Projects and Exhibitions
“I Know the Emptiness of This House”, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan, 2023 | Installation view I
“I Know the Emptiness of This House”, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan, 2023 | Installation view II
I Know the Emptiness of this House
عَرَفتُ المَنزِلَ الخالي
Darat Al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, JO SOLO SHOW
March – September, 2023
I Know the Emptiness of this House (2023) is solo exhibition at Darat Al Funun, Amman, where I worked on a spatial installation reflecting on Qusair Amra in the eastern deserts of Jordan. Relying on numerology and geometric abstraction of the form and scale of this unique historical site, the installation is a dialogue between several layers and elements in space: metal structure, metal pipes treated with powder and sand, light and a sound composition.
"Those swept away by the waters/rose up as clouds" Ali Kaaf und Khaled Mzher, fC*c. Documenta 15. Kassel, 2022 | Installation view
Those swept away by the waters / rose up as clouds
الذين جرفتهم المياه إلى الوادي ارتفعوا غيومًا
Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, DE
Film installation by Ali Kaaf and Khaled Mzher. On view at Documenta fifteen, the 15th edition of documenta in Kassel, Germany between June and September 2022. Venue: Hafenstraße 76.
“I Am a Stranger. Twofold a Stranger.”, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2022 | Installation view
I Am a Stranger. Twofold a Stranger.
أنا غريبُ الغربتين
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, de SOLO SHOW
Duration: December 2021 – February 2022
Commissioned by the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, I Am a Stranger. Twofold a Stranger (2021) is a Kaaf’s attempt to deconstruct and reconstruct the displacement of the Mshatta facade. The installation is conceived using cutting, engraving and CNC techniques; flatbed Inkjet printing on milled aluminum composite panels and sprayed wooden panels (MDF).
“Between Yes and No Flies the Soul”, C&K Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2020 | Installation view
“Between Yes and No Flies the Soul”
"Zwischen Ja und Nein fliegt die Seele"
C&K Galerie, Berlin, DE
SOLO SHOW
September, 2020
“Between Yes and No Flies the Soul” is a solo exhibition by Ali Kaaf, presented as part of the AArtist in Residence program by the Federal Foreign Office in cooperation with the Berlin Galleries Association (lvbg).
Faraway so close (In weiter Ferne so nah)
Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE
AArtis in Residence Program 2016-2020
August 27 – November 08, 2020
Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin
The exhibition brings all the fifteen scholarship holders together who have been supported by the AArtist in Residence program since 2016. With works by:
Said Baalbaki, Catherine Biocca, Yvon Chabrowski, Manaf Halbouni, Kerstin Honeit, Ali Kaaf, Ahmed Kamel, David Krippendorff, Andréas Lang, Beatrice Minda, Peles Empire, Yafei Qi, Henrik Strömberg, Susa Templin, Walter Yu
In cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Berlin Galleries Association (LVBG).
Video Installation accompanied by “48 Variations for Two Pianos” by John McGuire, Festival ME_MMIX 2018, Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palma, Spain, 2018 | Installation view
„Festival ME_MMIX 2018“
Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palma, SP
2018
Video Installation accompanied by “48 Variations for Two Pianos” by John McGuire, Festival ME_MMIX 2018, Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palma, Spain.
“BOX OF PAIN” Video installation, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany, 2016 | Installation view
BOX OF PAIN | صندوق الألم
Kühlhaus, Berlin, DE
SOLO SHOW
Berlin Art Week, 2016
Box of Pain is a site-specific video installation conceived at Kühlhaus–a former industrial building in Berlin. The video shows fragments of drawings being reflected onto a liquid surface in constant flux. Visible from different floors and perspectives in the space, the video installation unfolds as a dialogue of materials immersed in the space.
“As if, at Home” Freiraum in der Box, Berlin, Germany, 2016 | Installation view
As if, at Home - Artists in Europe
Freiraum in der Box, Berlin, DE
June – October, 2016
Group exhibition in Freiraum in der Box, Berlin w/ Mirosław Bałka, Norbert Bisky, Michaël Borremans, Irina Botea, Valérie Favre, Lia Kazakou, Marie Lund, Šejla Kamerić, Flo Kasearu, Sean Scully, Ali Kaaf and other artists. Curated by Jurriaan Benschop
Program
1 September, 2016 at 7pm
Artists’ Talk with Mirosław Bałka, Valérie Favre and Ali Kaaf. Moderation by Jurriaan Benschop.
“Maribor Project – Rebecca Horn and Guests”, UGM/Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia, 2012. L–R: Ali Kaaf, DO (2008), Tattoo (2012); Rebecca Horn, Der Sonnenseufzer, 2006 | Installation view
Maribor Project – Rebecca Horn and Guests
Group exhibition
UGM/Contemporary Art Museum, Maribor, SI
September – November, 2012
In 2012 Maribor holds the prestigious title European Capital of Culture. One of the highlights of the programme and the most important project for UGM / Contemporary Art Museum, is Rebecca Horn’s Maribor Project.
Guest artists: Rebecca Horn, Matthias Deumlich, Ali Kaaf, Antonio Paucar, Jakob Schaible, Markus Wüste, Hayden Chisholm, Yang Lian, Rod Mengham, Joachim Sartorius and Tomaž Šalamun.
“The Colour of Water is the Colour of its Vessel”, The Bumiller Collection in collaboration Taswir Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2016 | Installation view
The Colour of Water is the Colour of its Vessel
The Bumiller Collection in collaboration Taswir Projects, Berlin, DE | Solo Exhibition
April – June, 2016
Scherben Mantra, 6 Min Full HD. 2013
Scherben Mantra | تَسبيح
2013
6 Min Full HD -Excerpt from video.
In this video performance themes such as pain, spatial separation, seeking or helplessness are reflected. What we observe is the constant change of countless levels: The overlapping fragments of individual mirror fragments, the artist's hand and finally every reflection in every single part. At the same time, each view is broken, abandoned, created anew, and abandoned again. Just like the hand, the eye of the beholder tries to orientate itself in this scenery, but without success. This search is accompanied by the clinking and cutting noise of clashing fragments.
"On-site encounter with Leoni Wirth – Models and Designs from Leoni Wirth's Studio and Contemporary Positions on Abstraction and Modernity", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany , 2015 | Installation view
"On-site encounter with Leoni Wirth – Models and Designs from Leoni Wirth's Studio and Contemporary Positions on Abstraction and Modernity"
Group exhibition
Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, DE
2015
“Gubar“, Gallery Rafia, Damascus, SYria, 2010 | Installation view
“Fragile Strength“, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings (MT), USA, 2010 | Installation view
“Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity“, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2009 | Installation view
Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE
Group exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau w/ Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Song Dong, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna, Rebecca Horn, Idris Khan, Wolfgang Laib, Marwan, Walid Raad, among others.
2009
“Eclipse”, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma, Italy, 2009 | Installation view
MIHRAB | Solo Exhibition in Khan Ashad-Bacha, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Damascus, 2006 | Installation view
MIHRAB | Solo Exhibition in Solidere, Beirut, 2005 | Installation view
MIHRAB | Solo Exhibition in Khan Ashad-Bacha, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Damascus
Khan As’ad-Bacha
Damascus, Sy
2006
MIHRAB | Solo Exhibition by Ali Kaaf in Solidere, Beirut
Solidere, Beirut, LB
2005
„Oh nein Oh“, Gallery Naprzeciw, Poznan, Poland, 2008 | Installation view
2004 Gegenüber, Performance, Installation & Betacam video, UdK Berlin
Gegenüber
Universität der Künste Berlin, DE
A performance, installation & video betacam video.
2004
