Rheim Alkadhi

Born in Buffalo, NY/USA in 1973.

Rheim Alkadhi is an artist working with visual concepts, textual experiments and physical objects in what is largely a research-based practice. Her recent projects address conditions of encounter as well as modes of presentation — to convey the urgency of subjecthood in the context of land- and body-based intercontinental struggles.

Presentations include Devastation on Your Beautiful Eyes at the Beirut Art Center in Beirut/Lebanon (2022); Arrival Points at House der Statistik in Berlin/Germany (2021); Toward the Inalienable Right of the Dispossessed to Cross From Any Direction at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Stuttgart/Germany (2020); Majnoon Field at Temporary Gallery in Cologne/Germany (2019); Objects We Arrange at OBI Parkplatz, Berlin (2018); Hairs of the Oppressed at Autonomes Cultur Centrum, Weimar/Germany (2017); Night Taxi at Power Station of Art, Shanghai/China (2016); Communications from the Field of Contact at Sharjah Art Foundation (2015); and Collective Knotting Together of Hairs in the West Bank village of Jama’ain/Palestine (2012).

Residencies include ongoing field research in Sulaymaniyah/Iraq, Basra/Iraq, Baghdad/Iraq, and Anbar Province, in Beirut’s environs, in the West Bank, across Jordan, in fields outside Madrid/Spain, on the island of Lesvos/Greece, along the Sharjah Creek, in Bahrain, Seoul/South Korea, Marrakesh/Morrocco, and Cairo/Egypt. Alkadhi was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2015/2016 and, more recently, a fellow of both the Guggenheim Foundation and the artistic research consortium Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung. Alkadhi is currently based in Berlin.