من نقاش معرض «شمس، قمر، نجوم الليل» مع أحمد شوقي حسن، حسن خان وبتول الحناوي.
شكراً لكل من شاركنا الحوار… اليوم الأحد 11 يناير هو اليوم الختامي للمعرض، نستقبلكم من 12 ظهراً وحتى 9 مساءً في مقر مركز الصورة المعاصرة، 2 اتحاد المحامين العرب، جاردن سيتي، القاهرة.
From the public discussion of «Contemporary art as contemporary art» exhibition with Ahmed Shawky Hassan,Hassan Khan and Batool El Hennawy.
Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation. Today, Sunday, January 11th, is the final day of the exhibition. We look forward to welcoming you from 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM at CIC's space, 2 Etihad Al-Mohameen Al-Arab, Garden City, Cairo.
//شمس، قمر، نجوم الليل: دعوة للانضمام لنقاش حول المعرض//
ندعوكم لحضور نقاش مع أحمد شوقي حسن وحسن خان عن معرض «شمس، قمر، نجوم الليل»، يوم الاثنين 5 يناير، 7م في مقر مركز الصورة المعاصرة، 2 اتحاد المحامين العرب، جاردن سيتي، القاهرة.
يطرح العمل الفني وشروط ظهوره أسئلة عن الشكل، ويترك على أساس هذا سياق وزمن الإنتاج وتأثيرات مختلفة من الممارسة آثارًا على العمل الفني وطرحه القيمي. في سياق برنامج «عن القيمة»، يختتم المعرض الفصل الأول عن الاقتصاد والأزمة/الكارثة ونقلة الاستشراف في الفن المعاصر. أسئلة تتخذ من العمل في سياقات مؤسسية وفي البنية التحتية الأوسع نقاط إنطلاق عدة لبناء الشبكات، لعبت دور نقاط محورية في تنسيق معرض «شمس، قمر، نجوم الليل». في هذا السياق، استعار أحمد شوقي حسن عملًا فنيًا لحسن خان، ليفعل ثلاثة مقترحات قيّمية تفكر في المساحة والعوالم والقطع الفنية/الأشياء والتاريخ والتعاون. تمثل العملية تفكيرًا في حدود الفن والمجال العام، إذ لا يكون التاريخ حدًا فاصلًا، بل بنية تحتية للتغيير.
ما هو التفكير أو الاهتمام الذي يطرح سؤال القيمة في سياق البرنامج؟ لماذا استعار أحمد شوقي حسن عملًا فنيًا من حسن خان؟ ما المشترك أو ما يمكن مشاركته خلال زيارة تلك اللحظات من 2011 و2014 و2017، في الأعمال الفنية والإنتاج وعلاقتهم بممارسة وعمل الفنانين؟ ما الذي تقترحه فكرة "الفن المعاصر كفن معاصر" في لحظتنا الحالية؟ كيف أدى مسار المعرض لهذا اللقاء بين أحمد شوقي حسن وحسن خان؟
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“A first draft of this song was written more than a year ago when an American contemporary composer asked me to write a libretto for them about the ‘current situation in Germany’, although they ended up, for undisclosed reasons, having to abandon the project – I didn’t. In this listening session, I will play a selection of relevant songs as well as the final version of Little Castles (dashed on my phone in snippets on various buses and trains in Berlin, tweaked and polished with the help of my old guitar in Cairo and finally arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered in Paris). I will discuss production, generative luxury aesthetics, popular genres, unfettered forms and how protest songs suck. Does my strategy of making meaning in contemporary Germany by making the taboo visible while remaining uncensorable really work? While speaking I will also play some chords on the guitar and talk about teenage anger as a source and transformative lens through which to propose a criticality that is not just critical.”
Making Waves #17 (8 Dec 2025)
Artist, musician and writer Hassan Khan will conduct a listening session revolving around his most recent song – Little Castles; currently on view as a songvideosong at his eponymous exhibition at Portikus Frankfurt. The session will be followed by a conversation with visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna. “A first draft of this song was written more than a year ago when an American contemporary composer asked me to write a libretto for them about the ‘current situation in Germany’, although they ended up, for undisclosed reasons, having to abandon the project – I didn’t. In this listening session, I will play a selection of relevant songs as well as the final version of Little Castles (dashed on my phone in snippets on various buses and trains in Berlin, tweaked and polished with the help of my old guitar in Cairo and finally arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered in Paris). I will discuss production, generative luxury aesthetics, popular genres, unfettered forms and how protest songs suck. Does my strategy of making meaning in contemporary Germany by making the taboo visible while remaining uncensorable really work? While speaking I will also play some chords on the guitar and talk about teenage anger as a source and transformative lens through which to propose a criticality that is not just critical.”
