Ahmed Umar
Glass, Keramikk / Leire, Lær / Hud, Performance, Smykker, Tekstil, Tre
Ahmed Umar is an interdisciplinary artist and visual autobiographer. He have lived in Norway since arriving from Sudan in 2008 as a political refugee. Using media including ceramics, jewelry, performance, installation and photography, Umar explores the intersection of cultural traditions, religion and his life story. He graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2016 and have since developed an extensive exhibition practice, including works in the 60th Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, Biennale of Sydney, and Toronto Biennale of Art.
2025
Glowing Phalanges: Glass
Fortsettelse av Glowing Phalanges-serien hvor jeg utforsker samspillet mellom treverk og glass i 99 kunstverk. Glassdelene er produsert i samarbeid med S12 i Bergen.
2024
Truth Bears No Scandal - الواضِـح مُو فاضِـح
ُen musikalsk og performativ forskning på skeiv innflytelse i sudansk musikk og poesi i siste 100 år. Prosjektet ble bygget på feltarbeid i Kairo, der jeg intervjuet eldre sudanske LHBT-personer i eks…
2024
Talitin (The Third) تَـالِـتِن
En live performance og videoinstallasjon, basert på sudansk brudedans og dens transformasjon etter femti år med islamistisk styre.
2024
Design av kostymer for "Brudeferd i Hardanger" ballet
Design av ballet kostymer som blander elementer fra Sudan og Hallingdal.
2023
Glowing Phalanges: 99 at Kunstnernes Hus
Glowing Phalanges er en serie installasjoner som har vært under utvikling siden 2018. Serien er inspirert av mine erfaringer med å vokse opp mellom to muslimske kulturer – i Mekka og Sudan – og kontra…
2023
Identitet-Brodert
Design of a Norwegian/Sudanese bunad.
2022
Ruqyah - Invocation - رقية
Drawing installation dispalyed at Tegnerforbundet 2022 accompanying the exhibition of the Sudanese modernist Ibrahim AlSalahi.
2021
The Revolutionary Women of Sudan (The Kandakas)
A series created to honor Sudanese women in the revolution time and women who live revolutionary lives, according to the Sudanese social standards.Women in Sudan have been in the lead in every politic…
2021
Glowing Phalanges: Prayer beads 33
Sculptural installation with 33 pieces installed on a cast of my right hand.
2019
Glowing Phalanges: A prayer for each phalanx in my right hand
15 sculpture in wood, stone horn, feather, robe, limestone on a cast of my own right hand.
2019
#White-March
A selfportrait in support for the women march in Sudan during the revolution of 2018-2019
2019
Document: The massacre of Khartoum
Document with the names of the victims murdered by the military government of Sudan in 2019's revolution.
2018
Carrying the face of ugliness
Series of portraits with 8 LGBT+ people in Sudan.
2017
"Would any of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother?"
A body cast in 29 parts hanged in metal wire. Inspired by the vers ""Would any of you like to eat a dead brother’s flesh?" (49:12) from the Holy Quarn. Total size when assemeled 180x60x35cm. Earthenwa…
2017
Hijab collection within "Resilience" exhibition
The openning performance with the pieces: Hijab (Necklace) and Hijab (annual portection: in process), Gallery Format, Oslo
2017
Hijab (Annual Protection)
365 leather objects stretched on a leather cord. Total length 30 meters.
2016
What Lasts! (Sarcophagus)
A ceremonial project that consist of three ceramic sculptures: a sarcophagus, a grave and a self portrait. What Lasts (Sarcophagus): Made to fit the artist body and is 200cm long, 85cm wide, 65cm in …
2016
What Lasts! (Grave)
A ceremonial project that consist of three ceramic sculptures: a sarcophagus, a grave and a self portrait. Sculpture, 2016 earthenware, mashed paper ca 200x80x40 cm What Lasts is a work that began wh…
2016
What Lasts! (Self Portrait)
A ceremonial project that consist of three ceramic sculptures: a sarcophagus, a grave and a self portrait. A self portrait in a distrctive period. The sculpture have my body measurement and my hight.…
2016
The Hijab Collection
2016
Purification set
Purification Set is a set of abolution pottery that is used to prepare for the Muslim prayer. This kind of pottery is already vanished from the daily use as other substitutes took over. I made them ra…
2014
Thawr, Thawra (Ox, Revolution)
Thawar, Thawra is a translation to (Ox, Revolution) in Arabic. The words in Arabic are in two genders where the masculine Thawr means; an ox while the feminine Thawra means; revolution. I made this sc…
2014
Funeral Ceremony
Funeral ceremony is an homage to my father whom I lost while living in Norway. Sudanese tradition applies that a man should stand solid, not cry or show emotions when loosing someone dear. It is also …
2013
If you no longer have a family, make your own with clay!
A 60 minutes live performance. This performance is inspired by a children say from Sudan. It is often said to symbolize frustration about people who act against your good. For instance, if a cousin …
2013
Acrylic Paintings
Acrylic paintings. Size range 100x100 cm 120x150 cm. Between 2013-2016