Artist Talks | Lectures (selection)
Hiwar
Atassi Foundation
“In the first episode of the Hiwar podcast, we speak to the Syrian artist Ali Kaaf about his art's philosophical and technical dimensions.”
Prepared and presented by Reham Kannout Alrefaie.
Conceptual and Visual Intersections
Artist’s talk
20 March, 2023
Darat Al Funun
Conceptual and Visual Intersections | Artist’s talk
Darat Al Funun, Amman, JO
20 March, 2023 | 6:00 PM | Main Building
Darat al Funun’s artist-in-residence, Ali Kaaf speaks about the development and production phases of works featured in his solo exhibition, detailing the themes and conceptual framework that inform his work, his use of materials, and experimental methods.
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Arbeitsstipendien Bildende Kunst für 2023
Jury Member: The Visual Arts Research Fellowship by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Arbeitsstipendien Bildende Kunst für 2023 | Jury member
The Visual Arts Research Fellowship |Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
The scholarship is intended for further artistic development in the field of visual arts. This year’s jury for the Visual Arts Research Fellowship included: Nadja Abt, Lidiya Anastasova, Michael Hauffen, Ali Kaaf, Claire Koron Elat, Fabian Schöneich.
Radio Eins RBB | Interview
01 December, 2021–19:30
Radio Eins in conversation with Ali Kaaf about his installation “I Am a Stranger. Twofold a Stranger.”
Kamal Boullata
Geometrie des Lichts
Panel Discussion at Galerie Pankow
09 September, 2021 at 7 pm.
Geometrie des Lichts – Kamal Boullata | Panel Discussion
Galerie Pankow
09 September, 2021 at 7 pm.
Panel Discussion with . Dr. Dorothea Schöne, Art Historian and Director of Kunsthaus Dahlem, Annette Tietz, director of Galerie Pankow, in conversation with Jeanno Gaussi and Ali Kaaf. The event is part of the late Palestinian artist and art historian Kamal Boullata’s retrospective exhibition “Geometrie des Lichts” at Galerie Pankow.
Date: 09 September, 2021 at 7 pm.
Exhibition: 08 September – 07 November, 2021.
Opening: 07 September, 2021 at 6 pm.
Ettijahat: Third Edition
Jury member: Visual Arts and Architecture
AJYAL: A Programme to Support Arts Education | Jury member
Ettijahat
Jury member: Visual arts and Architecture
Summer / Fall 2021
Summer School 2021
*foundationClass, Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy
Summer, 2021
Photo: Ali Kaaf - Installation by Ramz M Melhem
Summer School 2021
*foundationClass, Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy
Summer, 2021
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN SPACE
3-dimensional models and 2-dimensional images.
The workshop explores different approaches of visual expression in space. Students learn how to develop artistic processes and strategies. They implement their concepts in a 3-dimensional model and then translated their results into 2-dimensional images.
Barenboim-Said Akademie | Lecture
Lecture: Ali Kaaf & Prof. Dr. Alexandra Von Stosch’s class on contemporary art.
17 Novemmber, 2020
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Alexandra Von Stosch and Ali Kaaf and at Barenboim-Said Akademie. A presentation of sculptural works, followed by a conversation with students of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Von Stosch’s class on contemporary art.
The Byzantine Corner | Interview
Andreas Görgen, Head of the Department for Culture & Communication In conversation with Ali Kaaf
AArtist in Residence 2020
The interview is part of “AArtist in Residence 2020” program initiated by the German Federal Foreign Ministry in Berlin in corporation with Landesverband Berliner Galerien (lvbg).
Shababek
For Contemporary Art, Gaza
Jury member: Visual Arts
SHababek for contemporary art, gaza
Jury member: Visual Arts
Artist Residency and grant for Palestinian artists – initiated by General Union of Cultural Centers and Shababek for contemporary art in Gaza, Palestine.
Neue Räume / Neue Perspektiven
Workshop with Ali Kaaf.
Neue Räume / Neue Perspektiven
Stiftung Mercator | Workshop with Ali Kaaf
13 March, 2020 at 5:30 pm.
Workshop hosted by Stiftung Mercator in collaboration with ‘wir machen das’ and Allianz Stifftung. The workshop is moderated by Dr. Maritta Iseler.
Laboratory Of Art: Ettijahat & Goethe Institute
Jury member: Visual arts
Laboratory Of Art: 4th Edition
Ettijahat & Goethe Institute
Jury member: Visual arts
The Artist Support Programme - Laboratory Of Arts is a programme being launched by Ettijahat- Independent Culture, in cooperation with Goethe-Institut.
Rundgang – Tage der offenen Tür 2019
A Line of Tape in The Wind
*foundationClass, Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy 19 July, 2020 weissenseeTV
A site-specific video and sound installation developed during a workshop by Ali Kaaf with assistance from Mohamad Halbouni. Presented during the Tage der offenen Tür in July, 2019.
