{"id":21182,"date":"2019-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/5-contemporary-artists-to-watch-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:03:44","slug":"5-contemporary-artists-to-watch-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/5-contemporary-artists-to-watch-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Middle East\u2019s art scene has been shifting and evolving over the past five years, and there is a new fabric of contemporary artists that are recognized both on a local and a global scale. The landscape is changing as young artists are finding different ways to express themselves beyond the monotonous pastiche of \u201ccopying\u201d western modes and techniques.<\/p>\n

With the evolving cultural capacity for arts in the region taking shape, these artists are firmly cementing their work on the global art map.<\/p>\n

Basim Magdy, Cairo <\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Basim Magdy is based between Basel and Cairo. <\/b>Magdy\u2019s practice began with painting and has gradually evolved through experimentation with various mediums. His practice involves classical and unconventional media, from spray paint and coloured crayons to chemically altered film stock and photographs. Magdy\u2019s drawings, sculptures, videos and installations are conceived with a taste for the absurd as he builds a universe of elements that stem out of a surreal, but familiar reality. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Jeu de Paume and CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art. Magdy also won the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year (2016) Experimental Award.
\n<\/i>basimmagdy.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Lawerence Abu Hamdan, Lebanon<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Beirut-based artist and audio investigator\u00a0Lawrence Abu Hamdan explores sound and its intersection with politics.\u00a0The artist\u2019s audio investigations have been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organizations such as Amnesty International and Defense for Children International. Abu Hamdan\u2019s work uniquely intersects forensic audio investigations as part of his research for Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths College London where he received his PhD in 2017.\u00a0Abu Hamdan was guest of the DAAD Kunstler Program in Berlin in 2018 and fellow at the Vera List Centre for Art and Politics at the New School in New York from 2015-2017. His solo exhibitions have been shown at L.A\u2019s Hammer Museum L.A (2018), Beirut in Cairo (2013),\u00a0The Showroom, London (2012),\u00a0Casco, Utrecht (2012).\u00a0<\/i>His works are also part of permanent collections at MoMA, Guggenheim, Van AbbeMuseum, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern.
\nlawrenceabuhamdan.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Iman Issa, Egypt<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Iman Issa\u00a0is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large. Issa\u2019s practice is informed by an academic approach, her\u00a0mediums include sculpture, text, video, and photography. She explores themes of memory and familiarity as her work navigates through history, language, and civic duty. Issa participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, her most notable shows include the solo exhibition,\u00a0Iman Issa: Heritage Studies\u00a0<\/i>at MACBA, Barcelona as well as the\u00a0P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami, and\u00a0Material<\/a>\u00a0at Rodeo (Istanbul). Her videography has been featured at the\u00a0Transmediale, Berlin,\u00a0Institute of Contemporary Art,\u00a0London,\u00a0Tate Modern, London, Spacex, Exeter,\u00a0Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Bidoun Artists’ Cinema.
\n<\/i>imanissa.com<\/i><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Raed Yassin, Lebanon<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Raed Yassin is an artist who wears many hats. A visual artist, curator, and musician who\u2019s practice ranges from a wide set of mediums and medias. Raed\u2019s work is often an examination of his own personal narratives, as well as those of the collective history that surround him, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. Yassin is also one of the organizers of Irtijal Festival – Beirut’s experimental contemporary music festival, as well as a founding member of Atfal Ahdath, a Beirut-based art collective. Yassin was awarded the Fidus Prize for\u00a0The Best of Sammy Clark\u00a0at Beirut Art Centre\u2019s Exposure (2009) exhibition and the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2012).
\nivde.net<\/i>ivde.net<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Sara Naim, Syria <\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"Paris-based Syrian artist Sara Naim is one to keep an eye on this year. Now showing her solo exhibition Building Blocks <\/i>at The Third Line, Dubai, Naim\u2019s unique practice is centered around the visualization of micro-formations, dissecting how proportion shapes our perception and our notion of boundaries. Between Europe and the Middle East, Sarah\u2019s work has been exhibited at Parafin Gallery, London, The Third Line, Dubai and Heartstrings, Hayward Gallery, London. Naim has also participated in group exhibitions including Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty<\/i>, at Parafin Gallery, London and The Third Image<\/i> at Galerie Binome (with Biennale des Photographes du Monde Arabe Contemporain in 2017.
\nsaranaim.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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