Poster image: Hassan Khan, Little Castles, 2025 (video still), 10' 30", LED screen, Hi-Fi System, Single Channel Video and Song composed and written by the artist.
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And back we are. Regardless the month and week days, the 29th and 30th are our community days. No need to check for anything else, just come to 20nine30 when the month is about to end.
29/30: @nickklein____ , @donatasnorusis , @ibeeiliyas
On November 29, 20nine30 hosts the next edition of our monthly series devoted to experimental sound, performance, and audacious artistic excursions. This month brings a formidable lineup: @nickklein____@donatasnorusis , and @ibeeiliyas —each carving a distinctly personal approach to exploring intensity, nuance, and the physical presence of sound. Expect an evening of volatile textures and uncompromising work.
Date: NOV 29
Time: 20:00
Address: Paul Lincke Ufer 29
Cover: Donation-based
29/30: Hassan Khan @hkrankly / @o_pasquet , Ano Ano
The second night of this month’s program brings together two distinct approaches to experimental composition and performance. AnoAno (@tengal , @p.andredias , @napasarapera ) will mark their debut as a collaborative trio, opening up a fresh space of improvised interaction and sonic possibility. And @hkrankly will pair up with @o_pasquet for something entirely different. In their own words:
“What connects a munshid who begins singing by falling in love with one stanza out of a memorized body of poetry extending over a millenium to an algorithmic generator that puts together thousands of elements to produce duodecillions of possibilities? Artist, Musician and writer Hassan Khan will discuss culture, meaning, politics music and technology in relation to the various iterations of his project - The Infinite Hip-Hop Song, while Computer Music Designer and Composer Olivier Pasquet will discuss the generative aspects of the piece, and how generative music is influencing contemporary aesthetics.”
Date: NOV 30
Time: 20:00
Address: Paul Lincke Ufer 29
Cover: Donation-based
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29/30: Nick Klein, Donatas Nurušis, Eiliyas
On November 29, 20nine30 hosts the next edition of our monthly series devoted to experimental sound, performance, and audacious artistic excursions. This month brings a formidable lineup: @nickklein____@donatasnorusis , and @ibeeiliyas —each carving a distinctly personal approach to exploring intensity, nuance, and the physical presence of sound. Expect an evening of volatile textures and uncompromising work.
Date: NOV 29
Time: 20:00
Address: Paul Lincke Ufer 29
Cover: Donation-based
29/30: Hassan Khan/Oliver Pasquet, Ano Ano
The second night of this month’s program brings together two distinct approaches to experimental composition and performance. AnoAno (@tengal , @p.andredias , @napasarapera ) will mark their debut as a collaborative trio, opening up a fresh space of improvised interaction and sonic possibility. And @hkrankly will pair up with @o_pasquet for something entirely different. In their own words:
“What connects a munshid who begins singing by falling in love with one stanza out of a memorized body of poetry extending over a millenium to an algorithmic generator that puts together thousands of elements to produce duodecillions of possibilities? Artist, Musician and writer Hassan Khan will discuss culture, meaning, politics music and technology in relation to the various iterations of his project - The Infinite Hip-Hop Song, while Computer Music Designer and Composer Olivier Pasquet will discuss the generative aspects of the piece, and how generative music is influencing contemporary aesthetics.”
Date: NOV 30
Time: 20:00
Address: Paul Lincke Ufer 29
Cover: Donation-based
#berlinconcerts
#berlinsoundart
#experimentalberlin
#noise
#soundart
#20nine30
#twentyninethirty
#berlinevents
#experimentalperformance
#diymusic
29/30: Hassan Khan/Oliver Pasquet, Ano Ano
The second night of this month’s program brings together two distinct approaches to experimental composition and performance. AnoAno (Tengal, Pedro Andre, Sarah Pereira) will mark their debut as a collaborative trio, opening up a fresh space of improvised interaction and sonic possibility. And Hassan Khan will pair up with Oliver Pasquet for something entirely different. In their own words:
“What connects a munshid who begins singing by falling in love with one stanza out of a memorized body of poetry extending over a millenium to an algorithmic generator that puts together thousands of elements to produce duodecillions of possibilities? Artist, Musician and writer Hassan Khan will discuss culture, meaning, politics music and technology in relation to the various iterations of his project - The Infinite Hip-Hop Song, while Computer Music Designer and Composer Olivier Pasquet will discuss the generative aspects of the piece, and how generative music is influencing contemporary aesthetics.”
