How Many (2007) a ceramic work by the German Otto Piene (1928–2014). Piene's work also featured in Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection which was exhibited at Manarat Al Saadiyat in 2014-2015.
Kholeif's idea for Focus: Beyond Territory was inspired in part by Iftikhar Dadi and Nalini Malani's 1997 work Bloodlines, which looks at the dislocation and trauma associated with India's partition in 1947.
Omar Kholeif has included the work of the Lebanese duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in many of exhibitions. Their 2013 work, The Lebanese Rocket Society - A tribute to dreamers. PART VI: DUST IN THE WIND is meditation on Pan-Arabism and an expanded sense of territory.
As well as being included in Kholeif's Focus: Beyond Territory at Abu Dhabi Art, the veteran Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone has been commissioned by the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Kholeif has paired works such as Untitled (2016) by the Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman with the work of the Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander, both of whom look back to the history of art for motifs that they recast in a contemporary context. Hayv Kahraman, Untitled, Oil on linen (2016).
Shahzia Sikander, Night Flight, Gouache, ink and gold leaf on paper (2015-2016)
How Many (2007) a ceramic work by the German Otto Piene (1928–2014). Piene's work also featured in Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection which was exhibited at Manarat Al Saadiyat in 2014-2015.
Kholeif's idea for Focus: Beyond Territory was inspired in part by Iftikhar Dadi and Nalini Malani's 1997 work Bloodlines, which looks at the dislocation and trauma associated with India's partition in 1947.
Omar Kholeif has included the work of the Lebanese duo Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in many of exhibitions. Their 2013 work, The Lebanese Rocket Society - A tribute to dreamers. PART VI: DUST IN THE WIND is meditation on Pan-Arabism and an expanded sense of territory.
As well as being included in Kholeif's Focus: Beyond Territory at Abu Dhabi Art, the veteran Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone has been commissioned by the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Kholeif has paired works such as Untitled (2016) by the Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman with the work of the Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander, both of whom look back to the history of art for motifs that they recast in a contemporary context. Hayv Kahraman, Untitled, Oil on linen (2016).
Shahzia Sikander, Night Flight, Gouache, ink and gold leaf on paper (2015-2016)
How Many (2007) a ceramic work by the German Otto Piene (1928–2014). Piene's work also featured in Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection which was exhibited at Manarat Al Saadiyat in 2014-2015.