Biography

Susan Hefuna

Germany

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Installation, Performance, Photography

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Born in 1962, Germany.

She works with several medias such as drawing, installation, photography, video and performance. 

Susan Hefuna has exhibited widely at international institutions including the MoMa, New York, USA; MAD Museum, New York, USA; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt; Rose Issa projects, London;  Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA; New Museum, New York, USA: Kunstmuseum, Thun, Switzerland; Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria; Fare Mondi, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy; Seville Biennial, Spain; New Museum, New York, USA; 2nd Riwaq Biennale, Palestine; 9th Sharjah Biennial, UAE; The Louvre, Paris, France; National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  • 2021. Susan Hefuna – Kairos, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
  • 2020. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin – Online Exhibition
  • 2020. Susan Hefuna – 3 Elements, Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokio, Japan
  • 2020. Susan Hefuna: Thought, Pi Artworks Gallery, London, UK
  • 2020. Susan Hefuna: Crossroads, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2019. Susan Hefuna: Gebilde, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2019. Screens, Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2019. Susan Hefuna – Textiles, Pi Artworks, London, UK
  • 2018. Mapping Stein, Museum Lindwurm, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
  • 2018. ′SUSAN HEFUNA: BEYOND′, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017. ToGather, Exhibition, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  • 2017. ToGather, Dance Performance in cooperation with Wayne Mc Gregor Dance studio, London, Manchester International Festival (MIF), The Whitworth Park, Manchester, UK
  • 2017. Angst Eats Soul, PiArtworks Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2017. Cityscapes, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA 
  • 2016. Susan Hefuna – Buildings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
  • 2016. Susan Hefuna, Crossroads 2002-2016, PiArtworks Gallery, London, UK
  • 2014. Susan Hefuna-Cairoscapes, PiArtworks, London, UK
  • 2014. Susan Hefuna-Buildings, Osthaus Museum, Hagen
  • 2014. BeYond NoThing, PiArtworks, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2014. Notations, Gallery Rhona Hoffman, Chicago
  • 2014. Susan Hefuna: another place, Bait Al Serkal, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah UAE
  • 2013. RASM: of Wood, Silver and Gold, Rose Issa Projects, London, UK
  • 2012-2013. Susan Hefuna-Vantages, MAD Museum, NYC, USA
  • 2012. Susan Hefuna, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago USA
  • 2011. „I Love Egypt-a temporary learning Camp“ at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 2011. Susan Hefuna-Istanbul, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2011. Cairo Dreams 2011, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
  • 2010-2011. Edgware Road@Cairo 2010/1431, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
  • 2010. Ana: Of Dreams, Patience and Realisations, Rose Issa Projects, London
  • 2010. 7 x Ana, Freud Museum, Vienna
  • 2010. Mapping Wien, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
  • 2010. Knowledge is Sweeter than Honey, MUMOK, Vienna
  • 2010. Wien 2010/1431, Belvedere, Vienna
  • 2010. Susan Hefuna – Drawings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NXC
  • 2009. Hefuna/Hefuna, Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin
  • 2008. Patience is Beautiful, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
  • 2008. Susan Hefuna, ACAF, Alexandria, Egypt
  • 2007. Susan Hefuna, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
  • 2007. ANA/ICH, Kunstkasten, Wintherthur
  • 2006. Galerie Seippel, Cologne
  • 2004. Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool
  • 2004. Stadtgalerie, Saarbruecken
  • 2004. Kunstverein Heidelberg
  • 2002. Ventanas La Vida en el Delta, Vacio 9, Gallery, Madrid
  • 2000. Kunstverein, Lippstadt
  • 2000. The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
  • 2000. Susan Hefuna – Navigation xcultural, National Gallery, Cape Town
  • 1999. Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo
  • 1994. Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2021. Every Truth has four corners, COLLECTION @ OP ENHEIM, Wroclaw, Polen
  • 2021. Reflections. Contemporary Art of Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum, London, UK
  • 2021-2020. The Haptic Eye Part II – Tactile Visions, Galerie Volker Diehl /Art Circle – Online Exhibition
  • 2021/2020. Exotic?, Palais de Runmie, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2021/2020. Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2020. Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
  • 2020. Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warshaw Gallery – Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
  • 2019. Arabicity | Ourouba, MEI Art Gallery, Washington DC, USA
  • 2019. Climbing through the tide, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunesia
  • 2019. Borders, James Cohen Gallery, NYC, USA
  • 2018. Autofiktionen Zeichnung der Gegenwart, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwishafen, Germany
  • 2018. Habitat El Mediterraneo, IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
  • 2018. What do you mean, here we are?, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
  • 2018. Zeichen Biennale, Kunstverein Eislingen, Germany
  • 2018. But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) Milan, Italy
  • 2018. Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, USA
  • 2017. Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea. Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • 2017. Resonanzen, ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2017. Back to the Future, Twelve Gates, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • 2017. Les Dix ans du Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain, Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Graphic Art Gallery Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2017. Walk the Distance and Slow Down, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, USA
  • 2017. The Creative Act: Performance Process Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • 2017. Public View, Bluecoat art Center, Liverpool, UK
