavilion of the UAE in the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale, 1980-Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates is now on view in Sharjah and looks at the history of exhibition making in the United Arab Emirates over the last 40 years. The emergence of art practices in the UAE is presented here through a selection of over 100 works by 15 Emirati artists.
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The exhibition is built upon extensive research involving archives of newspaper articles, artists' writings, and catalogues, as well as interviews with artists and cultural practitioners. Reflecting personal and geopolitical trajectories, the research focused on the underexposed historical record and evolving practices of some of the UAE's most important modernist and contemporary artists. -
Hassan Sharif
Looking at the World Around You. Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums February 9, 2016Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
Curated by Abdellah Karroum and Fatma Mostafawi
Until 19 June
Hassan Sharif participates in Looking at the World Around You. Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, which is held in collaboration with Madrid's Fundación Banco Santander.
The exhibition includes works that traverse nearly two centuries of artistic production across three continents. Conceiving of art as a way of looking at the world around you, of proposing a multitude of interpretations and ideas for changing perceptions, the exhibition is itself an invitation to look again and see anew; an invitation, in other words, to rethink the alignment of histories and how to make sense of the world today.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Flow Series February 8, 2016Auditori Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Aragó 255, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
8 February at 7.30 pm
We are pleased to announce Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's participation in Flow Series #2, where they will be in conversation with Rosa Lleo, founder of The Green Parrot.
Flow Series a programme promoted by the Fundació Han Nefkens and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies with the aim of bringing together members of the art world from different continents and contexts. Encounters focussing on an artist and their ongoing work are the object of a conversation followed by a meal. An invitation to discuss the implications of a global dimension in the work of contemporary artists while sampling the edible creations of local artists.
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ZOULIKHA BOUABDELLAH
Lucy's Iris. Contemporary African Women Artists January 30, 2016Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Until 12 June
Zoulikha Bouabdellah participates in Lucy's Iris. Contemporary African Women Artists, a group exhibition featuring installation, photography, video, painting, drawing and sculpture by 20 artists, each of whom addresses issues of gender, identity, ethnic groups, body, borders, territory and environment, history, memory, politics, tradition and present, feminism, colonial and postcolonial issues, migration and displacement, among others. -
Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem
Do It [In Arabic] January 23, 2016Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Until 23 March
We are pleased to announce Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif's participation in Do It [In Arabic], in which more than 60 participating artists will create written instructions that will allow anyone to make a new work of art. The exhibition is a new iteration of Hans Ulrich Obrist's project, which began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between Obrist, photographer Christian Boltanski and artist Bertrand Lavier.
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Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem
In Search of Lost Time January 21, 2016Brunei Gallery, London, UK
Curated by Amal Khalaf, Abdel Al Kadiri and Abdulnasser Gharem
Until 19 March
We are pleased to announce Mohammed Kazem and Hassan Sharif's participation in In Search of Lost Time. The exhibition, commissioned by The British Council in association with Brunei Gallery, presents works that explore the complex relationship between image, speed and time in the Gulf. In doing so, the exhibition aims to provoke a discussion about the role of art and culture in the region through the works of Rajaa Khalid, Jafar Islah, Sami Mohammed, Ahmed Mater, Abdallah Al Saadi, Ajlan Gharem, Camille Zakharia, Kazem, Sharif, Sophia Al Maria, Monira Al Qadiri, Lantian Xie, Mohammed Sharaf and Shaweesh.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Birthday Party December 16, 2015ICA | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Organised by assistant curator Ruth Erickson with curatorial assistant Jeffrey De Blois
Until 27 March
The Birthday Party is the trio's first museum exhibition in the USA and borrows its title from a 1953 play by Nobel prize winning English writer Harold Pinter, a surreal comedy about a party organised as a ploy to get the character to sit down. The Haerizadeh brothers and Rahmanian began their version as a kind of a party-cum-performance in August at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde. During the performance, they shuffled around the space in costumes made of long prayer robes that obscured their vision, spilling paint across a floor they constructed, while unwrapping presents and making accumulative sculptures out of their contents.
In the current installation at the ICA, they bring together some of the remnants from the performance - the painted floor, the sculptures, and the video documentation - with a number of new works and a selection of works by other artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Bahman Mohassess, Ree Morton and Hassan Sharif.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art November 21, 2015Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Until 10 April
All The Rivers Run Into The Sea. Over. / Copy. Yet, The Sea Is Not Full. Over. (2015) challenges the conventional modes of display and standards of value. Every inch of the room is covered, including walls and floors, with no concern for hierarchy and preciousness. Their medley of influences ranges from satirical folk theatre, illuminated manuscripts, miniature painting and Persian poetry, to Modernist art and Pop culture.
The trio discuss their collaborative practice in this youtube video: APT8 Artist Interview | Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at QAGOMA.
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Hassan Sharif Copper, 2015 Copper wire 244 x 530 x 35 cm
ABU DHABI ART
November 18, 2015Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Booth A16
18 - 21 November 2015
We are pleased to participate in the seventh edition of Abu Dhabi Art with new works by Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem and Rokni Haerizadeh. Additionally, a large-scale copper sculpture by Sharif will be featured in the Beyond section, curated by Fabrice Bousteau, which aims to bring art to the public arena under the theme of Bliss.
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Hassan Sharif, Kitchen, 1985
Artissima
Back To The Future November 6, 2015Involved in Nonsense
Hassan Sharif
Stand 11
Turin, Italy
6-8 November
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Back To The Future is the section Artissima has devoted to solo exhibitions of the great pioneers of contemporary art. This edition focuses on the period between 1975-85 by presenting works by artists who played a key role in the history of art but whose work is not always known to the general public.
We are pleased to present the very early practice of Hassan Sharif, the first recipient of a fine art scholarship from the United Arab Emirates to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London. Involved in Nonsense will focus on works made between the years 1982-85, a period in which Sharif travelled frequently between the Emirates and the UK, mailing or carrying works between the two countries. This nomadic back and forth movement of the artist, knowledge and works underscores a dynamism that charged this initial encounter between the Emirates and the Western avant-garde.