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Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project

28.08.2025 – 28.09.2025
Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project. The collaborative artist book project curated and edited by Abed Al Kadiri and published by Dongola Publishers will be on display at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riyadh's creative hub, the Jax District. The opening will take place place on Thursday, August 28 at 6:00 PM at SAMoCA at Jax, Riyadh.
↳ Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project @ SAMoCA, Jax District, Riyadh

Begehungen Art Festival 2025

18.07.2025 – 17.08.2025
former HKW Chemnitz-Nord: The Begehungen art festival will take place in 2025 on the site of the decommissioned Nord lignite-fired power plant in Chemnitz. In the midst of this impressive industrial architecture, the 22nd edition of the art festival will take a forward-looking approach to burning issues such as resource consumption, biodiversity and climate change.
Three large canvasses in an industrial space in front of a black curtain
↳ 'Kula: Cuts', 2023 in Begehungen Art Festival 2025

Group Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn

03.07.2025 – 02.11.2025
'From Dawn Till Dusk - Der Schatten in der Kunt der Gegenwart' curated by Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg: Based on around 40 international positions, the exhibition traces for the first time in a German museum the emancipation of the shadow as an image-producing, yet always media-reflexive theme within contemporary art.
↳ 'All Along The Watchtower' 2012-2025 in 'From Dawn Till Dusk - Der Schatten in der Kunt der Gegenwart'

Solo Exhibition at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami

14.06.2025 – 30.08.2025
'We Didn’t Know We’re Ready', curated by Silvia Cirelli: Piero Atchugarry Gallery is pleased to announce 'We Didn’t Know We’re Ready' by Tunisian artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke curated by Silvia Cirelli. The expressive journey of Kaabi-Linke delves into the complexities of human nature revealing an “architecture of pain” marked interdependent power dynamics and the struggles of mankind's vulnerability. Her work shows how people are affected by power, memory, and vulnerability. Memory is central to her work — it's the starting point for telling both personal and collective stories. Her artworks act like emotional records, helping us understand hidden parts of our culture today.
Exhibition View with different sized black squares on the wall, in the middle of the room a park bench, covered with bird spikes and in the front a matres springs covered in thistle.
↳ On the walls: 'Blindstrom for Kazimir', 2023. In the back: 'Protected Area', 2025. In the front: 'No One Harms Me Unpunished' 2012.

Group Exhibition at Arter, Istanbul

From 12.06.2025
'Under Pressure Above Water', Curated by Nilüfer Şaşmazer: The group exhibition Under Pressure Above Water brings together 33 works by 15 artists across various media, including painting, sculpture, and photography, in Arter’s entrance and lower ground floor galleries. Structured around two interrelated sections, the exhibition explores the anxieties provoked by the uncertainties and social injustices of our time, such as environmental disasters, global conflicts, migration, and economic instability. Tracing the impact of challenging social conditions and compounding crises on individuals, it focuses on the questions and propositions that emerge from this context through the expressive possibilities of art.
A dome-shaped wire mesh sculpture placed under a spotlight in an otherwise dark room.
↳ 'Smooth Criminal', 2012 in 'Under Pressure Above Water'

Group Exhibition at The Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut

29.05.2025 – 15.08.2025
'Women at Work: Intersection of Fine Art and Craft'. Curated by Wafa Roz: Women at Work: Intersection of Fine Art and Craft is an exploration of the innovative and intricate ways in which contemporary women artists from across the Arab world channel the creative force born at the intersection of fine art and craft. Working across media such as textiles, ceramics, metal, painting, photography, and drawing, these artists engage with materials and technical skills in ways that defy and question the need for boundaries between fine art and craft.
Woman in movement, looking at a sequence of canvases, each painted in a different earthy color, hanging on a white wall in an exhibition space.
↳ 'Colors of Time', 2017, in 'Versiegelte Zeit/ Sealed Time', Kunstmuseum Bonn

Group Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn

08.05.2025 – 07.09.2025
'Homesick for New Things, Traveling for Art', Curated by Barbara J. Scheuermann: In der gegenwärtigen globalisierten Kunstwelt gilt es als Bedingung, dass Künstler:innen sich ihrer privilegierten Position und der damit verbundenen Verantwortung bewusst sind, wenn sie auf Reisen gehen und interkulturelle Begegnungen suchen. Aus diesem Grund werden in der Ausstellung Werke mit Bezug zur Tunis-Reise nicht nur Kunstwerken ihrer Zeit gegenübergestellt, sondern auch Kunstwerken späterer Jahrzehnte, bis hin zur Gegenwart, die teils eigens für die Ausstellung entwickelt wurden. Die Ausstellung möchte so eine Brücke zwischen verschiedenen historischen Phasen schlagen und die anhaltende Relevanz von Kunst als Instrument zur Erforschung von Identität, Geschichte und kultureller Begegnung zeigen.
View of an exhibition space. A three video installation mounted on the wall. In front two stools for visitors to sit and what the videos.
↳ 'Life Kitchen', 2025 by Nadia Kaabi-Linke & Mohamed Hameda in 'Homesick for New Things, Traveling for Art'

Participation at Tasweer Photo Festival – 3rd Edition, Doha

20.04.2025 – 20.06.2025
'As I Lay Between Two Seas' curated by Meriem Berrada, offers a poetic exploration of belonging, identity, and home. Featuring works by twenty-five artists from the Arab world and its diasporas.The works presented each display a different expression of movement–whether physical, temporal, or forced. They resist linear narratives and stereotypical depictions of displacement and migration. Instead, they collectively form a new web of meanings and (hi)stories that add depth and contribute to the broader discussions on migratory movements, rapid urbanization, political upheavals, and the lived realities of exile.
Damaged photograph of people by the sea.
↳ 'CM#003 | Yellow Super Marine', 2023 at Tasweer Photo Festival - 3rd Edition, Doha

Residency at La Boîte – Centre pour l’art contemporain et l’architecture, Tunis 

04.02.2025 – 11.04.2025
Featuring... is a project that redefines the roles within the art field, shifting the dynamic viewers and artists. During my one-month residency in Tunis, I worked closely with six company employees. This series of performances and installations stems from a profound belief that every human is inherently creative. The distinction between artists and non-artists lies in memory: artists preserve the creativity they discovered in childhood, while others may forget, persuaded by the illusion that they lack talent. My deep conviction led to a journey of remembrance, resulting in stunning works. In this project, the employees became the authors, while I served as their instrument, bringing their dream projects to life — like a brush in the hands of a painter.
A white box placed in a dark room. Inside the heavily lit Box, the artist Nadia Kabbi-Linke sitting on a chair holding papers.
↳ 'Cube', 2025 by Safa Rahmen & Nadia Kaabi-Linke in 'Featuring...'