Iman Issa

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
27 May – 28 September 2025

Hamburger Kunsthalle is among Germany’s most important public institutions, and displays art from the Middle Ages until today. Through its permanent collection and special exhibitions, its mission lies in the education of publics of all ages and cultures. In late May 2025, Hamburger Kunsthalle will do a focus presentation and acquisition of works by Iman Issa from her series Doubles: Photograph – (Un)Like (M)Any Other(s).

Iman Issa (born 1979) is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Vienna. She studied philosophy, political science, and visual arts at the American University in Cairo, and at the Columbia University, New York. Since 2020, she has been a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work examines political and personal associations with history, language and objects. By juxtaposing text and objects, she creates poetic displays that revolve around the many facets of photography and the meaning of images. She has exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Neue Galerie Graz; Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MoMA, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Belvedere 21, Vienna; MACBA, Barcelona; Perez Art Museum, Miami; 12th Sharjah Biennial; 8th Berlin Biennial; MuHKA, Antwerp; Tensta Konsthall, Spånga; New Museum, New York; and the KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin.

This is her first collaboration with Phileas.

 
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