  • 2017. Escape Attempts, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, LA, USA
  • 2017. Rhona Hoffman 40 Years: Part 3 Political, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 2017/2016. Sol LeWitt – A tribute, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Holland
  • 2017/2016. CHERS AMIS, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • 2016. Weltsicht, Kurpfaelzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg
  • 2016. Rhona Hoffman 40 Years: Part 2, Chicago, USA
  • 2016. Rhona Hoffman 40 Years: Part 1, Chicago, USA
  • 2016. But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Guggenheim, NYC
  • 2016. Social Calligraphies, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warshaw, Poland
  • 2016. Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
  • 2016. Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabak collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2016. Zimmer mit Aussicht – room with a view, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016. The Barjeel Art Foundation: Debating Modernism Part III, Whitechaplel Gallery. London, UK
  • 2016. Cross border, PĀTAKA ART MUSEUM, New Zealand
  • 2016. Do it, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
  • 2016/2015. Ortstermin mit Leoni Wirth, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
  • 2016/2015. Walls and Marqins, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE
  • 2015. We the people, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2015. Common Grounds, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
  • 2015. Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London, UK
  • 2015. Imagining Space: Constructions of Text and Geometry, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
  • 2015. Bibliotecaphila, MASS MoCA, MA, USA
  • 2015. Contemporary Art of the middle East, LACMA, LA, USA
  • 2015. Extending the Line, IDEA Space, Colorado College, USA
  • 2015. Group Show, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
  • 2014. Material Gestures: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • 2014. Here and elsewhere, The New Museum, NYC, USA
  • 2014. Drawing Room, London, UK
  • 2014. Area Code, Kemper Museum, USA
  • 2013. Nouvelles Vagues – Champs Elysees, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • 2013. Cross-border ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2013. Safar/Voyoage, MOA, Museum of Antropology, Vancouver
  • 2013/2012. Encounter, Katara Arts Center, Quatar, Doha
  • 2012. “Systems and Patterns”, International Centre of Graphic Arts of Ljubljana
  • 2012. Sydney Biennale, Australia
  • 2012. On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 2011. Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  • 2011. Typo Kunst, Museum für Druckkunst. Leipzig, Germany
  • 2011. The Art of Writing, ArtForum, Kurhaus Kolonade, Wiesbaden, Germany
  • 2011. Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex, UK
  • 2011. Project Europa, Columbia University, NYC
  • 2010. On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), NYC
  • 2010. ARABCITY, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Beirut
  • 2010. Imagining the (im)possible, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
  • 2010. Susan Hefuna – Bharti Kher – Fred Tomaselli – Between the Worlds, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
  • 2009. Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • 2009. Fare Mondi, 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice
  • 2009. Jameel Art Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • 2008. Seville Biennale
  • 2008. Museum as Hub: Antikhana, New Museum, NYC
  • 2008. Word Into Art, The British Museum, Dubai
  • 2007. 2nd Riwaq Biennale, Riwaq, Palestine
  • 2007. 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
  • 2006. Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, GL Strand Museum, Copenhagen
  • 2006. Nomads of Nowadays, Lazina Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2006. Lasting Foundations, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit
  • 2006. Biennale Bulgaria
  • 2006. 19 Views- Contemporary Arab Photography. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo of Seville, Seville
  • 2006. Neterotopia, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2005. Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris
  • 2005. Zelle 05: Kreuzungen, Kloster, Alzella
  • 2005. Biennale Prague, National Gallery, Prague
  • 2004. Contrepoints, The Louvre, Paris
  • 2004. Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz
  • 2004. Fototage Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
  • 2004. Waschhaus, Potsdam
  • 2004. ArteEast, NYC
  • 2003. Photo Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2003. Rencontres, Photo Biennale Bamako, Mali
  • 2003. Fantaisies du harem et nouvelles Schehrazade, Museum de l’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon
  • 2003. Via Fenestra, St. Marienkirche, Frankfurt/Oder
  • 2003. Fantasies de L’harem i Noves Xahrazads, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
  • 2003. Shatat – Scattered belongings, Colorado University Galleries, Boulder
  • 2002. Mapping the process, Sharon Essor Gallery, London
  • 2002. 4 women – 4 views made in Egypt, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
  • 2001. Vor-Sicht/Rueck-Sicht, 8 Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach
  • 2001. Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • 2001. Al Nitaq, Cairo, Egypt

 

Grants/ Residence:

  • 2018. Artist in residence Chrezeturm, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
  • 2013. International Daniel and Florence Guerlain Drawing Award, Paris
  • 2003/2001. Delfina Studios, London
  • 1994/1993. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
  • 1991. Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

 

Selected international public collections in which her works are included are:

  • MoMa, New York, USA;
  • British Museum, London, UK
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  • Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  • Dior, Paris, France; Louvre Museum, Paris, France
  • Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
  • CU Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE; Groupe Lhoist Collection, Limelette, Belgium
  • Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
  • HH Sheika Salama Collection, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • DIFC, Dubai, UAE; Burger Collection, Zurich & Hong Kong
  • Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  • Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany