Mophradat creates opportunities for artists from the Arab world through an inventive approach to funding, commissioning, collaborating, and gathering. Its way of working is imaginative and ambitious, inclusive and hospitable. Mophradat encourages and supports artists by bringing them together with one another and with curators and institutions which share progressive socio-political values. Between 2015 and 2019, it enabled the presentation of artworks and projects by more than 300 artists, connected with 2,000 young Arab artists around the world, and curated 15 exhibitions and events at partner organizations in Europe and the US.
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1. Haig Aivazian, All of The Lights, exhibition view, at Renaissance Society, part of Mophradat's Consortium Commissions, 2021. Image courtesy of Renaissance Society.
2. K-OH-llective, digital image, 2020, participants in Mophradat's Self Organizations program, Image courtesy of the artists.
Mophradat's venue in Athens, photo courtesy of Zoe Hatziyannaki.
Ungendering Language Online Retreat, April 2021, screenshot, Courtesy of Mophradat.
WhyCallItLabor? On Motherhood and Art Work, book cover, 2020.
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Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.