open studio

IMRAN CHANNA

meet & eat with the artist

Tuesday, 22/10/2024, 4-8 pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

Imran Channa, 2024 © philomena+, photo: Toqa Eissa

Between October and November 2024 Imran Channa is on an artist residency at philomena+. On Tuesday, 22 October 2024, between 4 and 8 pm, Imran Channa invites visitors to his temporary studio and provides insights into his preparations for A Fable for Tomorrow, an exhibition in collaboration with Kateryna Lysovenko that will open during Vienna Art Week. Visitors to his studio will not only be transported into a speculative future, but will also have the opportunity to taste culinary specialities prepared by the artist himself, who is a passionate cook. 

artist

IMRAN CHANNA

Imran Channa (*in Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan, lives and works in Amsterdam) studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in the Netherlands. His work deals with the power and politics of storytelling and how the act of storytelling creates information and misinformation. He explores this theme through the lens of archives, architecture, artefacts, film and technology. He uses drawing, painting, moving images, installations and digital technology as a means to explore this mechanism of power and its influence on shaping social consciousness. Imran Channa’s work has been shown worldwide in numerous museums, galleries, art fairs and media art festivals in the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Israel, UAE, Algeria, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Pakistan.

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