Born in 1977, Assiut, Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt
Education:
1996-2000 Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. (BFA Painting)
Solo shows:
2007 ACAF / Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, Alexandria, Egypt. (upcoming)
2007 The Common Deceit of Reality, Okay Mountain, Austin, USA (curated by Regine Basha)
2007 Lost Arks, Uszynska Shaufenster, Vienna (curated by Katarzyna Uszynska)
2007 Gazing at the Miracle of Civilization, ARCO Projects, Madrid, Spain
2006 In the Grave of Intergalactic Utopia, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Your New Life with Your Old Enemies, ObjectNotFound Project Space, Monterrey, Mexico
2005 Current Whereabouts Unknown, Tyler Drosdeck and Basim Magdy, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Dream on, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Fries 002, St. Gallen, Switzerland (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Two Days to Apocalypse, Falaki Gallery, Cairo
2003 Dream on, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Hero of the day, The Cold Room Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Re-define, Basim Magdy and Karem Mahrous, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
2001 The Future, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
2000 Paintings, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
Group shows:
2007 ME ODIO Y QUIERO COMPRAR, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. (curated by Ruben Gutierrez)
2007 Out of Place, Galerie Sfeir – Semler, Beirut, Lebanon (curated by William Wells)
2007 Histoires Animées, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (Nord-Pas de Calais), France. (Curated by Marta Gili, Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Miró and Pascale Pronnier)
2006 All about Lies, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Històries Animades, Sala Rakalde, Bilbao, Spain (Curated by Marta Gili, Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Miró and Pascale Pronnier)
2006 Murals, Newman Popiashvili Gallery
2006 Històries Animades, Fundación “la Caixa “- CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain (Curated by Marta Gili, Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Miró and Pascale Pronnier)
2006 Drawing Restraint, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2005 PhotoCairo3, The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2005 NADA Art Fair (Newman Popiashvili Gallery), Miami, USA.
2005 Artissima 12 Art Fair (Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY), Turin, Italy
2005 Threat Zone, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, Texas, USA (curated by Basim Magdy)
2005 Lovely Shanghai Music, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China / Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany.(curated by Team 404 and John Armleder)
2005 Enemy Image, Momenta Art, New York, USA (curated by Elena Sorokina)
2005 Toys, The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt. (curated by Aleya Hamza)
2005 Posted, Hiscox Art Projects, London, UK (curated by Sas Mackie)
2005 Bling Bling Ka-Ching! Made in America, The Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China. (curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Ryan Harris)
2004 NADA Art Fair (Suite 106 Gallery), Miami, USA
2004 Yellow Pages, MAMCO, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (curated by Team 404 and John Armleder)
2004 Re:source, Art in General, New York, USA
2004 Recollection # 1, objectnotfound project space, Monterrey, Mexico
2003 Yellow Pages, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
2003 Aponoumena, Collapsible Kunsthalle, MIART, Milan, Italy, (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Work in progress, South African National Gallery (SANG) Annex, Cape Town, South Africa
2001 Al Nitaq Festival of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2001 Philosophy Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2000 Philosophy Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Projects:
2007 A Cunning Plan, a project of disseminated images in 3 art publications: Artl!es, Art Papers and The Okay Mountain Reader in the spring of 2007 in conjunction with the show: The Common Deceit of Reality at Okay Mountain, Austin (curated by Regine Basha)
2005 Interruption, a project for Campus Magazine (curated by Aleya Hamza)
2004 The Decline Of Space, an outdoor installation at Art Omi, New York, USA
2003 Going Places, a project for public buses. Cairo, Egypt (curated by Mai Abu ElDahab)
Residencies and Workshops:
2004 Art Omi, New York, USA (residency)
2003 Open Studios, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt (workshop)
2003 Wasla International Artists Workshop, Nweiba, Egypt (organizer)
2003 Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, South Africa (residency)
2003 Thupelo International Artists Workshop, Malmesbury, South Africa
2002 Braziers International Artists Workshop, Ipsden, Oxfordshire, UK
2002 Internationale Austausch Region Basel, iaab studios, Basel, Switzerland (residency)
Grants / prizes
2003 Project grant, Prohelvetia (Swiss Art Council )
2003 Residency/Travel grant, Ford Foundation
2002 Workshop grant, Ford Foundation
Selected Bibliography
2007 Victoria Ambrosini-Chenivesse, “Art, kitsch and nationalism in Egypt and Syria”, Art Press, issue 333, April 2007.
2007 Brian Kuan Wood, “Basim Magdy, In the Grave of Intergalactic Utopia”, Bidoun, issue 09, vol.1, winter 2007
2006 Nick Stillman, “Basim Magdy, Newman Popiashvili Gallery”, Art Forum, November 2006
2006 Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, “La Ilusión de Vida”, NYArts Magazine, September/October.
2006 Rose Longhurst, "Sounds of Synthesis", Shanghai Star, 01.06.2006
2006 Anjali Gupta, “Threat Zone, San Antonio Review”, Art Papers, March/April 2006
2006 Jennifer Davy, “Threat Zone” Artlies, Winter 2006
2005 Holland Cotter, "Art in Review" The New York Times, October 7, 2005.
2004 Negar Azimi, “Aperto Cairo” Flash Art, October 2004, Vol. XXXVII, No. 238
2004 Ursula Badrutt Schoch, “ Unbehagen im Paradies” Tagblatt St. Gallen, 24 September 2004.
2004 Franklin Sirmans, “9th Cairo International Biennial” Art Asia Pacific, spring 2004, no. 40
2004 Mai Abu ElDahab, “Going Places” Bidoun Magazine, spring 2004, issue 00
2004 Lilly Wei, “The Cairo Effect” Art in America, May 2004
2003 Dina Ramadan, "Remote Connection: Wasla Contemporary Art Workshop" Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer
2003 Prita Meier, "Territorial struggles: contemporary art in Cairo", Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 2003
2003 Dina Ramadan, "Art in the midst of war" Cairo Times, volume 7, issue 6
2003 Scott Bailey, "Cairo review", Contemporary, April issue.
2003 Richard Woffenden, "Three Painters" Cairo Times, volume 6, issue 44
2001 Nigel Ryan, "A little Che" Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 558, 1-7 November
2000 Richard Woffenden, "Raw Distress" Cairo Times, volume 4, issue 30
Publications and catalogues:
2006 Histories Animades, Ed. Marta Gili, Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Miró and Pascale Pronnier. Le Fresnoy and Fundacio “la Caixa”
2005 20 Jahre Kunsthalle St. Gallen, JRP / Ringier, Zurich
2005 A Brighter Future Than The Ones We Had Before, Basim Magdy (edition of 600 – full color)
2004 Yellow Pages. Ed. John Armleder and Team 404.
2004 Dream on, Marianne Rinderknecht and Basim Magdy. Ed. Gianni Jetzer. Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
2003 Wasla workshop for contemporary art catalogue. Ed. Mai Abu ElDahab
2003 Braziers 2002 catalogue
2001 Art and the Islamic World, Richard Woffenden "The state of the arts in Egypt", volume 35
Texts by Basim Magdy
2003 "Walk like an Egyptian", the issue of diversity concerning representations of contemporary Egyptian art, Universes in Universe.
Lectures and Presentations
2007 Univesity of Texas, Austin, USA, (lecture)
2007 Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum ACAF, Alexandria, Egypt (presentation)
2006 American University in Cairo AUC, Cairo, Egypt (lecture)
2004 Projectraum exex, St. Gallen, Switzerland (presentation)
2003 SANG Annex, Cape Town, South Africa (presentation)
2002 Portes Ouvertes, DB Areal, Basel, Switzerland (presentation)
2002 Frontstore Gallery, Basel, Switzerland (presentation)
2002 F+F Schule fuer Kunst und Mediendesign, Zurich, Switzerland (lecture) |
