“Nermine Hammam searches for the familiar in the strange and uncomfortable. Across different bodies of work, she documents the universality of the human experience, rather than its differences. She traces the comical and the tragic in life, always searching for the common thread of humanity which runs, inevitably and defiantly, beneath society's enforced categories and stereotypes.”
Personal Data
Artist Nermine Hammam is a Cairo‐based visual artist who was born in Cairo in 1967.
Education
Nermine obtained her BFA in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of Arts
Exhibitions
2011 Galerie 127 Marrakech solo
2011 Marrakech Art Fair Collective
2011 The French Institute Cairo Collective
2011 2011 Freedom to Create Exhibition in Cape Town Collective
2011 Upekkha Iman Fares Gallery Focus 11 Basel solo
2011 Anachrony, IF gallery, Paris solo
2011 Mois de L’image, Deippe, France Collective
2011 Iman Fares Gallery Paris Collective
2011 Argentina Collective
2011 Arab Changing Room Torino Italy Collective
2011 Bamako Mali Collective
2011 Art Absolument Paris Collective
2011 Sawa Gallery Dubai Collective
2010 Pierre Bergé & Associés, Belgium
2010 Land of the hyper real, Havana, Cuba Collective
2010 Metanoia, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Solo
2010 Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece Collective
2010 Act of Faith, Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen, Koksijde, Belgium Collective
2009 IL Corpus Homanus, Almasar Gallery, Cairo Collective
2009 X Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador Collective
2009 Photoquai, Museum de Quai Branly, Paris Collective
2009 Parco Horcynus Orca, Messina, Italy Solo
2009 Casa Arabe, Madrid Collective
2009 The Blow Out, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai Collective
2009 Escaton, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo Solo
2008 Athens Photo Festival, Greece Collective
2008 Joburg Art Fair, South Africa Collective
2008 Places and Manners of Worship, the Museum of Byzantine Cultural in Thessaloniki, Greece Collective
2007 Palimpsest, Townhouse, Cairo Solo
2007 A retrospective 2001‐2007, the Sultan Gallery, Kuwait Solo
2007 Act of Faith, Der aa‐kerk, Groningen Collective
2006 Ashoura, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Solo
2006 Ashoura, Artmenparis, Paris Solo
2005 Apotheosis, Karim Francis Gallery, Cairo Solo
2004 Metamorphosis, Espace SD, Beirut Solo
2003 Cairo Modern Art, Fortis Circus Theater, Netherlands Collective
2002 Photo Cairo, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Collective
2001 Portrait, Hanager Art Center, Cairo Solo
2001 Mitigation, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Solo
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By Ana Peraica 2011
