Dina El Kaisy Friemuth
SOUL, 2022
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, SOUL, 2022. Installation view of the exhibition BPA// Exhibition 2022 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; courtesy the artist; photo: Frank Sperling
With their artistic practice, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth creates conversational environments unpacking the complexity of collectivity and belonging. With an installation on the large windows of KW’s Cafe Bravo, El Kaisy Friemuth continues to ask questions of fraught boundaries between told and untold stories, inside and outside, center and margins; it includes texts by Duygu Ağal and María Berríos.
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth holds a MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Copenhagen) and Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2016, El Kaisy Friemuth has worked as part of the artist collective FCNN (Feminist Collective With No Name). Recently, they exhibited at O–Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Gasworks, London; the 11th Berlin Biennale; and 1-1, Basel. They were the recipient of INTRO, O–Overgaden’s development program for young artists in 2021 and was awarded the Enhancement Award from M1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung for 2021/2022. From 2021 to 2022 El Kaisy Friemuth was a participant in the BPA// Berlin program for artists.
Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, SOUL, 2022. Installation view of the exhibition BPA// Exhibition 2022 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; courtesy the artist; photo: Frank Sperling