The Fire’s Edge, Ali Kaaf, Solo Exhibition, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, UAE, 2025 | Installation view
Scherben Mantra, Ali Kaaf, Alserkal Art Week, Dubai, UAE, 2025 | Installation view
Alserkal Art Week
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE | group show
16 – 23 November, 2025
Curated by Zaina Zarour.
Installation view: “Scherben Matra” by Ali Kaaf.
Maknana: An Archeology of New Media Art in the Arab World
Diriyah Art Futures (DAF), Riyadh, KSA | group show
21 April –19 July, 2025
Group Exhibition curated by Ala Younis and Haytham Nawar.
Design Doha Biennial for Architecture and Design | 1st edition
M7, Qatar Museums, Doha, QA | group show
24 February – 05 August, 2024.
“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
"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 | group show
“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
“Helmet” Blown glass | Project
“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
Faraway so close (In weiter Ferne so nah)
Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE | group show
AArtis in Residence Program 2016-2020
August 27 – November 08, 2020
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 | group show
2018
“BOX OF PAIN” Video installation, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany, 2016 | Installation view
“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 | group show
June – October, 2016
Group with: 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
UGM/Contemporary Art Museum, Maribor, SI| group show
September – November, 2012
Guest exhibition with: 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 show
April – June, 2016
Scherben Mantra, 6 Min Full HD. 2013
"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"
Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, DE | group show
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 show
Group exhibition with: 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
Khan Ashad-Bacha, in collaboration with Goethe Institute Damascus, SY | solo show
2006
MIHRAB | solo show
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 | performance
A performance, installation & video betacam video.
2004