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فير زملر غاليري Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Festival of (In)gratitude, Moderna Galerija & Modern Art Museum & Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Another Festival of (In)gratitude, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Karantina & Downtown, Beirut, Lebanon

Cotton Under My Feet: The Zurich Chapter, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

We lived so well together, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Walid Raad. Cotton Under My Feet, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Walid Raad, Carré d’Art: Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France

Walid Raad: We can make rain but no one came to ask, La Maison des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Sweet Talks, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Let's be honest, the weather helped, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Let's be honest, the weather helped, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Yet Another Letter to the Reader, Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy

Better Be Watching the Clouds, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Walid Raad, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

Walid Raad, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Letter to the Reader, The Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

Those that are near. Those that are far., SITU Studio at Stommeln Synagogue, Pulheim, Germany

Walid Raad: Section 39_Index XXXVII: Traboulsi, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, China

Walid Raad, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Walid Raad: Preface, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France; Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy

Walid Raad: Postface, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, USA

Postface, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

How to Talk About Things That Don’t Exist, 31st Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Walid Raad. Preface to the First Edition, Louvre, Paris, France

Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Walid Raad – 2011 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Foundation, Hasselblad Center at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow. A History of Art in the Arab World, TBA21: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden

Walid Raad: Miraculous Beginnings, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Miraculous Beginnings, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Bildmuseet, Umea University, Umeå, Sweden; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut), Camera Austria, Graz, Austria

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World _ Part I _ Volume 1 _ Chapter 1: Beirut (1992-2005), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

The Atlas Group (1989-2004), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World _ Part 1 _ Volume 1 _ Chapter 1: Beirut (1992–2005), REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA

A History of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art: Part I _ Chapter 1: Beirut (1992-2005), Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

I might die before I get a rifle, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA

We Decided to Let Them Say "We are Convinced" Twice (It was More Convincing this Way), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico-City, Mexico

The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad, Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal

Walid Raad, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

The Atlas Group (1989-2004): A Project by Walid Raad, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs, The Kitchen, New York, USA

We Can Make It Rain But No One Came To Ask, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

We Decided to Let Them Say "We are Convinced" Twice (It was More Convincing this Way), Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

I Was Overcome With a Momentary Panic, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Funny How Thin The Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, FACT, Liverpool, UK

My Neck is Thinner Than a Hair: Engines, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

I was Overcome with a Momentary Panic, AGYU, York University, Toronto, Canada

The Truth Will Be Known, Prefix Institute, Toronto, Canada

The Truth Will Be Known, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA

The Truth Will Be Known, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France

The Truth Will Be Known, World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Laokoon 2003, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture, Deichtorhallen Hamburg as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (forthcoming)

In Minor Keys, International Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (forthcoming)

we refuse_d, M HKA: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US

Contemporary Arab Representation. Beirut/Lebanon, Fondacio Tapies, Barcelona, Spain

Sweeter than Honey. A Panorama of Written Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Towards an Affinity of Hammers, CALM: Centre d’Art La Meute, Lausanne, Switzerland

Does the flower hear the bee?, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Shanghai, China

we refuse_d, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

The Shade, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon

Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia

The Stammering Circle, Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine

Flowers. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy

A Cloud in My Hand, Gaza Biennale – The Istanbul Pavilion, Istanbul, Turkey

Maknana: An Archaeology of New Media Art in the Arab World, Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

A Model, MUDAM: The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

The Ecologies of Peace II, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, Spain

Caminos de comprensión de la Historia, IE Creativity Center, Segovia, Spain

Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut), Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

So it appears, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

TOP SECRET: Cine y Espionage, CAIXA Forum, Barcelona, Spain

TOP SECRET: Cine y Espionage, CAIXA Forum, Madrid, Spain

Moving Images in the Arab World, Art Explora Festival Photo Pavilion, Various stops across the Mediterranean region, Marseille, France

Think We Must, düsseldorf photo – Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media, Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany

Based on a True Story..., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US

Give and Take. Bilder über Bilder. 8. Triennale der Photographie 2022 – Currency, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

Homosphäre, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today, MOSTYN, Wales, UK

Flowers Forever. Flowers in Art and Culture, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany

TOP SECRET, La Cinematheque Française, Paris, France

Enjoy - die mumok Sammlung im Wandel, mumok, Wien, Austria

ARTIST'S LIBRARY: 1989-2021, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy

A sun yellow with anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Faces: a Look at the Other, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

A Bottomless Silence, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, USA

Home Is a Foreign Place, The Met Breuer, New York, USA

Time Forward!, V-A-C Zattere, Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy

Konkrete Gegenwart, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

Possibilites for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India

Camera Austria International. Laboratory for Photography and Theory, Camera Austria, Mönchsberg, Austria

Revolution Generations, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

SHINE ON ME. We and the sun, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany

Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan

Acts of Translation, Mohammad and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan

The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, Gangwon, South Korea

Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Statues Also Die, Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie di Torino, Torino, Italy

Mobile Worlds: On the Migration of Things in Transcultural Societies, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany

General Rehearsal: A Show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

Les Louvres and/or Kicking the Dead, Theater Spektakel, Zurich, Switzerland

Les Louvres and/or Kicking the Dead, Fast Forward Festival 5, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

Mario Merz Award Shortlist (with Suha Traboulsi), Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy

What We Know that We Don't Know, Kadist, San Fransisco, USA

The Principe of Uncertainty, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Ways of Seeing, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey

Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors, MAXXI Rome, Italy

Many Tongues: Art, Language, and Revolution in the Middle East and South Asia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from the Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany

A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain

Field Guide, Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada

Hämatli & Patrice, MUSEION of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Manipulate the World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mario Merz Award Shortlist (with Suha Traboulsi), Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy

