Sculpture
Art or Craft? Performing Ghada Amer’s Sculptures
Walking the high streets, a woman glances at shopfronts left and right. Suddenly, a laced gown catches her eye in the window of a store
May 1, 2023
Paintings
My Body, my Choice: Ghada Amer’s May 2022 solo show at the Goodman Gallery, London
4 May 2022 – 28 May 2022 Ghada Amer’s show at Goodman Gallery in London opens on 4 May 2022 and runs till the end
May 1, 2022
Gardens
Once Upon a Happily Ever After
Ghada Amer’s garden installation titled Happily Ever After is a circle of rose bushes and jasmine flowers spelling out the notorious final three words of
April 1, 2022
Collaboration
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Barbie Trees (2007) is a disenchanting fairy tale. It tells the story of how princesses become Barbie dolls and how princes are abandoned. In so
February 1, 2022
Gardens
Modern Millefleurs – Part II
The original installation of Ghada Amer’s Women’s Qualities gardens took shape in Pusan, South Korea, in 2000. At the Metropolitan Museum of Pusan, Ghada Amer
December 1, 2021
Paintings
Reconfigured Portraits, Reconfigured Subjects
In Portrait #1 (2013), the woman’s face emerges through the mantra “I am just a person trapped inside a woman’s body.” The portrait is composed
November 1, 2021
Paintings
A Battle of Signs
Portraits of the Women that I Know is an ongoing series of portraits that Ghada Amer started in 2013 and that includes a self-portrait. Each
October 1, 2021
Paintings
The compulsion to be a woman painter, then and now
“Cette nouvelle manie de se faire femme-peintre…” “This new compulsion to be a woman painter…” Abbé de Fontenay, Journal général de France no.71. 14 juin
September 14, 2021
Gardens
Modern Millefleurs – Part I
Created in different renditions for different locations around the world, Ghada Amer’s series of Women’s Qualities gardens use plants and flowers to spell out words
September 1, 2021
Gardens
Going for a Walk in Ghada Amer’s Garden
Ghada Amer’s Desert X exhibition, Women’s Qualities, consists of a circle of words describing women, each spelled out using different plants. Amer explains in an
August 1, 2021
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