Runa Islam

*1970 / BD / GB

Works

Solo exhibitions

Verso

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
10 Dec 2016 – 2 Apr 2017
Anatomical Study

KIOSK, Gent (BE)
20 Sep 2014 – 9 Nov 2014
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White Cube, London (GB)
21 Sep 2012 – 3 Nov 2012
Projects 95

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
27 May 2011 – 19 Sep 2011
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Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
5 Feb 2011 – 15 May 2011
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Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
19 Aug 2010 – 21 Nov 2010
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Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (CA)
21 May 2010 – 6 Sep 2010
Restless Subject

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)
28 Nov 2008 – 8 Feb 2009
Restless Subject

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
29 Nov 2008 – 25 Jan 2009
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White Cube, London (GB)
5 Sep 2008 – 4 Oct 2008
Empty the pond to get the fish

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
9 May 2008 – 13 Jul 2008
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Shugoarts, Tôkyô (JP)
1 Apr 2008 – 30 May 2008
Center of Gravity

The National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)
14 Apr 2007 – 17 Jun 2007
Center of Gravity

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
19 Jan 2007 – 18 Feb 2007
Conditional Probability

Serpentine Galleries, London (GB)
25 Oct 2006 – 5 Nov 2006
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VIAFARINI, Milano (IT)
19 Feb 2006 – 6 Mar 2006
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MART, Rovereto (IT)
17 Dec 2005 – 26 Feb 2006
Room Service

CAC Málaga, Málaga (ES)
20 Jan 2006 – 26 Feb 2006
Be The First To See What You See As You See It, 2004

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
22 Oct 2005 – 22 Jan 2006
Time Lines

White Cube, London (GB)
9 Dec 2005 – 14 Jan 2006
Time Lines

Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (ES)
7 Oct 2005 – 11 Dec 2005
Out of the Picture

Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
23 Sep 2005 – 13 Nov 2005
Visages & Voyages

Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (SE)
29 Jan 2005 – 1 May 2005
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Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (SE)
29 Jan 2005 – 1 May 2005
Scale (1/16inch = 1foot)

Shugoarts, Tôkyô (JP)
24 Jan 2004 – 28 Feb 2004

Group

Fassbinder - JETZT

Film und Videokunst

DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
30 Oct 2013 – 1 Jun 2014

with Maryam Jafri, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Jesper Just, Ming Wong
Sharjah Biennial 11

<em>Re:emerge</em> - Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
13 Mar 2013 – 13 May 2013

with Ravi Agarwal, Francis Alys, Jananne Al-Ani, Nevin Aladag, Carlos Amorales, Burak Arikan, Ismail Bahri, Matthew Barney, Tony Chakar, Tiffany Chung, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand …
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Pawel Althamer, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari …
29th Bienal de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
25 Sep 2010 – 12 Dec 2010

with Albano Afonso, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Miguel Angel Rojas, Qiu Anxiong, Kutluğ Ataman, Pedro Barateiro, Yto Barrada, Artur Barrio, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji …
Glück happens

Kunstpalais, Erlangen (DE)
3 Jun 2010 – 25 Jul 2010

with Lars Arrhenius, Christian Jankowski, Sejla Kameric, Karina Nimmerfall, Peter Piller, Luzia Simons, Erwin Wurm
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6)

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
5 Dec 2009 – 5 Apr 2010

with Qiu Anxiong, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Gonkar Gyatso, Tracey Moffatt, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Campbell Patterson, Wit Pimkanchanapong, CHEN Qiulin, Shirana Shahbazi, YANG Shaobin, Manit Sriwanichpoom
Modernologies. Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
23 Sep 2009 – 17 Jan 2010

with Katja Eydel, Ângela Ferreira, Marine Hugonnier, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Louise Lawler, Dorit Margreiter, Gordon Matta-Clark, Henrik Olesen, Mathias Poledna, Martha Rosler, Armando Andrade Tudela, Stephen Willats …
Turner Prize 2008

