Dina Danish 1981
Lives in Amsterdam & Caïro. Works in Amsterdam & Caïro.
Represented by:
Galerie Stigter Van Doesburg
Dina Danish's work combines conceptual art's preoccupation with language and structure with an emphasize on humor, misunderstanding, mistranslation, and supersition. Most of her works are based on substantial research into her subjects (be it chewing gum, a tongue twister or crowds at an aquarium), combined with her own variations on the truth. Sometimes it stays unclear what is made up by Danish or what is actually true. Her approach leads to multi-layered works in a variety of media. Be it a performance, a video, or an entire installation. For sure all of her works get the absurdistic out of the ordinary.
Dina Danish lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Cairo (EG).
Dina Danish lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Cairo (EG).
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"The preoccupation with language and structure that typifies conceptual art is present in the work of French-born Egyptian, and Amsterdam-based Dina Danish (b. 1981, France), who usurps this tendency through her interest in humour, misunderstanding, mistranslation and superstition. Linguistic curiosities, be they pronunciation, correction or stuttering, and general structures – units, or standards such as tongue twisters, counting and poetry – all offer material and strategies for the artist to make works that are often absurd or casual.
While Danish most often makes performances for the camera – as well as working with photography, painting and sculpture – for Per4m she took inspiration from a new publication project that documents her oeuvre (...)".
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2022 Things and Needs (Hagaat w' Mehtagaat), Rita Urso Artopiagallery, Milan, Italy
2018 Sports, Memorabilia, Signed & Everything”, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2016 The Poet Who Wanted to be Burried Underneath a Pinball Machine, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Nile Sunset Annex, A Place in The Sun, Cairo, EG
2015 SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
2013 Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2013 De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2012 SpazioA, Pistoia, IT,
2011 Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2011 Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2007 PLAySpace Gallery, San Francisco (CA), US
2004 American University in Cairo, senior student exhibition, Cairo, EG
GROUP Shows
2016 Syntax and Society, The Araaj Group Art Prize, AE
2016 Performance Practices in the Gallery Context, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Where The Sun Hits The Water, Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski, Cologne, DE
2015 The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Art Dubai, AE
2015 A Million Lines, XII Baltic Triennal, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL
2015 The Joycean Society, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
2015 A Blind Man Sitting in His Garden, Pool Projects (LUMA FOUNDATION) Zurich, CH
2015 What Are You Doing Object, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, EG
2015 Too early too late: MIDDLE EAST AND MODERNITY, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, IT
2015 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2015, NL, curated by Wilma Suto
2014 My Vocabulary Did This To Me (performance), South London Gallery, London, GB
2014 LEGION OF HONOR, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Arts and Editions, US
2014 The Centre of Dying #1, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE
2014 Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?, Stedelijk Museum/ Performance, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Ways of Working According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam, NL
2014 All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen, Co-Pilot in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, Istanbul, TR
2013 With the Sound of Your Voice, Parallel Projects of Maracech Biennale, Marrakesh, MA
2013 Not A Dead End, Biennale Yogyakarta, ID
2013 SFMOMA & MOMA, Celebration of Publication, San Francisco and New York, US
2013 Beirut Season Four: Writing with the other hand is imagining, Beirut, Cairo, EG
2013 Some Misunderstandings, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, GB
2013 Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, NL
2013 To Scrap a proportion, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2013 Prospects and Concepts – Mondriaan Fonds toont talent, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, NL
2012 We’re All Here Because We’re Not All There, Tecoh Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, US
2012 We Are Rolling, GallerieJ, Geneva, CH
2012 Not In A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2012 A BRAND NEW BABY CARRIAGE STANDING THERE ON THE PORCH, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
2012 On Demand 2,Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2011 il gatto e sul tavolo’ The Cat is On The Table, Spazio A, Pistoia, IT
2011 The Old World is Behind You, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011 Two Versions of the Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Dina Danish; 3 videos, videohOle project space, San Francisco, US
2010 SFMOMA, Shadow Shop, San Francisco, CA, US
2010 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Time After Time, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US
2010 I Must Say That At First Is Was Only Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2010 Drawing, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
2009 Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, US
2009 Cairo Pavillion, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
2009 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG
2009 Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
2022 Things and Needs (Hagaat w' Mehtagaat), Rita Urso Artopiagallery, Milan, Italy
2018 Sports, Memorabilia, Signed & Everything”, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2016 The Poet Who Wanted to be Burried Underneath a Pinball Machine, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Nile Sunset Annex, A Place in The Sun, Cairo, EG
2015 SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
2013 Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2013 De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2012 SpazioA, Pistoia, IT,
2011 Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH
2011 Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2007 PLAySpace Gallery, San Francisco (CA), US
2004 American University in Cairo, senior student exhibition, Cairo, EG
GROUP Shows
2016 Syntax and Society, The Araaj Group Art Prize, AE
2016 Performance Practices in the Gallery Context, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Where The Sun Hits The Water, Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski, Cologne, DE
2015 The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Art Dubai, AE
2015 A Million Lines, XII Baltic Triennal, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków, PL
2015 The Joycean Society, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
2015 A Blind Man Sitting in His Garden, Pool Projects (LUMA FOUNDATION) Zurich, CH
2015 What Are You Doing Object, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, EG
2015 Too early too late: MIDDLE EAST AND MODERNITY, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, IT
2015 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2015, NL, curated by Wilma Suto
2014 My Vocabulary Did This To Me (performance), South London Gallery, London, GB
2014 LEGION OF HONOR, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Arts and Editions, US
2014 The Centre of Dying #1, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE
2014 Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?, Stedelijk Museum/ Performance, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Ways of Working According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam, NL
2014 All About These... Ladies and Gentlemen, Co-Pilot in collaboration with Gallery On The Move, Istanbul, TR
2013 With the Sound of Your Voice, Parallel Projects of Maracech Biennale, Marrakesh, MA
2013 Not A Dead End, Biennale Yogyakarta, ID
2013 SFMOMA & MOMA, Celebration of Publication, San Francisco and New York, US
2013 Beirut Season Four: Writing with the other hand is imagining, Beirut, Cairo, EG
2013 Some Misunderstandings, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, GB
2013 Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, NL
2013 To Scrap a proportion, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2013 Prospects and Concepts – Mondriaan Fonds toont talent, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, NL
2012 We’re All Here Because We’re Not All There, Tecoh Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, US
2012 We Are Rolling, GallerieJ, Geneva, CH
2012 Not In A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2012 A BRAND NEW BABY CARRIAGE STANDING THERE ON THE PORCH, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
2012 On Demand 2,Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2011 il gatto e sul tavolo’ The Cat is On The Table, Spazio A, Pistoia, IT
2011 The Old World is Behind You, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011 Two Versions of the Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Dina Danish; 3 videos, videohOle project space, San Francisco, US
2010 SFMOMA, Shadow Shop, San Francisco, CA, US
2010 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Time After Time, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US
2010 I Must Say That At First Is Was Only Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2010 Drawing, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR
2009 Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, US
2009 Cairo Pavillion, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
2009 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG
2009 Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
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