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Basim Magdy
Basim Magdy
Art in GeneralArt in General is pleased to present An Absent Population Laughs at its Haunting Withdrawal, a newly commissioned work by Basim Magdy. Basim Magdy was born in 1977 in Assiut, Egypt, and lives and works in Basel, Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt. His work appeared recently in exhibitions and screenings at MEDIACITY Seoul Biennial 2014, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France; Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest; CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France (2014); 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Tate Modern, London; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, UAE; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Biennale Jogja XII, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; The High Line, New York; Askhal Alwan, Beirut (2013); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Argos Art Center, Brussels; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Institut Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt, Germany (2011); Mass MOCA, North Adams and Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale dʼart contemporain, Rennes, France among others. In 2012 he was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Kiev and in 2014 he won the Abraaj Art Prize, Dubai. Upcoming shows include La Biennale de Montreal, Montreal and Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, Melbourne, Australia among others. Curated by Anne Barlow