Cathy Wilkes

Tate Britain, London (GB)
30 Sep 2008 – 18 Jan 2009

with Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga
International Video Art

mostra a cura di Anita Beckers

Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzin, Firenze (IT)
18 Sep 2008 – 2 Nov 2008

with Marina Abramovic, Victor Alimpiev, Laura Belem, Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Rae di Martino, Kota Ezawa, Harun Farocki, Charlotte Ginsborg, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Cao Guimaraes, Frank Hesse …
Lost cinema lost

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
25 Jan 2008 – 30 Mar 2008

with Tobias Putrih
Brave New Worlds

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
4 Oct 2007 – 17 Feb 2008

with Yto Barrada, Mircea Cantor, CAO Fei, ZHENG Guogu, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Rika Noguchi
Cine y casi cine

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
5 Nov 2007 – 16 Dec 2007

with Chantal Akerman, Knut Asdam, George Barber, Hisham Bizri, Patricia Esquivias, Andreas Fogarasi, Dora Garcia, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Francesco Jodice, Arthur Kleinjan, Rashid Masharawi, Mateo Mate …
Übergangsräume - Potential Spaces

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE)
17 May 2007 – 12 Aug 2007

with Thomas Feuerstein, Ana Torfs
MANIPULATIONS - ON ECONOMIES OF DECEIT

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
19 Mar 2007 – 6 May 2007

with Johan Grimonprez, Benny Nemer, Julian Rosefeldt, Markus Schinwald
Super Vision

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
10 Dec 2006 – 29 Apr 2007

with Chantal Akerman, Noriko Furunishi, Jack Goldstein, Mona Hatoum, Yoko Ono, Ed Ruscha
COLLATERAL Quando l'arte guarda il cinema // When Art looks at Cinema

Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano (IT)
2 Feb 2007 – 15 Mar 2007

with Cory Arcangel, Pierre Bismuth, Candice Breitz, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Brice Dellsperger, Omer Fast, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Mike Kelley, Dimitri Kozaris, Melik Ohanian, Philippe Parreno …
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (BIACS 2)

BIACS Biennial Foundation of Contemporar, Sevilla (ES)
26 Oct 2006 – 8 Jan 2007

with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lara Almarcegui, Tete Álvarez, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Julie Becker, Ursula Biemann, James Casebere, Jacobo Castellano, Nose Chan, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Hannah Collins …
Brighton Photo Biennial

Brighton Photo Biennal, Brighton (GB)
6 Oct 2006 – 29 Oct 2006

with Adel Abdessemed, Richard Avedon, David Claerbout, Greg Daville, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Paul Fusco, Alfredo Jaar, Gabriel Kuri, Richard Misrach, Henna Nadeem, Fiona Tan …
Printemps de septembre 06 : Faites vos jeux

Artistic director: Jean-Marc Bustamante

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR)
21 Sep 2006 – 15 Oct 2006

with Francis Alys, Miguel Angel Rios, Art & Language , Andreas Bock, Rodney Graham, Alex Hanimann, Julian Rosefeldt, Jules Spinatsch, Andro Wekua
Printemps de septembre 2006

Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (FR)
22 Sep 2006 – 15 Oct 2006

with Francis Alys, Miguel Angel Rios, Rodney Graham, Andro Wekua
Subcontingente // Sub-contingent

The South Asian Subcontinent in Contemporary art

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
29 Jun 2006 – 8 Oct 2006

with Shilpa Gupta, Amar Kanwar, Sonia Khurana, Raqs Media Collective, Sharmila Samant, Dayanita Singh, Kiran Subbaiah, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar)
The Summer Collection

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
3 Jun 2006 – 27 Aug 2006

with Beate Guetschow, Vik Muniz, Joerg Sasse
SIP MY OCEAN

International video in the Louisiana collection

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
6 Apr 2006 – 20 Aug 2006

with Absalon, Doug Aitken, Candice Breitz, Johan Grimonprez, Gary Hill, Peter Land, Paul McCarthy, Aernout Mik, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Wood), Salla Tykkae …
Around the World in Eighty Days

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
24 May 2006 – 16 Jul 2006

with Jananne Al-Ani, Amy Granat, Mona Hatoum, Rosalind Nashashibi, Joao Penalva, Zineb Sedira, Yinka Shonibare MBE
Zwischen Körper und Objekt

MARTa Herford, Herford (DE)
25 May 2006 – 25 Jun 2006

with Adel Abdessemed, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Annika Larsson, Yves Netzhammer, Hans Op de Beeck, Daniele Puppi, Pipilotti Rist, Anette Rose
Whisper Not!

A different dimension of seeing: Huis Marseille / H+F Collection

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
4 Mar 2006 – 28 May 2006

with Uta Barth, Pierre Faure, Carmela Garcia, Syoin Kajii, Rinko Kawauchi, Luisa Lambri, Dorothée Meyer, Joerg Sasse, Hannah Starkey, Martine Stig, Gerald van der Kaap, Hans van der Meer …
Video Invitational #3

VIAFARINI, Milano (IT)
6 Apr 2006 – 18 May 2006

with Giona Bernardi, Rae di Martino, Hans Op de Beeck, ZimmerFrei
TIME LINES

Kunstverein Rheinlande, Düsseldorf (DE)
11 Dec 2005 – 19 Feb 2006

with John Stezaker
Biennial of Moving Images

Centre pour l'image, Genève (CH)
12 Nov 2005 – 18 Dec 2005

with Emmanuelle Antille, Michel Auder, Michel Auder, Matthew Barney, Alexandre Bianchini, Stan Brakhage, Candice Breitz, Erik Bullot, Erik Bullot, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Christoph Draeger, Christoph Draeger …
Contour 2005

2nd biennal for video art

Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen (BE)
17 Sep 2005 – 20 Nov 2005

with Chantal Akerman, Vasco Araujo, Dara Birnbaum, Ellen Cantor, Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Dany Deprez, Guelsuen Karamustafa, Pipilotti Rist, Hito Steyerl, Catherine Sullivan, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Wood) …
The Venice Biennial - 51st International Art Exhibition

Directors: María de Corral and Rosa Martínez

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
12 Jun 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Vasco Araujo, Ahmed Askalany, Miriam Baeckstroem, Rebecca Belmore, Guy Ben-Ner, Blue Noses, John Bock, Candice Breitz, Tania Bruguera …
More Than This! Negotiating Realities

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (SE)
3 Sep 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Fikret Atay, Miriam Baeckstroem, Monica Bonvicini, Gerard Byrne, Marcel Odenbach, Adrian Paci
Variation Xanadu

MOCA Taipei, Taipei (TW)
6 Aug 2005 – 25 Sep 2005

with CHEN Chieh-Jen, Amy Granat, WANG Jianwei, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, WU Tieng-Chang, Su-Mei Tse
IBCA 2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art

National Gallery, Praha (CZ)
14 Jun 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Alexander Apostol, Olaf Breuning, Johan Grimonprez, Susan Hefuna, WANG Jinsong, Zbigniew Libera, Andrew McAllister, Ingrid Mwangi, Deimantas Narkevicius, Yves Netzhammer, Julian Rosefeldt, Julika Rudelius …
Grenzenlose Soziabilität

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
21 May 2005 – 7 Jul 2005

with Fikret Atay, John Baldessari, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Lutz Fezer, Anthony Howard, Indra, Eva Keil, Skafte Kuhn, Chan-Kyong Park, L.A. Raeven, Kai Schiemenz, Michel Stumpf …
Quellen der Empörung

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
25 Mar 2005 – 19 May 2005

with Eylem Aladogan, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Lukas Einsele, Florian Hecker, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Annika Larsson, Marlene McCarty, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Stephen Willats
Videodrome II

