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Artist and musician Hiwa K was born in Sulaymaniyah, the cultural hub of Iraqi Kurdistan known as home to many Kurdish poets and writers.
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Given a choice between a well-ordered exhibition with a soft center, like this year’s Venice Biennale, or a messy one with some hard, fibrous edges, I’ll go for edges any day, which is why, despite some gripes,
Read MoreAmong the more important lessons learned by the art world in 2016: An emerging artist’s career isn’t cemented in one night, with one breakout show, or with one collector’s token of approval. Artists who matter long-term have careers that build over time, show upon show, collection upon collection. In looking ahead to 2017, Artsy’s editors consulted a number of data sources, including UBS’s art news app Planet Art, as well as prominent artists, curators, writers, and collectors, to determine who among the many artists deserving of greater attention in the new year are particularly well positioned to rise to new heights. Here, in no specific order, are 17 to keep your eye on.
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Welcome to part two. This list is arranged alphabetically (no hierarchies here!) so you’re looking at a group of artists simply ordered from I to W. Yet placing a number of apparently random entities into a loose grouping, as we’ve all had opportunity to discover in recent years, can yield unexpected associations. Somehow Part II feels texturally different to Part I
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This year’s Arnold Bode Prize, awarded by the city of Kassel in Germany, has been given to Hiwa K. The artist, who was born in northern Iraq in 1975, lives and works in Berlin, where he recently had a solo exhibition at KOW. Kassel’s mayor Bertram Hilgen announced the prizewinner after the magistrate chairman of the Arnold Bode Foundation selected the recipient per the recommendation of its board of trustees. The prize will presented at Kasseler Kunstverein on Thursday, November 3, 2016.
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Earlier today Bertram Hilgen, the Lord Mayor of Kassel in Germany, announced that the artist Hiwa K won his city’s biennial Arnold–Bode-Preis.
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Born in 1975, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, Hiwa K lives and works in Berlin, Germany as a political asylum.
A Visual artist and musician ,Hiwa K creates performances in public spaces that address cultural paradoxes, the figure of the amateur artist, or the dissemination of knowledge. He began his artistic practice as a painter in the eighties, inspired by an informal education with intellectuals, musicians and performers. The major fields of these informal and non-systematic studies were European literature and philosophy, learnt from books translated into Arabic.
Some of his solo exhibitions and projects are: My Father´s Color Periods, Prometeo Gallery; For A Few Socks of Marbles, Laboratorios 987 at MUSAC, León / Spain curated by Leire Vergara (2012); As If It Was Here Long Before, Kunstbuero Vienna, curated by Aneta Szylak (2011); Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming, Serpentine Gallery, London, curated by Janna Graham (2010); Qatees, Prometeos Gallery, Milan, curated by Denis Isaia (2009); Cooking With Mama, Babel Lounge, Pargamon Museum, Berlin (2008) and Cooking With Mama, United Nations Plaza, Berlin (2007).
Selected group exhibitions are: On The Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, Alternativa 2014, Aneta Szyłak; Intense Proximity, a La Triennale Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 2012; Here And Elesewhere, New Museum,NY curated by Massimiliano Gioni.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
