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Ghada Amer

Current Exhibition

Ghada Amer—A Retrospective

This will be Ghada Amer’s first retrospective in France. Presented across three key venues in the port city of Marseille (France) and divided into three major parts, each representing one aspect of the artist’s wide ranging practice: East and West (Fort Saint Jean, MUCEM); Bitches and Witches (FRAC); and Sculpture (La Vieille Charité), the show will also include an outdoor garden installation specifically built for the occasion and set at the terrace level of Fort Saint Jean.

About Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer is an internationally recognized artist with a vast range of works that include not only painting, but also bronze sculptures, clay ceramics, prints, installations, videos, and outdoor gardens. She is represented by major galleries in New York, London, Korea, and South Africa. Her works are sought after by private collectors, and are a permanent part of key museum collections around the world (including for example the Centre Georges Pompidou, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Fond National d’art contemporain).

It is while in art school that I realized that the history of art and of painting especially was almost exclusively dominated by men. And it is this realization that led me to embroider and to paint with thread. I am a painter above all. Thread and needles are my brush.

Ghada Amer