Nisrine Boukhari
Background and Education
- PhD Artistic Research candidate, University of Applied Arts “Angewandte Kunst”, Vienna, Austria, 2021
- MA in Social Design, University of Applied Arts “Angewandte Kunst” Vienna, Austria 2014
- Two Semesters interdisciplinary study in the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (as a part of the SD Master program) Austria 2012/2013
- GDip in Fine Arts, Fine Art Faculty, Damascus University, 2006
- B.A in Fine Arts, Fine Art faculty at Damascus University, 2004
- Co-founder and art advisor of AllArtNow organisation.
-Co-founder of Living Spaces, International Contemporary art festival, Damascus.
-Co-founder of Studio1, the informal school of Contemporary art, Damascus, Syria, 2011/2012
Grants & Artist in Residency at
- Læsø Artist in Residence, Læsø Island, Denmark, 2024
-UmArts Artist Researchers In Residence program (ARIR), Umea, Sweden, Aug/Sep 2024
-“Utopies Visuelles” AIR, Sousse, Tunisia, 2024
-"The Auspicious Seat", Public Art Commission, Uppsala, Sweden, 2020/2021
-Virtual Art Residency, (research and exhibition), Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, Canada, 2021
-Virtual Art Residency, "Through Distant Air", AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden 2020
- “Artist of the Year” Art Prize Winner, SAK The Swedish Association for Art, 2019
-“Art in the Hospital” Commission in Sodertalje Hospital for the project “Perfect Imperfection”, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
-Serlachius Art Residency, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland, 2019
-WIP STHLM studio grant for artists, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
-Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
-Baku Art Residency, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2017
- Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark, 2016
- IASPIS the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international program for visual artists, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
- NKDale art center, Dale, Norway, 2015
- MAWA female artist in residence program, Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA. 2015
- La Rectoria, Barcelona, Spain, 2011
- Art OMI Residency, NYC, USA, 2010
- The Festival of Women excellence, Genoa, Italy, 2010
- Delfina Foundation, London, UK, 2009
- Ramallah Workshop, Triangle Program, (Virtual residency), Ramallah, 2009
- Shatana workshop, Triangle program, Jordan, 2008
Collections
-SAK Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Stockholm, Sweden
-Pori Art Museum, Pori Finland
-Statens Konstrad (The Public Art Agency), Stockholm, Sweden
-Sodertalje Hospital, Sodertalje/Stockholm, Sweden
-Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibited in
-“ Mountains bearing the sky”, Slipvillan Art Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024
-“Wandering Room #1, A Game Without Rules”, UmArts Research Centre, Umeå, Sweden, 2024
-“UV, Fully Booked” Festival, Nour Justinia, Sousse, Tunisia, 2024
-“Letters from Home”, Arvika Konsthall, Arvika, Sweden, 2024
-“Outskirts of Care”, Improper Walls Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2024
-“The Curiosity Screen”, KEPCO Art Centre Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 2023
-“OPTICAL EMOTIONS”, Konstfrämjandet Värmland, Karlstad, Sweden, 2023
-“Art Meets the Library Books”, Karlstads Stadsbibliotek, Karlstad, Sweden, 2023
-“Inside, I hide my happiness”, Spinderihallerne, Vejle, Denmark, 2024
Juxtapose Art Fair, Aarhus, Denmark, 2023
AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
-“Letters from Home”, Swedish American Museum, Chicago, IL, USA, 2023
-“Shapes of Vitality”, Wonzimer Art gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
-“You Are Not a Guest”, AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
Elbirou Art Gallery, Sousse, Tunisia, 2023
-"Prisernas Plats" [Premium Place], Konstnärhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022
-"Their Happiest Days were the Dark and Vast Days of Rain", Mörby Gård, Ornö, Sweden 2022
-“How We Breathe” exhibition essay at VBKÖ, Vienna, Austria, 2022
-“there will be NO LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE”, Museum of Impossible Images, Helsinki, Finland, 2022
-"Meeting of Minds Platform", Kronoparkens Bibliotek, Karlstad, Sweden, 2022
-“Hidden_Messages”, Galeria Cenzontle, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022
-“Beyond Expectation”, Vulkano Art Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2021
-"The Blue Was More Distant Than the Sky", Raum_fuer_Raum, Düsseldorf, Germany 2021.
