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11/10/2023

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10/10/2023

Opening Today | YTO BARRADA
“Balcon Bettina”
at Immanence, Paris
From 6 pm

If you happen to be in Paris, visit the presentation of the American artist Bettina Grossman, who went by the name BETTINA (1927-2021). This exhibition bears witness to YTO BARRADA’s admiration for the hypnotic, self-taught practice of this rare artist, an “eccentric” figure in the New York of the 1970s-1980s.

Since their meeting in 2015, BARRADA has devoted herself to the recognition and archiving of her polymorphous work, which was barely visible until the late 2010s. In 2022, in collaboration with Gregor Huber, Yto Barrada published the first monograph on Bettina (Atelier EXB) for the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles.

(1) BETTINA, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, 2020. Photo:

07/10/2023

On View | KHALIL RABAH’s solo exhibition
“Relocation, Among Other Things”
at Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, Ground floor
Today from 11am to 6pm

We are open: come visit KHALIL RABAH’s exhibition in our Hamburg space today!

05/10/2023

Opening Today | DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE’s group show
“The Struggle of Memory”
at Palais Populaire in Berlin
from 6 pm

We are pleased to announce the opening “The Struggle of Memory - Part 2”. DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE’s work 𝘓𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦: 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺)(2017) will be on view in until March 11, 2024 in Berlin.

If you happen to be in Berlin, visit the opening tonight. Admission is free.

(1) 𝘓𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦: 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺), 2017, Mixed media installation, Installation view Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, 2018. Photo:

05/10/2023

Opening Today | DINEO SESHEE RAISIBE BOPAPE’s solo show
“(ka) pheko ye... – the dream to come”
at Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA Helsinki
from 6 to 9 pm

“While preparing the exhibition, Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape spent time on the Frantsila organic herb farm in Hämeenkyrö, Finland, learning about healing herbal plants, local traditions and nature. All of this had a significant impact on the exhibition. The installation turns the gallery into a built landscape.”
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The exhibtion, the curated by Chief Curator of temporary exhibitions João Laia , is on view until February 25, 2024. For more information, head over to .

Photo: Frantsila / Miki Tokairin / Miisa Soini

04/10/2023

Now Open | TARIK KISWANSON
“Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023. The nominees”
at the Centre Pompidou in Paris

Yesterday was the opening of the exhibition of nominees for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2023 , and today it will open its doors to the public. We are excited that Tarik Kiswanson is one of the nominees for this year’s award! The exhibition, curated by Angela Lampe, will be open until January 1 - the jury’s decision will be announced by October 16.

Embracing sculpture, writing, drawing, performance, film and sound, his proteiform practices explore subjects in connection with remembrance and heritage, temporality and belonging, and more generally transformation and metamorphosis.

TARIK KISWANSON’s work will be presented to the jury by .

(1) Tarik Kiswanson, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵, 2023, resin, fiberglass, stainless steel, Installation view Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023. Photo: Bertrand Prévost

02/10/2023

Tickets Available for WALID RAAD’s Performances
This Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm

There are still some tickets available for the artist’s Walkthroughs this Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm! This is a great opportunity to visit the exhibition Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter.

Tickets can be booked at ’s website or find the link in our bio.

The performance tours through the Kunsthalle’s collection are full of previously unknown names, historical dates, and alternative facts. They lead into the abysses of the art and finance world, including angels and the undead.

(1) Walid Raad at Hamburger Kunsthalle, ©Walid Raad, Photo: Jörg Carstensen

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30/09/2023

Today in Beirut Karantina | WAEL SHAWKY’s gallery exhibition
“I am Hymns of the New Temples”
Open from 11am to 5pm

Sfeir-Semler Gallery presents WAEL SHAWKY’s solo exhibition in our Karantina flagship space in Beirut, with a new multifaceted colossal project, including a film, sculptures, paintings, and an installation.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

(1) Wael Shawky, Exhibition view “I am Hymns of the New Temples,” Sfeir-Semler Karantina, 2023.

27/09/2023

On View | AKRAM ZAATARI in the Group Show
History Tales. Fact and Fiction in History Painting
at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Art Collections, Austria

Yesterday, the group exhibition “History Tales” opened at the Academy’s art collections, featuring, among others, two works by AKRAM ZAATARI.

