Solo Shows

2024

Tracing Echoes. From Westerwald to Rio Tinto, Kunstraum München (together with Anne Quirynen)

what is nature to your culture?, Billboard, München

2021

Kontaminierte Landschaften, Camera Austria Graz

2019

(Re)Constructed Uncertainties, the Hangar, Beirut

2015

Başakşehir: Bir Kent Modeli, Studio-X, Istanbul

2014

Başakşehir: An Urban Model, Glasmoog, Köln

2013

5th Photo-Festival, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg

2012

the shape of truth changes and shapes the truth, Depo, Istanbul

2010

»Are you recording?«, Triangle Gallery, London

2008

stagings, Jet, Berlin

2006

Kabulistan, Liquidacion total Madrid

Group Exhibitions

2026

OFFSIDE. Plans, goals and points, SAC@Mincu gallery, Bucharest

Robotron. Working Class and Intelligentsia, HMKV Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund

Landleben. Kunstverein Hildesheim 

2025

Robotron. Code and Utopia, GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig

Protest, Grote Kracht 76, Maastricht

494h29m53s, The collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum sorted by running time by Karin Sander, Akademie der Künste Berlin

Produktive Region, exhibition curated by Eva Hertzsch and Adam Page, Alice Salomon Hochschule, Berlin

Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München

2024

Tank oder Teller, Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale).

Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München

2022

archive of the unknown – Baalbeck Studios Beirut, Composting Knowledge Network, Kunstraum München

archive of the unknown – Baalbeck Studios Beirut, Composting Knowledge Network, documenta fifteen, Hafenstraße 76, 34125 Kassel

After August Sander, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen

2019

In the Blink of A Bird, nGbK, Berlin

Geographies of Imagination, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

2018

The Unnameable City, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing (China)

Geographies of Imagination, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

Infected Landscapes, M1 Hohenlockstedt

2017

The Stars Down to Earth, 67th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin

Hours and Hours of Inactivity, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

If Not for That Wall: Imagined Life in a Museum Vitrine, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

2016

Traversing the Phantasm, 66th Berlinale Forum Expanded, Berlin

2015

Regarding Spectatorship, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin

2013

global aCtIVISm, Centre for Art and Media Technologies (ZKM), Karlsruhe

select & dispossess, film festival with Cinenova, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Only A Signal Shown, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco

Self Made Urbanism Rome, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin

2012

Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders, Frankfurter Kunstverein

Space Matters, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck

Das Aufblättern, Kunstverein Heidelberg

the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, Camera Austria, Graz

Afghanistan - Sideroad of my City, Galerie KUB, Leipzig

Languages of Revolution, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin

2011

the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin

Group Affinity, Kunstverein München

Reproductive Labour, The Showroom, London

Subtramas, Pedagogias radicals, politicas y narratives de género, Centro de Arte de Mayo, Madrid & Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz

Km500/4, Kunsthalle Mainz

2010

A Million and one Days, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

Theater of Peace, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

Barriere (-frei), Rathaus Lichtenberg, Berlin

2009

Soft Fiction, Okendo Cultural Centre, Donostia/San Sebastian

Re-Imaging Asia, The New Art Gallery Walsall

2008

Re-Imaging Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Working Documents, La Virreina, Barcelona

To Show is to Preserve, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

2007

Between Places, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2005

Videolounge, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

2004

Not in my name, KX-Kampnagel, Hamburg

Circulation, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (together with Nasrin Tabatabai from Pages)

2001

aggregat, Glaspavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin

14.Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Filmhaus Stuttgart

2000

Flexibilitätsversuche, Museum Fridericianum Kassel

Fact-Fiction, Edith-Russ-Haus Oldenburg

Young, bored, lazy, Sala Amadis, Madrid.

Die unsichtbare Dienstleistung, ZKM, Karlsruhe.

1999

Wie+Macht+Kunst, Kunstverein Kassel.

1998

Subfiction, 3. Werkleitz Biennale, Tornitz. 

1996

Bound, Commercial Too Gallery, London.

