Hassan Khan is a writer, a musician and an established artist, one of the most active in the Middle East. His work is nourished by the urban reality of Cairo and he considers the role of art as a conceptual and linguistic activity. To this end he makes use of the widest range of media such as video, photography, performance and installation. The artist considers the medium to not to be a sort of field that has to be mastered but rather a source of possibilities, potential as well as learning.
Hassan Khan’s notable solo exhibitions include The Portrait is an Address, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Libanon (2016); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, MMK, Franckfurt, Germany (2015); Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo, Egypt (2014); SALT, Istanbul, Turkey (2012); trusted sources, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan (2011); evidence of evidence, Kunst Halle St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2009). He also participated in dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012) and The Ungovernables, Triennal New Museum, New York, U.S.A., Told/Untold/Retold, Mathaf, Doha, Quatar (2011); Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain (2010); 3rd Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan and 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea.
In 2017, his work was exhibited at the 57th Venice Biennale at the Giardino delle Vergini (Arsenal) and was awarded the Silver Lion for a promising young artist in the International Exhibition Viva Arte Viva. A new version of Composition for a Public Park, the celebrated installation at the 57th Venice Biennale, will be inaugurated at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, in October 2019.
In October 2019 Khan will have a solo exhibition at the Palacio de Cristal organized by the Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel

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