Munem Wasif
Jomin o Joban: a tale of the land
23. 6. – 4. 8. 22
Jomin o Joban: a tale of the land is Munem Wasif‘s first solo exhibition in the German-speaking region.
With image-based works, the artist Munem Wasif explores the concept of the trace in its various forms. In complex installations of photography, moving image, archive material and found objects, concepts of the present and transience are questioned. Between documentation and fiction, his works create open narratives of revised history and contemporary events.
Wasif's artistic approach is characterised by long-term research, close collaboration and systematic repetition. Contrary to simple interpretations, his works offer multilayered and contradictory as well as poetic and sensitive insights into global issues such as food sovereignty, labour slavery, and border regimes.
Munem Wasif lives and works in Dhaka (Bangladesh). His works are exhibited internationally, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dhaka Art Summit; Fotomuseum Winterthur; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Para Site, Hong Kong; TS1 Yangon; Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Since 2015 he has served as Co-curator of the Chobi Mela Photo Festival and the 2024 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie.
Events:
Artist talk: 22 July 2022, 7 pm: Munem Wasif in conversation with Tanzim Wahab (curator, Berlin / Dhaka), in English language
Exhibition tours:
29 June 2022, 5.30 pm: Gabriele Wagner (Director, Stadtgalerien Salzburg)
16 July 2022, 5.30 pm: Beatrice Bleibler (curatorial assistant, Stadtgalerien Salzburg)
31 July 2022, 11 am: Sophie Goltz (Director, International Summer Academy) in conversation with Munem Wasif, in English language
Information
- Venue
- Stadtgalerie Museumspavillon
- Date
- 23. 6. – 4. 8. 22
- Opening hours
- Monday–Friday 2–6 pm, Saturday/Sunday 11 am–3 pm
Munem Wasif
Wasif Munem‘s photography and film investigates conceptions of ‘documents’ and ‘archives’ and their corresponding influence on politically and geographically complex issues. Expressionistic in style and long term in method, Wasif often experiments beyond tradition, testing the possibilities of fiction through a familiar documentary language.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2017 Jomin o Joban, Project 88, Mumbai (IN). 2016 Land of Undefined Territories, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka. 2015 In God We Trust, 247 Gallery, Paris. 2012 Salt Water Tears, Musée du sel, La Réunion (FR). 2010 Salt Water Tears, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL). 2009 Salt Water Tears, Prix Pictet, Mall Gallery, London.
Group exhibitions
2021 Land of Undefined Territories, Listening to the stones, Kunsthaus Dresden (DE). Seeds Shall Set Us Free II, Staple: What’s on your plate, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah (SA). 2020 Seeds Shall Set Us Free II, You and I don’t live in same planet, Taipei Biennale, Taipei (TW). 2019 Seeds Shall Set Us Free II, Cosmopolis #2: Rethinking the Human, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Spring Song, Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, Kettle Yard, Cambridge (UK). Machine Matters, Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah (AE). Land of Undefined Territories, Undefined Territories. Perspectives on Colonial Legacies, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (ES). 2018 Kheyal, 9th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary art, Qagoma, Brisbane (AU). Machine Matter, A beast, a god, and a line, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. Seeds Shall Set Us free, Bearing Points, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka. 2017 Land of Undefined Territories, Prix Pictet Space, V&A Museum, London. 2016 Land of Undefined Territories, The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR). Land of Undefined Territories, An atlas of mirrors, Singapore Biennale, Singapore. 2016 In God We Trust, You Cannot Cross the Sea Merely by Staring at the Waves, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna.
Publications
Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India & Pakistan, exh.-cat., Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 2020.
Omer Kholeif, Making New Time, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah 2019.
Wasif Munem, Belonging, edition, Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris 2013.
Wasif Munem, Larmes salées / Salty Tears, Images Plurielles, Marseille 2011.
Wasif Munem, Kamra 1 & 2, with Tanzim Wahab, Kamra, Dhaka 2011–2013.