-"Under One Sky", Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC, Canada, 2021
-“Hidden_Messages”, AllArtNow & RAUM für kunst, Stockholm/Sweden & Düsseldorf/Germany 2021.
-"Thoughts on a Vague Road", Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden, 2021
-"Meeting of Minds" 02, AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
-"Letters From Home", Arvika Konsthall, Arvika, Sweden, 2020
-“Through Distant Air”, AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden, 2020
-“Everywhere on Earth; We Have No Place”, Gallery Syster, Luleå, Sweden, 2020
-“Lost in Translation”, Cultuurhuis de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium, 2019
-“IPOH International Art Festival”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
- “Meeting of Minds”, AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm Sweden, 2019
- “Something Can Happen Beyond Expectation”, Centraljukhuset, Karlstad, Sweden, 2019
- “The City Shines Every Day With New Stories”, WIP:STHLM, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “The Other is Oneself”, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria, 2019
- “Post Tomorrow”, 48 Timmar Konstpark (Public Art Project), Norrabantorget, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “Landscapes of Uncertain Times”, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “The Liminal System That Runs Across the Skin of The World”, Art Lab Gnesta, Gnesta/Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “Light, Art, Humanity”, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea, 2019
-“Contemplations on Wandering City”, Serlachius Aleksanterin Linna Gallery, Mänttä, Finland, 2019
- “Itineraries to the Future”, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “Thoughts on a Vague Road”, EbelingMuseet, Eskilstuna, Sweden, 2019
- “Open House”, Statens Kostrad (The Public Art Agency), Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- “Escape”, MMSU Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia, 2018/2019
- Cross-Sections project in process Vienna/Stockholm/Helsinki, 2017/2018/2019
“Cross-Sections”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria, 2018
Cross-Sections, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2019
Cross-Sections _Notes, Exhibition Labrotory, Helsinki, 2019
-” Thoughts on a Vague Road”, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017/2018
- “Invisible Medina”, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 2018
-” Everywhere on Earth; We Have No Place”, Open Studio, WIP STHLM, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
-” Museum of Preserving City”, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, 2017/2018
-” Something can happen beyond expectation”, Galleri Rostrum2, Malmo, Sweden, 2017 SWAB Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
-” Everyday Life is a Fantastic Myth”, Botkyrka Konsthall, Fittja, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017/2018
-(X) sites Sjuhärads round, Tranemo, Sweden, 2017
-"Make a Change", Norrtälje museum & konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden, 2017
-"The Day Before...", Konstfrämjandet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016-2017
-"Rethinking Flânerie", Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
-"Imaginary Wholeness/Fragmentary Reality" Public Art project as part of "Malmos Leende", Statens Konstrad, Malmo, Sweden, 2016
-"Transitions", The New Biennial for Arts & Architecture, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
-”The Wind’s Home” Art project installed within seven cities in Denmark: Trapholt Museum/Kolding, Billund, Fredercia, Haderslev, Vejle, Middelfart, and Vejen (Public Spaces), from February till November, 2016
-”Nohome as a Pattern of Life” Nässjö Konsthall, Nässjö, Sweden, 2016
-”The Museum of Preserving City” Botkyrka Konsthall (Fittja apartment) Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
- "Wanderism is a State of Mind” Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, 2015/2016
-"Photo Speaks", The 8th International Festival for Photography & Video, Seoul, Korea, 2016
-”Make a Change” Kulturcentrum, Ronneby, Sweden, 2016
- "I will Never Get Used to Wait" Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Hangmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
TYS Udstillingsstedet, Copenhagen/ Denmark, 2015
- "Where Are We Going To?" Motorenhalle/ Riesa Efau, Dresden, Germany, 2015
- "Doesn't Matter", IASPIS Open House, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
- "A letter between two cities Damascus-Vienna" Video-Formes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2015
- "At The Plague” Supermarket art fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
- Magmart Festival, Naples, Italy, 2015
- Les Instants Festival, Marseille, France, 2015
- Asian Art Biennale of Bangladesh, Bangladesh, 2014
- "The Affable Nights in Vienna" Design Shanghai, Power Station Museum, Shanghai, China, 2014
- "By The Way” Konservatorium Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2014
- "A Letter Between Two Cities Damascus-Copenhagen“ AIVA International Video Art Festival”, Finspång, Sweden, 2014
- The Second Xinjiang Biennale "New art on the Silk Road" Urumqi, Xinjiang, China 2014
- "How Are You Going? Are You Okay?" Gotham Arts Studios, Western Australia, 2014
- "City Link Festival" Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany, 2014
- "MUNA Posters" MUNA museum of No art, Mänttä, Finland, 2014
- "I’d Rather Prefer Not to Speak about Politics Tonight” Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
- "Oslo Screen Festival” Oslo, Norway, 2014
- "Urban research “, The Berlin international directors lounge, Berlin, Germany, 2014
- "Creative Rising” See Me Gallery, NYC, 2013
- "Les Instants festival" Marseille, France, 2013
- "Abstracta 2013” International Abstract Cinema Exhibition, Roma, 2013
- "Hetero Q.B.” National Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu do Chiado) Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
- "Play & Presume" Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2013
- "React Feminism” Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdańsk, Poland
Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (from 2011 to 2013)
- Cinemart of Tokyo, Japanese media art festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2013
- "Alexandria 2013" 1st video art festival in Alexandria, Egypt, 2013.