If you happen to be in Vienna, don’t miss this.

“At a time when the talk everywhere is of a ‘turning point’, a Zeitenwende, and new nationalist tendencies and wars threaten to rip apart the political fabric, both in Europe and globally, the exhibition questions and challenges our understanding of history in depictions while analysing how myths and historical events are always subject to interpretations shaped by the age in which they are ‘revisited’.”
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(1) Akram Zaatari, 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵, 2022, C-print, 120 x 192 cm, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, 2022

26/09/2023

Dream City Festival | KHALIL RABAH and MOUNIRA AL SOLH
in Tunis, Tunisia
Until October 8

KHALIL RABAH’s project 𝘖𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, conceived for this year’s edition of the Dream City Festival, draws on a work from the artist’s 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥.

MOUNIRA AL SOLH’s embroideries from 𝘚𝘩𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 99 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 (2022) will be on view at Association des Anciennes du lycée Rue du Pacha.

(1) Khalil Rabah, 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮, 2004-2011, Wooden box, glass, 11 olive trees, 200 x 200 x 60cm

(2) Mounira Al Solh, 𝘚𝘩𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 99 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 2022, Installation view BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2022. Photo: Rob Harris

25/09/2023

October in Beirut | Screenings of WAEL SHAWKY’s
𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘏𝘺𝘮𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴

In the framework of WAEL SHAWKY’s current solo show in our Karantina space, join us during the second week of October for three special screenings of 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘏𝘺𝘮𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 (2023), the latest film by the artist tackling the emergence of the mythological cosmos.

Dates:
Monday, October 9 at 4:30 pm
Wednesday, October 11 at 4:30 pm
Friday, October 13 at 4:30 pm

The work was commissioned by Pompeii Archaeological Park as part of Pompeii Commitment. Archeological Matters (Collection). Winner of the public notice PAC 2020 – promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of Ministero della Cultura.

22/09/2023

This Weekend in Paris | RABIH MROUE and LINA MAJDALANIE’s show
“Hartaqāt (Hérésies)”
Every Tuesday to Saturday at Théâtre du Rond-Point
Until September 30

“In Hartaqāt (Hérésies) Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué bring together the texts of three contemporary Lebanese authors, one female and two male: academic and activist Rana Issa (Incontinence), novelist Souhaib Ayoub (The imperceptible ooze of life) and poet and journalist Bilal Khbeiz (Non-functional memories).

All live in exile despite never really having left Lebanon. They live in a sort of in-between, neither really in a new geography, nor in their homelands.

In their own way, and with a mixture of melancholy, self-derision and irony, the show’s three chapters evolve from the basis of this mobile threshold by joining together, each in turn, with the music of Raed Yassin, and the dance and music of Rabih Mroué.”
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20/09/2023

SAMIA HALABY at Her Opening Today: “Lasting Impressions: Samia Halaby”

At Sharjah Art Museum with Sheikha Nawar Al Qassimi and Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.
With Sheikha Nawar Al Qassimi and Léa Chikhani from Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Congratulations to the artist!

20/09/2023

Opening Today | SAMIA HALABY's solo exhibition
"Lasting Impressions: Samia Halaby"
at Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE

Halaby seems to be “writing” her paintings, lining up shapes, colors, and energies, that flow into each other as if following a wandering thought that does not recognize the canvases borders as a limit. Her paintings feel like a galaxy of colorful sentences that overlap, change directions, and explode into a vibrant narrative captured through abstract expression.

(1) 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴, 1992, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 190.5, Exhibition view Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, 2023

15/09/2023

Opening Today | SUNG TIEU’s solo exhibition
“One Thousand Times”
at Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
From 6:30 pm

“The work of Berlin-based artist Sung Tieu takes its starting point in the agreements on the recruitment of Vietnamese contract workers in the former GDR and their situation after German reunification. As a result of her personal family history, she began to explore the complex socio-political effects of this agreement. For her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, the artist is creating an installation in several chapters.”
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(1) Sung Tieu, Song for VEB Stern-Radio Berlin, 2021. Exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2021. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul

15/09/2023

Online Screening | AKRAM ZAATARI’s
.. 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘉𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 is available until Saturday, September 16, at the online screening “How to be Fabulous” by aashra ().

