فعاليات مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون  نحو حراك فني مستمر

Wael Shawky uses a range of media to produce work that explores issues of history, religion, culture and the effects of globalisation on society today. In photographs, installations, videos and performances, he mines traditions of entertainment and performance through multilayered historical reconstructions that force viewers to navigate the territory of truth, myth and stereotype. Shawky’s solo exhibitions include Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2013-2014), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2013), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2012), Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2011), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2011), and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy (2010) among other venues. Recent group presentations include DOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012), and the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2011). He received the Schering Foundation Art Award and the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011. Shawky’s residencies include Sharjah Art Foundation’s Witness Programme and the Serpentine’s Edgware Road Project. Shawky founded MASS Alexandria, an independent studio study programme for young artists in Alexandria in 2010.

London-based artist, writer and curator Rasheed Araeen began working as an artist while studying Civil Engineering at NED University in Karachi. In 1964 Araeen moved to London, and became an early pioneer and practitioner of Minimalism. With no formal training in sculpture, it was his work as a civil engineer and an early encounter with the sculptures of Anthony Caro that influenced the formal language and use of simple or industrial materials characteristic of Araeen’s best-known works.

Yet unlike Caro, Araeen tried to eliminate hierarchy and traditional notions of composition in his work. In early works, such as Sculpture No. 1, conceived in 1968, steel girders were placed, without a plinth, in a simple grid on the gallery floor. In his later ‘Structures’, he used modular cubes or rectangles that were infinitely repeatable and re-combinable. While reflective of Minimalist aesthetics, Araeen’s work became increasingly participatory as seen in works such a Char Yar (1968) where viewers were free to manipulate a series of cubic forms. By 1970, his growing interest in the performative and participatory possibilities of sculpture was realised with his seminal ‘Chakras’ where the artist and audience tossed a series of disks into the water at St. Katherine’s Docks.

Araeen has exhibited internationally and regionally with significant solo and group exhibitions including Zero to Infinity, Museo de Arte, Lima, Peru (2013),Before and After Minimalism: Drawings, Painting, Sculpture and Concepts, 1959 – 1974, Aicon Gallery, London (2010), To Whom It May Concern, Serpentine Gallery, London (1996), V Habana Biennale, Havana, Cuba (1994), Strife and/or Structure, Modern Art Gallery, Fukukoa Art Museum, Fukuoka- Shi, Japan (1993), From Modernism to Postmodernism: Rasheed Araeen A Retrospective, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1987), Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2012), Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2012), Migrations, Tate Britain, London (2012), every day Sydney Biennale, Australia (1998), Magicians de la terra, Centre George Pompifou/ La Villetter, France, Paris (1989) and Art of Society at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1978).

The author of numerous essays and journals Araeen has written Art beyond Art/ Ecoaesthetics: A Manifesto for the 21st Century, Third Text Publications, London (2010) and the autobiographical Making Myself Visible, Kala Press (1984).

His work is included in the collections of Arts Council of England, CANAL PLUS, Paris, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuok- Shi, Japan and Tate Gallery London.

Susan Hefuna uses a variety of media, including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, film and performance to create multilayered works informed by her dual German-Egyptian heritage and personal experiences in life. For more than 25 years, the artist has investigated images and structures and how they work in diverse contexts, Awarded the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Drawing Prize in Paris in 2013, Hefuna has exhibited widely and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany (2014), PiArtworks Istanbul/London (2014 and 2011), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (2014 and 2012), Notationsnotations, The Drawing Center, NYC, USA (2013), Rasm: of Wood, Silver and Gold, Rose Issa Projects London, UK (2013 and 2010), I Love Egypt cooperation Serpentine Gallery and Townhouse (2011), Cairo Dreams, The Third Line, Dubai (2011 and 2008), Townhouse, Cairo, Egypt (2010/2011 and 2008, 2006, 2004, 2001, 2000), Belvedere, Vienna, Austria (2010), MUMOK, Vienna (2010), Freud Museum, Vienna (2010), Mapping Wien, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna (2009), ACAF, Alexandria (2008), Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK (2004), Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany (2004), Navigation xcultural, National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2000), Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany (1994).

Group exhibitions include Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London (2014), Safar/Voyoage, MOA, Vancouver (2013), Nouvelles Vagues - Champs Elysées, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013), Cross-border, ZKM Karlsruhe, (2013), Encounter, Katara Arts Center, Quatar, Doha (2012/13), Sydney Biennale, Australia (2012), Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2011), On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century MoMA, NYC (2010), Susan Hefuna - Bharti Kher - Fred Tomaselli: between Worlds, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland (2010), Fare Mondi, Venice Biennale, Italy (2009), Taswir, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (2009), Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Seville Biennale, Spain (2008), Museum as Hub: Antikhana, New Museum, NYC (2008), Museum of Modern Art, Algiers, Algeria (2007), The Second Riwaq Biennale (2007), Sharjah Biennal, UAE (2007), Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris, France (2005/2006), Bulgaria Biennale, Bulgaria (2006), Prague Biennale, Czech Republic (2005), Contrepoints, Louvre, Paris (2004/2005), ArteEast Gallery, NYC (2004), Photo Cairo, Egypt (2003) Rencontres, Photo Biennale Bamako, Mali (2003), DisORIENTation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2003) Photographie a la carte!, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (2002), Al Nitaq, Cairo (2001), Cairo Biennale, International Award (1998).