Solo exhibitions and projects:
2012
• For A Few Socks of Marbles, Laboratorios 987 at MUSAC, León / Spain curated by Leire Vergara
2011
• As If It Was Here Long Before, Kunstbuero Vienna, curated by Aneta Szylak
2010
• Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming, Serpentine Gallery, London, curated by Janna Graham
2009
• Qatees, Prometeos Gallery, Milan, curated by Denis Isaia
2008
• Cooking With Mama, Babel Lounge, Pargamon Museum, Berlin
2007
• Cooking With Mama, United Nations Plaza, Berlin
Group exhibitions:
2012
• On The Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London
• Materiality, Alternativa 2012, curated by Arne Hendriks, Ines Moreira, Aneta Szyłak and Leire Vergara
• Intense Proximity, a La Triennale Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor
2011
• Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming. Collaboration with Casco and If I Can Dance…
• Studio Dispatches at Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates curated by Victoria Brooks
• Estrangement, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012, co-curated with Aneta Szylak
• Labor and Leisure, curated by Aneta Szylak, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012
2010
• Estrangement Project, The Showroom, London, co-curated with Aneta Szylak
• Chicago Boys, When We Were Singing While They Were Dreaming, Center for Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery, London
• Open Eye Award Gala, KOW Gallery, Berlin 2010
• Chicago Boys, When We Were Singing They Were Dreaming, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012
• Dwelling In Travel, Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curated by Andrea Wiarda and Katia Anguelova
• This Story Is Not Ready For Its Footnotes, X Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy curated by Pelin Uran and Camilla Pignatti Morano
2009
• All that is Solid Melts into Air, City Visions, Mechelen, Organized by MuHKA, Belgium, curated by Bart de Baere
• The View from Elsewhere, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, curated by Catherine Weir and Mark Nash
• The Inescapable Experience of Translation, curated by Season 5 Ecole du Magazin, Grenoble, France
• 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2008
• Manifesta 7 The Rest of Now, X- Alumix in Bolzano, Italy, curated by Raqs Media Collective
• Cooking with Mama, at the Babel lounge at the Babylon exhibition, Pargamonmuseum Berlin
• Cooking with Mama, Summer Drafts, Bolzano, curated by Paolo Plothegers
• Cooking with Mama, webcast project, Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, USA
2007
• Cooking with Mama, webcast project for Intimacy, Submission, Performance Festival, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Digital Department.
• Cooking with Mama, webcast event for World Chat 7080 at Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
• Cooking with Mama, United Nations Plaza, Berlin, Germany
• You won’t feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia, curated by Aneta Szylak, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
2006/2007
• Participation in The Institute for New Social Research, a project organized by the United Nations Plaza e.V., Berlin, Germany
2006
• You won’t feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, curated by Aneta Szylak
• selected for (the never realized) Manifesta 6 Exhibition as a School in Cyprus.
Grants received:
2007
• IFA grant to conduct research for the Estrangement project in Istanbul.
Study trips:
2007
• IFA, Study trip to Istanbul to pursue research for Estrangement
project at Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Artist-in-residence:
2010
• Serpentine Gallery, London, in the framework of the project Edgware Road: Center for Possible Studies, curated by Janna Graham and Sally Tallant
2009-2010
• ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany
Bibliography:
Catalogues
• The View from Elsewhere, exhibition catalogue, edited by Fiona Egan, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 2009, pp. 37, 86
• All that is Solid Melts Into Air, exhibition catalogue, ed. Dieter Roelstraete, MuHKA 2009
• You won’t Feel a Thing, exhibition catalogue, ed. Christiane Mennicke, Aneta Szylak, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2007
• 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009
• Hiwa K, YA5 volume 1 issue 2 June 2011 by David Knowles
• Group Affinity publication, Kunstverein Munich, 2011
• Catalogue students of Simon Starling class, Städelschule Frankfurt
Newspapers and magazines:
• Nicholas Blincoe, Middle Eastern Nostalgia for the 1970s, Guardian, April 19, 2010
• Collin Perry, Estrangement, Art Monthly, June 10, 2010, pp. 20-21
• Hiwa K, interview by Benjamin Lobko, Landings Magazine no1/2009
• Drawings, A Prior Magazine, VZW no 13, 2006, pp.152-165
• Monika Branicka, Nic nie poczujesz – o lęku i przestrzeni, Architektura no 1(148), 2007, p.12
Teachings:
2011
• Group Affinity, Munich Kunstverein, Germany
• DAI Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, 2011The Netherlands
• Forever Academy- The New DIY Art School 2011, Swansea, Wales
• Hoogeschool voor Kunsten, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2010
• Goldsmith College, London, UK
2009
• Estrangement Workshops Amna Suraka, Aram Gallery and Sha’ab Teahouse in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil, Iraq, with Aneta Szylak
• American University of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
2008
• Estrangement Workshops in Art Institute in Halabja, Aram Gallery and Amna Suraka in Sulaymaniyah and Media Center in Arbil, Iraq, with Aneta Szylak
Talks and Lectures:
2011
• Kunstverein Munich, Germany
• no.w.here, London, UK
2010
• Bulegoa, Bilbao, Basque Country, with Aneta Szyłak
• Centre for Possible Studies / Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
• Journey With No Return Goethe Institute London, UK, with Janna Graham
• Artist presentations and discussion, Chaired by David Thorp with Adrian Paci and Hiwa K, Artes Mundi Encounters, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
• Homeworks, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Lebanon
• Goldsmiths College, London
2009
• KASK, Ghent
2008
• Media Centre, Arbil, Iraq