Eye Of The Collector : Afifa Aleiby, Sara Berman, Rebecca Brodskis, Amy Beager, Soheila Sokhanvari, Richard Stone

17 May – 20 May

Eye Of The Collector
Afifa Aleiby, Sara Berman, Rebecca Brodskis, Amy Beager, Soheila Sokhanvari, Richard Stone
Afifa Aleiby

Afifa Aleiby (b.1953) is an Iraqi artist who was born in the city of Basra, in the utmost southern part of Iraq. She took up her studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad while working as an illustrator for the Iraqi press, before leaving Iraq for the Soviet Union in 1974 to study and specialize in monumental art at the renowned Suikuv Institute in Moscow. Due to the political situation in Iraq, she was unable to return to her native country after the completion of her studies and decided to move to Italy and later back to Moscow, before settling in Yemen to work as a teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts in Aden, where she also illustrated children’s books and magazines. Aleiby has since been living and working in the Netherlands and continues to contribute to a great deal of cultural activities in support of the Iraqi and international democratic movement, in the struggle against terrorism, racism, war and dictatorship. Having not returned to her native country for 35 years, she has built a strong connection to every country she has lived in since leaving Iraq, both in a cultural and personal sense. Her connection to humanity and different cultures has led to solidarity transcending geographical and cultural borders becoming an important theme in her work. Bringing together different influences from Renaissance painting to religious icons and social realism, she uses the female figure as a recurring motif to reflect beauty, taste, politics and society.
- Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, USA (2024); Timeless Echoes, Zawyeh Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2023); Rivers Converging, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Landmarks of Estrangement, Picasso Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (2021); The Echo of Time, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Re-Existence, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2018); Boushahri Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2017); Boushahri Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2014); De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, The Netherlands (2014);Boushahri Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2010); Gallery Prima Vista, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2008); Galleria Tornabuoni, Florence, Italy (2008); Zink Exposities, Bergen, The Netherlands (2008); Transit Art, Amersfoort, The Netherlands (2008); Arabic Cultural Centre, Brussels, Belgium (1999).
  
  Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (20239; (Upcoming) Eye of the Collector Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Art Dubai with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2023), Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2022-23); Art Dubai, UAE (2022); 'Untitled Miami Beach', with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Miami, USA (2022); When Images Speak: Highlights from the Dubai Collection, Etihad Museum (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 at MOMA PS1, NY (2019-2020); Beirut Biennale, Beirut, Lebanon (2000); Fortezza S. Francesco. Omaggio a Dilvio Lotti, San Miniato, Italy (1997); Het Veen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1997); Sale Topical, omaggio Gino Severini, Montespertoli, Italy (1995); Centro culturale Studio Palazzo, Festival dei due mondi, Spoleto, Italy (1993); Folklore Museum, Damascus, Syria (1986); Arabic Culture Centre, Damasco, Syria (1982).
- Highlights and collections
  Afifa Aleiby's work was shown at the 2022 Singapore Biennale. Furtermore, her work can be found in prominent public and private collections such as the Azman Museum's collection, Farjam Foundation, Rana Sadik Collection, The Bunker Artspace Museum (USA) and Barjeel Foundation. In addition, she has participated in numerous exhibitions throughout her career, from Baghdad and Moscow to Yemen, Italy, Syria, Lebanon, England and the United States as a representative of the artistic and cultural face of the Iraqi civilization.
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- Afifa Aleiby, Under the lemon tree, 2023
- Afifa Aleiby, Mandoline, 2006
Sara Berman

Sara Berman (b. 1975, UK) received a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999 after which she founded and ran her eponymous fashion brand for 15 years. In 2016 Sara Berman graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with a MFA in Painting. Berman’s background in fashion influenced her visual arts practice through the use of various textures, layers, mathematical geometry, pattern and materiality. In her work Berman examines how people see and define themselves through the relationships with their clothes, belongings and the spaces they occupy. The character in Sara Berman’s work is inspired by the trope of the female Harlequin in her ascribed role of the Trickster Whore. Through this character Berman explores space and the role of the feminine within it.
- Solo Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2024); (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2023); The Armory Show NYC, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York (2022); Taking Space, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Double Ententre, Anat Ebgi, LA (2018); Between Community and commerce, Site specific installation ZAZ10TS Time Square, NYC (2018); Matter Out Of Place, 93 Baker St. London, Frieze (2018) and Big Cactus Little Cactus, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2017).
  