Screenings & Festivals

2026

Filmmakers’ Choice: Image Politics Between Technology and Extraction, Kino arsenal, Berlin

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen | Raw Process

With a Little Help From my Friends, Cineteca Madrid

Landscape and Illusion, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München

2025

Planet Uncanny, Bauhaus Museum, Dessau

Rencontres Internationales Loods6/Amsterdam, Loods6, Amsterdam

Festival Regard Animal, Official Selection, Sainte-Marie-d'Alloix, France

Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Freitagsgruppe: Natur + Schutz, film program curated by Florian Wüst, Exhibition Bauhaus Ecologies, Bauhaus Dessau

New York Indie Shorts Awards 2025, New York

Visiones Unicas, Mirada Corta, Mexiko

Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlin

2024

Visions du Réel, Nyon

Euganea International Film Festival, Monselice

Curtocircuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

7th Seoul Animal Film Festival, South Korea

Werkleitz Festival Tank oder Teller, Halle

rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Natural Bodies, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville

Dumbo Film Festival, New York

2022

Rencontres Internationales, Ecosystem Assembly, Paris & Berlin

Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund/Köln

2021

Contested Landscapes, Archive Screening Room

Scharaun, Kino Siemensstadt, The Complex of Labour, Berlin

Moments of Rupture, Kino arsenal, Berlin

Awareness in Art, Kino Corso, Zürich

2020

Joint Action, arsenal 3, Berlin

2019

Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

Radical Film Network Meeting, silent green, Berlin

Videoart at Midnight, Babylon Berlin

New acquisitions by the n.b.k. Video-Forum 2018, neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Things to Come, Noua, Kino Kurant, Tromso

2018

Tashweesh, Conversations and Encounters in Feminism, Bruxelles, Cairo & Beirut

Realism and Protest, Filmmuseum Wien

Filmmaker’s Choice: Life Between Wars, cinema arsenal, Berlin

Points of Contact, Arab Centre for Architecture, Beirut

Bucharest Experimental Filmfestival, Bucharest

Arab Filmclub, B-Movie, Hamburg

2017

Diagonale, Graz

VideoEx, Zürich

Those days, Topkino Vienna

Duisburger Filmwoche

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel

2016

Pluriversale V, Museum Ludwig Filmforum, Cologne

Staging is Politics, mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst), Vienna

NoPlay, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin

2015

Sunshine Socialist Cinema, Höja, Schweden

2014

Self Made Urbanism Rome, Metropoliz, Rome

Visionary Archive, Cinema Arsenal, Berlin

2013

Cultures of Resistance, Beirut, Kairo

2012

MMB, Global Prayers. Redemption and Liberation in the City, Mumbai

2010

Casa Asia, Barcelona and Madrid

Semana Cine Experimental, Madrid

no.w.here, London

globale-Filmfestival, Berlin

2009

ZINEBI 51, Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao.

Casco, Utrecht

Close Up: Passing the Rainbow, General Public, Berlin

Flying Broom, Ankara

27. Internationales Filmfestival der Cinemateca Uruguaya, Montevideo (Uruguay)

Tiburon Filmfestival, Tiburon (USA)

Fake or Feint, Kino Arsenal, Berlin

Feminism - still work to do, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

2008

Mostra internacional de films de dones de Barcelona

Elles tournent, Botanique, Brüssel

To Show is to Preserve, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

Virtualität und Kontrolle: Minoritäre Praktiken in den Kontrollgesellschaften, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg

2007

Le PingPong d'Amour, Whitechapel-Gallery, London

Rencontres Internationales, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin

Koloniale Träume – Autonome Zonen, Kunstverein Stuttgart

Agentur, Amsterdam

2006

Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Madrid, Berlin.

Monterrey Filmfestival, Monterrey / Mexiko

2005

Semánticas de la emancipación, La casa encendida, Madrid

See what happens, Museum of modern art Belgrad / New Media Center Novi Sad

Afghanistan-Filmfestival, Filmhaus Köln

2004

Images-Festival, Toronto, Kanada

2003

Videodeluxe, Volladolid (Spain)

Antimatter Festival of Short Film & Video, Victoria, Cannada

Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Berlin

2002

Wild in the streets, Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki

International Videofestival, Ramallah, Jerusalem

International Filmweeks Munich

Stadt als Beute, Mousonturm, Frankfurt

2001

Bignes?, hartware medienkunstverein, Dortmund

Documentaryfilm- and Videofest, Kassel

berlin_london, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

2000

Plug-in-video, z-2000 Festival, Berlin

Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, Portland Art Museum and Northwest College Portland (USA)

ArtKino, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

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