Find the link in our bio!

(1) Video still from 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘉𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 2010

14/09/2023

Now on View | LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN, ETEL ADNAN, SUNG TIEU in the group show
“The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time”
at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Until January 7, 2024

The exhibition at Schinkel Pavillon, which takes its title from the eponymous episodic film by Alexander Kluge from 1985 and is subtitled “Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression,” is open! If you happen to be in Berlin, give it a visit!

It shows historical and contemporary positions that address state violence and repression. The moment of witnessing is in the foreground.

With contributions by LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN, ETEL ADNAN and SUNG TIEU.

(1) Sung Tieu, 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘡𝘦𝘳𝘰, 2022, Cash machine from VEB Robotron Secura-Werke Berlin. Photo:

(2) Etel Adnan, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘴𝘦, 1965, Manuscript, Photocopies with handwritten notes, 28.6 x 22.4 cm each, Exhibition view Gorges Pompidou, Metz, 2021

13/09/2023

Performances this Weekend in Hamburg | by WALID RAAD
Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter
Thursday 14, Friday 15, and twice on Saturday 16 at Hamburger Kunsthalle

According to our artist WALID RAAD, what a visitor learns about the history of a collection’s objects during a museum visit is only the tip of an iceberg. There is so much more happening behind the scenes! The artist’s “Walkthroughs” will certainly change that: they are performance tours full of previously unknown names, historical dates, and alternative facts. A good friend of ours describes it as “funny, intelligent, delightful,” and we can only recommend that you attend one of his tours this weekend.

Tickets for the performances can be booked at ’s website, find the link in our bio!

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11/09/2023

An Evening with DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE
at MoMA's The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Today at 7 pm Eastern time

In conjunction with the solo exhibition “Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape,” the artist will present a selection of her single-channel video work, followed by a discussion with curator Martha Joseph.

If you happen to be in New York, do not miss the opportunity to hear the artist talk about her work and visit the show at the Projects Gallery on the first floor.

(1) Dineo Seshee Bopape, 𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 / 𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 2022, Still from three-channel video installation (color, eight channel sound, 17 min, loop).

09/09/2023

On View | RAYYANE TABET’s solo exhibition
‘Arabesque’
in Beirut Downtown
Until November 16

Come an visit RAYYANE TABET’s exhibition in our newly inaugurated exhibition space in Beirut Downtown: we are open this Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm.

The exhibition shows the Découpages series, a frieze of engravings from an original 19th century manuscript by Jules Bourgoin (1838-1908). The French scholar traveled through Egypt to study architectural ornaments and produced precise documentation drawings. Tabet cuts-out and recomposes individual pages from these publications, in an attempt to find different possible geometries hidden within the document.
The exhibition also presents score sheets on music stands of Deux Arabesque by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), a composition that interpreted the arabesque motif through music.

(1-3) Rayyane Tabet, Exhibition view “Arabesque,” Sfeir-Semler Downtown, Beirut, 2023

06/09/2023

Opening Tomorrow September 7 | CHRISTINE STEULI’s solo exhibition
“Falling apart (permanent version)”
at Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, First floor
From 6 - 9 pm

Christine Streuli’s work is a fusion of careful planning, digital exploration, and a deliberate challenge to traditional notions of originality in art. Her use of color, form, and layering creates dynamic and immersive visual experiences that invite viewers to engage deeply with her work. As she challenges the boundaries of painting as an artform, Streuli slips into alternates that are in turn absurd, coherent, or deconstructed, effectively performing a balancing act, between eruption and collapse during her creation process.

06/09/2023

Opening Tomorrow September 7 | KHALIL RABAH’s solo exhibition
“Relocation, Among Other Things”
at Sfeir-Semler Hamburg, Ground floor
From 6 - 9 pm

The installation is a collection of objects found, acquired, or hoarded from abandoned shops, homes, and industrial spaces. Rabah choreographs an ever-changing composition using strategies that mimic displays in museums, to present long loved, abandoned, or lost random items, including household staples such as pots, pans, and toys as well as tools, ropes, or broken furniture.

