Solo Shows

2023

Contested Landscapes, Archive, Milano (upcoming).

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

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

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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