Past
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Cosmography
Group Show, Templon Gallery, New York 27 June - 1 August 2024 A poetic exploration of the cosmos is presented by the group exhibition Cosmography at TEMPLON New York. Gallery artists Abdelkader Benchamma, Will Cotton, Jitish Kallat, Iván Navarro, and Chiharu Shiota... Read more -
Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 13 October 2023 - 24 March 2024 Benchamma's first significant solo exhibition in Canada, Solastalgia: Archaeologies of Loss, is the most extensive in North America to date. It includes both recently created and existing works, as well... Read more -
HISTOIRES DE PIERRES
Villa Médicis, Rome, ITALY 13 October 2023 - 14 January 2024 'The Stories of stones exhibition presented at the Villa Medici has benefited from loans from more than 70 institutions and brings together nearly 200 works, from the oldest terrestrial mineral... Read more -
Historia
LAGO ALGO CULTURAL CENTER, Mexico 15 September - 20 December 2023 Five artists are brought together by LagoAlgo, whose works interact in a chronological trip that spans from the Prehistoric era to the Big History of today and the future. Abdelkader... Read more
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Interflow
Pilar Corrias 4 August - 16 September 2023 Pilar Corrias is pleased to present Interflow, a group exhibition of new and recent works by Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Peppi Bottrop, Lubna Chowdhary, Hanako Murakami, Mary Ramsden, Rachel... Read more -
Geology of floods
François Schneider Fondation 13 May - 24 September 2023 Abdelkader Benchamma is invited to take over the 1200 square meters of the Wattwiller art center by the François Schneider Fondation.The artist proposes an exhibition designed expressly for the area,... Read more -
Endless Iftar
Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 23 January 2023 The work began with an investigation of accommodation and hospitality around communal rituals of eating and gathering for Islamic prayer. The artist studied her personal memory and living practice ,... Read more -
COSMA
Templon Gallery, Paris, France 7 January - 13 March 2023 Abdelkader Benchamma is presenting a collection of paintings, drawings, and wall works created during his stay at Palazzo Butera in Palermo in conjunction with the Institut Français for his third... Read more
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Erratics
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Arts 25 June - 9 October 2022 Erratics includes Chowdhary’s recent paintings, sculptures and installations made from ceramic, wood and industrial materials. Lubna Chowdhary combines manufacturing processes with intuitive hand-made techniques. Chowdhary gathers ideas and techniques from... Read more -
FEELING THE STONES
Ad-Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh 11 December 2021 - 7 March 2022 Saudi Arabia first Contemporary Art Biennale unfolds in six sections examining themes including memory and preservation, cultural transmission, social engagement, the Anthropocene (the time during which humans have had a... Read more -
Rayon fossile
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 30 October 2021 - 20 February 2022 “Only that which was at first able to conceal itself appears” Georges Didi-Huberman, Phasmes. Essais sur l’apparition, 1998 The Collection Lambert has invited Abdelkader Benchamma to take over the entire... Read more -
So Different, So Appealing
Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi 16 October 2021 - 16 January 2022 So Different, So Appealing examines the aesthetics, rhetorics, and rituals of the real estate industry, unpacking the strategies through which it conjures up its many seductions, aspirations, and desires. The... Read more
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Erratics
Peer Gallery 10 September 2021 - 20 November 2022 Lubna Chowdhary (b.1964, Tanzania) is highly acclaimed for her ceramic works, which subvert the traditional context and utility of the medium to address a longstanding preoccupation with urbanisation and material... Read more -
Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist
The Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) 5 March - 26 September 2021 Third European iteration of the Hassan Sharif retrospective at MAMC+ Saint Etienne. The exhibition includes just over 150 pieces, ranging from early satirical cartoons and documentation of performances in the... Read more -
MAD MACHINE
Teatros del Canal, Madrid 5 - 14 March 2021 Puff Out Installation is present at Canal Connect from 5 to 14 March at Teatros del Canal and at the Centro Coreográfico Canal an event bringing together international artists working... Read more -
CORPS (IN)VISIBLES - (IN)VISIBLE BODIES
INSTITUT FRANÇAIS, BERLIN'S ART SPACE LES VITRINES 23 January - 28 March 2021 The curator Liberty Adrien is pleased to present the exhibition “Corps (in)visibles” by the Franco-Egyptian artist Hoda Tawakol at the new contemporary art space LES VITRINES of the Institut français... Read more
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Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden 19 September 2020 - 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,... Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #02
