Mediamatic.net - Ayman Ramadan

at my studio

Born in 1980 in the Nile Delta, Ayman moved to Cairo in 1998. In 1999 he started working for Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo. It was around this time that he started producing work. Informed by his immediate surroundings, Ramadan’s work spans an extraordinary breadth of media and influences, from Minimalist sculpture to photography, video, and performance, often involving residents of downtown Cairo. Since 2001 he has had six solo exhibitions at the Townhouse Gallery and has exhibited his work in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Ramadan’s video work Iftar was screened at Tate Modern in London, and his installation Baladi Bus was part of a group exhibition at Kunstmuseum, Bonn. He is currently studying art and living in Amsterdam& Cairo.
residency at the Rijksakademei

Hekaya, by Ayman Ramadan-

Installation, 2008

Baladi Bus, by Ayman Ramadan-

Baladi Bus and Coffee Shop were originally shown at the Townhouse Gallery as part of Ayman Ramadan’s 2004 solo exhibition entitled Baladi.

Cairo from the sky-

9/6/2010

40 Day walk-

Performance, street art (spray paint), photographic documentation thereof

Mirrors-

Installation with mixed-media and audio

studio of Mirrors-

In Mirrors, the first of his two projects for Mapping for Tourists, Ayman functions as a collector of negative space; his observations and interpretations are based on what has been consciously discarded by others. These remains say just as much to him about the locals of Amsterdam Noord who once owned these objects, as if he could see which possessions to them have been worth keeping in their homes, also thereby what they identify with.