Projects

Exploring formalism, gender identity and autobiography, Prem Sahib’s abstract sculptures, installations and paintings are minimalist, with an affinity for simple geometry.

A self-taught artist and writer, Omer Khairy is most known for his meticulous work with black ink on plain wood and paper, a style which he developed in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Mounir Canaan was a self-taught artist whose paintings have often been considered ‘ahead of their time’ and have only come to recognition after his passing.

Born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952, Hatoum relocated to Europe in 1975 when the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon during a visit to London unexpectedly prevented her return.

Mohan Samant was an early modernist painter whose practice has remained largely unnoticed.

A leading figure in the ‘second generation’ of contemporary artists in the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance.

Through his exploration of global history and political affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and happenings.

A pioneer of modern art in Iran, Marcos Grigorian was an artist, teacher, gallerist, collector and curator.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s large-scale paintings of ‘imagined scenarios’, bodies and tales seek to capture a single moment or stream of consciousness.

Over the last four and a half decades, Lothar Baumgarten has drawn wide acclaim and respect for his powerful body of work centred on ethnography and anthropology.

A musician, photographer, critic and cinematographer, Lionel Wendt was trained as a lawyer and pianist in England.

Depicting scenes of women’s lives in the earthy tones of the sun, sand and sky, the work of painter Kamala Ibrahim Ishag has historically challenged the traditional male perspective of art in Sudan.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's practice includes feature films, documentaries and short films as well as photographic and video installations.

Huma Bhabha’s post-apocalyptic and poetic sculptures are assembled using a myriad of unconventional materials. The pieces thread figuration and abstraction together, making cultural references from cinematography to architecture, exploring conflict, displacement and longing.

Huguette Caland’s work is notable for its wide-ranging style, material, subject matter and medium. Her rich and varied exploratory spans multiple disciplines and has been produced across multiple geographies.