Hassan Khan
Born in 1975, London, UK.
Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.
Solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2012
SALT, Istanbul, Turkey.
2011
Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium.
Hassan Khan - The Hidden Location, Queens Museum of Arts, New York.
Lust, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
2010
Kunst Halle St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
2008
Lust, Uqbar, Berlin, Germany.
2007
KOMPRESSOR, Le Plateau / Festival d’Automne Paris, France.
2006
KOMPRESSOR, Gasworks, London, U.K.
2005
The Hidden Location, A Space Gallery / Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
Hassan Khan, Ursula Blicke, videolounge, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria.
2004
Directtransmission with mahmoud refat- a one month long music studio set up in the exhibition space accompanied by a series of concerts and public rehearsals, KBB, Barcelona, Spain.
Hassan Khan, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
2003
17 and in AUC, A performative action, 2, Maarouf Street and an exhibition at Falaki Gallery, New Falaki Campus, AUC, Cairo, Egypt.
2001
Reading the Surface: 100 portraits, 6 locations and 25 Questions, Townhouse Gallery / Second Nitaq Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
1999
I am a hero / you are a hero, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Collective exhibitions (show/hide)
2011
Ailleurs et autrement, LiveInYourHead, Institut curatorial de la Head - Genève, Switzerland.Image in the Aftermath, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Accretions, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland.
Told/Untold/Retold, Mathaf, Doha, Quatar.
Shifting Borders / In transit - of Bridges & Borders (Phase III), Centro Cultural de Espana en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentine.
2010
“VIDEO XXI. Colección Lemaître” , ATA, Fundacion Telefonica and The MALI, Lima, Peru.
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain.
Accretions, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Live cinema/in the round: Contemporary Art from The East Mediterranean, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Marrakech a Palermo, Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy.
What’s happening now, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain.
Home Works V, Beirut art center, Beirut, Lebanon.
2009
The Malady of Writing, MACBA, The Museu d’Art Contemporani De Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Project Room, Paris Photo, Paris, France.
Frontiera, Film, Visual Arts & Narratives Festival, Urban Center, Bergamo, Italy.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.
A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places - 3rd Arts in Marrakech International Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco.
Un/Mögliche Gemeinschaft, Shedhalle, Zurich
The view from elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation - SCAF, Sydney, NSW
2008
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
PhotoCairo4: The Long Shortcut, Cairo, Egypt.
If we can’t get it together – Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
3rd Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan.
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.
REVOLUTIONS - Selected Works from the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla – San Diego, U.S.A.
Repeat all, MIS (Museu da imagem e do som), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Transmediale.08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Lapdogs of the Bourgoisie, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
Decoder- selections from Contour Biennale, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2007
What’s happening now ?, Palace of Arts, Cairo, Egypt.
The FM Ferry Experiment, mobile radio project, Staten Island ferry, New York, U.S.A.
Pausa (infiltration through television), television side project to Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio Mx”, Mexico.
Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art, Mechelen, Belgium.
Heterotopias, First Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Silence. Listen the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
The Backroom, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France.
Out of Place, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
Repeat all, MATUCAN100, Santiago de Chile, Chili.
Un tiro al cielo, OPA - Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2006
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Gasworks, London, U.K.
Repeat all, Toit du Monde, Vevey, Switzerland.
Une vision du monde, La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France.
Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennial, Australia.
Deep Freeze, Mehr (Midtown), New York, U.S.A.
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain.
Open Studio, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt;
FAMILY, You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, PROGR., Berne, Switzerland.
2005
The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1 - Turin Triennal Threemuseums, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino; Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
FAMILY, You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, ACAF/ Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum- Alexandria –Egypt.
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
e-flux video rental (Touring show), Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany.
Four by Four, Artists Space, New York, U.S.A.
Desvelar lo Invisible-videocreaciones contemporaneas, Sala de exposiciones Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
2004
Sublime Audacia-A experiencia do passeante part 3F , Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal.
Going Places, a project with commissioned art works on public buses curated by Mai Abu El Dahab, Cairo, Egypt.
Near the Near East, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in public spaces, Frankfurt, Germany.
Going Public ‘04, Amaze Cultural Lab, Modena, Italy.
Mediterraneans, Macro Museum, Roma, Italy.
La Ciudad Collage, Centro de exposicones, Benalmadena, Malaga, Spain.
2003
Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands & Fundacio Antonie Tapies, Barcelona, Spain.
Through the Eye of a Needle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Rendez-vous, Galerie des terreaux, Lyon, France.
Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennal, Turkey.
Multitudes – Solitudes, Museion – Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy.
Change of values, Espai d’art contemporani de Castello, Castellon, Spain.
2002
INTER.PLAY, curated by Silvia Karman Cubina and Patrick Charpenel, Miami, U.S.A.
Haunted by Detail, De Appel Foundation Amsterdam, November, The Netherlands.
Géographies #2, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Trottoirs/Sidewalks, Mois de la Photo, Galerie Chantal Crousel à la Poste du Louvre, Paris, France.
Present Future (presentation of To the man masturbating in the toilet of Charles de Gaulle airport), Artissima, Torino, Italy.
you can touch, Espace Karim Frances, Cairo, Egypt.
2001
Square Circle, Daraj El Fann, Beirut, Lebanon.
2000
L’Art dans le monde (presentation of Re/lapse, ), Paris, France.
1997
Video Visions Cairo II (presentation of Do you want to fight?- People are a hidden illness), El Hanager Art Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Performances & lectures (show/hide)
2011
14 Propoer News, two weeks conversations with Nida Ghouse, The Delfina Foundation, London, U.K.
Big City sound girl, performance, Arnolfini, Bristol, U.K.
