Galeria Wschód is pleased to participate in LISTE Basel with a solo presentation by Kamil Dossar (b. 1988, Copenhagen, DK).

The booth in collaboration with Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne.

LISTE
10 – 16 June, 2024

Messe Basel, Hall 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / corner, Riehenring 113
4058 Basel, Switzerland

Preview day: Monday, June 10
Public days: Tuesday – Sunday, June 11 – 16

The works presented at Liste 2024 marks Kamil Dossar’s latest body of work, which includes a reiteration of J. M. W. Turner’s “The Slave Ship” (1840), alluding to Turner’s abolitionist stance. Key to Dossar’s reinterpretation of this painting is his effort to reassert the political motivations of this celebrated figure in European art and to explore Turner’s abstracted use of “light” as a means to confront philosophical and political paradigms. From our vantage point, the blurring horizon of a sunset sets the stage for a play on our perception […]

Kamil Dossar (b. 1988) is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2024). Dossar’s practice delves into the intersection of identity, visual semiotics, art history, and politics, using film, painting and installation as medium. By investigating our relationship to the image in contemporary society he seeks to renegotiate the status of the image by rearranging it into new modes of associations.

Selected solo exhibition: O-overgaden, Copenhagen (2025); Bianca D’allesandro, Copenhagen (2024); the chair by the window is an old friend, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2025); Why not here?, Wschód Warsaw (2025); MFA graduation Show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2024); Talk to Me, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen (2023).