Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Lawrence Abu Hamdan group show @Times Art Center Berlin

The group exhibition Readings From Below explores how artists engage us in new readings of our complex present by making use of the virtual potentials of archives. While the traditional institution of the archive with its sense of permanence and timeless solidity, its physical location and architecture continues to exist, in today’s world of digitized information, archives […]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan group show@Trafo Gallery

My only weapon is listening. Listening, in which the power of silence meets the potential of attention to the audible layers. Listening, which is able to reveal what extends beyond the visible layers and to perceive sounds and voices that are masked, hardly accessible or silenced. The leaking noise of suppressed gunshots and beatings, the […]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan @Kunsthalle Mainz

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ursula Biemann, Paulo Tavares and the Forensic Architecture research collective are all linked by concept of the ‘void’. Enter the Void presents the approach that connects these actors: seeking out gaps in the communication of events, in chains of evidence or in the administration of justice as if they were nothingnesses in our sensual […]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan @Artist Room Jameel Arts Centre

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s sound and video installation, This whole time there were no land mines (2017) documents a ‘shouting valley’ that lies in the contested area of the Golan Heights, Syria. This stretch of land was annexed by Israel from Syria following a ceasefire in 1967 and was named ‘the shouting valley’, as the area’s topography allows […]

Bouchra Khalili, Lawrence Abu Hamadan and Rossella Bicotti @Artists for Moria

Well before the coronavirus pandemic began, the situation in Moria refugee camp was extremely critical. Now more than ever, solidarity is necessary. Artists for Moria is a fundraiser to assist the efforts of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on the island of Lesvos, Greece. Sixteen international artists are donating their works for this effort. […]

Digital museum Collecteurs acknowledges the engaged artistic practice of Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles and Lawrence Abu Hamdan in the SUBSTANCE 100 list

Collecteurs—the world’s first digital museum of private collections— published SUBSTANCE 100, a new, annual list that outlines a diverse array of artists, activists, collectives, movements and organizations making a substantial change in the world. By engaging a community of activists from the art world and beyond, SUBSTANCE 100 raises the question, “what is the purpose […]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan @Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum

The Global Art Forum “Newshour Special” was dedicated to the stories and narratives shaping the current coronavirus fallout. Looking at how normal life is currently  paused in much of the world and the immediate future canceled, our shared present felt strange and precarious. Hosted by Global Art Forum’s Commissioner, Shumon Basar, this Newshour Special included tele-conversations […]

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