Wael Shawky

♂ *1971 / Egypt

Works

Solo exhibitions

Wael Shawky

SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
23 Sep 2027 – 9 Jan 2028
Drama 1882

Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
5 Mar 2026 – 29 Jun 2026
Wael Shawky

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
28 Jun 2025 – 28 Sep 2025
Drama 1882

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
7 Jan 2025 – 30 Mar 2025
Drama 1882

MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (US)
20 Feb 2025 – 16 Mar 2025
Drama 1882

Venice Biennale - ET, Venezia (IT)
20 Apr 2024 – 24 Nov 2024
I Am Hymns of the New Temples

Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venezia (IT)
17 Apr 2024 – 30 Jun 2024
I Am Hymns of the New Temples

Lia Rumma, Milano (IT)
31 May 2023 – 29 Jul 2023
Wael Shawky

Lisson Gallery NY, New York (US)
10 Nov 2022 – 17 Dec 2022
AL ARABA AL MADFUNA

The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver (CA)
18 Oct 2019 – 12 Jan 2020
WAEL SHAWKY

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (DK)
19 May 2018 – 9 Sep 2018
Al Araba Al Madfuna

Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (DE)
1 Feb 2018 – 30 Apr 2018
Retrospective

Castello di Rivoli , Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2016 – 14 May 2017
Al Araba Al Madfuna

Winner of the First edition of the Mario Merz Prize

Fondazione Merz, Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2016 – 5 Feb 2017
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KUB Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (AT)
16 Jul 2016 – 23 Oct 2016
Cabaret Crusades

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
31 Jan 2015 – 31 Aug 2015
Dictums

Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
31 Jan 2014 – 8 Mar 2014
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UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
17 Aug 2013 – 5 Jan 2014
Cabaret Crusades

agYU Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (CA)
11 Sep 2013 – 1 Dec 2013
Cabaret Crusades, The Path to Cairo

MOCA Contemporary Art, Toronto (CA)
11 Apr 2013 – 21 Apr 2013
Al Araba Al Madfuna

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
26 Aug 2012 – 21 Oct 2012
The Cave

n.b.k., Berlin (DE)
14 Dec 2010 – 28 Jan 2011
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Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
15 Apr 2007 – 20 May 2007

Group

MMCA Collection - Otherlands II

National Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)
3 Jun 2025 – 17 Aug 2025

with Akram Zaatari
SHIFTING

DÜSSELDORFER SCHAUSPIELHAUS

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
24 Apr 2025 – 30 Apr 2025

with Christelle Oyiri, Emma Rosenzweig
Trembling Landscapes

Between Reality and Fiction

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
19 Sep 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Jananne Al-Ani, Heba Y. Amin, Ali Cherri, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Larissa Sansour, Hrair Sarkissian
WE REFUGEES

CGAC Centro Galego, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
28 Jun 2019 – 13 Oct 2019

with Peggy Ahwesh, Eugenio Ampudia, Angela Mendes Ferreira, Roland Fischer, Marcos Avila Forero, Regina Jose Galindo, Mariam Ghani, Antoni Muntadas, Adrian Paci, Alexandra Ranner, Larissa Sansour
NOW

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
20 Oct 2018 – 28 Apr 2019

with Henry Coombes, Betye Saar
Everything At Once

180 The Strand, London (GB)
5 Oct 2017 – 10 Dec 2017

with Marina Abramovic, Cory Arcangel, Ryan Gander, Rodney Graham, Susan Hiller, Laure Prouvost
real sets / fictional sets

K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (DE)
2 Aug 2017 – 8 Oct 2017

with Candida Hoefer, William Kentridge, Bruce Nauman, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard T. Walker, Heimo Zobernig
14th International Istanbul Biennial

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
5 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015

with Haig Aivazian, Francis Alys, Song-Ming Ang, Ed Atkins, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Sonia Balassanian, Lynda Benglis, Karl Blossfeldt, Janet Cardiff, Edgar Cleijne, Tacita Dean, LIU Ding …
Manifesta 10

