The Kunstverein in Hamburg is pleased to announce two new publications—Cana Bilir-Meier: Düşler Ülkesi and Sarah Abu Abdallah: For the First Time in a Long Time—which have just been published in conjunction with other partners.
Cana Bilir-Meier: Düşler Ülkesi
Cana Bilir-Meier’s work tackles private and public archives as well as the stories hidden within them—most of them untold—with a special focus on (post-) migrant worlds of experience. In it, she asks questions about the equality enjoyed by migrants and non-migrants and their levels of social, cultural, emotional, and structural participation. For this, she uses a wealth of media including film, drawing, performance, and audio. The publication discusses aspects of social diversity, participation, historical suppression, and knowledge situated in the migrant experience.
Cana Bilir-Meier (b. 1986 in Munich) lives and works in Munich and Vienna. In 2016 her work was awarded the Birgit Jürgenssen Prize and in 2018 she received the ars viva Prize for Visual Arts.
Cana Bilir-Meier’s first monograph is published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
256 pp., thread-sewn softcover, 30 x 21 cm
Language: English, German, Turkish, Kurmanji
Text: Burcu Dogramaci, Banu Karaca, belit sağ, Ronya Othmann
Editors: Bettina Steinbrügge, Tobias Peper, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Publisher: Spector Books
Design: Christian Lange
ISBN: 9783959053426
Sarah Abu Abdallah: For the First Time in a Long Time
For the First Time in a Long Time is the first monograph on the work of Sarah Abu Abdallah and comprises works from 2012 to 2019. As a visual diary, the publication guides the reader through Abu Abdallah’s artworks as a blend of artist book and exhibition catalogue.
Working across video, painting, text and installation Abu Abdallah’s work is a meditation on our media saturated present, and the tension between our virtual personas and real lived experiences. Influenced by the online flows of data and images as well as pop culture in the Gulf, her work is an intimate reflection on the anxieties of a hyperconnected present.
Through references to gender roles and the female experience, Sara Abu Abdallah’s work explores issues of obscurity and value, probing the social and cultural conditions of contemporary Saudi Arabia. Abu Abdallah’s work has been exhibited internationally, at venues including Ala–an Artspace, Riyadh (2012); Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation (2010) and the Tenri Cultural Institute, New York (2009).
The book is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg and Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai.
180 pp., Hardcover, 21.7 x 17.7 cm
Language: English, Arabic
Text: Sarah Abu Abdallah, Antonia Carver, Amal Khalaf, Nora Razian, Tobias Peper, Rosanna Puyol, Bettina Steinbrügge
Editors: Jameel Arts Centre, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Publisher: Kaph Books
Design: Studio Safar
ISBN: 978-614-8035-38-8
This publication was supported as Catalogue No 145 by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung under its support prize “Catalogues for Young Artists.”
