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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

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    • Country Guitar Lessons
      2005–2010
      A collaboration with American veteran Jim White whom the artist taught to play country guitar over the course of five years
      SD video, 4:3, color, sound with English subtitles
      15:27 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • SEESAW
      2006
      SD video, 4:3, color, silent
      10:21 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Cooking with Mama
      2006
      Ongoing performance project since 2005
      SD video, 4:3, color, sound
      19:49 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Moon Calendar, Iraq
      (video still)
      2007
      SD video, 4:3, color, sound
      12:16 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Moon Calendar, Iraq
      (video still)
      2007
      SD video, 4:3, color, sound
      12:16 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • The Bell
      (video still)
      2007-2015
      2 channel video installation, SD & HD video, 16:9, color, sound with English subtitles
      35:25 minutes and 25:29 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • The Bell Project
      2007-2015
      War metal waste, wood and 2 channel video installation, SD & HD video, 16:9, color, sound with English subtitles
      35:25 minutes and 25:29 minutes

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • One Room Apartment
      Installation view: documenta 14, Athens (2017)
      2008
      Wood, cement, metal, mixed media
      644 × 332 × 684 cm

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

      Photo: Mathias Voelzke

    • Diagonal
      2009
      C-print
      133 × 200 cm

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin, and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Inappropriation
      2009
      On the artist's graduation day from the Kunsthochschule Mainz, he gathered his professors together to reveal that he had been admitted to school using someone else’s portfolio
      Performance project: SD Video, 16:9, color, sound

      Courtesy of the artist, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca

    • Qatees
      Installation view of the exhibition “Moon Calendar” at S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018)
      2009
      Mixed media installation
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy of the artist and S.M.A.K., Ghent

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