Symposium and Lecture – Yemen and Syria: making art today
The British Museum, London, UK
7 July, 2019 | from 10:30 to 16:30
Lecture by Ali Kaaf, followed by a panel discussion with Anna Wallace-Thompson, Buthayna Ali, Fadi Yazigi and Kevork Mourad.
In this symposium, artists, curators and scholars investigate the current status and future of art and culture from the point of view of artists working inside these countries as well as those who are presently living elsewhere.
Lecture at MSU Billings
25 October, 2019
MSU Billings | Lecture
Montana State University Billings, Billings (MT), US
25 October, 2019
A workshop with a group of Visual Arts students in Montana State University Billings, US. The workshop is conceived under the supervision of Ali Kaaf.
Lecture at the Yellowstone Art Museum
October 24, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Beyond the Painting | Lecture
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings (MT), US
24 October, 2019 at 5:30 pm
The Northcutt Steele Gallery at Montana State University Billings in partnership with the Yellowstone Art Museum. Artist’s talk entitled, “Beyond Painting” at 5:30 pm on Thursday, 24 October, 2019 at the Yellowstone Art Museum.
The Byzantine Corner | Artist’s Talk
Kala Art Institute, Berkley (CA), US
18 October, 2019
“After taking various photographs of these corners, I was urged to re-explore print making techniques through a new lens. Are we able to reconstruct a certain space through fragments of still photographs? It is a process that deals with composition as much as decomposition and fragmentation. A paradox that perhaps echos, or lend meaning to our memory in relationship to time and space.”
– Ali Kaaf
Rundgang – Tage der offenen Tür 2017
*foundationClass, Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy
22 and 23 July, 2017
A collective workshop with students of the*foundationClass under the supervision of Ali Kaaf.
The result of the workshop, a site-specific audio-visual installation, was presented during the Tage der offenen Tür (Days of Open Doors) at Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy in July 2017.
Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
Master Thesis: jury member.
June, 2017
LES RUINES, UN CHEZ-SOI DANS L’EXIL
Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture
June, 2017
Master Thesis by Dahlia Hojeij and Racha Hassan. Supervised by Doris Von Drathen. Jury member: Ali Kaaf, among others. “The Ruins” project explores three necessities of exile: the act of habiting, the act of expression and the act of working. All the projects are located in Tyr, a city in South Lebanon.
BOX OF PAIN | Artist’s talk
Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Ali Kaaf
— Kühlhaus, Berlin, DE
18 September, 2016 at 7pm
Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Ali Kaaf, as part of his solo exhibition “BOX OF PAIN” at Kühlhaus, Berlin.
Glass Blowing and Glass Art in the Middle East and Europe
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
28 - 30 January, 2016
Glass Blowing and Glass Art in the Middle East and Europe | Lecture
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
28 - 30 January, 2016
Lecture program:
Dr. Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk (Museum Kunstpalast/Glasmuseum Hentrich)
The Meaning of Glass - What Did People Think When They Thought About Glass in Mesopotamia, Egypt & Ancient Rome
Dr. Andrea Becker (Museum für Islamische Kunst)
Super - Cali - Fragilistic: The Raqqa Experience
Nadania Idris (Berlin Glas e.V.)
Safeguarding Glassmaking as an Important Intangible Heritage in the Middle East
Ali Kaaf
Paper and Glass
Radio Arty
FLUXFM: Radio Feature
5 May, 2016 at 7 pm
9 May, 2016 at 12 am
Ali Kaaf | Radio Arty
FLUXFM: Radio Feature
5 May, 2016 at 7 pm
9 May, 2016 at 12 am
In conversation with Radio Arty’s host Yaneq about the forthcoming exhibition “The Colour of Water is the Colour of its Vessel” at Studio Bumiller in Kreuzberg.
As If, At Home – Artists in Europe | Artist’s Talk
Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Mirosław Bałka, Valérie Favre, Ali Kaaf
Freiraum in der BOX
01 September, 2016
As part of the exhibition, As If, At Home - Artists in Europe, Mirosław Bałka, Valérie Favre, Ali Kaaf will discuss their work with Jurriaan Benschop.
Landscape of Hope
Radialsystem, Berlin
01–03 October, 2016
landscape of hope | Artist’s Talk
Radialsystem, Berlin
01–03 October, 2016
Ettijahat-Independent Culture will partner with Action for Hope to organise Landscapes of Hope, an event that celebrates Syrian art in Europe, starting on October 1st and ending on October 3rd, 2016. The event will take place at the Radialsystem V in Berlin, Germany.
Save the date |Artist’s Talk: 01 October, 2016.
Yesterday Shadow / MIHRAB
Kunsthaus Dresden
10 November, 2015
YESTERDAY SHADOW / MIHRAB | Artist’s talk
Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Director of Kunsthaus Dresden, in conversation with Rimma Arslanov and Ali Kaaf
Kunsthaus Dresden
10 November, 2015