Bilal Bahir
BIOGRAPHY
Bilal Bahir (1988 Bagdad/Irak) is in his artistic research interested in the diversity of cultures in a vast chronological perspective. He develops a biographical and political dimension to end up with cycles of drawings and sketches with a dreamlike and poetic character. Through his drawings he unfolds, like a screenwriter, his reflections with the help of images of lived or dreamed events. On the pages of ancient books, he unfolds his world , his dreams and the harsh reality.
WORKS
Diving into Unconscious – 2019
mixed media op papier
45 x 31,5 cm
Pillow Hunter – 2019
mixed media op papier
46 x 32 cm
Maybe waiting for Godot – 2019
mixed media op papier
46 x 32,7 cm
Dream Sensor – 2019
mixed media op papier
46 x 32.7 cm
Fires of Babylon – 2019
mixed media op papier
41 x 29,5 cm
Stèle du Rêve – 2019
mixed media op papier
41 x 29,5 cm
CV
Exhibitions
2022
L’Enfer c’est le manque des autres, Black Swan Gallery, Brugge
2021
Biennale d’art Contemporain de Mountados, GR
Triënnale Brugge 2021, TraumA ,De Poortersloge , Brugge
2020
Me, Myself and I, Black Swan Gallery, Bruges
ARTONOV Festival, Museum of the National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Rythm of forgotten joy, Kunstkomplex & Mennuni, Basel, CH
Couples d’artistes, Adorable ART + DESIGN, The Hague, NL
2019
Rythm of forgotten joy, Gallerie Kunstkomplex , Wuppertal, DE
Entre Le sommeil et le songe, Black Swan Gallery, Bruges, BE
The Beauty of the Invisible, What Else, art center Mesnil Eglise, BE
Noir Brussels, Musée du Cinquantenaire, Art & History Museum, Brussels, BE
Inner/Outer, group show, Culturel Center De Ververij, Ronse, BE
2018
Intimacy, Galerie S&H de Buck, Ghent, BE
Ensorceler-Guérir, Musée du carnaval et du Masque de Binche, BE
2017
Ensorceler-Guérir, Center Albert Marinus, Bruxelles, BE
2016
Magic and Power, Martha Herford Museum, Herford, BE
Up in the Air, Artefact Festival STUK, Leuven, BE
Especes d’espaces, Space Collection, curator Lieux-communs, Namur, BE
Solo at Rivoli, Brussels, BE
2015
Heaven and Hell, From magic carpets to drones, Villa Empain, Brussels, BE
Quinze au cube, Galerie Détour, Jambes, BE
Exhibition at the university Mimar Sinan, Istanbul, TR
OFF Course, Contemporary Art Fair, Bruxelles, BE
Art Up, Art Fair, Lille, FR
2014
St Art, Art FAir, Strasbourg, FR
Installation for Intersections, Bister, Namur, BE
Installation, Ithaka 22, Leuven, BE
Etat de la Question, Maison de la Culture, Namur, BE
2013
Biennale contemporary art, Wanze, BE
2010
Art of Conflict, Identity in War, Galerie Tarnish and Gold, Minneapolis, US
Collections
National Bank of Belgium