The European Biennial of Contemporary Art

State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg (RU)
28 Jun 2014 – 30 Oct 2014

with Francis Alys, Guy Ben-Ner, Pavel Braila, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Jordi Colomer, Josef Dabernig, Anna Daucikova, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elena Kovylina …
19th Biennale of Sydney

You Imagine What You Desire

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
21 Mar 2014 – 9 Jun 2014

with Ahmet Oeguet, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, David Claerbout, Bindi Cole, Nathan Coley, Joost Conijn, Henry Coombes, Hubert Czerepok, Tacita Dean, Krisztina Erdei, Aurelien Froment …
Dak'Art 2014 - 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art

The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (SN)
9 May 2014 – 8 Jun 2014

with John Akomfrah, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Kader Attia, Meriem Bouderbala, Mohamed Bourouissa, Candice Breitz, Jonathas de Andrade, Jean Ulrick Desert, Andrew Esiebo, Chitra Ganesh, Sam Hopkins, Samson Kambalu …
FOTOFEST 2014

Contemporary Arab Photographic Art

FotoFest, Houston (US)
15 Mar 2014 – 27 Apr 2014

with Ebtisam Abdul Aziz, Reem Al Faisal, Ammar Al-Beik, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Mariette Pathy Allen, Boushra Almutawakel, Jowhara AlSaud, Sama Alshaibi, Lara Baladi, Hicham Benohoud, Lalla Essaydi, Mounir Fatmi …
In the Heart of the Country

The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

MoMA Warsaw, Warszawa (PL)
14 May 2013 – 6 Jan 2014

with Francis Alys, Pawel Althamer, Wojciech Bakowski, Miroslaw Balka, Yael Bartana, Cezary Bodzianowski, Geta Bratescu, Ivan Brazhkin, Rafal Bujnowski, Duncan Campbell, Olga Chernysheva, Anne Collier …
Trade Routes

Hauser & Wirth, London (GB)
3 May 2013 – 27 Jul 2013

with Adel Abidin, Guelsuen Karamustafa, Bharti Kher, Bettina Pousttchi
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 …
dOCUMENTA (13)

documenta, Kassel (DE)
9 Jun 2012 – 16 Sep 2012

with Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Kader Attia, Judith Barry, Gerard Byrne, Kudzanai Chiurai, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Attila Csoergoe, Manon de Boer …
Museum as Hub: “An accord is first and foremost only a proposition”

New Museum, New York (US)
9 Feb 2011 – 1 May 2011

with Yael Bartana, Carey Young
Breaking News

FMAV - Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (IT)
27 Nov 2010 – 13 Mar 2011

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Yto Barrada, Yael Bartana, Taysir Batniji, Jodi Bieber, Mounir Fatmi, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Pieter Hugo, Goddy Leye, Daniel Naude …
Localities

Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
10 Sep 2010 – 7 Nov 2010

with Adel Abidin, Esra Ersen, Khalil Rabah
What's happening now?

Casa Árabe, Madrid (ES)
2 Jun 2010 – 30 Sep 2010

with Mohamed Abla, Shady El Noshokaty, George Fikry, Khaled Hafez, Susan Hefuna, Amal El Kenawy, Hassan Khan, Hesham Nawar, Randa Shaath, Hazem Taha
The Presidents: Remix

Blancpain Art Contemporain, Genève (CH)
3 Jun 2010 – 5 Jun 2010

with Ahmed El Shaer, Khaled Hafez, Raed Yassin
Medium Religion

Hermes Zygott

ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
23 Nov 2008 – 19 Apr 2009

with Adel Abdessemed, Oreet Ashery, Maja Bajevic, Peter Bogers, Christoph Büchel, Paul Chan, Wim Delvoye, Omer Fast, Barbad Golshiri, Boris Groys, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Kajri Jain …
SITE Santa Fe's Seventh International Biennial: Lucky Number Seven

