BASSAM ISSA AL-SABAH
Kunstverein Aughrim is collaborating with Bassam Issa Al-Sabah in a curatorial capacity across multiple projects throughout 2024, focusing on the development of stategies of production and retreat.
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah works across digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles creating visions of resistance, transformation and queer possibility. He completed a BA in Visual Art Practice at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include: IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE TAKE THIS!, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2022), I AM ERROR, Gasworks, London (2021), and De La Warr Pavilion, Sussex (2022); Dissolving Beyond The Worm Moon, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (2019); and Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, The LAB, Dublin (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Queer Embodiment and Social Fabric at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2021-2022), The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (2021) and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2020). Recent screenings include the Barbican, London (2022), Transmediale, Berlin (2021), EX-IS, South Korea (2021) and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2021). His work is part of collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. In 2021 he received the Golden Fleece Award and he is currently a studio member at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Issa lives and works in Belfast and Dublin.
https://bassamissa.xyz/
Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.