Upcoming Exhibitions
15.10.2024 - 26.11.2024 / Solo exhibition / The Revolt / Galerie Tanit, Beirut / Curated by Nat Muller.
Selected Past Solo Exhibitions
2024
The Revolt / Forum Box Gallery, Helsinki / Curated by Nat Muller.
2023
Ithra - King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia.
2022
Mathaf / Musuem’s Façade / They Asked Me To Change It And I Agreed / Doha.
Meem Gallery / / Musical Manifest / Dubai.
Flow Festival / Circus space / Musical Manifest / Suvilahti, Helsinki.
2019
Dar El-Nimer For Arts & Culture / Back To The Future / Beirut.
Galerie Tanit / YA! / Beirut.
2018
Ateneum Art Museum / History Wipes / National Gallery, Helsinki.
2016
Saw Gallery / Micheal / Ottawa.
Fotogalleriet & Oslo Central Station / Cover Up!, Michael & Three Love Songs / Oslo.
2015
Lawrie Shabibi / Immortals / Dubai.
2014
Sultan Gallery / Cover Up! / Kuwait.
Muu - Media Art Association Gallery /Life Is Short, Let’s Have An A air/ Helsinki.
Flow Festival / Adel Abidin / Helsinki.
2013
Forum Box Gallery / I Love To Love / Helsinki.
Maraya art center / Plan B / Sharjah.
Lawrie Shabibi gallery / Symphony / Dubai.
Turku Art Museum / Camel Toe / Turku, Finland.
2012
Espace Croise / Memorial / Roubaix, France.
Kunsthalle Winterthur / Consumption of War / Winterthur, Switzerland.
Arter / Space For Art / Symphony & Three Love Songs / Istanbul.
2011
Darat Al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation / Adel Abidin / Amman.
Anne de Villepoix Gallery / Musical Chairs / Paris.
Galeri Zilberman / Ping Pong / Istanbul.
Wharf - Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse / Adel Abidin / Normandy.
2010
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art / Adel Abidin / Helsinki.
The Da2 - Centre of Contemporary Art, Salamanca / Tasty / Spain.
Location One Gallery / I’m Sorry, Foam / New York.
2009
Finnish Institute / Bread of Life / Stockholm.
2008
MAC/VAL - Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne / Plan B / Paris.
White Box Gallery / Abidin Travels / New York.
SPACE - Contemporary Art Gallery / Abidin Travels / Bratislava, Slovakia.
MUU - Media Art Association Gallery / Hypothesis / Helsinki.
2007
Montalvo Arts center / Abidin Travels / CA.
2006
Kluuvi Gallery / Construction Site / Helsinki.
Huuto Gallery / Abidin Travels, Vacuum / Helsinki.
Selected Past Group Exhibitions
17th edition of Art Dubai / Galerie Tanit / Madinat Jumeirah / Dubai. UAE.
ISAW - Institue for the Study of the Ancient World / Debris / New York. (Until February 25th, 2024)
Turku Art Musuem / Musical Manifest / Turku, Finland. (Until January 7th, 2024)
The Nordic House - Reykjavík, Iceland.
B7L9 - Center for Contemporary Arts - Tunis.
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.
Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman.
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.
Lawrie Shabibi - Contemporary Art Gallery, Dubai.
KIASMA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah.
Lajevardi Collection, Tehran.
The Gwangju museum of art, S. Korea.
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.
Arter - Space for Art, Istanbul.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland.
54th Venice Biennale - Iraq Pavilion, Venice.
10th Sharjah Biennale, 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 Biennale, 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.
2005
5th Istanbul Biennial - workshop, Istanbul. (M.A. student).
Tennis Palace Art Museum - HAM, Helsinki. (M.A. graduation exhibition)
Selected Past Awards & Grants
Ithra Art Prize - King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia.
The Nordic House - Project commission, Reykjavik - Iceland.
Alumni of the year - University of The Arts, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish Cultural Foundation - Two years working grant, Helsinki.
Saastamoisen Foundation - Project Grant, Espoo.
QM - Qatar Museums Authority - Art22 - Project commission, Doha.
AVEK - Promotion For AudioVisual Culture - Project grant, Helsinki.
TAIKE - Art Promotion Centre - Covid support grant, Helsinki.
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - Beirut - Project comission, Beirut
QM - Qatar Museums Authority - Project commission, Doha.
Finland Prize For Visual Arts - Finnish Ministry of Culture & Education.
TAIKE - Art Promotion Centre - Five years working grant, Helsinki.
Ars Fennica Nominee, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish Cultural Foundation - Three years working grant, Helsinki.
Swedish Cultural Fund, Project grant, Helsinki.
Alfred Kordelinin Foundation - Project grant, Helsinki.
AVEK Prize - Promotion For AudioVisual Culture - Project grant, Helsinki.
FRAME - Fund For Art Exchange - Venice Biennale project grant, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish Cultural Foundation - One Year working grant, Helsinki.
SKR - Finnish Cultural Foundation - Project grant, Helsinki.
LUKSUZ - Film Festival - Audience Award, Slovenia.
2004
The Academy of Fine Arts - Project grant, Helsinki.
2003
The Arts Council of Finland - Project grant, Helsinki.
2002
First Prize - Contest of Young Iraqi Artists/ Painters, Baghdad.
1999
Third Prize - Contest of New Iraqi Sculpture, Baghdad.
Selected Past Lectures, Talks & Panel Discussions
Giving A Commencement Speech / Graduation exhibition / University of the Arts, Helsinki.
Keynote Speaker / Aalto University, Helsinki.
Jury Member / Al - Mawred Culture Resource, Beirut.
Panelist / Seoul Museum of Art / Wael Shawky & Ahlam Shibli, S. Korea.
Panelist / Mathaf / Wael Shawky & Sheikha Reem Al- Thani, Doha.
Artist Talk / Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
Artist Talk / Ateneum Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki.
Artist Talk / Darat Al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman.
Panelist / 7th Moscow Biennale / Taus Makhacheva, Moscow.
Artist Presentation / HKW - Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin.
Guest Artist / World press freedom day / The UNESCO, Helsinki.
Guest Lecturer / LASALLE / College of The Arts, Singapore.
Visiting Professor / Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
Artist Talk / Aalto University, Helsinki.
Artist Talk / The Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver.
Artist Talk / The Mosaic Rooms, Global Futures Forum, London.
Visiting Artist / OSU - Oregon State University, USA.