ANNA BOUGHIGUIAN
Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works in Cairo.

 

EDUCATION
1973 BFA in visual arts and music, Concor- dia University, Montreal, Canada
1969 BA in Economics and political science, American University, Cairo, Egypt

 

AWARDS
2015
Golden Lion at the 56th Biennale di Venezia

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Anna Boghiguian, KOW, Berlin
Anna Boghiguian, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Anna Boghiguian, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Venedig: Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
2021
Anna Boghiguian, ‘Sometimes unexpectedly the present meets the past’, IVAM Institut Valencià dʼArt Modern, Valencia
Anna Boghiguian, ‘Sometimes unexpectedly the present meets the past’, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2020
A Short Long History,’SMAK’, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
2019
‘Conversations on limits and unlimits’, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo • Tate St. Ives
2018
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum ,Salzburg
The Loom of History, The New Museum, New York
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
2017
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
The Artistʼs Studio ,Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
2016
A Walk in the Unconscious, Carré d’Art, Nimes
2015
The Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, Venedig
2013
ZYX – XYZ an Autobiography – Odd Times in Life, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Unstructured Diary for an Autobiography, daadgalerie, Berlin
2011
‘A Poet on the Edges of History’, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2010
‘A Journey to Cavafyʼs Alexandria’, Benaki Museum of Greek Culture,Athens
2001
Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo
1997
‘Poemata Constantin Cavafy Handpainted books’, Cavafy House,Alexandria
1996
‘Drawings and Paintings on Constantine Cavafy’, Espace Karim Fracis, Cairo
1992
‘From Wax Images to Indian Tales’, Mashriabiya Gallery, Le Claire 1991 • Paradise Lost, Dare-Dare, Montreal

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOW
2022
Anna Boghiguian / Alice Creischer, KOW, Berlin
2021
‘And if I devoted my life to one of it’s feathers’, Kunsthalle, Wien
‘Le Déracinement’, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt
‘Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
‘Le déracinement. On diasporic Imaginations, Z33, Hasselt
Carnivalesca – Was Malerei sein könnte, Kunstverein in Hamburg
2020
22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
‘Manifesta 13’, Marseille
James Richards: Alms for the Birds, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
2019
Festval d’Automne à Paris, Palais des études des Beaux-Arts de Paris
‘The End of Expressionism’, Jan Kaps, Cologne
‘Eyewitnesses of Conflict: Goya, Beuys, Dumas’,Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
‘By Artists: From the Home to the Museum, from the Museum to the Home, Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection. Chapter 2’, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
‘By Artists: From the Home to the Museum, from the Museum to the Home, Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection. Chapter 1’ Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
2018
Artes Mundi 8, National Museum Cardiff
The Universe Flickers ,SALT Beyoğlu ,Beyoglu, Istanbul • Geometries, Onassis Stegi Athens
2017
‘Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection’, MoMA, New York
‘A Painting Today, Stevenson, Cape Town
2016
The Unfaithful Replica, CA2M, Madrid
Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico
2015
‘Positions #2’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
’14th Istanbul Biennial’, Istanbul
‘How to (…) things that don’t exist’, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
2014
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo
International Biennial of Contemorary Art of Cartagena De Indias, Cartagena
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Here and Elsewhere, The New Museum, New York
2013
Anna Boghiguian and Goshka Macuga: Tagore’s Universal Allegories, Iniva, London
Cross-border: Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterrane an Region, ZKM Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe 2012 • dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
2011
KW69 #6: Corinne Wasmuht: The Assembly of the Symbol, KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Sharjah Biennial 2011, Sharjah Art Foundation 2009 • Anna Boghiguian / Cevdet Erek, Rodeo, Istanbul
11th Istanbul Biennial
2008
In the Middle of the Middle, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
2007
1st Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki
2003
Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut
1997
Cavafy, Gallery Athanor, Marseille
1995
Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1994
Festival des Allumées, Nantes

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