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
22 Jun 2008 – 4 Jan 2009

with Ahmet Oeguet, Studio Azzurro
Gegenwart aus Jahrtausenden

Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
30 Aug 2007 – 28 Oct 2007

with Mohamed Abla, Shady El Noshokaty, Youssef Nabil
Gegenwart aus Jahrtausenden

Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
30 Aug 2007 – 28 Oct 2007

with Shady El Noshokaty, George Fikry, Youssef Nabil
Stile der Stadt - Internationale Videokunstforum

Glaspassage des ehemaligen Forum Altona, Hamburg (DE)
11 May 2006 – 26 May 2006

with Anette Baldauf, Tina Bara, Alba D'Urbano, Johanna Domke, Harun Farocki, Bertram Haude, Dorit Margreiter, Stefan Panhans, Elodie Pong, Christoph Rütimann
PhotoCairo3

The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary ar, Cairo (EG)
11 Dec 2005 – 31 Dec 2005

with Ursula Biemann, Christoph Büchel, Giovanni Carmine, Osama Dawod, Sebastian Diaz Morales, rana elnemr, Iman Issa, Emily Jacir, Meiro Koizumi, Basim Magdy, Julika Rudelius, Fernando Sanchez Castillo …
loose your identity [A]

Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg (DE)
19 Mar 2005 – 8 May 2005

with Moataz M. Nasr
Normalization

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
10 Mar 2005 – 23 Apr 2005

with Can Altay, Yael Bartana, Phil Collins, Mark Leckey, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Roman Ondak, Shirana Shahbazi, Jalal Toufic
50th International Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
15 Jun 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

with Adel Abdessemed, Carlos Amorales, Emmanuelle Antille, Kader Attia, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Zarina Bhimji, Dara Birnbaum, Sergey Bratkov, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Boris Cvjetanovic …

Events

Rubaiya Qatar

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (QA)
21 Nov 2026 – 30 Apr 2027

with Bani Abidi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Sophia Al-Maria, Sophia Al-Maria, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Kamal Aljafari, Nadia Belerique, Meriem Bennani, Mohamed Bourouissa, Liu Chuang …
Art Basel 2026

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
18 Jun 2026 – 21 Jun 2026

with Marina Abramovic, Yalda Afsah, Francis Alys, Helena Almeida, Pawel Althamer, Ryūichi Amano, David Armstrong, Kader Attia, John Baldessari, Yto Barrada, Lothar Baumgarten, Vanessa Beecroft …
miart 2026

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
17 Apr 2026 – 19 Apr 2026

with Marina Abramovic, Jacopo Benassi, Silvia Camporesi, Yoan Capote, Florence di Benedetto, Elger Esser, Simone Fattal, Candida Hoefer, Alfredo Jaar, Mimmo Jodice, William Klein, Agnieszka Kurant …
SITE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
27 Jun 2025 – 13 Jan 2026

with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Ali Cherri, Sky Hopinka, David Horvitz, Saodat Ismailova, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Eliot Porter, Penny Siopis, Ana Vaz
Art Basel Paris 2025

Art Basel Paris, Paris (FR)
24 Oct 2025 – 26 Oct 2025

with Adel Abdessemed, Marina Abramovic, Helena Almeida, Tauba Auerbach, Nairy Baghramian, John Baldessari, Rosa Barba, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Jacopo Benassi, Christian Boltanski …
Edinburgh Art Festival 2025

Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (GB)
7 Aug 2025 – 24 Aug 2025

with Cecil Beaton, Sian Davey, Andy Goldsworthy, Pam Isherwood, Annie Leibovitz, Linder, Lord Snowdon , Robert Mapplethorpe, Rankin
The Sharjah Biennial 16

to carry

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
6 Feb 2025 – 15 Jun 2025

with Akinbode Akinbiyi, Monira Al Qadiri, Heman Chong, Liu Chuang, Stephanie Comilang, Monica de Miranda, Cecile B. Evans, Alia Farid, Noemie Goudal, Aziz Hazara, Sky Hopinka, Adelita Husni-Bey …
Artissima 2024

