In drawings, installations, performances, photographs, sculptures, and videos, Hefuna draws on her mixed heritage to ponder the intersection of location and identity. She aims at a spiritual, open-ended, and timeless art that also illuminates current sociopolitical issues.
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Susan Hefuna
LISTEN TO: The sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air 3 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 LondonFor her latest solo exhibition at Pi Artworks, Susan Hefuna will present her most recent body of textile works, a series which reflects on the fragility of life, nature and...Read more -
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Landscapes 12 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 LondonLANDSCAPES is a completely new group of works created in 2021. The works will be shown publicly for the first time in London from 12 October to 13 November 2021....Read more -
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Thought 26 Jun - 18 Jul 2020 LondonSusan Hefuna's first ever extended reality solo exhibition 'Thought', presents a selection of the artist's internationally acknowledged drawings and a textile work, specially curated for Vortic Collect. 'Thought'...Read more -
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TEXTILES 23 May - 22 Jun 2019 LondonTEXTILES is Susan Hefuna's seventh solo exhibition with Pi Artworks. Bringing together a curated selection of textile and costume works, TEXTILES showcases new works such as Stand Up (2019) alongside...Read more -
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Angst Eats Soul 18 May - 17 Jun 2017 IstanbulPi Artworks Istanbul is pleased to announce Susan Hefuna's solo exhibition, Angst Eats Soul, featuring three video works by the artist. Parallel to her Istanbul exhibition, Hefuna's works from Guggenheim collection is on view at The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence by Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which runs until the end of July.Read more -
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CROSSROADS 2002-2016 8 Apr - 14 May 2016 LondonPi Artworks London is pleased to announce CROSSROADS 2002-2016, Susan Hefuna's fourth solo exhibition with Pi Artworks Istanbul/London. The exhibition will bring together four films from Hefuna's CROSSROADS series, including a new iteration produced in London in collaboration with students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.Read more -
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Cairotraces 14 Oct - 28 Nov 2014 LondonPi Artworks London is pleased to announce Susan Hefuna's third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first at our London venue. Cairotraces features a new series of her highly...Read more -
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BeYond NoThing 5 Apr - 3 May 2014 IstanbulSusan Hefuna works and exhibits internationally across a wide range of media, including drawing, sculpture, and installation as well as video, photography and performance. Coinciding with a major solo show...Read more -
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Istanbul 14 Sep - 30 Oct 2011 IstanbulPi Artworks Galatasaray hosts Egyptian/German artist Susan Hefuna "Istanbul" solo exhibition between the dates September 14th and - October 30th 2011. This will be Hefuna's first appearance at Istanbul.Read more
Major exhibitions include; Traces of Egypt (solo), Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (2023); Anagrams (solo), British Museum London, UK (2023); The Mashrabiya Project (group), Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, USA (2023); From Dürer to Warhol Masterpieces from the Graphische Sammlung (group), ETH Zürich, MASILugano, Lugano, Switzerland (2023); In the Heart of Another Country (group), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2023); Venedigsche Sterne: Kunst und Stickerei, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (2022); Landscapes (solo), Pi Artworks, London, UK (2021); BE ONE (solo), Kunsthallte Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany (2021); Kairos (solo), Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (2021); TREES DIE STAND Plants and humans, Pi Artworks, London, UK (2021); Reflections, Contemporary Art of Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum, London, UK (2021); 3 Elements (solo), Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokio, Japan (2020); Susan Hefuna: Crossroads (solo), Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany (2020); Susan Hefuna: Thought (solo), Pi Artworks London, London Collective on Vortic Collect, UK; Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020); Textiles (solo), Pi Artworks London, UK (2019); Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada (2020); Susan Hefuna: Gebilde (solo), Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland (2019); Screens (solo), Merdiven Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey (2019); Climbing Through the Tide, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunesia (2019); But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Milano, Italy (2018); Long Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA (2018); TOGATHER (solo), Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK (2017); Sol LeWitt - A tribute(group), Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2016); Imperfect Chronology, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016); Susan Hefuna: Crossroads 2002-2015 (solo), Pi Artworks London, UK (2016); But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, Guggenheim New York, USA (2016); The Strange and the Familiar (solo), UBS Schloss Wolfsberg, Switzerland (2015); Contemporary Art of the Middle East, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA (2015); Susan Hefuna: Another Place (solo), Sharjah Art Foundation, Bait Al Serkal, Sharjah (2014); Buildings(solo), Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany (2014); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA (2014); Nouvelles Vagues- Champs Elysees, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2013); On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2012); Edgware Road@Cairo 2010/1431 (solo), The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (2010); On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2010); Fare Mondi, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy (2009); and The Jameel Art Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (2009).
Public collections include; Graphische Sammmlung ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; Tate Modern, London, UK; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; Guggenheim NY, USA; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA; LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), CA, USA; The Louvre Museum, Paris, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Barjeel Art Foundation Collection, UAE, British Museum, UK and Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.
Hefuna's work is documented in a three volume publication, Pars Pro Toto, by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist released in 2008-2014.
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The Armory Show
Jyll Bradley | Susan Hefuna | Gulay Semercioglu 6 - 8 Sep 2024Pi Artworks is thrilled to present a curated exhibition of three established, female, artists who each interpret and draw inspiration from the architectural forms that...Read more -
Susan Hefuna I Michael Rakowitz I Group Show
In the Heart of Another Country I Deichtorhallen I Hamburg, Germany 28 Oct 2022 - 12 Mar 2023My absence has been an exile from an exile. Etel Adnan, In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country In the Heart of Another...Read more -
SUSAN HEFUNA I Moderna Museet Collection I Sweden
Group Show I Conditioned Movement Works from the Moderna Museet Collection 26 Feb 2022 - 29 Jan 2023The exhibition, featuring works from the Moderna Museet collection, discusses universal and existential themes such as time and materiality in relation to preservation and conservation....Read more -
West End Gallery HOP!
Mayfair Art Weekend 14 Oct 2021Pi Artworks is thrilled to announce our participation in the autumn West End Gallery HOP! London’s West End galleries mark the peak of the October...Read more -
BE ONE
Susan Hefuna 19 Jun - 30 Oct 2021The internationally renowned artist Susan Hefuna, who mostly shows her work in the world's major museums, is currently exhibiting in the #PforzheimGalerie ! In...Read more -
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Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Group Show 31 Jan - 8 Mar 2020Curated by Tricia Heuring January 31–March 8, 2020 Opening Reception January 31, 6–9 pm Curator Remarks, 7 pm In Rituals of Regard and Recollection, curator...Read more -
TEXTILES
Susan Hefuna 23 May - 22 Jun 2019TEXTILES is Susan Hefuna's seventh solo exhibition with Pi Artworks. Bringing together a curated selection of textile and costume works.Read more