Wael Shawky



Cabaret Crusades The Horror Show File, 2010, Film still

 

 

 
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1971

Alexandria, Egypt

2001 MFA: Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, USA
1994 BFA: Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Egypt
   
   
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
   
2011 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
Drawings and Flags from Cabaret Crusades, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Larvae Channel series, The Delfina Foundation, London, England
Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany
2010/
2011
Contemporary Myths, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2009 Larvae Channel 2, Project Gentili, Berlin
Clean History, The Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo
Wael Shawky, Darat al Funun, Amman
2008 Al Aqsa Park, Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2007 Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (S)
Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Bunkier Sztukim, Krakow
Video shown at YAMA. Plasma screen on top of Marmara Hotel, Istanbul
2006 Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo
2005 Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo
Ludwigsburg Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany
2003

Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art, Cairo

2002 Performance at Main Space, Cairo
2001 Gemmayzeh, Beirut
   
   
Group Exhibitions/ screenings (selection)
   
2011 Bucharest Biennial 5, Bucharest, Romania
12. Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Serious Games  Krieg, Medien ­ Kunst, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
2010 Whael Shawky Comtemporary Myths II / Mounira Al Solh Exhibition No. 17
2007

Contemporary Art Platform, London
Video screening, Tate Modern, London
Gallery SFEIR-SEMLER, Beirut
Moscow Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka

2006

Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Hellenic American Union, Athens
Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Studio Trisorio, Napoli
47th October Art Salon Belgrade
Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art
6th Visual Arts Festival, Kodra Field, Thessaloniki
Video installation mounted in Cinema Marignan, Hamra, Beirut
Gb Agency, Paris
Artist’s Project in Hamburg, Große Bergstraße, Hamburg

2005

9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Focus Istanbul, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
The Museum of Modern Art Rome (MACRO)
Platform Granti of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo

2004

The Museum of Modern Art Rome (MACRO)
Makan House, Amman
Centre Culturel Francais de Damas, Damascus

2003

Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers, France
CAC museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
50th La Biennale di Venezia Venic
Artists Space, New York
Fa project, London
Goethe Institut, Alexandria/Cairo

2002

Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art, Cairo

2001

Codema, Bayamo, Cuba
Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo

2000

Meyrson Hall Gallery, Philadelphia
Talaat Harb Square, Cairo

1997

Kunst Historischan Museum, Vienna

1996

Museum of Modern Art, Cairo

1995

Al-Hanagar Gallery, Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt

1994 Al-Hanagar Gallery, Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt
   
   
Awards
   
2012 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, joint winner
2011

Kunstpreis der Schering Stiftung
Artist in Residence – Center for Possible Studies - Serpentine Gallery, London, England