Ano Ano is a sound project by Tengal, Pedro André, and Sara Pereira, blending analogue/digital electronics, free improvisation, and graphic scores into emergent structures populated by strange insects, waters, and cut-frequency transmissions. Tengal works with game theory, algorithmic structures, and modular-synth improvisation; André is a sound artist active in film, installation, and collaborative projects; and Pereira, part of Discoteca Flaming Star, drifts through music, sound, and drawing with a focus on layered densities. Together they form a shifting, exploratory trio oriented toward open, unstable, and vividly textured sound worlds.
Date: NOV 30
Time: 20:00
Address: Paul Lincke Ufer 29
Cover: Donation-based
Around 10AM on July 8th 2025 I took bus 170 from Insulaner bus stop in Berlin. Mornings on that stretch meant white German pensioners, ethnically mixed kids, and mothers with their babies. I noticed him straight-away. His large longish face, thick lensed glasses, slight wisps of hair and wiry body gave him a fragile yet volatile air.
The next stop he stood up, shuffled to the door, pushing through the throng. Irritated, he suddenly unleashed a torrent of abuse at the woman in front of him who quickly jumped to the side to let him pass. Invigorated he stepped off the bus screaming at a louder more unhinged volume. The depth of his embodied disaffect directed at everyone. The doors shut, he stopped, narrowed his eyes and began scanning the collective. Head thrust forward, staring straight into our eyes he slowly and deliberately extended his right arm in a forbidden salute as the bus pulled away. A hushed silence, and nervous furtive glances marked the rest of the trip.
—HK
Hassan Khan’s exhibition ‘Little Castles’ unfolds as an album of shifts and modulations, composed in a world marked by violence, ruptures, contractions as well as the potential of massive transformations.
Curated by Carina Bukuts
Assistant curator: Jacqueline Jakobi
#hassankhan #portikus #kunsthalleportikus #littlecastles
We’re excited to announce our last exhibition of this year and look forward to seeing you at the opening of Hassan Khan’s show ‘Little Castles’ on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 6pm. 🦍
Hassan Khan (b. 1975 in London, UK) is an artist, musician and writer based in Cairo, Egypt, and Berlin, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2025); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); and Reina Sofia, Madrid (2019). He has exhibited his works at biennials and group shows, such as Autostrada, Prizren, (2025), SFMOMA, San Francisco, (2019), 12th Sharjah Biennale (2015), dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (2012) and The Ungovernables, New Museum Triennial, New York City (2012) amongst many others. In 2017, he was awarded the Silver Lion of the 57th Venice Biennale. Since 2018 he is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Khan’s ‘An Anthology of Published and Unpublished Writings’ is published by Koenig Books and his album ‘SUPERSTRUCTURE EP’ is released by The Vinyl Factory.
Curated by Carina Bukuts
Assistant Curator: Jacqueline Jakobi
Poster design by @lorenzklingebielofficial
‘Little Castles’ is made possible by the generous support of Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur, Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst, Feith Stiftung, and Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt.
#hassankhan #portikus #kunsthalleportikus #littlecastles
OPENING NOVEMBER 14TH AT PORTIKUS- LITTLE CASTLES - CURATED BY CARINA BUKUTS. PREMIERING TWO NEW AMBITIOUS AND HIGHLY ADVENTUROUS WORKS. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! /en/
Photos at Studio Tropicalia/ Paris:
Vocals: Natascha Rogers @natascharogers
Drums: Uriel Barthélémi @urielbarthelemi
Bass: Gael Petrina @gaelpetrina
Guitar: Olivier Mellano
Keys+Synth: Công Minh Pham @cong.minh.pham
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Guillaume Jaoul @jaoulguillaume
Music & Lyrics (C) Hassan Khan / 2025
// Na ogled samo še do nedelje 21. 9. 2025.
🟡 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻: 𝗚𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗦
Ko vstopite v Galerijo Parter v Cukrarni, pogled pritegne zadnja stena, ki jo je umetnik Hassan Khan prekril s 45 plakati, oblikovanimi izključno na pametnem telefonu. Na ta način umetnik tudi skozi proces dela premišlja vlogo množičnih vizualnih jezikov in načinov produkcije podob, ki zaznamujejo našo digitalno vsakdanjost.
"𝑈𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑘 𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑣𝑜𝑗𝑎 𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑗𝑎 𝑜𝑧̌𝑖𝑣𝑙𝑗𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑗𝑖𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑗𝑢𝑗𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑎𝑗 𝑧̌𝑒𝑙𝑖 𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑠𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑖 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑗𝑒, 𝑘𝑖 𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑘𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑗𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑘𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐̌𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑑𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑐̌𝑖 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑣𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑠𝑎𝑘𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑟 – 𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖 𝑗𝑒 – 𝑜𝑑𝑘𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑧𝑎 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑗𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑛𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒." - izsek iz spremnega besedila kustosinje Mare Anjoli Vujić
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