Dina Danish

Dina Danish (born 1981) is a French-born Egyptian artist who lives and works in Amsterdam.

Biography Danish was born in Paris, grew up in Cairo and received a BA from the American University in Cairo and a MFA from the California College of the Arts. Her work, which incorporates various media including sculpture, photographs and video, has appeared in exhibitions at , De Appel Art Centre in Amsterdam, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art She appeared on the short list for the 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize.

Her work is held in the collections of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Nomas Foundation, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Modern Art. A Place in the Sun, Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo, Egypt (2016); Dictated But Not Read, Supplement Gallery, London (2015); To Be A Pinball, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy (2015); Double Bubble Gum, Galerie Barbara Seiler, Zurich (2013); Re-Play: Back in 10 Minutes, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy (2012); A Matter of Time, Galerie Barbara Seiler, Zurich (2011). Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Kunsthall Oslo, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) in Cairo in collaboration with Kunsthalle Bern, and at Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, and she performed Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonata at the Cairo Pavilion of the Amsterdam Biennial.

The Admirer and The Admired In 2016, Dina Danish collaborated with Jean-Baptiste Maitre on a series called The Admirer and The Admired. The project dives into the way artefacts relate to their displays. The Admirer and The Admired studies the way that objects from foreign cultures are often left out of major museum exhibits and how the subtle visuals of an exhibit are the first thing that audiences notice when viewing an exhibition. Danish and Maitre did extensive research and development while working on this series. They began the collaboration after recognizing a common interest in the way that forms are displayed and arranged in different museum spaces. The exhibition has been put on at both Tyson in Cologne and at the Institute of Art History at LMU Munich.