Khalil Rabah
- Khalil Rabah
- Work
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2023
Khalil Rabah (b.1961, Palestine) studied fine arts and architecture at the University of Texas. His most recent solo exhibitions include Casa Árabe, Madrid (2016); Kunsthaus Hamburg (2015); e-flux, New York, (2013); and Beirut Art Center (2012). In addition to major group shows, including Manifesta 12 Palermo (2018); the Sharjah Biennial (2017); the Marrakech Biennale (2016); the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); the Thessaloniki Biennial (2013); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012); Mathaf, Doha (2010); and the Venice Biennale (2009).
Over the years, his work has been acquired by major institutions including MACRO, Rome; The British Museum, London; The Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; Mathaf, Doha; Kunsthaus Zurich and The Sharjah Art Foundation.
Rabah is the initiator and artistic director of the Riwaq Biennale and a co-founder of Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. He served on the curricular committee of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program in Beirut, Lebanon from 2011 to 2015.
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2023 | Through the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy Relocation, Among Other Things, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
2022 | Relocation, Among Other Things, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria What is not, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE |
2018 | New Sites for the Museum Departments or four places to visit Heaven, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon |
2016 | Khalil Rabah. Proyectos a escala, Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain |
2015 | Scale Models, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany |
2013 | Khalil Rabah: Pages 7, 8, 9, e-flux, New York, USA |
2012 | Review, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon Art Exhibition, Ready Made Representations, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany |
2007 | United States of Palestine Airlines, The London Office, Artist Studio, London, UK 50.320 Names, Brunei Gallery, London, UK |
2004 | The Third Annual Wall Zone Sale, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, West Bank |
2002 | Copy Right, Samaha House, Beirut, Lebanon |
2001 | Feeling a Part, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
2000 | With Out Architecture, Le Repubbliche Dell'Arte, Siena, Italy Gallery Bangnai, Siena, Italy |
1999 | Nine Works, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, West Bank |
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2023 | Vera List Center Forum 2023: Correction*, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, USA Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom ANGST / FEAR – Crisis Indicator or Survival Instinct?, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany |
2022 | In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Sarab, Desert X AlUla, Al-'Ula region, Saudi Arabia A Casa é Sua: Migração e hos(ti)pitalidade fora do lugar, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro |
2021 | Carnivalesca: What painting might be, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Répare Reprise, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, France |
2020 | Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan |
2019 | Phantom Limb, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE |
2018 | Vanishing Points, Carré d’Art - Museum of Contemporary Art Nîmes, France Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan Debt, Qalandiya International IV, Ramallah, Palestine The Lasting Effect, Qalandiya International IV, Ramallah, Palestine Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy Höhenrausch/Thrill of Heights, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria |
2017 | Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah After the Fact. Propaganda in the 21st Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
2016 | Marrakech Biennale 6, Marrakech, Morocco The Time is Out of Joint, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE |
2015 | Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
2014 | Cartagena Biennial, Colombia Critical Machines, AUB Beirut, Lebanon |
2013 | 4th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Artists, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece |
2012 | Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | A Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, UAE Essays on Geopolitics, 8th Mercosur Biennial 2011, Porto Alegre, Basilia |
2010 | Localties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark Told – Untold –Retold, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar Biproduct, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar |
2009 | 53. Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Palestine - La creation dans tous ses états, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
2008 | Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK |
2007 | In Focus, Tate Modern, London, UK Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London, UK Home works Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon |
2006 | Word into Art, British Museum, London, UK Mercury in Retrograde, De Apple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Interrupted Histories, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
2005 | 9th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey Nuove Acquisizioni, MACRO al Mattatoio, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Ten Artists Ten Years, Guest Atelier, Aarau, Switzerland ...O luna tu...ARCOS, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy |
2004 | Mediterraneans Arte Contemporanea, MACRO al Mattatoio, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Plug In, Centre for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic Unscene, Greenwich University, London, UK Lust Lies Art and Fashion, Podewill, Berlin, Germany |
2003 | Disorientation, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
2000 | Narcisse blesse, autoportraits contemporains 1970-2000, Passage de Retz, Paris, France |
1999 | The Change of the Century 1899-1999, Passage de Retz, Paris, France |
1998 | I never promised you a rose garden, Beelden Buiten, Tielt, Belgium Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, XXIV Biennale de São Paolo, Brazil Every Day, Sydney Biennial, Australia |
1997 | Contemporary Palestinian Artists, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
1995 | Beyond the Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea |
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1989 | University of Texas, Fine Arts, Austin, Texas |