Dina Danish's work combines conceptual art's preoccupation with language and structure with an emphasize on humor, misunderstanding, mistranslation, and supersition. Most of her works are based on substantial research into her subjects (be it chewing gum, a tongue twister or crowds at an aquarium), combined with her own variations on the truth. Sometimes it stays unclear what is made up by Danish or what is actually true. Her approach leads to multi-layered works in a variety of media. Be it a performance, a video, or an entire installation. For sure all of her works get the absurdistic out of the ordinary.
Dina Danish lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Cairo (EG).
| 2022 | Things and Needs (Hagaat w' Mehtagaat), Rita Urso Artopiagallery, Milan |
| 2018 | Sports, Memorabilia, Signed & Everything”, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam |
| 2016 | The Poet Who Wanted to be Burried Underneath a Pinball Machine, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam |
| 2015 | Nile Sunset Annex, A Place in The Sun, Cairo, EG |
| 2015 | To Be A Pinball, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT |
| 2013 | Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH |
| 2013 | De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2012 | SpazioA, Pistoia, IT, |
| 2011 | Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich, CH |
| 2011 | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2007 | PLAySpace Gallery, San Francisco (CA), US |
| 2004 | American University in Cairo, senior student exhibition, Cairo, EG |
| 2016 | Syntax and Society, The Araaj Group Art Prize |
| 2016 | Where The Sun Hits The Water, Galerie Scharmann & Laskowski, Cologne |
| 2016 | Performance Practices in the Gallery Context, Amsterdam |
| 2015 | Blind Man Sitting in His Garden, Pool Projects (LUMA FOUNDATION) Zurich, CH |
| 2015 | What Are You Doing Object, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, EG |
| 2015 | Too early too late: MIDDLE EAST AND MODERNITY, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, IT |
| 2015 | Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs 2015, NL, curated by Wilma Suto |
| 2015 | A Million Lines, XII Baltic Triennal, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kraków |
| 2015 | The Joycean Society, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| 2015 | The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Art Dubai |
| 2014 | My Vocabulary Did This To Me (performance), South London Gallery, London, GB |
| 2014 | LEGION OF HONOR, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Arts and Editions, US |
| 2014 | The Centre of Dying #1, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE |
| 2014 | Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?, Stedelijk Museum/ Performance, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2014 | Ways of Working According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2014 | All About These..Ladies and Gentlemen, Co-Pilot, collaboration with Gallery On The Move, Istanbul,TR |
| 2013 | With the Sound of Your Voice, Parallel Projects of Maracech Biennale, Marrakesh, MA |
| 2013 | Not A Dead End, Biennale Yogyakarta, ID |
| 2013 | SFMOMA & MOMA, Celebration of Publication, San Francisco and New York, US |
| 2013 | Beirut Season Four: Writing with the other hand is imagining, Beirut, Cairo, EG |
| 2013 | Some Misunderstandings, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, GB |
| 2013 | Bourgeois Leftovers, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2013 | To Scrap a proportion, Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2013 | Prospects and Concepts – Mondriaan Fonds toont talent, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2012 | We’re All Here Because We’re Not All There, Tecoh Bruce Gallery, San Francisco, US |
| 2012 | We Are Rolling, GallerieJ, Geneva, CH |
| 2012 | Not In A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2012 | A BRAND NEW BABY CARRIAGE STANDING THERE ON THE PORCH, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH |
| 2012 | On Demand 2,Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2011 | il gatto e sul tavolo’ The Cat is On The Table, Spazio A, Pistoia, IT |
| 2011 | The Old World is Behind You, Kunsthall Oslo, NO |
| 2011 | Two Versions of the Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2011 | Dina Danish; 3 videos, videohOle project space, San Francisco, US |
| 2010 | SFMOMA, Shadow Shop, San Francisco, CA, US |
| 2010 | RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2010 | Time After Time, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US |
| 2010 | I Must Say That At First Is Was Only Difficult Work, Kunsthall Oslo, NO |
| 2010 | Drawing, CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR |
| 2009 | Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, US |
| 2009 | Cairo Pavillion, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2009 | RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2009 | Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, EG |
| 2009 | Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH |
