But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise

  • Susan Hefuna, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Guggenheim, 2016, Book Cover
  • Susan Hefuna, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, Guggenheim, 2016, Book Back Cover

(NEW YORK, NY—January 28, 2016)—From April 29 to October 5, 2016, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present “But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise”, the third exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative. Organized by Sara Raza, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Middle East and North Africa, the exhibition will feature work by a broad selection of artists that illuminates contemporary creative practice in the region and its diaspora. Following its presentation in New York, the exhibition will travel to the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2017.

Artists represented in the exhibition include, with additional artists to be announced:

• Abbas Akhavan
• Kader Attia
• Ergin Çavuşoğlu
• Mariam Ghani
• Rokni Haerizadeh
• Susan Hefuna
• Iman Issa
• Nadia Kaabi-Linke
• Mohammed Kazem
• Ahmed Mater
• Ala Younis