Past Exhibition
Susan Hefuna
Three elements
2020.9.7 - 10.2
Biography
| 1962 | Born in Berlin in1962, Susan Hefuna grew up in Egypt, Germany, and Austria. |
| 1992 | She completed a postgraduate degree in multimedia at the Institut für Neue Medien, Städelschule, Frankfurt, where she studied under artist, curator, and theoretician Peter Weibel. |
Exhibitions/Projects
| 2019 | Susan Hefuna, Anne Mosseri – Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland |
| TEXTILES, Pi Artworks, London, UK | |
| 2018 | Angst Eats Soul, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2017 | ToGather, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
| 2016 | Susan Hefhuna: CROSSROADS 2002-2016, Pi Artworks Istanbul/London, London, UK |
| 2015 | Susan Hefuna: Afaz, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| Cairotraces, Pi Artworks, London, UK | |
| 2014 | Another Place: Susan Hefuna Bait Ai Serkal, SAF Art Space, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE |
| Susan Hefuna, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
| Susan Hefuna – Buildings, Solo Show, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany | |
| 2013 | Susan Hefuna – Istanbul, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2010 | Susan Hefuna: Mapping Wien, Gallery Greta Insam, Vienna, Austria |
| 2008 | Susan Hefuna, Albion Gallery, New York, USA |
| Patience is Beautiful, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE | |
| 2007 | Vitrines of Afaf, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
| 2000 | Life in the delta, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
| Navigation xcultural, National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa |
Group Show
| 2020 | Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warschaw Gallery – Macalester College, St. Paul, USA |
| 2019 | Arabicity / Ourorba, MEI Art Gallery, Washington D.C., USA |
| 2019 - 20 | This Land’s Unknown, Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans 2019, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France |
| 2019 | Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2018 - 19 | Autofiktionen – Zeichnung der Gegenwart, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany |
| 2018 | What do you mean, here we are?, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK |
| Long, Winding Journeys, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA | |
| 2017 | Back To The Future, Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia, USA |
| Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., USA | |
| 2017 - 18 | RESONANZEN, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2017 | Public View, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Bouder Museum of Contemporary Art,Bounder, USA | |
| The Creative Act: Perfomance・Process・Presence, Guggenhaim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi UAE | |
| Escape Attempts: Curated by Kathy Battista, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2016 -17 | Sol Lewitt. A Tribute, GEM – Museum of contemporary art, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Hommage aux donateurs des colledtions contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Imperfect Chronology: Mapping the Contemporary Ⅱ, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London UK | |
| 2016 | Rhona Hoffman 40 Years Part 2: Gender. Race.Identity. ,Rhona Hoffman Gallery,Chicago, USA |
| 2016 - 17 | Social Calligraphies, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland |
| Weltsicht, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 2016 | Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA |
| CHERS AMIS, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Guggenheim, New York, USA | |
| Cross – border: Video works by contemporary female artists, Pātaka Art + Museum, New Zealand | |
| Memory anf Continuity, A Selection from the Huma Kabakc Collection Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| do it ,بالعربي, Bait Al Shamsi, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE | |
| 2015 | Alls and Margins Maraya Art Cantre – Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE |
| Ortstermin mit Leoni Wirth, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany | |
| Imagining Space: Constructions of Text and Geometry, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
| Cobtemporary Art of the Middle East, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Bibliothecaphilia, MASSMoCA, North Adams, USA | |
| Common Grounds, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich,Germany | |
| Extending the Line, Colorado College IDEA: Interdisciplinary Arts Colorado. USA | |
| 2014 | MATERIAL GESTURES Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA |
| WHAT REMAINS – Part Ⅱ, ROSE ISSA PROJECTS, London, UK | |
| Here and Elsewhere, Group Show New Museum, New York, USA | |
| Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| 2013 | Area Code, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA |
| Pi: Housewarming, Pi Artworks, London, UK | |
| The Seven Valleys, Rose Issa Projscts, London, UK | |
| 2010 | Susan Hefuna, Bharti Kher, Fred Tomaselli: Zwishen den Welten, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Museum as Hub: Antikhana, The New Museum, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Life in the delta, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
Performance
| 2018 | Susan Hefuna – Mapping Stein, Eine Intervetion in drei Akten, Mudeum Lindwurm und Storefront Kulturhaus, Stein am Rhein |
| 2017 | ToGather(Performance), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
Biennale
| 2009 | Venice Biennial, Arsenale and Giardini, Italy |
| 2007 | Mirage, Sharjah Biennial |
Art Fair
| 2009 | Dream, Art Dubai, UAE |
Exhibition/Performance
| 2013 | Susan Hefuna and Luca Veggetti: NOTATIONOTATIONS, The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
Exhibition/Project
| 2011 | I love Egypt, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
| 2010 | Edgware Road@Cairo, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
Workshop
| 2011 | Celebrate Life: I love Egypt, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt |
Susan Hefuna was born in Germany in 1962. Born to an Egyptian father and a German mother, she was raised in Egypt, Germany and Austria. Hefuna draws on her life and experiences in the different cultures of Egypt and Germany to create the works with a variety of media, including drawing, fabric, video, performance, photography, sculpture and installation.
Abstract images and symbols, multiple structures stitched together with thread, traditional “Mashrabiya” patterns in Islamic architectures, and sometimes physical movements are incorporated into the works, asking us a question about the meaning of images while the motifs and techniques are crossing different cultures and traditions.
Working mainly in Europe, she has already exhibited and performed abroad at MoMA (NY, 2010), The New Museum (NY, 2014) and Guggenheim Museum (NYC, 2016 and Abu Dhabi, 2017), as well as at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020) . The artist has received international recognition, including the Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Art Foundationin in Paris (2013).
This exhibition, held in Japan for the first time, focuses on three key elements that form the pillars of Hefuna's diverse body of work: drawing, fabric and video. The exhibition includes drawings with layered and transparent structures, tapestries made of embroidered Egyptian cotton fabric, and representative video works. The idea of this exhibition was naturally formulated through the artist's six visits to Japan.