Kareem Lotfy

Joachim Coucke, Deeper Minds (2016) exhibition photos

5 October 2016
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Joachim Coucke presented solo exhibition Deeper Minds at Liegé’s Yoko Uhoda Gallery, which opened on June 10 and ran until July 10, 2016.

Joachim Coucke, Deeper Minds (2016). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist / Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège.
Joachim Coucke, Deeper Minds (2016). Exhibition view. Courtesy the artist / Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège.

The Waregem-based artist invited others to show in the space at the same time, and featured work by Kareem Lotfy, Tilman Hornig, Federico Acal, Liesbeth Doms, Olga Fedorova, Spiros Hadjijanos, and Xavier Mary.

An installation of sculpture and prints occupied the two floors of the gallery. The ground floor took on an office aesthetic, and the first floor displayed work by the invited artists which was placed around Coucke’s hanging sculptures to create a tension and dialogue. Inspired by the concept of rapid growth, the exhibition explored artificial intelligence and the influence of big data on daily life.**

Joachim Coucke’s Deeper Minds was on at Liegé’s Yoko Uhoda Gallery, running June 10 to July 10, 2016.

Header image: Joachim Coucke, ‘Containing the future (Reading robot 2)’ (2016). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège.

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AFA 2 (2) @ Art-O-Rama 2016, Aug 26 – 28

25 August 2016

The AFA 2 (2) group show is a Guest Project on at Marseille’s Art-O-Rama 2016 opening August 26 and running to the 28.

The show, led by nomadic ‘art project staircase’ 63rd-77th STEPS, will feature works by ÅYR,  Jesse Darling, Louisa Gagliardi, Gregory Kalliche, Martin Kohout, Hannah Lees, Kareem Lotfy, Daniele Milvio, Yuri Pattison, Fabio Santacroce, Anna Solal, Diamond Stingily, Philipp Timischl, Zoe Williams and Bruno Zhu among many others.

AFA is an Italian term for ‘mugginess’ ; a reference to the exhausting weather condition and the title of the first instalment that happened in a deserted bank over three days in Italy’s Bari in 2014, and the second, AFA 2, on a public beach in 2014. The press release for AFA 2 (2) explains its used as “a metaphor of our social, political and artistic scenario, and turned by the artists into black & white artworks, digitally printed on microfiber.”

To support the exhibition program, beach towels designed by the artists will be on sale.

See the FB event page for details.**

Jesse Darling, 'Beachtowel jpg for AFA 2.2' (2016). Courtesy of artist + group show 3rd-77th STEPS, Marseille
Jesse Darling, ‘Beachtowel jpg for AFA 2.2’ (2016). Courtesy of artist + group show 3rd-77th STEPS, Marseille
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Joachim Coucke @ Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Jun 9 – Jul 7

6 June 2016
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Artist Joachim Coucke is presenting solo exhibition, Deeper Minds, at Liège’s Yoko Uhoda Gallery, opening June 9 and running to July 10.

The Deeper Minds press release deals with thinking about where the decisions we make and the data produced by the things we search for goes and gets stored when we are active online. It wonders about how far this kind of information and intelligence-building can go, before reminding us: “remember, you are what you like. We are the deeper minds”.

On the theme of activating yourself with what you ‘like’ then, Belgian-based Coucke has extended the invitation to fellow artists Kareem Lotfy, Tilman Hornig, Federico Acal, Liesbeth Doms, Olga Fedorova, Spiros Hadjijanos, and Xavier Mary to also show work in the space.

See the Yoko Uhoda Gallery website for more details.**

Xavier Mary, Highway Star (2014). Courtesy the artist and Albert Baronian Gallery
Xavier Mary, ‘Highway Star’ (2014). Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Albert Baronian Gallery.
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CAROGNA @ Rijksakademie, Apr 20 – 30

20 April 2016
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The CAROGNA group show is on at Amsterdam’s Rijksakademie, opening on April 20, running April 30.

Featuring the likes of aqnb regulars, Kareem Lotfy, who is the show’s organiser and a current Rijksakademie resident, Katja Novitskova, Ilya Smirnov and Anna Solal, CAROGNA promises to be an interesting gathering of works.

There is little information provided about the ins and outs of the show itself. The title roughly translated from Italian means ‘carrion’, or the decaying flesh of a dead animal. Sent along by Lofty with the logistical information of the show is an image of a piece of toast bitten into to make a moon shape with slightly charred areas, and a short Arabic text of lyrics from Syrian performer and noted Assad supporter George Wassouf’s ‘Tabib Garah‘ that opens, “I’m a surgeon, I cures people’s hearts”.