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
1 Nov 2024 – 3 Nov 2024

with Marina Abramovic, Yuri Ancarani, Giovanni Anselmo, Hamza Badran, Olivo Barbieri, Vanessa Beecroft, Paolo Bini, Botto & Bruno, Silvia Camporesi, Julian Charriere, Daniela Comani, Stephanie Comilang …
Art Basel Paris

Art Basel Paris, Paris (FR)
16 Oct 2024 – 20 Oct 2024

with Adel Abdessemed, Francis Alys, Ghada Amer, Andrea Buettner, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jacopo Benassi, Irma Blank, Andre Breton …
Miart 2024

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
12 Apr 2024 – 14 Apr 2024

with Marina Abramovic, Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Jennifer Bornstein, Fatma Bucak, Moyra Davey, Haris Epaminonda, Christian Fogarolli, Regina Jose Galindo, Silvia Giambrone, Dan Graham …
Artissima 2023

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

with Oystein Aasan, Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Adam Avikainen, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Renate Bertlmann, Walead Beshty, Diego Bianchi, Barbara Bloom …
Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
1 Dec 2022 – 3 Dec 2022

with Ignasi Aballi, Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Francis Alys, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Maria José Arjona, John Baldessari, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Huma Bhabha, Erwin Blumenfeld …
Artissima 2022

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
4 Nov 2022 – 6 Nov 2022

with Michele Abeles, Marina Abramovic, Heba Y. Amin, Eleanor Antin, Per Barclay, Fabio Barile, Silva Bingaz, Primoz Bizjak, Carmen Calvo, Isaac Chong Wai, Chto Delat International, Mario Cresci …
Frieze London 2022

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
14 Oct 2022 – 16 Oct 2022

with Marina Abramovic, Peggy Ahwesh, Martha Atienza, Anna Barriball, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Marcin Dudek, Shilpa Gupta, William Kentridge, Shigeko Kubota, Mary Lucier, Sandra Mujinga …
Art Brussels 2022

art brussels, Brussels (BE)
28 Apr 2022 – 1 May 2022

with Marina Abramovic, Carlos Aires, Helena Almeida, Zsolt Asztalos, Ed Atkins, Roger Ballen, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Abdelkader Benchamma, Kim Boske, Dirk Braeckman, Herbert Brandl …
miart 2022

miart, Milano (IT)
1 Apr 2022 – 3 Apr 2022

with Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Darren Almond, Rosa Barba, Vanessa Beecroft, Tomaso Binga, Miriam Cahn, Clegg & Guttmann , Lucio Fontana, Regina Jose Galindo, Luigi Ghirri, Alfredo Jaar, Ann Veronica Janssens …
Sharjah Biennial 14

Leaving the Echo Chamber

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sophia Al-Maria, Marwa Arsanios, Leo Asemota, Ursula Biemann, Hannah Black, Mohamed Bourouissa, Candice Breitz, Adriana Bustos, Ian Cheng, Christopher Cozier, Shezad Dawood …
Canadian Biennial 2017

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
19 Oct 2017 – 18 Mar 2018

with Shannon Bool, Stan Douglas, Jessica Eaton, Latifa Echakhch, Andreas Gursky, Christian Jankowski, Wangechi Mutu, Collier Schorr, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Taryn Simon, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas …
Yokohama Triennale 2017

Islands, Constellations and Galapagos

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (JP)
4 Aug 2017 – 5 Nov 2017

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Hartley, Naoya Hatakeyama, Christian Jankowski, Ragnar Kjartansson, Paola Pivi, Anri Sala, The Propeller Group, Ai Weiwei, ZHAO Zhao
Momentum 9 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Alienation

Momentum, Moss (NO)
17 Jun 2017 – 11 Oct 2017

with John Duncan, Kapwani Kiwanga
Al Araba Al Madfuna III

Filmpremiere und Künstlergespräch

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)