ONGOING.
2025
21 June - 31 August
From the Cosmos to the Commons ⇗
Sonnenwende Planetarium & Stadtpark, Hamburg
Fall 2025
Percent for Art / Kunst im Bau
Ringelnatz-Grundschule, Berlin
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EXHIBITIONS.
2024 Three Suns, Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Alt-, Rote Insel, Berlin
Memory is not only past, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne
2023 See you at the studio, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin ⇗
Far from closing the circle, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau ⇗ (Solo)
2021 Imagine Something New, Galerie Wedding, Berlin ⇗
Re-Turn: Skulpturenpark, w. KUNSTrePUBLIK, Berlin ⇗
2019 Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG, Amman ⇗
Tribute to a passerby (ROAMER), SORT, Vienna ⇗ (Solo)
2018 Geographies of Imagination, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin ⇗
Installment No. 19, USF VERFTET, Bergen ⇗
2017 Utilitarian efforts, non-utilitarian works, MARSistanbul
2016 Intending Probability, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Solo)
What the Tortoise Murmers to Achilles, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin ⇗
2015 Setups Institutions Situations (OS), Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2014 The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr, Jeddah ⇗
2013 Not a Dead End, Biennale Jogja XII, Yogyakarta
Best Before, RONDO, Graz
41 Meter Fluchtweg, Schaumbad, Graz
Utopien Vermeiden, Werkleitz Festival, Halle ⇗
2012 Sphères, Gallery Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel
Forgotten Bar Project: Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
#COMETOGETHER, Edge of Arabia, London
Gaza International Art Festival, Shababek for Contemporary Art, Gaza ⇗
2011 With Certain Houses, Slate Grey, Savannah, GA (Solo)
PUBLIC
PROJECTS.
RESIDENCIES.
2024 Artist in Residence, Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles
2017 Artist in Residence, MASS, Alexandria
2015 International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
2013 Rondo-studios, Kulturservice Gesellschaft Steiermark, Graz
Langgeng Art Foundation Residency, Yogyakarta
Art Omi, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY ⇗
2012 Dar Al Ma’mun Residency (DAM), Marrakesh
2009 Shatana International Artists’ Workshop, Irbid ⇗
Altitude in Sana’a, National Museum, Sana'a
GRANTS/
AWARDS.
2023 Research Grant, Berlin Senate Department of Culture
Artist Contact, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
2022 Neustart Kultur Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2020- Einstein Junior Scholar, Einstein Foundation Berlin
2019 Visual Arts Grant, AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture)
Exhibition Fund, ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen)
2018 Weltoffenes Grant, Berlin Senate Department of Culture
2015 Artist-in-Residence Grant, KfW Stiftung
2014 Artist Grant, British Council - Sana’a
2013 Artists Production Grant, Culture Resource (Mawred)
2009 J. William Fulbright Scholarship
TALKS/
TEACHING.
2024 Navigating Everyday Art Practices, Workshop with Dina Khouri, Artist Training, Berlin Career College, UdK, Berlin ⇗
Summoning memory, Interdisciplinary seminar, SoSe, Studium Generale, UdK, Berlin ⇗
2023- Sculpture Practices, Lecturer and mentor, *foundationClass, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin ⇗
2022 A Matter of Time, Interdisciplinary seminar, SoSe, Studium Generale, UdK, Berlin ⇗
2021 Adding Insult to Injury: Bodies and their Objects, Interdisciplinary seminar. SoSe, Studium Generale, UdK, Berlin ⇗
2020 She smiled as though she were squinting at the future - w. Laleh Khalili & Övül Durmusoglu, Salon für Ästhetische Experimente, HKW ⇗
2019 A Melody and a Chair, British Museum, Shubbak Festival, London
2017 Sometimes pewter sometimes concrete, Artist talk, Goethe Institut, Alexandria
They die Strangers by M. Abdul Wali, Reading, Documenta 14 Radio, SAVVY Reads, Berlin
2013 Refuge for Stationary Vehicles, Artist talk, < rotor > Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
In the Radius of a Rim, Artist talk w. Edit Molnár, Werkleitz Festival, Halle
Where the dust settles, Artist talk, Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Yogyakarta
TEXTS.
2024 Who Rotates Around Whom, Now & Always - Material Translations ed. Merve Ünsal, PRAKSIS Presents Issue 9 ⇗
2021 Four Scenes & an Epilogue, Imagine Something New Like Justice, Archive Books ⇗ excerpt ⇗ Arabic (Rusted Radishes) ⇗
2016 Intending Probability, w. Merve Ünsal, Luca Cerizza, ed. Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, Verlag Kettler ⇗ excerpt ⇗
2014 A Conversation Full of Holes: w. Sarah Rifky, Utopian Vermeiden: Werkleitz Festival, Revolver Publishing ,⇗
STUDIES.
IMAGE
CREDITS.
Manuel Carreon Lopez
Marc Doradzillo
Alwin Lay
Wataru Murakami
Dwi Oblo
Juan Saez
Eric Tschernow
Mathias Völzke