The exhibition trilogy The Architecture of assembles artworks that explore the fault lines between art and architecture. Taking its departure point from the building that houses BNKR itself, it responds to the changes in architectural appearance and appropriation since it’s construction as a WWII bunker until its current function as a residential space. With a diverse range of artworks and site-specific commissions, The Architecture of is intended as a spatial experience that encourages the viewer to critically reflect on the complex relationship between the physical and psychological dimensions of our lived realities.

The exhibition “I put a spell on you” explores a diverse range of models that artists have adopted to create artworks collaboratively. Contrary to how they are commonly acknowledged, some form of collaboration is inherent to every artwork. But it is only when artists formally present and brand themselves as a duo or a collective, that we are acutely made aware of the creative exchange underlying the realization of that joint creation.

Marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this thematic group exhibition brings together 28 international artists whose work engages with various forms of division within society. Engaging directly with the historically charged location of the Gropius Bau, the exhibition features a wide range of artworks comprising a number of new commissions and site-specific installations.

A site specific two-channel video and twelve-channel sound installation commissioned for the National Pavilion UAE that expands Nujoom Alghanem’s experimentation with forms of contemporary Arabic poetry through the language of film, providing a poignant reflection on the experience of displacement.

In bringing together 75 paintings and works on paper by 29 artists, this exhibition provides a fresh perspective on the contradictions, antagonisms, accomplishments, as well as the commonalities of five modernist schools throughout five decades of rigorous negotiation and creation across five cities in the Arab world.

Taking its cue from John Berger’s 1972 groundbreaking text on visual culture, Ways of Seeing is an international group exhibition that explores the various formalistic strategies that artists employ to re-configure our perception of the world. It brings together more than 30 artists and artist collectives with 70 works ranging from 1000 BC to the present and spanning a variety of media from painting, sculpture and photography to sound, film and installation.

Building on several years of in-depth academic and field research, this exhibition marks a historic presentation of this hitherto undocumented and little-known chapter in the art history of Surrealism and its negotiation within Egypt.

This exhibition is the first comprehensive presentation in Europe of a generation of loosely affiliated Korean artists whose negotiation of abstraction has become known as Dansaekhwa. It brings together more than fifty seminal paintings from international museum and private collections, ranging from the 1960s until the 1980s.

Through 12 seminal video installations by leading figures of video art, this exhibition explores the link between films seen in traditional cinema settings, and those that are experienced as an installation within a museum space. With works that date from the early 1990s until today, the exhibition illustrates how over the past two decades video artists have been redefining the relation between the projected image and the physical space in which it is presented.

An exhibition introducing a new generation of emerging artists connected to the city of Beirut, taking the departure point from the artists as clandestine observers rather than public commentators.

Employing the Nefertiti bust as a metaphorical thread, the exhibition explores how an artwork can become a tool for the writing of much-contested narratives that serve as frameworks through which an image of another culture can be imagined and consequently fixed. Features over 40 artists, as well as pieces from Ancient Egypt, Islamic Art and over 50 support documents and catalogues.

Told Untold Retold is a collection of stories each vividly expressed in a newly commissioned artwork by 23 artists with roots in the Arab World. It is the first and largest exhibition of contemporary art on this scale within a museum context in the history of the region.

An in-depth analysis of personal and artistic relationships of a specific generation of modernist artists, in light of the historical, political and cultural connection between their homelands.