CHAZA CHARAFEDDINE
Letter to the Father
Solo & Friends #1

Opening: Saturday, April 29, 2023, 4-7 pm
Couch of Scholars:  5:30 pm.  With Wendy M.K. Shaw, Clementine Butler-Gallie, Razan Nassreddine, House of Taswir
The exhibition runs from April 29 to May 25, 2023

Opening hours:
Except for the opening on Saturday, April 29 which is accessible to the public at large, gallery director A.S. Bruckstein welcomes and hosts all her guest personally.  By appointment.

MKM Gallery/ House of Taswir
Schillerstraße 15
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Solo Artist:
Chaza Charafeddine (Beirut/Berlin)
accompanied by artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne

Curated by House of Taswir
Letter to the Father Sheet #11 Gold leaf and handwriting with pigment liner on Khadi cotton rag handmade paper 79 x 58.5 cm. Copyright and courtesy of the artist.
Letter to the Father Sheet #11 Gold leaf and handwriting with pigment liner on Khadi cotton rag handmade paper 79 x 58.5 cm. Copyright and courtesy of the artist.

NEW IN BERLIN
HOUSE OF TASWIR: SOLO & FRIENDS

#1   CHAZA CHARAFEDDINE:  Letter to the Father.
Solo & Friends 

During Berlin Gallery Weekend, MKM Gallery presents a new exhibition concept, called SOLO & FRIENDS.  Standing in the tradition of the (Jewish) salonières and the autonomous apartment exhibitions of the 1920s, 80s, and 00s in Berlin (Moscow, Beirut, Istanbul) MKM gallery invites the public to its first vernissage. Only one single work will be exhibited –  accompanied, however, by the entire ensemble of MKM artists.

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 4-7pm
CHAZA CHARAFEDDINE. Letter to the Father. Sheet #11 (2021)

MKM Gallery
Schillerstraße 15 (4th floor)
Berlin – Charlottenburg

Charafeddine’s Letter to the Father is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Elisabeth Masé, Patricia Lambertus, Furkan Akhan, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Mohamad Al Roumi, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Elza Javakhishvili, Eva Beierheimer & Miriam Laussegger, Antonia Baehr, Ana Sontag.

MKM Gallery is an art cabinet, a performative installation, a private museum, Denkraum, and exchange market. MKM Gallery shows changing work constellation of a loosely associated artist collective working with House of Taswir.

MKM Gallery is a project of House of Taswir.

For more information please contact Adam Bruckstein at [email protected]

Calling to mind the epistemic architectures of ancient Islamic manuscripts, Chaza Charafeddine miniatures Franz Kafka’s letter to his father in handwritten copies in German and Arabic, a letter that was never sent and that never reached its addressee. The artist works with the visual elements of the ancient page, and explores the relationship between writing, translation & original, private communication & love.

Chaza Charafeddine, born in Tyros, is an internationally exhibited writer and artist who lives and works in Beirut.