05/09/2023

Opening Tomorrow | MOUNIRA AL SOLH and YTO BARRADA
“choreographies of the impossible”
The 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil

We are pleased to announce the participation of MOUNIRA AL SOLH and YTO BARRADA at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo.

The opening panel will of the Bienal take place at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion:

“On September 6, the curatorial team of the 35th Bienal, formed by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes e Manuel Borja-Villel, presents the main conceptual lines that guided their research for the choreographies of the impossible in dialog with thinkers Leda Maria Martins and Gladys Tzul Tzul.”
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On view until December 10, 2023.

02/09/2023

Opening Today | LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN’s solo exhibition
“Cross-Border Crimes”
at MUAC – UNAM Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico

“The artist has argued that ‘the propagation of sound is the most expedient way to consider all forms of border-crossing, be they material, interpersonal, architectural, juridical, disciplinary, biological, sensorial or conceptual.’ … This liminal space constitutes the stage for his most recent piece: 45th Parallel (2022).”
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(1) Installation view Mercer Union, as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art 2022. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid

30/08/2023

Opening Tomorrow in Beirut Karantina | WAEL SHAWKY’ solo exhibition
“I am Hymns of the New Temple”
From 6 to 8 pm

Sfeir-Semler Gallery is proud to announce Wael Shawky’s solo exhibition in our Karantina flagship space in Beirut, with a new multifaceted colossal project, including a film, sculptures, paintings, and an installation.

Premiering Shawky’s I am Hymns of the New Temples in the Arab-speaking world, the exhibition centers around the film produced for the Pompeii Commitment program which takes as a starting point the ancient city buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. and its multiple layers of interconnected ancient Mediterranean societies. The work questions the constructed narratives of humanity’s genesis, and how stories transmitted through space and time, across generations, millennia and continents often overlap as one civilization fades and another replaces it.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

(1) Wael Shawky, 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘺𝘮𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 2023, 4k video, sound, color, 55 minutes

29/08/2023

Artist Talk Today | DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE
and Curator Martha Joseph will be joined by Brooklyn Rail Contributor Jill H. Casid
at 1 pm Eastern time (7 pm in Central Europe)

Join the conversation online via the Brooklyn Rail website, we put the link in our bio!

The artist talk, held on the occasion of her solo exhibition “Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape,” will conclude with a poetry reading by Gabriel Ramirez. You can visit the show until October 8 at the Museum of Modern Art New York.

(1) Dineo Seshee Bopape, 𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘢 / 𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 2022, Installation view “Projects: Dineo Seshee Bopape,” July 1, 2023 - October 9, 2023. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Dorado. Digital Image © 2023 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

26/08/2023

Opening Today ETEL ADNAN's exhibition
“Etel Adnan & Simone Fattal: Voices without borders”
at KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
from 6 to 9 pm

If you happen to be in Berlin this weekend, visit the opening of the exhibition “Voices without borders” tonight, curated by Sébastien Delot.
(1) Etel Adnan, Exhibition view “Etel Adnan & Simone Fattal: Voices without borders,” KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2023. Photo: Jens Ziehe

23/08/2023

Join us for the opening of our new space in Downtown Beirut, with a show by Rayyane Tabet
‘Arabesque’
Tomorrow, August 24, from 6 to 8 pm

23/08/2023

On View | HANS HAACKE in the group show
“WHO WE ARE. Reflecting a Country of Immigration”
at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Until October 8

HANS HAACKE’s 𝘉𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘶 (Federal Horticultural Show) is currently on view at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. The work consists of a list of politicians that have participated in Bundesgartenschau, the biennial exhibition conducted by the German state, by contributing soil from their election districts; a large format print that documents the artist’s installation at the Deutsche Bundestag 𝘋𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘷ö𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘨; and C-prints selected from a total of 224 photos of Bundesgartenschau.

“What is it that gives rise to the sense of ‘we’ in a society? The exhibition ‘Who We Are’ puts critical questions to Germany as a country of immigration, a term that politicians have long resisted and one that should now seem self-evident.”
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(1, 6) Hans Haacke, 𝘋𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘷ö𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘨 (To the Population), 2008, Exhibition view “WHO WE ARE. Reflecting a Country of Immigration,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 2023

(2-5) Hans Haacke, 𝘋𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘷ö𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘨, 224 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘢, 2001-08, C-Print, 35 x 27.5 cm each, Detail

20/08/2023

Permanent Installation | DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE's 𝘓𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘰 (... 𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘰 𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘢 𝘣𝘰 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦)

In April 2022, DINEO SESHEE BOPAPE created the outdoor installation of High Desert Test Sites 𝘓𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘰 (... 𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘰 𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘢 𝘣𝘰 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦) (2022) in the scenic landscape outside of Joshua Tree, California.

The condition of the installation is constantly changing with the seasons and the weather. This is how it looked when we visited it recently.

(1, 2) 𝘓𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘰 (... 𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘰 𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘬𝘢 𝘣𝘰 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦), 2022, Installation view, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, 2022

19/08/2023

Ongoing | TARIK KISWANSON
Afterwards
at Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
Until September 10

If you’re in the region this weekend, you might want to plan a visit of “Afterwards,” TARIK KISWANSON’s solo exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein. It is open this weekend Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 7 pm.

(1) Exhibition view “Afterwards”, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria, 2023

17/08/2023

A Week of Performances
WALID RAAD: “Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter”
From Thursday to Saturday at Hamburger Kunsthalle

We just saw that that there are tickets available for WALID RAAD’s walkthrough on Saturday. A great way to start into the weekend, the artist will guide the participants on a tour through the Kunsthalle’s collection – and into the abysses of the art and finance world, including angels and the undead.

Tickets for the performances can be booked at ’s website.

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14/08/2023

Last Week | MOUNIRA AL SOLH
Pocket Rhythms
Visit the exhibition for the last time this week

Continuing her investigation of Arabic language and linguistics, Al Solh presents 𝘐𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥. The embroideries on textile each illustrates one word from a list compiled by Ibn Qayyim El Jawziyya, a medieval Islamic theologian who lived in Damascus in the 13th century. The collection of Arabic words includes affection, worship, passion, blood, nostalgia, grief, or folly for example, and catalogues more than 50 ways of expressing love, based on the extent, the level, or the nuance of the emotion.

Mounira Al Solh, 𝘐𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘲𝘢 (being in love or passionate relationship), 2023, Embroidery on textile, 67.5x80.5 cm.
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11/08/2023

Last Days | AREF EL RAYESS’ solo exhibition
Works (1958-1978)
at IVAM – Centre Julio González, Valencià, Spain
Until August 27

If you happen to be visiting Spain this summer, the eye-catching exhibition “Aref El Rayess. Works (1958-1978),” curated by Catherine David, is still on view until the end of the month.

Don’t miss this powerful display of the artist’s work!

“Aref El Rayess is a fundamental figure in the Lebanese cultural panorama from the 1960s to the 1980s. In its paradoxes and singularity, its flashes and its blind alleys, the oeuvre of Aref El Rayess exemplifies an uncompromising modern artistic career that follows solely the “inner demand” of a concerned subject, more attentive and sympathetic to the political, social and cultural crises of his time than to the “isms” and expected sequences of the modern canon.”
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(1-4) Exhibition view “Aref el Rayess. Works (1958-1978)”, IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencià, 2023

10/08/2023

Join us for the Opening in Hamburg | WALID RAAD’s solo exhibition
“Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter”
at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Today, from 7:30-10:30 pm

The premiere of the tour that WALID RAAD is giving through his exhibition “Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter” is already sold out, and we are looking forward to seeing you right after, at 7:30 pm, for the opening at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Please join us!

“Walid Raad designs a parcours through the galleries where the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s permanent collection is on view. His interventions document events in the history of the collection in narratives that are partly true and partly fictional. Juxtaposing existing exhibits with purported finds from the museum’s repositories, Raad thus spins new tales about how the collection came together. He will also display his own works alongside the collection objects, highlighting historically relevant details to uncover previously unknown facts about the history of the museum.”
- via .kunsthalle

With speeches by Prof. Dr. Alexander Klar , Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, András Siebold .siebold, Artistic Director Kampnagel Summer Festival and the curator of the exhibition Dr. Petra Roettig.

