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His solo exhibition first shown at the DB KunstHalle in Berlin is on view at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 25 Sept. - 15 Nov. 2013
Sep 2013Imran Qureshi is Deutsche Bank's 2013 "Artist of the Year."
With a large solo exhibition of the Pakistani artist, the new KunstHalle of Deutsche Bank was inaugurated in Berlin on 18 April 2013.
From 25 September to 15 November, 2013, the exhibition is on view at MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.
For the show in Berlin, Imran Qureshi had created the site-specific work "And They Still Seek the Traces of Blood", and several large-scale paintings on canvas. A new series of Qureshi’s miniatures was shown together with older ones in an architectural structure inspired by buildings from the Mogul period. A selection of Qureshi’s Missiles series, was presented in the Kunst-Halle Studio.
>> Photo Tour
through the exhibition
>> Video of Imran Qureshi
explaining the ambivalence between "beauty" and "violence" in his work in the last 3 years
Imran Qureshi was selected on the recommendation of the Deutsche Bank Global Art Advisory Council, consisting of the curators Okwui Enwezor, Hou Hanru, and Udo Kittelmann. The curator Victoria Noorthoorn, resident in Buenos Aries, succeeded Nancy Spector on this Council.
He is the fourth artist honored by the bank in this way, and follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France and Morocco) and Roman Ondák (Slovakia).
Imran Qureshi is one of the most important figures on the Pakistani art scene. The artist, who was born in 1972, lives in Lahore where he teaches at the National College of Art. In his paintings and installations, he combines the centuries-old Islamic art form of miniature painting with conceptual approaches and elements of contemporary abstract painting.
In 2011 he was one of the recipients of the Sharjah Biennial Prize, awarded for his large site-specific installation "Blessings Upon the Land of My Love", commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
Curator: Friedhelm Hütte
Global Head of Art, Deutsche Bank
Imran Qureshi: Artist of the Year 2013
25 September - 15 November 2013
MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art
via Nizza 138, Roma
Exhibition in Berlin
18 April 2013 - 4 August 2013