Nothing but blue skies, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France

The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

Question the Wall Itself, Walker Arts Center, Minnesota, USA

Transcultural Flux, TrAP, Oslo, Norway

WITNESS, Kent Fine Art, New York, USA

The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Centennial Exhibition: The Arts Club of Chicago at 100, Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Those that are near. Those that are far, with Situ Studio, Stommeln Synagogue, Pulheim, Germany

An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, France

Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

A Republic of Art – French Regional Collections of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, Endhoven, Netherlands

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy

How to (...) things that don’t exist, Serralves Museu De Arte Contemporãnea, Porto, Portugal

Future Light: Escaping Transparency, MAK, Vienna, Austria

The Biography of Things, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

Conflict, Time, Photography, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany

America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Dissolving Margins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

Lest The Two Seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

On Remote Control 1, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany

How to (...) things that don’t exist, 31st São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

Where Are We Now?, Marrakech Biennial 5, Marrakech, Morocco

Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA

Histories: Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

A Guest Without a Host is a Ghost, The Kadist Collection in Residency, Cairo, Egypt

La Disparition des Lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France

Blue Times, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Views from Outer to Inner compartments, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

In progress - Works from the MUMOK Collection, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

Home Works 6, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

Awakening – Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory And Resurrection, Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan

A Different Kind of Order, The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Reality and Fiction, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany

Document, Peninsula Arts, Devon, UK

Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions , Ebisu, Japan

What We Know that We Don’t Know, KADIST, San Fransisco, California, USA

Reality is Not Enough, CAC Media ArtLab at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany

The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Ray: Making History, MMK Frankfurt, Germany

Group Show: Walid Raad and David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden

Fremde überall - Foreigners everywhere, Jüdisches Museum, Wien, Austria

Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Swizerland

Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden

ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Unheimlich vertraut / The Uncanny Familiar. Filme vom Terror / Films on Terror, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Wunder Kunst, Religion und Wissenschaft vom 4. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Art Festival Krems, Krems, Austria

Wild Sky, Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany

Plot for a Biennial, 10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Kunsten Festival des Arts/Halles des Schaerbeck, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden

Serious Games - Krieg, Medien, Kunst, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Wiener Festwochen/Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Museum Show: Part 1, Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom

Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Locations, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Politics is Personal, curated by Thea Westreich Art Advisory, Stonescape, California, USA

Antiphotojournalism. Strategies of the visible and invisible, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, Festival d'Automne, Paris, France

Told | Untold | Retold, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar

Alles anders?, Kunsthalle Wien, Wein, Austria

Trust, Media City Seoul: The 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

Art of War, CEPA Gallery, New York, USA

Vernacular of Violence, Invisible-Exports, New York, USA

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/ Video/ Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum (An Anniversary Benefit Exhibition), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Dream and Reality. Contemporary Art from the Near East, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

CREAM: Yokohama International Festival for Arts and Media, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA

MASARAT – Palestine, Centre Culturel de Schaerbeek, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Les Halles, Centre Culturel le Botanique, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Brussels, Belgium

Art Now in Lebanon, Darat al-Funun, Amman, Jordan

Reality Check, Statens Museums for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Éclats de frontières, Frac Provence-Alpes, Côte d’Azur, France

Lügen.nirgends - between fiction, reality and documentation, Kunst Münster, Münster, Germany

Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA

Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Cross-Border, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Research and Invention, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Documents, the Memory of the Future, touring exhibition, Koldo Mitxelena ulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

SYSTEM ERROR, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK

Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennale 15, Sydney, Australia

under the same sky, Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ghost in the Machine, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA

Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Ah, les belles images!, Situ, Paris, France

Snafu. Meida, myths, mind control, Kunstalle Hamburg, Hamburg Germany

Videos Sequence 2, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Paris, France

Centre Pompidou Video Art: 1965-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, Autsralia

In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Artists Space, New York, USA

Video: An Art, A History 1965-2005, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida, USA

100 Tage-100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstveriein, Heidelberg, Germany

Territory, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada

Why Pictures Now, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna, Austria

Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, New York, USA

Une Vision du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

While we were Sleeping, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey

SNAFU: Medien, Mythen, Mind Control, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Word into Art: Artists from the Modern Middle East, British Museum, London, UK

Neo-Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter, Apex Art, New York, USA

Flight 405, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany and Beirut, Lebanon

Go Between, Kunstverein Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information/Transformation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

New Works/New Acquisitions, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Greater New York 2005, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA

Home Works III: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

The Future of the Reciprocal Readymade, Apex Art, New York, USA

Tiempos de Video 1965-2005: Colección Nouveau Médias del Centre Pompidou, Fundación La Caixa, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain

On Difference #1 – Lokale Kontexte – Hybride Räume, Württenbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

What’s New Pussycat?, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany

Párpados y Labios, Antigua Fabrica de Tabacos, Photo Espanã, Madrid, Spain

Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Do You Believe in Reality, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan

6th International Photo Triennale, Esslingen, Germany

Ethnic Marketing, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Laughter, LIFT, London, UK

Mapping Sitting Exhibition, VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil

Witness, Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK

Die Sehnsucht des Kartographen, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Dreams and Conflicts, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

A Short History of Performance – Part II, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Synopsis 3 – Testimonies: Between Fiction and Reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

DisORIENTation, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

Contemporary Arab Representation. Beirut/Lebanon, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherelands

What a Tales of Images, Memling Museum, Brugge, Belgium

Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography, Palais de Beaux Arts, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium

The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Italy

The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive, Kunsten Festival de Arts, Brussels, Belgium

The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA