KARIM NOURELDIN

ARTIST STATEMENT & BIO

Karim Noureldin is a Swiss-Egyptian Visual Artist, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. After studies at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK / Zurich University of the Arts and graduate of Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW / Academy of Art and Design Basel, he since works in the field of drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures and large site-specific installations in a variety of private and public environments as well as contemporary art galleries and international museums, as Studio Karim Noureldin collaborating with architects in various Art & Architecture projects.

Notable and recents exhibition projects include at Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi (2023); The Sculpture Park, Jaipur (2023); Museum für konkrete Kunst MKK, Ingolstadt (2020); Museum für Kunst und Kultur – Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster (2018); von Bartha, Basel (2018, 2012, 2009); Ribot arte contemporanea, Milan (2018); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2022, 2018, 2017); Le musée des beaux-arts Cambrai, Cambrai (2016); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain MAMCO, Geneva (2015, 2007); MAH Musée Rath, Geneva (2010); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2007); Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2004); Lucas Schoormans, New York (2002, 1998); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2002, 1998); Mark Müller, Zurich (1999) and Holly Solomon, New York (1994).

Eight, 2024 Mixed Media, Site specific installation 250 x 800 x 100cm

Courtesy the Artist & Ortigia Contemporanea

Installed in the courtyard of „Antico Mercato“, the site-specific installation „Eight“ by Swiss artist

Karim Noureldin, contrasts with its polychromatic, ornamental structure to the architecture of

„Antico Mercato“ and its materiels, red granit, black lava and beige sand stone. The large wall

display, set as a visual sign when entering the site with its center fountain, is seen from all four

sides of the courtyard and its surrounding arcades, transforming the open area of „Antico

Mercato“ into a new spacial and, artistic environment. Karim Noureldin works in the field of

drawings, paintings, photos, sculptures and large site-specific installations in a variety of private

and public environments as well as contemporary art galleries and international museums,

collaborating often with architects in various Art & Architecture projects.