Basim Magdy
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Born: 1977 in Assiut, Egypt
Lives: Basel, Switzerland and Cairo, Egypt
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1996-2000 School of Fine Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. ( BA Fine Arts )
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2009 1968: Memorial to a Rising Continent, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Last Good Deed, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland (curated by Sabine Schaschl)
2008 On A Better Day Than This, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2008 Blank Light, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland (with J�r�me Leuba)
2007 Brief Encounters with Semi-Fictional Worlds, ACAF � Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria, Egypt.
2007 The Common Deceit of Reality, Okay Mountain, Austin, USA (curated by Regine Basha)
2007 Lost Arks, Uszynska Schaufenster, Vienna (curated by Katarzyna Uszynska)
2007 Gazing at the Miracle of Civilization, ARCO Projects, Madrid, Spain
2006 In the Grave of Intergalactic Utopia, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Your New Life With Your Old Enemies, Objectnotfound Project Space, Monterrey, Mexico
2005 Current Whereabouts Unknown, Tyler Drosdeck and Basim Magdy Suite 106 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004 Dream on, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, the frieze, St. Gallen, Switzerland (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Two days to apocalypse, Falaki Gallery, Cairo
2003 Dream on, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Hero of the day, The Cold Room Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2002 Re-define, Basim Magdy and Karem Mahrous, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
2001 The future, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
2000 Paintings, The Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt
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2009 Alive!, LUXE Gallery, New York (curated by Stephan Stoyanov)
2009 Fragile Monuments, Suzie Q Projects - Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich , Switzerland (curated by Eva Scharrer)
2008 The World Needs a Narrative, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008 Fake, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contempor�neo de Castilla y Le�n, Leon, Spain.
2008 Billboard Text Art: EMERGING WOR(L)DS, TINA B Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague (curated by Grey Zone � Monika Burian, Adam Vackar, Marek Tomin, Kirsimaria Toronen-Ripatti )
2008 Clinch / Cross / Cut, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland
2008 The Geopolitics of Animation, MARCO � Museo de Arte Contempor�nea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
(curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes)
2007 War, Peace and Ecstasy � Artissima Video Lounge, Turin, Italy (curated by Cecilia Alemani)
2007 The Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor�neo Art (CAAC), Seville, Spain
(curated by Juan Antonio Alvarez Reyes)
2007 The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apexart, New York, USA
2007 The End Begins, The Hospital, London (curated by Gill Hedley from the Lodeveans Collection)
2007 Me Odio Y Quiero Comprar, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. (curated by Ruben Gutierrez)
2007 Out of Place, Galerie Sfeir � Semler, Beirut, Lebanon (curated by William Wells)
2007 Animated Stories, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing (Nord-Pas de Calais), France. (Curated by Marta Gili, Juan Antonio �lvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Mir� and Pascale Pronnier)
2006 All about Lies, Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Murals, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Lovely Shanghai Music, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Animated Stories, �la Ciaxa� Foundation, Barcelona, Spain / Sala Rakalde, Bilbao, Spain (Curated by Marta Gili, Juan Antonio �lvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Mir� and Pascale Pronnier)
2006 Drawing Restraint, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2005 PhotoCairo3, The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2005 NADA Art Fair (Newman Popiashvili Gallery), Miami, USA.
2005 Artissima 12 (Newman Popiashvili Gallery), Turin, Italy
2005 Lovely Shanghai Music, Bizart Gallery, Shanghai, China / Hanover Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany.(curated by Team 404 and John Armleder)
2005 Threat Zone,Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, TX USA ( curated by Basim Magdy
2005 Enemy Image, Momenta Art, New York, USA (curated by Elena Sorokina)
2005 Toys, The Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2005 Posted, Hiscox Art Projects, London, UK
2005 Bling Bling Ka-Ching! Made in America, The Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China.
2004 NADA Art Fair ( Suite 106 Gallery), Miami Beach, USA
2004 Re:source, Art in General, New York, USA
2004 Recollection # 1, objectnotfound project space, Monterrey, Mexico
2003 Yellow Pages, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal/Basel, 2004 MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (curated by Team 404 and John Armleder)
2003 Aponoumena, Collapsible Kunsthalle, MIART, Milan, Italy, (with Marianne Rinderknecht)
2003 Work in progress, South African National Gallery (SANG) Annex, Cape Town, South Africa
2001 Al Nitaq Festival of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2001 Philosophy Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2000 Philosophy Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
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2009 Eva Scharrer, �Basim Magdy, Kunsthaus Baselland�, Kunstbulletin, 3, 2009
2008 Cathryn Drake, �Basim Magdy, Townhouse Gallery�, Art Forum, September 2008
2008 Karen N. Gerig, �Attack on the self-confidence�, Basler Zeitung, 21. February 2008
2008 Dietrich Roeschmann, �The Logic of Fear�, Kunstmagazin Regioartline, no. 2.2008, March
2007 Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, �Basim Magdy�s art of the ambiguous and absurd�, The Daily Star Lebanon, 3 July.
