LabRec: A Note About Some Meanings of Shadows

Seeing Without Light

Black squares hanging on the walls of an exhibition space, in the background, another room, with a big pink painting. Nadia Kaabi-Linke Seeing Without Light

Bud’mo

A dark Room with video projection of threes and branches against the sky. In the back a person standing in the entryway. Nadia Kaabi-Linke Bud'mo

Die Alte Mauer

An exhibition space featuring a large, angular white structure positioned centrally, creating two narrow passageways on either side. A red and yellow industrial lifting device hangs from the ceiling, suspended a scale one part salt one part sand. Recessed ceiling lights evenly illuminate the minimalist room, and a glimpse of another installation with vertical hanging strings is visible through the left passage. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Die Alte Mauer.

Blindstrom for Kazimir

Black panels on walls in a white gallery. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Blindstrom for Kazimir.

Kula: Cuts

Exhibition view of a painting made with coal grains, Kula:Cuts, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2023, Nadia Kaabi-Linke

A Shadow of a Shadow of a…

Oriental pattern sacred geometry, laser cut in MDF board. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, A Shadow of a Shadow of a…

Outdoor Reminiscence

Open artist book with brown specks on the right side. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Outdoor Reminiscence.

Squeezed in Infinity I

Lines are reflected within a glass cube filled with water. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Squeezed in Infinity I.

Mare Crisium

Close Up of an abstract painting, crackling brown structure made with coffee grounds on a white background. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Mare Crisium.

Spic & Span in June and July

Three, different sized, canvases with graphit and paper foldings on canvas. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Spic & Span.

LabRec: Some Questions & Thoughts About Variations of a Blunt Object

Mistake Out – Friedrichstadt

Hundreds of individual mosaic pieces to mark the imprints of bullet holes on a wall in Berlin’s Friedrichstadt neighborhood, Nadia Kaabi-Linke at Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, 2018

LabRec: Aleatoric Compositions Subjecting Form to Material Conditions

Kula: Turning Back

Drawing of lignite on paper on canvas. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Kula: Turning Back.

Kula: Black Dove

A pattern of lignite on paper on canvas. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Kula: Black Dove.

Spic and Span in February

Detail abstract artworks featuring intricate black lines on a textured white background. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Spic and Span.

Stretched Perm

A line of curly hair on soft white paper background, creating an abstract, organic pattern. (Close Up) / Streched Perm, 2014, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Detail View, Seeing Without Light in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany on August 27, 2023

The Ball Variation

A circle made by injecting grey paint in some of the bubbles of a bubble wrap. / Hardballs, 2015, Nadia Kaabi-Linke

Sepulchre

Black squares hanging on the walls of an exhibition space, in the background, another room, with a big pink painting. Nadia Kaabi-Linke Seeing Without Light

Meinstein

View from above on to the Albrecht-Scholz-Platz in Berlin-Neukölln and the permanent public artwork, Meinstein.

Everything I Always Wanted to Tell You

Two object frames showing squares and lines on paper hanging on a wall. Two object frames with paper hanging on a wall in a museum. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Everything I Always Wanted to Tell You.

No One Harms Me Unpunished

A battered mattress completely intertwined with thistle flowers, laying on a black industrial floor, symbolizing resistance against oppression and overlooked abuse. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, No One Harms Me Unpunished.

Berlin à fleur de peau

and graffiti, captured from Berlin’s subway and bus shelters, revealing hidden histories and tensions in urban spaces. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Berlin à fleur de peau.

Impressions of Cairo

Impressions of Cairo, 2010, Detail view from Tatort/Crime scene at Christian Hosp Gallery, Berlin, Nadia kaabi-Linke

Untitled

A spiral with text on the ground, and a nest with barbwire and hair. Twp persons reading. Exhibition view of Tatort / Crime Scene exhibition by Nadia Kaabi-Linke in 2010.

Butcher Bliss

Fragile plaster casts hang like meat at the butcher's on a white wall.

Rue El Azafine

A glass engraved with text, next to a canvas with transferred traced of a wall. Nadia Kaabi-Linke Rue El Azafine

Fatima

5 framed artworks depicting Fatimas hand in different material. The frames are individually lit by lamps resembling survaillance cameras. Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Fatima.

Am Hegelplatz

Prints on canvas of marks left on historic significant site in Berlin, Am Hegelplatz, Nadia Kaabi Linke Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2023. Nadia Kaabi-Linke Seeing Without Light

These Goddamn Boys All Stealing

An abstract painting with stylized male genitalia in black and teal, pink, Close Up / These Goddamn Boys, 2008,Detail of the painting from Nadia Kaabi-Linke, These Goddamn Boys, 2008