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Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Frieze NY 2022






    
    






Conceived as an exhibition in it’s own right, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s solo at Frieze -featuring key works from their practice- aims to contextualize the artists’ work in light of their concurrent presentations of May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth, currently being shown as a website for Dia Art Foundation’s Artist Web Project series and as solo show at MoMA.






Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (Nicosia, Cyprus and Boston,
USA,1983) make collaborative work across a range of sound, image,
text, installation, and performance. Their practice is engaged in
the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries,
the body, and virtuality informed by the artist’s research-based
focus which explores, samples, remixes and intertwines historical
archives, literature, performance, underground music, and film, with
their own.






Other solo shows include The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
(2021); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020); Disjecta, Portland
(2019); Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2018); Art Jameel Project
Space, Dubai (2017); Office for Cotnemporary Art , Oslo (2015); ICA
Philadelphia, Philadelphia (2015), amongst others, with group shows
at the Palestinian Museum (2017); Portikus (2016); Kunsthalle Wien
(2015); MoMA Warsaw (2015); ICA London (2013), amongst others.
They have participated in numerous biennials including the Sharjah
Biennial (2015); São Paulo Biennial (2014); Gwangju Biennial
(2014); Istanbul Biennial (2013), and Liverpool biennial (2010).
They were fellows at Akademie der Kunste der Welt in Cologne
(2013) and artists in residence at the Delfina Foundation in London
(2009). They were awarded the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2016 and
the Sharjah Biennial Prize in 2015. Their publication ‘And Yet
My Mask Is Powerful’ is published by Printed Matter in New York.
They are recipients of the Open Society Foundation fellowship in
New York for 2020 – 2021, and are artists in residence at Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva 2022.
Their work is collected by MoMa, New York; Art Jameel Collection,
Dubai; Sharjah Foundation, Sharjah; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu
Dhabi; and TBA21, Vienna, amongst others.