Aichi Triennale

Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance to find new ways of apprehending his environment and experiences. The foundations of his work are informed by his training as a musician, and Kazem is deeply engaged with developing processes that can render transient phenomena, such as sound and light, in tangible terms. Often positioning himself within his work, Kazem responds to geographical location, materiality and the elements as a means to assert his subjectivity, particularly in relation to the rapid pace of modernisation in the Emirates since the country’s founding. Kazem was a member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society early in his career and is acknowledged as one of the ‘Five,’ an informal group of Emirati artists – including Hassan Sharif, Abdullah Al Saadi, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, and Hussain Sharif –at the vanguard of conceptual and interdisciplinary art practice. In 2012, he completed his Masters in Fine Art at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

Selected exhibitions

2023

Manar Abu Dhabi, Samaliyah Island (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

2022

manifesto of fragility, 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (France)

2016

For an Image, Faster Than Light, Yinchuan Biennale (China)

2015

Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (UAE)

2013

55th Venice Biennale, UAE Pavilion (Italy)