Borusan Contemporary 17 September 2020 - 31 January 2021 Borusan Contemporary presented Bitter Medicine #02 by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK as a prescription for the art world pushed to make drastic changes under the circumstances created by the COVID-19... Read more -
Either He's Dead Or My Watch Has Stopped. Groucho Marx (While Getting the Patient's Pulse)
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 3 September - 13 December 2020 The expansive installations by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian take you into a world of their own. The Iranian artists create surprising encounters that draw attention to urgent... Read more -
Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany 30 May - 19 July 2020 Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi, Krist Gruijthuijsen Assistant Curator: Cathrin Mayer KW Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present the first major retrospective of the Emirati artist Hassan Sharif (1951–2016)... Read more
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BITTER MEDICINE #01
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN BELGRADE (MOCAB) 6 May - 7 June 2020 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 of Belgrade... Read more -
ICI NOUS PORTONS TOUS LES RÊVES DU MONDE
Antananarivo, Madagascar 8 February - 2 May 2020 :mentalKLINIK participated 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 inaugurated the... Read more -
DESERT X ALULA
AlUla, Saudi Arabia 31 January - 7 March 2020 Co-curated by Saudi curators Raneem Farsi and Aya Alireza with Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield Desert X AlUla is a site-responsive exhibition that ran January 31 – March 7,... Read more -
I Love You, Urgently
21,39 Jeddah Arts, Saudi Arabia 28 January - 18 April 2020 Entitled I Love You, Urgently, the seventh edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts is a call to action in response to the environmental emergency from the specificity of a local context.... Read more
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How to Maneuver: Shape-shifting texts and other publishing tactics
Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi 10 December 2019 - 16 February 2020 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... Read more -
ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA FATA BROMOSA
Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain (MRAC) Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, France 23 November 2019 - 27 September 2020 For his first solo exhibition in a French museum, Abdelkader Benchamma invests three rooms at Mrac Occitanie in an immersive installation that operates a network of echoes and resonances with... Read more -
HI VENTILATION - 20 YEARS
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Germany 22 September - 10 November 2019 Hi Ventilation, show me your winding winds and breathe some air into the corners! Let’s pretend we’re trains, let’s roll together, let‘s train surf and challenge structures, let’s find fresh... Read more -
Homeless Souls
Louisiana 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... Read more
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ELDORAMA
Tripostal, Lille 27 April - 1 August 2019 As part of lille3000, Abdelkader Benchamma and :mentalKLINIK were included in Eldorama that took place at Tripostal, conceptually unfolding the great story of Eldorado through a myriad of contemporary works... Read more -
GOLDEN ROOM
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, LILLE 27 April - 1 September 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... Read more -
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes
Frye Art Museum, Seattle 26 January - 28 April 2019 Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian work collectively to create installations, paintings, and stop-motion animations that transform found materials in order to critically examine contemporary history-in-the-making. The Dubai-based artists’... Read more -
Echo de la Naissance des Monde
College des Bernardins, Paris, France 4 October - 10 November 2018 At the time of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the reopening of the Collège des Bernardins, Abdelkader Benchamma proposes to transform the whole of the nave by the... Read more
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OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY
LA PATINOIRE ROYALE, BRUSSELS 7 September - 8 December 2018 La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valérie Bach presented OBNOXIOUSLY HAPPY, :mentalKLINIK’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. Their work is a mix of oxymorons and paradoxes, darkly humorous, self-contained and as... Read more -
FORGIVE ME, DISTANT WARS, FOR BRINGING FLOWERS HOME
OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Torino 12 - 30 July 2018 'Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home', presented at OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, aims to unveil the artistic practice of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam... Read more -
CO-LAB: CONTEMPORARY ART AND SAVOIR-FAIRE
LOUVRE ABU DHABI 21 December 2017 - 25 March 2018 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... Read more -
Metropolis