2007 Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, �Out of Place exhibition finds a temporary home in Beirut �, The Daily Star Lebanon, 12 April.
2007 Rachel Cook, �Basim Magdy: Mud Pools and how we got ourselves to look for Bigfoot Heaven�, Glasstire, May 2007.
2007 Victoria Ambrosini-Chenivesse, �Art, kitsch and nationalism in Egypt and Syria�, Art Press, issue 333, April 2007.
2007 Brian Kuan Wood, "Basim Magdy, In the Grave of Intergalactic Utopia", Bidoun, issue 9, January 2007
2006 Nick Stillman, �Basim Magdy, Newman Popiashvili Gallery�, Art Forum, November
2006 Juan Antonio �lvarez Reyes, �La Ilusi�n de Vida�, NYArts Magazine, September/October.
2006 Rose Longhurst, "Sounds of Synthesis", Shanghai Star, 01.06.2006
2006 Anjali Gupta, �Threat Zone, San Antonio Review�, Art Papers, March/April 2006
2006 Jennifer Davy, �Threat Zone� Artlies, Winter 2006
2005 Holland Cotter, "Art in Review" The New York Times, October 7, 2005.
2004 Negar Azimi, �Aperto Cairo� Flash Art, October 2004, Vol. XXXVII, No. 238
2004 Ursula Badrutt Schoch, � Unbehagen im Paradies� Tagblatt St. Gallen, 24 September 2004.
2004 Franklin Sirmans, �9th Cairo International Biennial� Art Asia Pacific, spring 2004, no. 40
2004 Mai Abu ElDahab, �Going Places� Bidoun Magazine, spring 2004, issue 00
2004 Lilly Wei, �The Cairo Effect� Art in America, May 2004
2003 Dina Ramadan, "Remote Connection: Wasla Contemporary Art Workshop" Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer
2003 Prita Meier, "Territorial struggles: contemporary art in Cairo", Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Spring/Summer 2003
2003 Dina Ramadan, "Art in the midst of war" Cairo Times, volume 7, issue 6
2003 Scott Bailey, "Cairo review", Contemporary, April issue.
2003 Richard Woffenden, "Three Painters" Cairo Times, volume 6, issue 44
2001 Nigel Ryan, "A little Che" Al-Ahram Weekly, issue no. 558, 1-7 November
2000 Richard Woffenden, "Raw Distress" Cairo Times, volume 4, issue 30
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2003 Project grant, Prohelvetia ( Swiss Art Council )
2003 Residency/Travel grant, Ford Foundation
2002 Workshop grant, Ford Foundation
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2008 MUTE Magazine, artist project with 3 drawings, Vol. 1, August
2008 Chimurenga Magazine # 12 and 13. Dr Satan�s Echo Chamber.
2008 Voices: Basim Magdy, NY Art Magazine, January � February.
2007 Cairo Interview Project with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.
2007 An artist project comprised of 2 images and a short story for Gringo Magazine.
2007 A Cunning Plan, a project of disseminated images in 3 art publications: Artl!es, Art Papers and The Okay Mountain Reader in the spring of 2007 in conjunction with the show: The Common Deceit of Reality at Okay Mountain, Austin (curated by Regine Basha)
2005 Interruption, a project for Campus Magazine (curated by Aleya Hamza)
2004 The Decline Of Space, an outdoor installation at Art Omi, New York, USA
2003 Going Places, a project for public buses. Cairo, Egypt (curated by Mai Abu ElDahab)
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2009 The Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory, ed. Laura Hoptman, Lauren Cornell and Massimiliano Gioni, published by Phaidon and the New Museum, New York
2008 In The Arab World � Now, interview with Audrey Mascina, Galerie Enrico Navarra.
2006 Histories Animades, Ed. Marta Gili, Juan Antonio �lvarez Reyes, Lawrence Dreyfus, Neus Mir� and Pascale Pronnier. Fundacio "la Caixa", Le Fresnoy
2005 20 Jahre Kunsthalle St. Gallen, JRP / Ringier, Zurich
2005 A Brighter Future Than The Ones We Had Before, Basim Magdy ( edition of 600 � full color)
2004 Yellow Pages. Ed. John Armleder and Team 404, Ecart Publications, JRP Ringier
2004 Dream on, Marianne Rinderknecht and Basim Magdy. Ed. Gianni Jetzer. Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
2003 Wasla workshop for contemporary art catalogue. Ed. Mai Abu ElDahab
2003 Braziers 2002 catalogue
2001 Art and the Islamic World, Richard Woffenden "The state of the arts in Egypt", volume 35
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