Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

*1983 + 1983 / Palestin

Works

Solo exhibitions

Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
13 Feb 2026 – 17 Jan 2027
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL)
18 Apr 2026 – 27 Sep 2026
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (GB)
27 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Copenhagen Contemporary , Copenhagen (DK)
14 Jun 2024 – 29 Dec 2024
Only sounds that tremble through us

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston (US)
5 Apr 2024 – 28 Jul 2024
An echo buried deep deep down but calling still

Astrup Fearnley MoMa, Oslo (NO)
10 Mar 2023 – 28 May 2023
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

The Common Guild, Glasgow (GB)
9 Sep 2022 – 9 Oct 2022
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
21 May 2022 – 11 Sep 2022
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
23 Apr 2022 – 26 Jun 2022
And yet my mask is powerful

CARROLL / FLETCHER, London (GB)
9 Sep 2016 – 29 Oct 2016

Group

Life After Love

In Search of the Militant Image

Framer Framed, Amsterdam (NL)
30 Oct 2026 – 17 Jan 2027

with Haig Aivazian, Hannah Black, Bahar Noorizadeh, Juan Obando, Yoshua Okon
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève (CH)
24 Jan 2024 – 16 May 2024

with Aziz Hazara, Lawrence Lek, Shuang Li, Diego Marcon, Lauren McCarthy, Jenna Sutela, Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Works from the Julia Stoschek Collection

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
9 Feb 2020 – 19 Jul 2020

with Thomas Demand, Beatrice Gibson, Arthur Jafa, Sigalit Landau, Adam McEwen, Colin Montgomery, Taryn Simon, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony
Your Story!

Geschichten von Flucht und Migration

Kunsthalle Emden, Emden (DE)
13 May 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with Kader Attia, Ergin Cavusoglu, Jonas Mekas, Antonio Paucar
House of Commons

Portikus, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
3 Dec 2016 – 29 Jan 2017

with Fikret Atay, Sven Augustijnen, Monika Baer, Yto Barrada, Eric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Mohamed Bourouissa, Banu Cennetoglu, Keren Cytter, Michael Dean, Roni Horn, Kapwani Kiwanga …

Events

Whitney Biennial 2026

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
8 Mar 2026 – 12 Oct 2026

with Zach Blas, Joshua Citarella, Andrea Fraser, Mariah Garnett, Ignacio Gatica, Martine Gutierrez, Aziz Hazara, Margaret Honda, Mao Ishikawa, Jordan Strafer, Sung Tieu
Chobi Mela Festival XI - RE

Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka (BD)
16 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2026

with Indre Serpytyte, Mustafah Abdulaziz, Bani Abidi, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Hoda Afshar, Sumi Anjuman, Lisa Barnard, Taysir Batniji, Myriam Boulos, Daniel Chatard, Ernest Cole, Rena Effendi …
Aichi Triennale 2025

A Time Between Ashes and Roses

The Aichi Triennale, Aichi (JP)
13 Sep 2025 – 30 Nov 2025

with John Akomfrah, Priyageetha Dia, Mohammed Kazem, Robert Zhao Renhui, Silvia Rivas, Hrair Sarkissian, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Frieze Art Fair | Seoul 2025

Frieze art fair, Seoul (KR)
4 Sep 2025 – 6 Sep 2025

with Hideo Anze, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jae-Eun Choi, Eun Chun, Chun Heeseung, Godfried Donkor, Charles Gaines, Luigi Ghirri, Youngsoo Han, Alfredo Jaar, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Nagata Kosuke …
Frieze Art Fair | New York

Frieze art fair, New York (US)
7 May 2025 – 11 May 2025

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andrea Geyer, David Goldblatt, Alexandra Hedison, Nandipha Mntambo, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Lisa Oppenheim, Thomas J Price, Eileen Quinlan …
Images Festival 2025

Festival Images, Toronto (CA)
10 Apr 2025 – 14 Apr 2025

with Hoda Afshar, aka TAWLA, Rouzbeh Akhbari, Ayo Akingbade, Basma Al-Sharif, Kamal Aljafari, Razan AlSalah, Sharlene Bamboat, WANG Bing, Nour Bishouty, Arina Chernova, Tacita Dean …
Images Festival 2024

Festival Images, Toronto (CA)
11 Apr 2024 – 16 Apr 2024

with Alaa Abu Asad, Hoda Afshar, Rouzbeh Akhbari, Basma Al-Sharif, Kamal Aljafari, , WANG Bing, Nour Bishouty, Arina Chernova, Danielle Dean, Coco Fusco, Sky Hopinka …
Sharjah Biennial 15

Thinking Historically in the Present

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Feb 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Erkan Oezgen, John Akomfrah, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Brook Andrew, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Pablo Bartholomew, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carolina Caycedo, Ali Cherri …
12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
11 Jun 2022 – 18 Sep 2022

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Haig Aivazian, Ariella Azoulay, Sammy Baloji, Taysir Batniji, Zach Blas, Ammar Bouras, Clement Cogitore, Monica de Miranda, Omer Fast, Simone Fattal, Forensic Architecture …
ZURICH ART WEEKEND 2022

ZURICH ART WEEKEND, Zürich (CH)
10 Jun 2022 – 12 Jun 2022

with Bas Jan Ader, Doug Aitken, Sophia Al-Maria, Ghada Amer, Olaf Breuning, Fischli & Weiss, Teresa Margolles, Pipilotti Rist, Pamela Rosenkranz, Luzia Simons, Raphaela Vogel
New York Art Week 2022

New York Art Week, New York (US)
5 May 2022 – 12 May 2022

with Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Justine Kurland, Deana Lawson, Jonas Mekas, Tracey Moffatt, Barbara Probst, Gillian Wearing, Carrie Mae Weems