- "100x100=900" (100 video artists to tell a century), Naples, Italy, 2013
- “Mosaic” visual project about diversity, ethnicity & coexistence in the Syrian society, AllArtNow, Syria, 2012
- Asian Art Biennale of Bangladesh, Bangladesh, 2012, Honorable Prize
- "East West Banana Split" AllArtNow, Syria, 2012
- “Young & Radical” Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, 2011
- “House 44 in Al-Bastakiya”, Dubai, UAE, 2011
- “In Silence” AllArtNow, Damascus, Syria, 2010
- “Living Spaces festival for contemporary art" organized by AllArtNow, Syria, 2010
- “Sanctioned Array” White Box, NYC, USA, 2010
- “For Your Eye” AllArtNow, Damascus, Syria, 2010
- 11th Festival of Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France, 2009
- "Trace" AllArtNow, Damascus, 2009
- "Contingent Identity project" Depo Gallery, Istanbul, 2009
- "Magnetism" AllArtNow, Damascus, Syria, 2009
- 1st Palestinian Video Art Festival, 2009
- VideoFormes Festival, Clermont Ferrand, France, 2009
- “AllArtNow 1st International video art festival” Syria, 2009
- "New Generation of Syrian Artists" Damascus Arab Capital of culture, Damascus, 2009
- 1st Amsterdam Biennale, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009,
- “Oversea” Naples, Italy, Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, 2008
- “Magmart” Naples, Italy, 2008, Winners award
- "KinoLewchyk" Lviv, Ukraine, 2008, Winners award
- “In Transition” Russia, 2008
- “The Mirror Stage” Limassol, Cyprus, 2008
- "Cyprus International Short Film Festival” Nicosia, North Cyprus, 2008
- “Isolomania” Limassol, Cyprus, 2008
- “Days of photographs” French Cultural Center, Damascus, 2008
- “IMAFY” the International festival of Media, Cairo, Golden Feather Award, 2008
- “FIAV” Casablanca, Morocco, 2008
- “Spanish Cultural Center”, Argentine, 2008
- “Here I stand”, AllArtNow, Damascus, 2008
- “EUPA” European Union programs agency, Valetta, Malta, 2008
- “Days of Photographs” French Cultural center, Damascus, 2008
- “Spring annual exhibition” Khan Asaad Basha, Damascus, 2008
- “Out of the Circle” AllArtnow and Cultural Palace, Damascus, 2008
- “9th International miniature art Biennial" Canada, 2008
- “Night Comers” video art project during Istanbul Biennale, 2007
- Project for Syrian and German Artists, Goethe Institute, Damascus, 2007
- "Les Instants festival", Marseille, France, 2007
- “Start From Zero” Athens, Greece, 2007
- 9e Festival des Cinémas différent de Paris, “Portrait” Project, Paris, France, 2007
- "Miden festival" Kalamata, Greece, 2007
- The second Video Art festival, Cairo, Egypt, 2007
- "Cross Generations" Taksim Gallery, Istanbul, 2006
- "8th International miniature art Biennial" Canada, 2006
- "The annual Exhibition for Syrian Artists" Khan Asaad Basha, Damascus, Syria, 2006
- "Artist 2006" the 16th Istanbul International Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006
- "Tendencies" Jabri house Gallery, Damascus, 2006
- "3 Emerging Syrian Artists" Ahmad Shawki Museum, Cairo, 2006
- "Psychedelic" Athena Municipality, Greece, 2006
- "Osmanian Monuments in Damascus" photograph exhibition, Istanbul Municipality, Turkey, 2006
- "From Damascus" photograph exhibition in the public space, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006
- "Our Life, Our Environment" Mustafa Aali Gallery, 2006
- "Artist 2005", the 15th Istanbul International Art Fair, Istanbul, 2005
- "The Colors of Damascus” European union, Mustafa Ali Gallery, Damascus 3rd Award
- Damascus festival for culture & history, 2004, 3rd Award
- “Annual youth exhibition”, Al-Rewak Gallery, Damascus, 2004, 3rd Award
- "3.2.1", Goethe Institute, 9/12/03 to 8/1/04
- Exhibition of Graduated artists, French Cultural Center, Damascus, 2003
- "Contemporary Photographic Arts" The American Cultural Center, 2002
Invited to give a Talk in
-"Meeting of Minds", AllArtNow Lab, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019 - 2021
-“On process and research based practices”, B7L9 Kamel Lazar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia, 2019
-” Thoughts on Vague Road”, collective talk about the exhibition, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017
