A detail from an untitled drawing by Toba Khedoori, dated 2021.

Toba Khedoori at the Fridericianum

The artist will present a solo exhibition at David Zwirner New York next year

Toba Khedoori’s first solo exhibition in Germany is now open at the Fridericianum in Kassel, on view through February 20, 2022. Curated by Moritz Wesseler, this major survey presents twenty-three works created between 1994 and 2021.

The exhibition includes detailed drawings of ordinary motifs—from buildings and windows to grass, clouds, and horizons, among others—on large-scale sheets of paper treated with wax, as well as paintings on canvas that Khedoori began making in 2008. Considerably smaller than Khedoori’s works on paper, the paintings consider the tension between human beings and the natural world.

Installation view of an exhibition titled, Toba Khedoori, at the Fridericianum in Kassel, dated 2021.
Installation view, Toba Khedoori, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021. Photo by Andrea Rossetti
Installation view, Toba Khedoori, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021. Photo by Andrea Rossetti

“The Australian artist with Iraqi roots develops a philosophy of the everyday in her impressive works painted with old-masterly precision…Toba Khedoori questions the philosophical foundations and individual and aesthetic preconditions of our perception and, above all, how we locate ourselves in this world,” noted Eva Claudia Scholtz, Executive Director of the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

To accompany the exhibition, the Fridericianum will also publish a catalogue featuring an essay by curator Mark Godfrey. Khedoori will present a solo exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2022, of which selected works are included in the Fridericianum show.

Installation view of an exhibition titled, Toba Khedoori, at the Fridericianum in Kassel, dated 2021.
Installation view, Toba Khedoori, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021. Photo by Andrea Rossetti
Installation view, Toba Khedoori, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2021. Photo by Andrea Rossetti

Cover image: Toba Khedoori, Untitled, 2021 (detail). Photo by Evan Bradford

 

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