Asian and European Ceramics Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum 16 - 24 September 2017 Metropolis is a multi-object work of over a thousand handmade, clay sculptures. The installation charts the material culture of our urban environment, reflecting the complexity of the man-made world and... Read more
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CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS
Eugster || Belgrade, Serbia 13 September 2017 - 1 February 2018 Eugster || Belgrade presented the first solo presentation of artist duo :mentalKLINIK titled CATASTROPHICALLY GORGEOUS. In this exhibition the artists probe a speculative approach of the future in a world... Read more -
Jerusalem Lives
Palestinian Museum, Birzeit 27 August 2017 - 31 January 2018 Read more -
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play: UAE Pavilion
57th Venice Biennale 13 May - 26 November 2017 ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play’ explored a strand of artistic practice in the UAE through the analogy of play. Featuring existing works, re-fabrication of “lost” works and new commissions,... Read more -
Tamawuj | Sharjah Biennial 13
Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah 10 March - 22 October 2017 Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj unfolds in five parts from October 2016 through January 2018. Featuring over fifty international artists, the biennial encompasses exhibitions and a public programme in two acts... Read more
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Beej | Sharjah Biennial 13
Intervention at roundabout, Al Naba’ah, Sharjah 10 March - 22 October 2017 Beej [Seed (in Urdu)] (2017) activates a potential for farming in the municipal workforce, largely from Pakistan, who tend to Sharjah’s landscaping. Two gardeners travelled home to bring vegetable and... Read more -
For an Image, Faster Than Light | 1st Yinchuan Biennale 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, China 10 September - 18 December 2016 Read more -
Warehouse project
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai 14 March - 11 June 2016 For Warehouse project, Vikram Divecha has, as part and for the duration of his concept, bartered possession of real estate at Alserkal Avenue with a general trading company requiring storage... Read more -
Stairwell Installation Series
The Drawing Center, New York 10 April 2015 - 1 August 2016 Read more
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I Had No Wings
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai 16 - 26 March 2015 The wheels were turning. I sat in the backseat and closed the windows. I sat separated from the driver. I stopped asking about our direction and how we are getting... Read more -
CO-OPERATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED
The Scad Museum Of Art, Define Art, Savannah, Georgia 4 February - 3 May 2015 The SCAD Museum of Art presents 'CO-OPERATION WOULD BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED,' the first U.S. exhibition by Turkish duo :mentalKLINIK. As its name suggests, the practice of :mentalKLINIK steers away from... Read more -
MUALGAT EXHIBITION
21,39 Jeddah Arts, Saudi Arabia 4 February - 10 April 2014 A city wide art festival that examines both modern and contemporary art in Saudi Arabia. Manal will be showing a new work titled The Tree of Guardians in the curated... Read more -
Crash
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar 24 January - 30 March 2014 In Crash, Manal AlDowayan transforms Mathaf’s “Project Space” into a temporary artist studio. Over the course of the two-month project, AlDowayan opened this studio to the public, unfolding the process... Read more
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THE PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND PROJECTS GARDEN EXHIBITION
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art 10 December 2013 - 9 February 2014 Mathaf’s Collection of modern and contemporary art is built as an ambitious project, using art as a tool to understand histories of human civilization. This exhibition features a diversity of... Read more -
RAW DATA (1999-2013)
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah 17 November 2013 - 11 January 2014 Mohammed Kazem: RAW DATA (1999-2013) is a site commissioned project of leading Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah. Kazem is renowned for producing highly conceptual works that... Read more -
55th Venice Biennale
La Biennale di Venezia 1 June - 24 November 2013 Read more -
That's Fucking Awesome
GALERIST, ISTANBUL HASKOY YARN FACTORY 17 September - 22 October 2011 A pop up project curated by Jérôme Sans to live the experience of the :mentalKLINIK at Haskoy Yarn Factory. :mentalKLINIK is an infamous artistic duo from Istanbul composed of Yasemin... Read more
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Sharjah Biennale 10
Sharjah Art Foundation 16 March - 16 May 2011 Read more -
TOMORROW NOW – WHEN DESIGN MEETS SCIENCE FICTION
MUSEE D’ART MODERNE GRAND-DUC JEAN LUXEMBOURG 25 May - 24 September 2007 Conceived by Alexandra Midal and Björn Dahlström in collaboration with Mathieu Lehanneur, TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction investigates the subject of science fiction not merely associated with... Read more