Other artists include  63rd – 77th STEPS founder, Fabio Santacroce, Isaac Penn, Michael Assiff and Mathis Collins. Many of them are also in current show, Il Futuro Era Bellissimo Per Noi at Cité Internationale des Arts.

See the FB event page for (limited) details.**

'CAROGNA' (2016) @ Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
‘CAROGNA’ (2016) @ Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
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Grand New @ Future Gallery, Feb 19 – Apr 2

19 February 2016
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The Grand New group exhibition is on at Berlin’s Future Gallery, opening February 19 and running to April 2.

The gallery has recently moved from their space in Charlottenburg to a new location in Schöneberg, and is celebrating with an impressive line up of artists, including Emily Jones, Martin Kohout, Kareem Lotfy and Katja Novitskova.

There’s no additional information on the intent of the show but other artists involved include Oliver Laric, Brenna Murphy, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jon Rafman, Anne de Vries, and Femke Herregraven, many of who are represented by or have shown with the gallery in the past.

See the Future Gallery website for (limited) details. **

Anne de Vries, THE OIL WE EAT (2014) @ Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam. Top-bottom 'At Roquebrun' (2014) and 'Interface - Il Casolare' (2014). Courtesy the gallery.
Anne de Vries, THE OIL WE EAT (2014) @ Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam. Top-bottom ‘At Roquebrun’ (2014) and ‘Interface – Il Casolare’ (2014). Courtesy the gallery.
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Kelly Bar @ Pane, Jan 13 – 17

12 January 2016
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New Milan-based artist-run project Pane is hosting group show Kelly Bar at Cafè al 5 on via Pellegrino Rossi 5, opening January 13 and running to 17.

Kelly Bar is a Chinese cafe that “DOESN’T list abstruse and exotic Chinese dishes with bright names”. Instead, the press release says, it has sumptuous Italian sandwiches and “fragrant breakfasts”. It is a Westernized place that “fully reflects the imagined expectations of a young Chinese teenager” while walking along via Pellegrino Rossi in Milan.

Artists showing at Kelly Bar include Lucy Chinen, Nina Cristante, Adam Cruces,  Ilja Karilampi, Kareem Lotfy, Quintessa Matranga, Fabio Santacroce and Bruno Zhu among several others. 

Pane’s motto is: “Pane is bread, Pane is primary, Pane feeds, Pane crumbles”.

See the FB Event Page for more**

Ilja Karilampi, Espressen (2015). Courtesy the artist.
Ilja Karilampi, ‘Espressen’ (2015). Courtesy the artist.
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Kareem Lotfy + Brenna Murphy @ Future Gallery, Oct 30 – Nov 28

28 October 2015
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A new joint exhibition by Kareem Lotfy and Brenna Murphy, ParamaterChant, is on at Berlin’s Future Gallery, opening October 30 and running to November 28.

The show brings together the respective Amsterdam- and Portland-based artists who interrogate the relationship between digital practices and spaces alongside other pre-digital forms of material cultures.

For Lotfy this includes drawing on the cultural and aesthetic history of his Egyptian heritage, while Murphy designs works situated at unique intersections of the virtual and the material. For both, hybridity is a productive terrain.

See the Facebook event page  or the Future Gallery exhibition page for details **

Kareem Lotfy, 'Navajo Rug' (2014). Install shot at 'Never cargo terminal...' (2014) @ Smart Objects. Courtesy the gallery.
Kareem Lotfy, ‘Navajo Rug’ (2014). Install shot at Never cargo terminal… (2014) @ Smart Objects. Courtesy the gallery.
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Kareem Lotfy @ OSLO10 for Ai

19 August 2015

Artist Kareem Lofty is taking part in the second web residency of OSLO10‘s Ai curatorial programme, run by “post-gender avatar” Agatha Valkyrie Ice, called Club Mirage and running online throughout August.

The Netherlands-based artist will be featured on the website and at hyperloglog.tumblr.com, treated less as an exhibition and more as a project and a site for sharing research, ideas and visual material that will expand during the Lotfy’s residency, which right now includes the artist’s BAŞ BAŞA mix (below) produced as Dj Saudi Cables.

Previously featuring artist Juliette Bonneviot’s Xenoestrogens residency in June, the Ai curatorial programme complements the physical exhibition programme OSLO10, which includes an OTTOLINGER presentation on, August 20.

See the event page for details. **

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