Wael Shawky

Wael Shawky
Wael Shawky
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Wael Shawky (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1971) ka o nyɛ Egypty nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun tumdi Alexandria mini Philadelphia. Shawky yuli ni yɛn du tunduya o daa tum la tuunshɛli din jendi adiini tɔbu zaŋ chaŋ Middle Eastern.^[1] Shawky nyɛla ŋun di pina pam, di shɛŋa n-nyɛ Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award yuuni 2011^[2] ni Mario Merz Prize (2015) pini zaŋ ti o shinii, Al Araba Al Madfuna.^[3] Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Galleria Lia Rumma and Lisson Gallery n zani ti o.^[4] ^[5]

O piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

Bɛ daa dɔɣi la Shawky Alexandria, Egypt yuuni 1971 ka o daa be Mecca, Saudia o bilim ni pɔi ka daa naan yi labi Egypt o ni daa paai yuun pinaata.^[6] O malila MFA din yina University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, ni BFA shɛhira gban shɛŋa o ni daa deei Alexandria University, Egypt.^[7]

Exhibitions

2024 Egyptian Pavillon, La Biennale Di Venezia 2024 (forthcoming)
2023 I am Hymns of the New Temples, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon^[8]
2023 I Am Hymns of the New Temples, Pompeii Archaeological Park, Pompeii, Italy
2023 In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2023 Alexandria: Past Futures, MUCEM, Marseille, France
2023 MACBA Collection. Prelude. Poetic Intention, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2023 In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2022 Dry Culture Wet Culture, Museum Leuven, Belgium
2022 Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Alexandria: Past Futures, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2021 FOCUS: Wael Shawky, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2019 Al Araba Al Madfuna, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Gohyang: Home, SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Look for Me All Around You, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
2018 The Crusades and Current Stories, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2018 Crude, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
2018 Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Wael Shawky, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
2018 Cabaret Crusades, Gangwon international BIENNALE, Korea
2018 Al Araba Al Madfuna III, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany^[9]
2018 The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2018 The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version, The Theater an der Wien, The Opera House, Vienna, Austria
2018 Al Araba Al Madfuna III, St. Elmo Exam Center, Valletta, Malta
2017 Al Araba Al Madfuna, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Yinchaun, China
2017 The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version, Theatre de Welt, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2017 The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
2017 The Song of Roland: The Arabic Version, Onasis cultural center, Athens, Greece
2017 Focus on Wael Shawky, Onasis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
2017 Focus on Wael Shawky, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2017 Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo, Sicily
2017 Al Araba Al Madfuna III, Saints Euno and Giuliano Church, Palermo, Sicily
2017 Cabaret Crusades trilogy screening, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, USA
2016 Cabaret Crusades, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2016 Al Araba Al Madfuna, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2016 Wael Shawky, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2016 Wael Shawky, Al Araba Al Madfuna III, Fondazione Merz, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Wael Shawky. Drawing, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015 Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala, Sfeir Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon.^[10]
2015 Cabaret Crusades, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
2015 Crusades and Other Stories, MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
2015 Cabaret Crusades trilogy screenings, Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
2014 Cabaret Crusades, K20 Museum: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2014 Al Araba Al Madfuna II, Festwochen-Zentrum im Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2014 Horsemen Adore Perfumes and Other Stories, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2014 Dictums, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 al-Qurban/The Offering, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 Cabaret Crusades, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2013 Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013 Wael Shawky, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
2013 Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, Pinault Collection, Teatrino Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
2012 Al Araba Al Madfuna, KW: Kunst-Werke Institute, Berlin, Germany
2011 Wael Shawky, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
2011 Drawings and Flags from Cabaret Crusades, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums, Liverpool, UK
2011 Larvae Channel, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2010 Contemporary Myths, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2010 Contemporary Myths II, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon^[11]
2009 Larvae Channel 2, Project Gentili, Berlin, Germany
2009 Clean History, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2009 Wael Shawky, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2007 Then you will return to me and I will judge between you in the matters in which you used to dispute, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007 Digital Church, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2007 The Forty Days Road, Wet Culture – Dry Culture, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Bunkier Sztukim, Krakow, Poland
2007 Al Aqsa Park, YAMA, digital screen on top of Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Telematch Sadat/Telematch Market/Al Aqsa Park, Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Telematch Sadat/Al Aqsa Park, Hebbel am Ufer 3, Berlin, Germany
2007 Telematch Sadat, San Matteo Church, Lucca, Italy
2006 Drawings 1998–2006, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2005 The Green Land Circus, Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2005 Wael Shawky, Ludwigsburg Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany
2003 Asphalt Quarter, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2002 When he decided to visit the Christmas village, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2001 Transitions, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2001 Sidi El Asphalt’s Moulid, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

Pina

2017 The Honorary Citizenship of the City of Palermo, Italy
2015 Mario Merz Prize, Turino, Italy
2013 Louis Vuitton and Kino der Kunst Award for Filmic Oeuvre, Munich, Germany
2013 Prize of Sharjah Biennale 11th, for dictums 10:120, Performance, Sharjah, UAE
2012 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai, UAE
2011 Kunstpreis der Schering Stiftung, Kunst-Werke Institute, Berlin, Germany
2011 Artist-in-Residence, Center for Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2009 Grand Prize, 25th Alexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Cairo
2007 Ford Foundation Grant, Cairo, Egypt
2005 International Commissioning Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2004 International Award of the Islamic World Arts Initiative, Arts International, New York, USA
2004 American Center Foundation Grant, Philadelphia, USA
2001 Honorary Award, Rita Longa International, Codema, Bayamo, Cuba
2000 Piero Dorazio Award, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1996 Grand Nile Prize, International Cairo Biennial 6th, Cairo, Egypt
1994 Grand Akhenaten Prize, Salon of Youth 6th, Akhenaten Centre of Arts, Cairo, Egypt

Kundivihira

[1] "Wael Shawky at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin - purple ART" (en-US). Purple. 2016-11-16. http://purple.fr/diary/wael-shawky-castello-di-rivoli-museum-contemporary-art-turin/.

[2] In the Studio: Wael Shawky - Magazine - Art in America.

[3] Wael Shawky_Al Araba Al Madfuna - Fondazione Merz.

[4] Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

[5] Lisson Gallery.

[thenational.ae-6] "The UAE and majahim camels are at the centre of Wael Shawky’s film Dictums: Manqia I" (en). The National. http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/the-uae-and-majahim-camels-are-at-the-centre-of-wael-shawkys-film-dictums-manqia-i.

[7] Wael Shawky - Artists - Lisson Gallery.

[8] I am Hymns of the New Temples, Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

[9] Al Araba Al Madfuna III, Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

[10] Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala, Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

[11] Contemporary Myths II, Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

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