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Ibrahim Quraishi
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Netherlands
Published 02/11/2016 | Updated 22/11/2016
As a visual artist Ibrahim Quraishi examines the dynamics of migration, dispossession and cohabitation within the socio-political spheres of communities. Quraishi has presented works at institutions like: The X Baltic Triennial (Vilnius), 4TH Baku Biennale (Baku), National Museum of Singapore, Manifestly Present/ Parallel Event Manifesta 9 (Genk), Kochi-Muziris Biennial India (Kerala), Art 6 International (Istanbul), Savvy Contemporary, Berlin,...
Read moreAs a visual artist Ibrahim Quraishi examines the dynamics of migration, dispossession and cohabitation within the socio-political spheres of communities. Quraishi has presented works at institutions like: The X Baltic Triennial (Vilnius), 4TH Baku Biennale (Baku), National Museum of Singapore, Manifestly Present/ Parallel Event Manifesta 9 (Genk), Kochi-Muziris Biennial India (Kerala), Art 6 International (Istanbul), Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Antidote: Art & Design Platform (Dubai), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams), Japan Foundation (Tokyo), Africa Centre (Cape Town), Asia Society (New York), KunsthalleWien (Vienna), Lumen Travo Gallery (Amsterdam), Art Dubai, artCENA (Rio de Janeiro), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival (New York), Biennale Interferences: 2eme Festival d’Arts Multimédia (Belfort), The Queens Museum (New York), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Dutch Cultural Center: EXPO 2010 (Shanghai), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Bastakiya Art Fair (Dubai), The Kitchen (New York), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris) and Crone Galerie (Berlin) among others.
Quraishi is a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and the Nederlandse Film Academie Amsterdam.
Quraishi’s most recent residencies have been at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at University of Houston, The Proposal, Zurich, ArteEast New York & Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, New York
Quraishi has worked with numerous international artists and intellectuals, such as Alicja Kwade, Pamela Z, Jean Stein, Lerato Shadi, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Norscq, Imani Uzuri, Naeem Mohaiemen, Susan Sontag, Philippe Hersant, Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Smadar Yaaron, Komar & Melamid, Masayasu Nakanishi, Hiam Abbass, Peter Sellars, Valeri Gergiev, Shahzia Sikander, Gabriel Smeets, Aziz Bekkaoui, Sabine Jainski, Tanya Reinhardt, Sara Raza, Agnes de Ruijter, Koji Hamai, Moniek Toebosch, André Torres Lepecki, Eleonora Fabião, Mestre Gabriel Arrioja and Chris Keulemans among others.
'The Pink Playground' Individual print 50 x 33 cm Mixed media, photo & acrylic paint, archival pigments ink on cotton rag paper. Edition of 3 + 2AP
'One Possible Starting Point' Mixed media techniques , photographs and acrylic paint, 80x62 cm archival material in pigment ink on cotton paper , Edition of 3 + 2 AP
'Mixed Ancestry Family Portrait' Individual print 50 x 33 cm Mixed media, photo & acrylic paint, archival pigments ink on cotton rag paper. Edition of 3 + 2AP
Still from 'Spitting Faces' Video film in 3 parts, projected on two screens, HD, in color, without sound, in a loop of 2:10 min.
'Wild life take away station' 14 photo-series 120 X 100 cm / Triptych film in a loop of 8 min 03 sec
'Wild life take away station' 14 photo-series 120 X 100 cm / Triptych film in a loop of 8 min 03 sec
Lost Codes
Film: 1.02 min and accompanying Photo series: 58, Size 21 x 15 cm presented at GALARIE CRONE
Lost Codes is a project concerning the ephemeral notions of migration. The work focuses on the mental transportation of things that had to be left behind.
Islamic Violins (ed II 2012-2013)
'Islamic Violins' Sculptural Installation of 30 hand-sculpturally treated violins
Islamic Violins is a sculptural installation, where on a given hour a violin explodes.
Homage to the Fluxus movement, which developed an anti-establishment, anti-commercial approach to art in the 1960s, by staging intuitive ‘aktion’ works, performances, low-budget do-it-yourself art editions and other events, intending to free art from the boundaries of the institutions and the market.
Splitting Faces
'Spitting Faces' Video film in 3 parts, projected on two screens, HD, in color, without sound, in a loop of 2:10 min.
Radius 1
2016, Video, length (Radius 1) 5:08min
A channel drone video made above through various countries in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula giving a bird's eye view of images that are deliberately transformed to offer a “playfully” distinctive perspective on all too familiar landscapes that are currently in the midst of perpetual war and turmoil.
Radius 1 was shot to transform ‘reality' into a series of fictional surreal orders from their own literal and over wrought heaviness. Above the ground, sailing through the factual, fictional necessity of our current military conflicts and rebellions that are raging from places as far as Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Iraq. These images only discern a sense of tranquility through the prism of a serene silence and an aerial parody, where the notion of life is presented in terms of pure abstraction and calmness. In these supposedly cordoned off terrains of our ‘un-named’ anonymous secret military villages, bases and compounds comes across as vast contrasts to the crusting grueling Arabian Desert, to be witnessed by an occasional car chase, like a clichéd Hollywood thriller only to reveal once again the incrustation of more terror, intrigue and warfare as an un-ending story.
2016
Lost Codes, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
2015
Islamic Violins, Mitchell Center for the Arts, Houston
2014
Lost Codes, Crone Galerie, Berlin
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2016
Liquid Loft, Antidote, Art & Design Platform Dubai
2015
The Artroom, Antidote, Art & Design Platform Dubai
2014
Welcome to the End of History, Framer Framed Gallery, Amsterdam
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2016-18 Award / Grant Mondriaan Fonds NL
2016-17 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst for research and film with Kurdish Women’s Resistance Fighters in Rojava Syria
2014-15 Doris Duke Grant: “Building Bridges” at University of Houston Texas
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1990-92 New York University, New York - Political Philosophy, studied with Prof. Bertell Ollman
1992-95 Columbia University, New York – BA MELAC / Philosophy studied with Prof. Edward W. Said
1995-97 Actors Studio, New York, Experimental Directors Program, invited by Arthur Penn
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