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Exhibtion
22.10.2022 - 22.01.2023
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Karl-Tizian-Platz, 6900 Bregenz
Anna Boghiguian depicts political protest movements. Her works deal with servitude and rebellion, tyranny and the desire for freedom, leadership and liberation. Awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Boghiguian has Armenian roots and grew up in Cairo, where she lives again today. Boghiguian is a politically interested and philosophically minded storyteller who links past and present, similar to the murdered Egyptian Nobel Prize for Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz, a close friend of hers for whom she designed a series of book covers.
For her exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Boghiguian is exploring the revolutionary upheavals in France and the United States of the eighteenth century and the history of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Austria, and Egypt. The works on view in Bregenz were created specifically for the show. During a several-weeks-long residency in the city, the artist devoted herself to historical research, creating drawings and handwritten notes in the rooms of the neighboring post office building.
Artist
Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946 in Cairo) is an Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian descent. She studied Political Science and Economics at the American University in Cairo until 1969, subsequently studying Visual Arts and Music at Concordia University in Montreal, followed by several years of traveling. Since 2010 she has been creating three-dimensional settings that she presents like stage sets. Boghiguian has also illustrated several books, including a volume of poetry by Constantine P. Cavafy and book covers for Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Boghiguian is the recipient of several international awards, most recently the Golden Lion for her contribution to the Armenian pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. She lives and works in Cairo, among other places.