-” What you’ve been told is simulacra of simulacra”, part of the workshop on “(W)Archive”, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
- “When the Mind Wanders”, Angewandte kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2016
- Hangmen Gallery in collaboration with IASPIS/ Stockholm, 2015
- IASPIS open house, Stockholm, 2015
- "Contemporary art and the role of the artist in the time of conflict", MAWA mentoring artists women's art, Winnipeg, Canada, 2015
- “From Wonder to Wander”, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2014
- “Contemporary Art Practices in Syria: Yesterday and Today”, Iaspis Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
- The Arab Balkan Exchange Platform, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
- “The Contemporary Art Practices in Syria” The Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014.
- “The Hub of Contemporary Arts in Syria”, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
- “Art Practice in Syria; individuality, Creativity and Instability” Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria, 2014
- CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2013
- Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2012
- Tate Modern, Informal talk, London, UK, 2009
- Artist talk, Deflina Foundation, UK, 2009
- Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain, 2009
Invited to be a lecturer in
-“Dark road long, I walk and walk and walk: The Wandering Mind as a Walking Mind”, Wandering and Walking Methodologies Seminar, UmArts Research Centre, Umeå, Sweden, 2024
-“My Body is My Close Enemy”, Addressing Amnesia/Performing Trauma Symposium, Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2022
-“The Artist as Research/ On ABR”, Novia University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland, 2021
-“Walking in crises”, OTIS College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA, 2021
-"Masart for Artistic Research", a supervisor in the program, Iltiqa for Contemporary Arts & Ghaza Centre for Arts, Gaza, 2021
- “I Wandered Far Away from Home That Day”, performative lecture as part of the “Prognostics Lectures Series”, The University of the Arts, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland, 2019
- “Body in Conflict”, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
-”Language is a virus from outer space”, Umeå academy of fine arts, Umeå, Sweden, 2016
-”Introduction about Mind Wandering in practice”, workshop for art teachers, Buildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, 2016
-”Artist as self editor”, art book workshop, Buildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, 2016
- “Media Dance”, Dance department, Music and arts university of the city of Vienna MUK, Vienna, Austria, 2015.
- “Studio1” informal school for contemporary art, AllArtNow, Damascus, 2011
- Y-Peer Network, “Building the Capacity of Youth by Using Arts”, Damascus, 2010
- Moroccan video art festival, “the concept in video art”, Casablanca, 2009
- The Patriarchy of Orthodox cultural center, “the Sexual Education by Using Arts”, Damascus, 2008
- “IMAFY” festival, Hassan II University, “The experimental & its role in creative process” Casablanca,2008
Some other links:
http://www.kunstkritikk.com/artikler/10-questions-nisrine-
https://kunstkritikk.se/tappa-andan-genom-ogonen
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/695300
https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/utstallningar/2015/nisrine-boukhari--wanderism-is-a-state-of-mind/
http://www.kunstkritikk.com/artikler/10-questions-nisrine-boukhari/
https://www.svd.se/vi-syrier-ar-en-forlorad-generation/om/kultur
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/385901?programid=4384
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B837D93jNWfvbnJ5Q0JENjJPY0k/view?pref=2&pli=1
http://ohmiartblog.blogspot.com/p/nisrine-boukhari.html
http://ohmiartblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/reflections-on-omi-july-7-2010-by.html
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