Mo Abd-Ulla is a visual artist, curator of shows and workshops, lecturer and PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He was born in Babylon and is a Netherlander–Iraqi citizen. He creates a complex and diverse body of work that includes art-led intervention, installation art, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, text-based art, performance as a “sort of discursive argument”. His works were exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions. Mo has curated a number of shows and workshops. He has also participated in residency programmes and given presentations and lectures at art and design institutes around the world.
He was awarded Post-Master Architecture, Decolonising Architecture, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; MFA Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts; MArch Architectural Design, The Bartlett, UCL, London; MA Curating, Chelsea College of Art and design, UAL, London; Fine Art Research and Production Programme, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht and BA Fashion design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
Education
- 2018–2019 Post-Master, Decolonizing Architecture, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.SE 2012–2014 MFA Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo.NO
- 2015 Semester, Fine Art, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.PT
- 2013 Art as Text, Text as Art Course, Göteborgs universitet, Valand Academy, Göteborg.SE
- 2010–2011 MArch Architectural Design, The Bartlett, University College London, London.UK
- 2005–2006 Fine Art Research and Production Programme, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht.NL
- 2001–2004 BA Fashion Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.NL
Solo Exhibitions - 2019 The alien claims right to live temporarily on this Earth, PuntWG, Amsterdam.NL
- 2018 Re-public the politics, Warehouse Gallery, Incheon.KR
- 2017 flowers are not always tulip,NAC, Neringa.LT
- 2015 We don’t need another Hero, ekwc, Den Bosch.NL
- 2014 Ceci n’est pas mon cheval, Art Omi, NY.USA
- 2012 And after, Agial Art Gallery, Beirut.LB
- 2011 How to redecorate the white house, Gallery ATASSI, Damascus.SY
- 2009 How to make an exhibition for people who won’t come? Hedah art center, Maastricht.NL
- 2008 he left a stream of object in his wake, Goyang art studio, Seoul.KR
Group Exhibitions - 2019 In the centre of the periphery, Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow.DE
- 2018 World Script Symposia, Seoul.KR 2018 PLATFORM ARTISTS, Gallery B, Warehouse Gallery, Incheon.KR
- 2017 Climbing Invisible Structures, Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm.NO
- 2017 Waterlines, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown.UK 2016 Climbing Invisible Structures, 1st part– Water Reservoir, Vilnius, 2nd part-NAC, Neringa, 3rd partŽeimiai.LT
- 2016 Campos Alterados, MAC Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo.BR
- 2016 Forecast, The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.DE
- 2015 Walls, Si Said Museum, Marrakech.MA 2015 Art in front of my door, BAC Art Center, Tunis.Tu
- 2015 Turning Point, Tashkeel, Dubai.UAE
- 2014 AsThe Land Expands, Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama.BH
- 2014 Neither Here Nor There, JAMM, Belgravia House, London.UK
- 2013 5th International Sculpture Symposium, National Gallery, Amman.JO
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