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ihsan saad ihsan tahir
(b. 1995, Iraq/Denmark)
︎︎︎Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders
ihsan saad ihsan tahir
(b. 1995, Iraq/Denmark)
︎︎︎Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders
ihsan saad ihsan tahir works across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, producing works that revolve around notions of class, cross-cultural exchange, displacement and masculinity.
The Iraqi-Danish artist’s practice practice often examines narratives of migration, modern literature, personal histories and language, how we exchange these themes and how our relation to factuality is formed by those exchanges. He holds an MFA from both The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Goldsmiths University of London.
ihsan’s work is at once unpolished and serene, contextual codes and encrypted visuals - typically circulated in the mass media - is cut out from their original surroundings and brought together in classic sculptural form. He associates differing symbols and subjects, plucking text and common icons to offer new connotations, countercultures and constitutive representations. ihsan attempts to reveal and challenge the ways in which we tend to accept existing portrayals and tropes in present-day.
Selected exhibitions were held at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London; SKAL Contemporary, Skagen; Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot (all 2025); Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Minor Gallery (both Copenhagen, 2025); Wilson Saplana Gallery; Collega (both Copenhagen, 2024); 13 Vitrine, Lausanne; Aarhus Kunsthal; Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (all 2024); Den Frie; Alice Folker Gallery; GAS9 Gallery; Charlottenborg; GL STRAND (all Copenhagen, 2023); Vejen Kunstmuseum (2023); Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Haveselskabets Have; Gallery Anti (both Copenhagen, 2021); Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen; Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg (both 2020); Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Inujima (2018), among others.
ihsan’s work is at once unpolished and serene, contextual codes and encrypted visuals - typically circulated in the mass media - is cut out from their original surroundings and brought together in classic sculptural form. He associates differing symbols and subjects, plucking text and common icons to offer new connotations, countercultures and constitutive representations. ihsan attempts to reveal and challenge the ways in which we tend to accept existing portrayals and tropes in present-day.
Selected exhibitions were held at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London; SKAL Contemporary, Skagen; Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot (all 2025); Kunsthal Charlottenborg; Minor Gallery (both Copenhagen, 2025); Wilson Saplana Gallery; Collega (both Copenhagen, 2024); 13 Vitrine, Lausanne; Aarhus Kunsthal; Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (all 2024); Den Frie; Alice Folker Gallery; GAS9 Gallery; Charlottenborg; GL STRAND (all Copenhagen, 2023); Vejen Kunstmuseum (2023); Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen (2022); Haveselskabets Have; Gallery Anti (both Copenhagen, 2021); Gallery Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen; Kunsthal Ved Siden Af, Svendborg (both 2020); Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Inujima (2018), among others.
Installation view: THINGS FALL APART (2025) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
WESTERN SUNRISE (2025) at SKAL Contemporary, Denmark.
Installation view: WESTERN SUNRISE (2025) at SKAL Contemporary, Denmark.
WESTERN SUNRISE (the fifth column) (2025), acetate, cardboard, hot glue, tape and wood.
THINGS FALL APART (2024) at Aarhus Kunsthal, Aarhus, Denmark.