Galerie Ernst Hilger

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, 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)

Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamend 1993 born in Klagenfurt / Austria Education 2012-2017 University for applied art Vienna, graphic and printmaking (Prof. Jan Svenungsson) 2015 Grant at the accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Italy 2011-2012 University Klagenfurt, romanistic Solo exhibitions: 2022 tba, Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria 2021 New Position, Förderkoje Art Cologne, Germany 2019 „Sic transit gloria mundi“, Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria 2017 Assunta Abdel Azim Mohamed, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK 2016 „Das Leben ist anderswo“, Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria Collections: Sammlung Sanziany & Palais Rasumofsky, Vienna; Artphilein Foundation, Lugano; Cassinelli Collection, Barcelona; Pfister Collection, Zürich; Orstravik Collection, London; Sammlung von Hoffen, Berlin HTC Collection, Switzerland Vienna Insurance Group Collection, Vienna Sammlung des Landes Oberösterreich Linz