Adel Abidin lives and works in Helsinki since 2001.
Education
2005
MFA - academy of fine arts, Helsinki.
2000
BA - academy of fine arts, Baghdad.
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
MATHAF - musuem of modern arab art - musuem fasade. Doha.
Meem gallery, Dubai.
2019
Dar El- Nimer for arts and culture, Beirut.
Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
2018
Ateneum art museum, national gallery, Helsinki.
2016
Saw gallery. Ottawa.
Fotogalleriet and at oslo central station, Oslo.
2015
Lawrie Shabibi - contemporary art gallery, Dubai.
2014
Sultan gallery, Kuwait.
Muu - media art association gallery, Helsinki.
Flow festival, Helsinki.
2013
Forum box gallery, Helsinki.
Maraya art center, Sharjah.
Turku art museum, Turku, Finland.
Forum box gallery - space for art, Helsinki.
2012
Espace croise, Roubaix, France.
Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland.
Arter - space for art, Istanbul.
2011
Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman.
Anne de Villepoix gallery, Paris.
Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul.
Wharf - centre d’art contemporain de basse, Normandy.
2010
Kiasma - museum of contemporary art, Helsinki.
The Da2 - centre of contemporary art, Salamanca, Spain.
Location one gallery, New York.
2009
Finnish institute, Stockholm.
2008
MAC/VAL - musée d’art contemporain du val-de-marne, France.
Gallery 300m3, Gothenburg.
White Box gallery, New York.
SPACE - contemporary art gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
MUU - media art association gallery, Helsinki.
2007
Montalvo arts center, CA.
2006
Kluuvi gallery, Helsinki.
Huuto gallery, Helsinki.
Selected group exhibitions
Flow festival - Helsinki.
HKW - the haus der kulturen der welt - screening, Berlin.
2021
SAVVY contemporary - the labrotary of form - ideas. Berlin.
NTMFA - the national Taiwan museum of fine arts. Taiwan.
2020
Loop Barcelona, Barcelona.
IVAM - institut valencià d'art modern, Valencia.
Seoul museum of art, S. Korea.
Dar el Nimer for arts and culture, Beirut.
Emma - Espoo museum of modern art, Finland.
Yinchuan museum of contemporary art, China.
Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany.
ICAE2018 - soundlines of contemporary art, Armenia.
MAXXI museum, Rome.
2017
The 7th Moscow biennale, Moscow.
NGV triennial - national gallery of victoria, Melbourne.
FOR-SITE foundation, San Fransisco.
BOZAR - centre of art, Brussels.
Kunstverein Tiergarten - galerie nord, Berlin.
GUS - gallery university Stellenbosch, S. Africa.
Kunstram Kreuzberg - Bethanien, Berlin.
ICI - institut des cultiral d’Islam, Paris.
Centro cultural matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
Vanhaerents art collection, Brussels.
Short film program - film sector, art Basel, Hong Kong.
Art Dubai cinema, Dubai.
56th Venice biennale - international exhibition, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice.
56th Venice biennale - Iranian pavilion, Venice.
5th Guangzhou triennial - the Guangdong museum of art, Guangzhou.
BWA SOKOL contemporary art gallery, Nowy Sacz, Poland.
Aga Khan museum, Toronto.
International performance art festival, Chicago, Illinois.
KIASMA - museum of contemporary art, Helsinki.
Barjeel art foundation, Sharjah.
Lajevardi collection, Tehran.
The Gwangju museum of art, S. Korea.v
National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels.
The Jerusalem show VII, Jerusalem.
104 Le Cenquatre - Paris.
Station museum of contemporary art, Houston.
Louisiana museum of modern art, Denmark.
New museum, New York.
MACRO - museum of contemporary art, Rome.
Hauser & Wirth gallery, London.
TANAS - art space and the neuer berliner kunstvereinin, Berlin.
Mori art museum, Tokyo.
SAM - Singapore art museum, Singapore.
Museum of anthropology, Vancouver.
Mead gallery - Warwick arts centre, UK.
Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Havremagasinet as art museum, Boden, Sweden.
BrotKunsthalle, Vienna.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland.
54th Venice biennale - Iraq pavilion, Venice.
10th Sharjah biennial, Sharjah.
SKMU - sørlandets kunstmuseum, kristiansand, Norway.
Center for contemporary arts - celje, Slovenija.
MOCCA, Toronto.
Vejle art museum, Denmark.
Sergey Kuryokhin - contemporary art center, St. Petersburg.
17th biennale of Sydney, Sydney.
MATHAF - musuem of modern arab art, Doha.
Regis center for art - Minneapolis.
Overgaden - institute of contemporary art, Copenhagen.
Moen44 - Moen island, Denmark.
MAP - mobile art production, Stockholm.
Riga exhibition hall, Latvia.
Mawazine festival, Rabat, Morocco.
Impakt festival, Utrecht, Netherlands.
11th Cairo biennial, Cairo.
Espace - LV - Louis Vuitton art space, Paris.
MoMA, museum of modern art - screening, New York.
Hotel Royal Monceau, demolition party, Paris.
Domaine Pommery, Reims, France.
Burg Schlaining’s - european museum of peace, Austria.
Grand Palais - Traversées exhibition, Paris.
CRAC Alsace - Centre Rhénan d’art contemporian, France.
The Mildred Lane Kemper art museum, St. Louis.
52nd Venice biennale, Nordic pavilion, Venice.
Gothenburg biennial, Gothenburg.
Tallinna kunstihoone, Tallinn.
Museum of photography, Helsinki.
37th Tampere short film festival, Tampere.
MOCA, museum of contemporary art, Taipei.
October Saloon 47, Belgrade.
Fredericianum khunsthalle, Kassel.
5th Istanbul biennial - workshop, Istanbul. (M.A. student).
Tennis Palace art museum - HAM, Helsinki. (M.A. graduation exhibition).
Selected grants & awards
Alumni of the year - academy of fine arts, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish cultural foundation - two years grant, Helsinki.
Saastamoisen foundation - project grant, Espoo.
QM - Qatar museums authority - commission, Doha.
AVEK - promotion for audiovisual culture, Helsinki.
TAIKE - art promotion centre, Helsinki.
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung- Beirut.
AFAC - the arab fund for arts and culture, Beirut.
Ateneum museum of modern art, Helsinki.
Finnish ministry of culture and education - Finland prize for visual arts.
13-17
TAIKE - art promotion centre - five year grant, Helsinki.
Ars Fennica nominee, Helsinki.
AVEK - promotion for audiovisual culture. Helsinki.
09-11
SKR - Finnish cultural foundation - three years grant, Helsinki.
Swedish cultural fund, Helsinki.
Alfred Kordelinin foundation, Helsinki.
AVEK - audio visual cultural prize. Helsinki.
FRAME - fund for art exchange, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish cultural foundation - one year grant, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish cultural foundation, Helsinki.
LUKSUZ - film festival - audience award, Slovenia.
2004
The academy of fine arts, Helsinki.
2003
The arts council of Finland, Helsinki.
2002
First prize - contest of young Iraqi artists/ Painters, Baghdad.
1999
Third prize - contest of new Iraqi sculpture, Baghdad.
Selected lectures, talks & panel discussions
Academy of fine arts - Alumni of year 2022 - artist talk, Helsinki.
MATHAF - musuem of modern Arab art - artist talk, Doha.
Aalto university - keynote speaker, Helsinki.
Al- Mawred culture resource - jury member, Beirut.
Seoul museum of art - panel discussion with Wael Shawky & Ahlam Shibli, S. Korea.
MATHAF - musuem of modern Arab art - panel discussion with Wael Shawky & Sheikha Reem Al- Thani, Doha.
Galerie Tanit - artist talk, Beirut.
Ateneum museum of modern art - artist talk, Helsinki.
Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation - artist talk, Amman.
7th Moscow biennale - panel discussion with Taus Makhacheva, Moscow.
HKW- haus der kulturen der welt - artist presentation, Berlin.
World press freedom day, The UNESCO - guest artist, Helsinki.
LASALLE - college of the arts - guest lecturer, Singapore.
Global art forum, art Dubai - artist talk, Dubai.
The UNESCO- improving artistic freedom in a digital age - panelist, Helsinki.
Academy of fine arts in Helsinki - visiting professor, Helsinki.
Aalto university - artist talk, Helsinki.
The museum of anthropology - artist talk, Vancouver.
The Mosaic rooms, global futures forum - artist talk, London.
OSU- Oregon state university - studio visits, USA.
Location One gallery - artist talk, New York.