Artists

Anna Boghiguian

Press release

The Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian origin has presented one of the most exciting positions in contemporary art since her participation in the Biennials of Istanbul in 2009 and of Sharjah in 2011 and in dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012. She is known for her figurative murals, (note)books, drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures, as well as some spectacular large-scale installations. Boghiguian's work is often spontaneous and frequently created on location. She is considered a perceptive observer of the human condition and conveys an interpretation of contemporary life in which her content oscillates extremely cleverly between past and present, poetry and politics, history and literature. Her artworks celebrate a globally united humanity and focus on the aftermath of historical events and their conflicts in order to identify options for the future through an artistic reappraisal.

Through a combination of verbal and visual forms of representation, her works have an immediate and emotional effect.Thematically, they combine the artist's profound historical knowledge with her awareness for current debates, although in their execution they seem like an antithesis to the optics of a technologized digital world. Boghiguian's unique artistic position in expression and emotionality has not yet received the attention in Germany that her authentic expressiveness deserves.