Born in 1975, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, Hiwa K lives and works in
Berlin, Germany as a political asylum.
A Visual artist and musician ,Hiwa K creates performances in
public spaces that address cultural paradoxes, the figure of the
amateur artist, or the dissemination of knowledge. He began his
artistic practice as a painter in the eighties, inspired by an
informal education with intellectuals, musicians and performers.
The major fields of these informal and non-systematic studies were
European literature and philosophy, learnt from books translated
into Arabic.
Some of his solo exhibitions and projects are: My Father´s Color
Periods, Prometeo Gallery; For A Few Socks of Marbles, Laboratorios
987 at MUSAC, León / Spain curated by Leire Vergara (2012); As If
It Was Here Long Before, Kunstbuero Vienna, curated by Aneta Szylak
(2011); Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming,
Serpentine Gallery, London, curated by Janna Graham (2010); Qatees,
Prometeos Gallery, Milan, curated by Denis Isaia (2009); Cooking
With Mama, Babel Lounge, Pargamon Museum, Berlin (2008) and Cooking
With Mama, United Nations Plaza, Berlin (2007).
Selected group exhibitions are: On The Edgware Road, Serpentine
Gallery, London, Alternativa 2014, Aneta Szyłak; Intense
Proximity, a La Triennale Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 2012;
Here And Elesewhere, New Museum,NY curated by Massimiliano
Gioni.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art