(1) Walid Raad, 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘐𝘐 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 2021, Installation, 7 inkjet prints, textile wallpaper, text, Various sizes, Installation view Art Basel, 2022.

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08/08/2023

Premiere this Thursday | WALID RAAD
“Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter”
Performance in the Hamburger Kunsthalle
in Collaboration with Kampnagel Sommerfestival, Hamburg, Germany
Thursday, August 10, 6 pm

„A performance tour through the Kunsthalle’s collection – and into the abysses of the art and finance world, including angels and the undead.”
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All dates:
Premiere: August 10, 2023
Friday, August 11: 4 pm
Saturday, August 12: 12 pm and 4 pm
Sunday, August 13: 12 pm and 4 pm
Thursday, August 17: 6 pm
Friday, August 18: 4 pm
Saturday, August 19: 12 pm und 4 pm
Sunday, August 20: 12 pm
Thursday, August 24: 6 pm
Friday, August 25: 4 pm
Saturday, August 26: 12 pm und 4 pm
Sunday, August 27: 12 pm und 4 pm

Thursday, September 14: 6 pm
Friday, September 15: 4 pm
Saturday, September 16: 12 pm and 4 pm
Sunday, September 17: 12 pm and 4 pm

Thursday, October 5: 6 pm
Friday, October 6: 4 pm
Saturday, October 7: 12 pm and 4 pm
Sunday, October 8: 12 pm and 4 pm

Thursday, November 9: 4 pm
Friday, November 10: 4 pm
Saturday, November 11: 12 pm and 4 pm
Sunday, November 12: 12 pm and 4 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you!

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05/08/2023

On View | MOUNIRA AL SOLH in the group show
“My Past is a Foreign Country”
at Chios Castle, Greece, by DEO Projects
Until August 28

𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 is an installation of Damascus clogs and is related to the 2014 influx of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria to Lebanon. Visitors are invited to shed their shoes and put on a pair of the traditional clogs for the duration of their encounter with the exhibition; in this way they become participants and performers as they walk through the gallery, reigniting the nostalgic clomping sounds of the shoes that are falling out of use in favor of the standard flip-flop.

Today, the artist’s solo show in our Hamburg gallery can be visited until 4 pm.

(1) Mounira Al Solh, 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥, 2023, Recreation of the work produced by DEO Projects. 📸: Nikos Alexopoulos

04/08/2023

BEIRUT IS MOURNING THE HARBOUR EXPLOSION AUGUST 4th 2020

02/08/2023

SUNG TIEU | in press

In case you find yourself on vacation, looking for some inspirational reading, we have collected recent conversations that explore SUNG TIEU’s works. Thanks to the writers for offering us these insights!

(1) Rebecca Rose Cuomo’s interview “Making information a physical experience.” for BOMB magazine
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/sung-tieu-interviewed/

(2) Amelia Saul’s In Conversation for the Brooklyn Rail
https://brooklynrail.org/2023/07/art/Sung-Tieu-with-Amelia-Saul

(3) Cassie Packard’s “Sung Tieu: Not Fracking Around” for ArtReview
https://artreview.com/sung-tieu-civic-floor-mit-list-visual-arts-center-infra-specter-amant-new-york/

📸 by Dario Lasagni: Sung Tieu, Exhibition view “Civic Floor”, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2023.

26/07/2023

On View | RAYANNE TABET in the group show
machinations
at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Until August 28

“In the thinking of Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, the idea of the machine undergoes a paradigm shift with respect to Marxist analyses of the industrial society. Until that point, it had been regarded merely as a technical instrument which alienated the individual, turning them into one more piece of machinery in capitalist production. After 1968, this judgement was reformulated into an abstract nucleus capable of containing infinite human and non-human relations.

In accordance with this theoretical framework, the exhibition machinations explores different forms of resistance, coalition and creativity that materialises in the present by way of around fifty artists, most of whom hail from the Mediterranean area and African continent and reflect on the historical and present-day circumstances of such territories.”
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(1) Rayyane Tabet, Exquisite Co**se, 2017-2021, Installation, various materials, dimensions variable, Installation view Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2023

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