Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed is an emerging contemporary artist, who was born in 1993 and brought up in Austria.

The artist lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She studied Romance Studies and then Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Shortlisted for eleven awards, she has won four of them. She is currently undertaking a commission for a public mural in Vienna. Her works are in private collections in Vienna, Barcelona, London, Berlin, Zürich and Lugano. Selected exhibitions include: Das Leben ist anderswo, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Vienna (solo, 2016); sechs xx sechs, Loft 8, Vienna (2016); Studenski Biennal, Belgrade (2016); Us, them, you, Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, Vermont, USA (2016); Curiositas, Galerie Jahidi, Paris (2016); Art Night Venezia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice (2015).

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed had an exhibition at Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna with the name “Sic transit gloria mundi”. The exhibition was open from 25 June 2019 until 06 September 2019. Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed's other most recent exhibitions listed on Artland include the exhibitions; Mating is a tough competition. Female Paperpositions (09 October 2019 - 29 November 2019) at Gallery 2CforArt in Salzburg and Mating is a tough competition. Female Paperpositions (09 October 2019 - 29 November 2019) at Haas & Gschwandtner in Salzburg.

“Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed's drawings are at once a satire of her generation in Vienna and a study of the human condition, a painful moral comedy, with death as the anchoring motif. They are dense with incident and dense with allusion: to music, film, literature and art; to the Baroque and to Symbolism; to medicine, anatomy, the graphic arts and to contemporary popular culture. Vienna is between east and the west and genres meet there, a fact which further influences the work. Mohamed’s intelligence about the nature of drawing, and the apparent ease with which she draws, results in work that seems almost self-aware: this is an art of apperception, even while it is about other people’s lives, their ambiguous and unresolved stories.” - David Lillington (2017)