Nadim Abbas (born 1980 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

) is a

installation artist.

Biography

Abbas received his BFA from London's

Chelsea College of Art & Design Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further education, further ...

and MPhil from the University of Hong Kong Department of Comparative Literature. He teaches at the City University Hong Kong School of Creative Media and the Hong Kong Art School/ RMIT University.

Work

Abbas's practice includes heavily-researched installation and sculptural works that play on the psychological patterns of everyday objects and kitsch. His work draws thematic inspiration from literature, science and psychology. His first solo exhibition was the "Cataract" at Experimenta, on 2010. Other works included are "Marine Lover" at ART HK 11, and a collaboration with

Saamlung Gallery Robin Peckham is an arts writer, gallerist and curator based in Hong Kong. In 2011, Peckham founded the Saamlung Gallery in Hong Kong, which closed two years later. He is the youngest exhibitor to be included in the Art Futures portion of the 2012 H ...

on a project for the 2012 Hong Kong International Art Fair. For Art Basel Hong Kong in 2014, Abbas was invited by Absolut to collaborate on an "art bar", an art installation doubling as a pop up bar during Art Basel fairs around the world. Abbas' concept called "Apocalypse Postponed" drew inspiration from Science Fiction films, 20th century military architecture and defensive plans such as The Atlantic Wall and the Swiss National Redoubt, creating a bunker-like environment, constructed from sand bags, with blacked-out windows within a 7000 square foot space.

References

External links

Nadim Abbas's website

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