Superstructure performance, SALT Beyoglu, Ustanbul, Turkey.
The Big One, performance, Queens Museum of Arts, New York, USA.
Performance, 100LIVE Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
“A SHORT STORY BASED ON A DISTANT MEMORY WITH A LONG MUSICAL INTERLUDE”. Circular Facts, ‘Public Meeting’, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium.
2010
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One and Incidence, MAZAJ Experimental Music Festival, London - City University and Cafe Oto, England.
Incidence, Slought Foundation Philadelphia, US.
Hassan Khan and Brian Kuan Wood in conversation, the University of Delaware, US.
Possible Encounters: in conversation with Giovanni Carmine at Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
Speaker at INCUBATOR: Four positions regarding the idea of a pan-African roaming biennial. at Manifesta 8, Spain.
Artist Presentation as part of On Painting: A public seminar co-organized by ACAF and the Goethe Institue - Alexandria, Egypt.
Evidence of Evidence artist presentation at the Summer Workshop, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt.
I am not what I am, part of “On Excess” organized by Pericentre Projects at the Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, and Incidence, Mos Espa Experimental Music Festival, Geneva, Switzerland.
The Shape of the Argument, 19 Washington Square North, Romanticide, NYU Abu Dhabi Lecture Series, New York, USA.
2009
Three Works a lecture, Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, Egypt.
I am not What I am, “Something you should know” seminar at EHESS, Paris, France.
I am not What I am, Guest Corner, FHNW Basel, Switzerland.
I am not what I am, Mediamatic Bank, Amsterdam, Netherland.
New Roads, New Urban Conditions, MUSAC, Museo de Arte contempora neo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain.
Incidence, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Incidence, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris.
Incidence, Vevey Theatre, Vevey, Switzerland.
Incidence, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, 100live electronic music festival 2009, Rawabit Theater, Cairo, Egypt.
Mesmeric-EP, 1st Sakia Electronic Music Festival, Cairo, Egypt.
2008
figure and ground live at the HAU 3 theatre, Berlin, Germany.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Khoj Live Festival, Delhi, India.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Salon Bruit, Berlin, Germany.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Cinema Gwangju at the opening of the Gwangju Biennale, Korea.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Red Brick Warehouse at the opening of Yokohama Triennale, Japan.
Incidence - live music and video concert, as part of 100 LIVE 2 in Cairo, Alexandria and Amman.
I am not what I am, Homeworks IV, Beirut, Lebanon.
2007
I am not what I am, ENSBA, Paris, France.
I am not what I am, Passage 35, Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
tabla dubb, album release, Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), Mounira, Egypt.
Incidence, Point Ephémère / Festival d’Automne, Paris, France.
Yokomono White, Hassan Khan live with Staalplat Soundsystem, Podewil, Berlin, Germany.
Lust, 100 LIVE - the Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, at the Global Art Forum, 1st Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, UAE.
2006
I am not what I am, Goldsmiths, London, UK.
figure and ground (2), Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, Alexandria, Egypt.
a lecture that tries to speak of images but ends up being concerned with something else, Camden Arts Centre, London, U.K.
figure and ground 18 July, Live on Resonance FM Clear Spot, London, UK.
tabla dubb , Whitechapel Gallery, London & Vevey, Switzerland.
Nine Notes on Source Process And Product, part of the exhibition FAMILY, You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post Everything Era, PROGR, Berne, Switzerland.
2005
STUDIO INCIDENT No. 1 – five days of concerts, performances, installations and videos by Adham Hafez, Ahmed el Attar, Bikya, Hassan Khan / Mahmoud Refat, Wael Shawky, Zeinab Khalifa at Hassan Khan’s studio, Cairo, Egypt.
a lecture that tries to speak of images but ends up being concerned with something else, Photo Cairo Festival,
Studio Emad El Din, Cairo, Egypt.
I am Not What I am (Creative Voices Series), English and Comparative Literature Department, American University, Cairo, Egypt.
2004
tabla dubb :
-the International Cairo Book Fair, Egypt.
- Kunsten Festival, Brussels, Belgium.
-“Mediterraneans”, Macro Museum, Roma, Italy.
2003
tabla dubb :
- The Black Box, New Falaki Gallery, American University in Cairo, Egypt.
- VIDEOBRASIL, SESC, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
- Espace d’art contemporani, Castello, Italy.
- Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey.
- the Lydmar hotel, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Off Corso Rotterdam, Holland.
- the World Wide Video Festival, Melkweg Amsterdam, Holland.
- Photo Cairo 2, Cairo, Egypt.
The Supreme Council with Mahmoud Refat, Photo Cairo 2, Cairo, Egypt
2002
tabla dubb, audio-visual performance premiered at “Home Works: A forum on a cultural practice in the region,” Beirut, Lebanon.
2001
What is the difference between the cell and the portrait?, video talk premiered November, Beirut, Lebanon.
1995
Lungfan, with Amr Hosny, slide show accompagned with sound, Cairo Atelier, Egypt.
1993
Modern music for the guitar, with Sherif El Azma, Cairo Atelier, Egypt.
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May 22, 2011
Hassan Khan: The Hidden Location - Installation at The Queens Museum of Art - May 22 - August 14, 2011 Opening Reception: ... -
July 14, 2011
Hassan Khan - Performance at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey - PERFORMANCE BY HASSAN KHANSUPERSTRUCTURE (the ammunition of the ...