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston (US)
21 Oct 2004 – 18 Dec 2004

with Kitsune Akimoto, Beagles & Ramsay, Andrea Bowers, Marco Brambilla, Jessica Bronson, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Josef Dabernig, Dara Friedman, Roger Hutchings, David Krippendorff, Zilla Leutenegger, Euan MacDonald …
Eclipse

Towards the edge of the visible

White Cube, London (GB)
16 Jul 2004 – 21 Aug 2004

with Darren Almond, Miroslaw Balka, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Paul Pfeiffer
Eyelids and Lips - PHOTOESPAÑA 2004

Antigua Fábrica de Tabacos, Madrid (ES)
4 Jun 2004 – 18 Jul 2004

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Kutluğ Ataman, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group)
PHOTOESPAÑA 2004 - Historias

PHotoEspaña, Madrid (ES)
2 Jun 2004 – 18 Jul 2004

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Dennis Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Paco Almengló, Pedro Álvarez, Jalon Angel, Kutluğ Ataman, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Joseph Beuys, Elena Blasco, Isidro Blasco, Daniel Blaufuks …
BRITANNIA WORKS

The British Council, Athína (GR)
5 Apr 2004 – 29 May 2004

with Faisal Abdu'allah, Babak Afrassiabi, Jeremy Deller, Julie Henry, Marine Hugonnier, Mark Leckey, Rosalind Nashashibi, Hayley Newman, John Riddy, Zineb Sedira, David Shrigley, Shizuka Yokomizo
BRITANNIA WORKS

Ileana Tounta Con/Temporary, Athína (GR)
6 Apr 2004 – 29 May 2004

with Babak Afrassiabi
Love/Hate

Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (DE)
23 Nov 2003 – 21 Dec 2003

with Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer
8th International Istanbul Biennial

"Poetic Justice"

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
19 Sep 2003 – 16 Nov 2003

with Can Altay, Alexander Apostol, Knut Asdam, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Txomin Badiola, Zarina Bhimji, Monica Bonvicini, Tania Bruguera, Gerard Byrne, Filipa Cesar, Attila Csoergoe …
Turbulent Screen. Die strukturelle Bewegung in Film und Video

Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (DE)
29 Aug 2003 – 9 Nov 2003

with Martin Arnold, Douglas Davis, Takahiko Iimura, Mark Lewis, Jonathan Monk, Pat O’Neill, Michael Snow, Steina & Woody Vasulka
2002 Taipei Biennial

Curated by Bartomeu Mari and Chia Chi Jason Wang

Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
29 Nov 2002 – 2 Mar 2003

with Miriam Baeckstroem, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé, Thomas Demand, SONG Dong, Joan Jonas, Johannes Kahrs, Ursula Rogg, SHAO Yinong & MU Chen, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Xavier Veilhan
Dis.Location

Kunsthalle Dortmund, Dortmund (DE)
7 Sep 1999 – 19 Sep 1999

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, David Claerbout, Mark Lewis, Aurelia Mihai, Valerie Mrejen, Antoni Muntadas, Hayley Newman, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Gerald van der Kaap, Martijn Veldhoen

Events

Runa Islam mit Tobias Putrih. Restless Subject

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
18 Jan 2009
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam

Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL)
29 Jan 2007 – 4 Feb 2007

with Johanna Billing, Keren Cytter, Matias Faldbakken, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Jesper Just, Kai Kaljo, Melvin Moti, Marcel Odenbach, Chloe Piene, Mark Raidpere, Aida Ruilova, Markus Schinwald …
Jenseits des Kinos

Arsenal, Berlin (DE)
11 Oct 2006

with Deimantas Narkevicius
The Venice Biennale - 51st International Art Exhibition

Directors: María de Corral and Rosa Martínez

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
12 Jun 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Vasco Araujo, Ahmed Askalany, Miriam Baeckstroem, Rebecca Belmore, Guy Ben-Ner, Blue Noses, John Bock, Candice Breitz, Tania Bruguera …
Runa Islam and Roderick Buchanan in conversation with Eddie Berg

Eddie Berg is Artistic Director at the National Centre for Moving Images

Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)

with Roderick Buchanan