Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghani (* 1978 in New York , USA ) is an American author, video and installation artist of Afghan-Lebanese descent who lives in Kabul and New York. In her documentations and installations she examines transnational, border-political and cultural problems in conflict zones.

life and work

Her parents are the Afghan President Aschraf Ghani and his Christian wife Rula Ghani , who comes from Lebanon .

Mariam studied comparative literature and photography with a focus on video, installation and new media in New York. She is a visiting lecturer at Cooper Union and New York University and is a journal writer ( Fuse, Viralnet, Pavilion, Sarai Reader, Radical History Review, and Journal of Aesthetics and Protest ).

Exhibitions

• 2003: transmediale , Berlin
• 2004: Liverpool Biennial
• 2007: Tate Modern , London
• 2008: National Gallery of Art , Washington DC
• 2009: Tarjama / Translation. Queens Museum of Art , New York
• 2012: A brief history of collapses. dOCUMENTA (13) , Kassel
• 2018: Public Art Munich , Munich

Fonts

• with Ashraf Ghani: 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2878-2 .

Web links

• Mariam Ghani on kunstaspekte.de
• Materials by and about Mariam Ghani in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Documenta Special: Mariam Ghani. Hessischer Rundfunk ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ).
2. ↑ Mariam Ghani. AhmadyArts, New York, NY.
3. ↑ Mariam Ghani ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the dOCUMENTA website (13) 
4. ↑ Amy Mackie: Mariam Ghani - A Brief History of Collapses. Nafas Art Magazine, Institute for Foreign Relations , June 2012.
5. ↑ Mariam Ghani - Parliamentary Transience. art - Das Kunstmagazin, May 25, 2012 ( Memento of May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
6. ^ Projects: Mariam Ghani. Public Art Munich, 2018.