Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial
group show

We are pleased to share that Alex Ayed is participating in the inaugural Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: “Public Matter”.
This first edition explores the evolving concept of public space in Abu Dhabi through the lens of four main factors: environment, community, urbanity, and indigeneity.
Untitled (Beit el hmam I) (2023), a monumental sculpture crafted from olive wood, clay, straw, and lime, denotes the vernacular architecture of the southern Mediterranean region. The piece merges past and future, science fiction and reality, functioning as a dovecote (structure that houses pigeons) and converging history and imagination. By using materials tied to the Mediterranean, Ayed highlights the resilience of regional practices amid globalisation. The sculpture gestures towards the continuity and cohabitation between humans, non-humans, and their environments, where birds, traditionally messengers, carry histories and stories across generations.

PAAD, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Suspension of Disbelief
solo show

Simone Fattal’s solo exhibition “Suspension of Disbelief” is on view at IVAM in Valencia, Spain, from December 12, 2024, to June 1, 2025.
Fattal has been awarded the Julio González International Prize 2024 for her contribution to contemporary art. To mark the occasion, IVAM is organizing an exhibition curated by Nuria Enguita and Rafael Barber, which will review the main lines of work of this Franco-Lebanese artist. A catalogue will be published in conjunction with the exhibition, including texts by the curators and contributions from professionals such as Jacqueline Burckhardt and Omar Kholeif.

IVAM, València, Spain

The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020
group show

Isabelle Cornaro is part of the exhibition The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – 2020. This international exhibition showcases over 60 artists who have redefined painting through emerging technologies, imaging techniques, and their own bodies. By exploring the effects of computers, cameras, television, social media, and automation, the show frames painting as a manual “technology” increasingly distanced from the artist’s hand. This shift has led artists to question the nature of painting and who (or what) can be a painter.
Featuring mediums beyond painting, such as video and performance, these artists challenge painting traditions and the myth of the singular genius, presenting a vibrant portrait of a medium still evolving.

The Living End is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Illinois, USA

Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024
Trienal

Ser Serpas is among the invited artists participating in Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024, El Museo del Barrio’s second major survey of Latinx contemporary art, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Susanna V. Temkin, and guest curator María Elena Ortiz.

The “Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024” exhibition features 33 participating artists working across the United States, Puerto Rico, and—for the first time—extending into new geographies that reflect the complexities of diasporic flows. This edition builds on the framework of the critically acclaimed ”ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21,” the museum’s inaugural survey of Latinx contemporary art, and the first of its kind in the United States.

El Museo del Barrio
New York, USA

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The Restaurant Season 2
with Steffen Jørgensen

For the past eight years Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen have been expanding a series of videos called The Restaurant. Set in the ruins of a Parisian skyscraper surrounded by now dense jungle, human and non-human characters cook, serve, interrogate, fumble for meaning and fail at being productive members of society.

Den Frie
Copenhagen, Denmark

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11 04 2024 – 02 02 2025

Digital Dairies
group shows

Alex Ayed is part of group show Digital Dairies currently on view at Julia Stoschek Foundation until February 2, 2025. This exhibition explores diaristic forms in video and digital media from the 1970s onward.

Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf

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31 05 2024 – 01 09 2025

Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots
curated by Lorenzo Giusti
South Tyrol, Italy

The exhibition – which has brought international contemporary art to the unique setting of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 2008 – will take place once again in various venues around Ortisei/Urtijëi St. Ulrich as well as expanding into the surrounding areas of Val Gardena/Gherdëina Gröden. The pivotal themes explored by The Parliament of Marmots, are the wild as a creative dimension, multi-speciesism as a trajectory of becoming, and the mountain as a sewing ground and narrative dimension.

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Dolomites, ph: Tiberio Sorvillo