Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Al-Riwaq Art Space
Waheeda Malullah
Although Waheeda Malullah’s output is video and photography, her practice is conceptual with an emphasis on the elements of play. Recently, she has been exploring gender equality and women in the Middle East that pursue a different lifestyle- sometimes breaking social rules and bringing her own identity into question.
Waheeda Mulullah (born 1978) studied Advertising and Marketing at the Riam Institute, Bahrain and currently works as graphic designer at Bahrain University. She has been supported in Bahrain by Al Riwaq Art Space. She was an artist in residence at venues including the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo and Delfina Foundation, London. She has participated in many local and international exhibitions including the 2013 Venice Biennale.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Jaffar Al Oraibi, Waheeda Malullah and Mohamed Sharkawy
August 27, 2013
Waheeda Malullah, A Villager's Day Out, 2008, Digital photo. Courtesy of the artist.
Waheeda Malullah, Colored Photograph, 2009, Digital photo.
Waheeda Malullah, Out, 2013, Digital photo.
Waheeda Malullah, Red and White, 2011, Digital photo.
Waheeda Malullah, Construction, 2013, Video, 6:39 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Bahrain
Past Resident2013: Christa von Siemens Foundation, Brigitte Henninger Art
Mojé Assefjah
In her paintings, Mojé Assefjah develops her own distinctive visual language. The broad, arching bands of color exploit the picture space in all directions and the brush strokes entwine themselves delicately yet dynamically across the picture carrier with characteristic chromaticity, becoming denser and overlapping as they lead the viewer’s gaze to deeper levels. By applying multiple thin layers using the almost-forgotten egg tempera technique and India ink, the artist produces color effects which evoke the Italian frescoes of the early Renaissance. The lush hues of the darker loops in the foreground of the picture contrast with the chalky tonality of the background. Although the artist is committed to non-representative painting, her pictures nonetheless convey a feeling of spatiality and conjure up associations with landscapes. Assefjah’s pictorial worlds are characterized by lightness and structural density, with the alternation of transparency and opacity, daytime and darkness creating a mysterious and atmospheric quality.
Mojé Assefjah (born 1970 in Tehran) moved to Munich, Germany where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts 1999. She was awarded for Fine Arts of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, as well as the annual scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a residency in Rome. Recent exhibitions include Down To The River, Galerie Graf & Schelble, Basel; Art Dubai, Gallery Tanit, Beirut, 2013; Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg, 2012; A vista d’ occhio, Galerie Tanit, Munich, 2011; Water for my flower…, Espace Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut, 2010 and L’ Iran sans frontières, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, 2009. Assefjah is represented by Gallery Tanit, Munich/Beirut; Gallery Graf & Schelble, Basel and Gallery Nanna Preußners, Hamburg.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Mojé Assefjah and Yang Yeung
August 6, 2013
Mojé Assefjah, Beyond the River, 2013, Egg-tempera on canvas, 271/2 × 393/8 in. (69.85 × 100.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Mojé Assefjah, Blackbird's Song, 2011, Egg-tempera on canvas, 271/2 × 393/8 in. (69.85 × 100.08 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Mojé Assefjah, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Tanit, Munich.
Residents from Germany
Past Resident2013: Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland
Brian Duggan
Brian Duggan’s work engages people in questioning the myriad decisions of the everyday, he twists experience and materials to question the actuality of lived experience. Problems, crisis and mistakes, the inherent risks of choosing an activity or choosing inactivity, are an ongoing focus for his projects. When things go wrong during specific events, peaceful moments of pre or post-disaster are a fertile ground for his practice. Unpacking both grand events and small everyday speed bumps, his work engages with sculpture, print, publishing, digital film, sound and installation.
Brian Duggan’s (born 1971) work is included in the permanent collections of the Hugh Lane Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He has undertaken residencies in IMMA, CCI Paris, Project 304 Bangkok and ChangMai Thailand. His recent solo exhibitions include They Have Tried Everything to Keep Us From Riding…but in the end we always win, Limerick City Gallery, 2012; Everything Can Be Done, In Principle, Visual, Carlow, 2012; Three Lives, RUARED, Dublin, 2012, and It’s Too Late Now, The Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011. His selected group exhibitions include A Terrible Beauty, Art Crisis, Change, Dublin Contemporary, 2011; Supernomal, Braziers UK, 2011; SUB:URBAN, Rotterdam, 2009 and I’m Always Touched By Your Presence, Dear., Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2007-2008. Duggan lives and works in Dublin.
Brian Duggan, This Short-term Evactuation, Pripyat, Chernobyl, 30km zone, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.
Brian Duggan, I Leave to the Various Future (not to all) my Garden of Forking Paths, 2012, Wood maze. Courtesy of the artist.
Brian Duggan, Untitled (Bangkok general, Mr. Finbarr, March 2006), 2012, X-ray light box. Courtesy of the artist.
Brian Duggan, Changing the Meaning of the Ordinary (Fukushima Power Plant prior to March 11, 2011), 2011, Travertine marble, four different types of porcelain, Kilkenny limestone, steel and spectrum glass. Courtesy of the artist.