  Group Exhibitions include (Upcoming) Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2023); (Upcoming) Miart Art Fair, with Gallery Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy (2023); (Upcoming) Eye of the Collector Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); (Upcoming), Perpetual Portrait, Vielmetter Los Angeles, USA (2023); Untitled Miami, Art Fair, Miami, USA (2022); Home is where the Art is, De Kunsthal, Rotterdam (2022); Armoured, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2022) ; Like there is hope and I can dream of another world, Hospital Rooms in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK (2022); Untitled Art Fair, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery booth, Miami, US (2021); Summer Exhibition 2021, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2021); Art + Psychiatric Intensive Care, Hospital Rooms, London (2021); Enter Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Supastore, NIDA Art Colony, Lithuania (2020); Scene Unscene, Gallery 46, London (two person show) (2020); We Could Apply Our Lipstick, C&C Gallery, London (2020); Isolated Observations, Candida Stevens Gallery, Sussex (2020); Cure3 exhibition, Bonhams, London (2020); Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (2019); Hauser and Wirth Hospital Rooms Fundraising Auction, London (2019); Think In Pictures with Amelchenko Curated by John Newsom Orchard Street, New York (2019); Solitaire, Sapar Contemporary NYC (two person show) (2018); Dark Wood, Transition Gallery, London (2017); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017); Young Gods, Charlie Smith Gallery (2017) and Topophobophilia, Gallery 46, London (2016).
- Highlights and collections
  Sara Berman was the recipient of the 2015 BP Portrait Award that showcased fifty-five of the most outstanding and innovative portraits around the world. Berman’s work can be found in the collection of The House of KOKO, London; The Poort Visser collection, Netherlands; The Maison Estelle, London, UK; The RO2 Art Collection and the Montparnasse collection, Canada. Sara continues to be involved in the Hospital Room projects here in London and is in the current exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, London with Hospital Rooms.
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- Sara Berman, Blue Dress, 2022
- Sara Berman, Tension, 2022
Rebecca Brodskis

Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins in London, graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology, focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis. Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves between conscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on existence, the self and the otherness. A prominent idea throughout Brodski’s work is that of being in an in-between: intermediate space at the cross-roads of empirical reality and imagination, order and disorder, materialism and spirituality, determinism and freedom.
- Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach (2024); Let’s talk about you and me, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2022); (Upcoming), Cuturi Gallery, Singapore (2022); The Passengers, Koenig zwei gallery, Vienna, Austria (2022); équilibres, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne (2022); Effet Mirroir, Septieme Gallery, Paris, France (2021); La danse de l’absurde, Galeria Anna Marra, Rome (2021); Arrêt Sur Image, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Tomorrow Is Another Day, Steve Turner LA (2020); Fragments of Life, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2020); Galeriste with Hors Cadre, Paris (2019); Septième Galerie, Paris (2019); Unsettled disorders, Canopy Gallery, Netanya (2019); Dépendance, Gallery Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin (2019) and Drifting Singularities, Sputnik Gallery, Tel Aviv (2017).
  
  Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) The Armory Show, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York City, USA (2023); (Upcoming) Eye of the Collector, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); (Upcoming), African Arty, Casablanca, Morocco (2023); (Upcoming) Dallas Art Fair, with Fabienne Levy Gallery, Dallas, USA (2023); Art Genève, with Fabienne Levy Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland (2023); Le Centre, Cotonou, Bénin (2022); RAW in collaboration with Daniel Lippitsch; Vacancy Gallery; Shanghai, China (2022-2023); Untitled Miami Beach, Art Fair, Miami, USA (2022); Artissima Art Fair, Fabienne Levy Gallery, Italy (2022); Home is where de art is, De Kunsthal, Rotterdam (2022); Taking Back the Looking-Glass, SEPTIEME Gallery, Paris, France (2022); Art Dubai, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2022); Uprising, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany (2022); W Art Foundation, China (2022); Art Paris Fair, Septieme Gallery, Paris (2021); Art Rotterdam Fair, Galeria Anna Marra, Rotterdam(2021); Io, cassina projects, Milan (2021); Entre-acte, Selebe Yoon, Dakar, Senegal (2021); (Upcoming) Cuturi Gallery, Singapore (2021); Art Genève, Lara Sebdon, Geneva (2021); Tête à Tête Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Nevlunghavn, Norway (2021); Enter Art Fair, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2020); Endless summer, galerie Sabine bayasli, Paris (2020); Limbo, everyday gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2020); Art Paris Fair, Septieme Gallery, Paris (2020); Constellations, Galerie du 6b- St-Denis, France (2019); Where we once were, Yngspc (2019); Interférence, Le Studio, Paris (2018); Five French artists, Primitive Showroom, Tel Aviv (2017); Human factor, Ori art space, Berlin (2016) and Disfiguring, figuring the unfigurable Kelenföldi Erömü, Budapest (2015).
- Highlights and Collections
  Her work can be found in prominent private and public collections which include Huma Kabaki collection, Alan Lo Collection (Hong Kong); Museum Azman Collection (Malaysia); Pamela and David Hornik Collection (USA); Selebe Yoon Collection (Senegal); The Bunker Artspace Museum (USA); Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Israel); Zeifang Collection (Germany); Xiao Hui Wang Art Museum, Suzhou (China); W Art Foundation (China); SUSU collection (China); Arndt Collection (Germany/Australia); AMMA Collection (Mexico) and The RO2 Art Collection (USA).
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- Rebecca Brodskis, Elisheva, 2022
- Rebecca Brodskis, Emouna, 2022
Soheila Sokhanvari

Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose multidisciplinary work weaves layers of political histories with bizarre, mysterious and often humorous narratives that she leaves open to viewers to complete. Sokhanvari, a studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre (since 2013), received her BA in Art History and Fine Arts from Anglia Ruskin University in 2005, a postgraduate diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2006 and an MFA from Goldsmiths College in 2011. She has recently been the recipient of the Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship at British School at Rome (Oct-Dec 2018) and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East.
- Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark (2024); (Upcoming) Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge University, Cambridge (2024); Rebel, Rebel, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK (2022); Addicted to Love, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2019); Salam Salam, Installation commissioned by the Magic of Persia Foundation (2018); LDWN, installation at Victoria Station, London, a collaboration between the Tate Collective and City Hall (2018), the travelling group show “I AM” Jordan, London and The USA (2018); Homeland at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany (2017); Paradise Lost, Jerwood Project Space, London (2017).
  
  Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) In the Eye of the Collector, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Realism, Dastan Gallery at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, England (2023); The NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2020-2021); Devil’s in the Detail, Kristin Hjellegjerde, London, UK (2020-2021); Drawing Together, Martin Hall Gallery of Loughborough University, UK (2020); 20 for 2020, New Arts Gallery, Walsall (2020); Dr T Frangenberg's Collection, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK (2020); LDN WMN, Foyle’s Gallery, London (2019); Atelier 34zero Museum Collection, BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland (2019); Imago Mundi, Trieste, at Salone deglie Incanti, Italy (2018); Crossroads Art Fair, London (2016); Champagne Life at Saatchi Gallery, London (2016), where she showed her iconic piece Moje Sabz; The Armory Show, New York (2015); Hey, I’m Mr. Poetic at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2014); Editions at Edge of Arabia, Jeddah (2014); The Future Can Wait with Channel 4’s New Sensations at Saatchi Gallery, London (2013).
- Highlights and Collections
  Soheila Sokhanvari has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2015, the The Future Can Wait in 2013, in Catlin Prize in 2012, exTRAct, Copenhagen, in 2011 and The Young Gods.
  Sokhanvari’s work can be found in international private and public collections, including the Government Art Collection (UK), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), Newark Museum of Art, Newark (USA); National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK), the Bunker Artspace Museum (USA), Easton Capital/John Friedman Collection (USA), Frank Cohen Collection (UK), Benjamin Khalili Collection (USA), Shahriar Maleki Collection (UK) and Saatchi Gallery Collection (UK); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK); The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge (UK); The Bagri Foundation, London (UK); Dangxia Foundation, (China) The Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (UK).
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- Soheila Sokhanvari, She's a Rainbow (Portrait of Shoorangiz Tabatabaee) , 2023
- Soheila Sokhanvari, I Will Greet The Sun Again (Portrait of Pouran Shapoori) , 2023
Richard Stone

Richard Stone (b. 1974) is a London-based artist who received his MA from Central Saint Martins, London. Each of Stone’s works are an arrested moment between stillness and movement; together they form an idiosyncratic viewpoint on the history of art and human experience. Themes Stone returns to include the exploration of masculinity in historic sculpture from a contemporary perspective, through to a universal sensuality of form and colour in painting and an exposition of the tensions in dichotomies such as presence/absence and historic/contemporary. Recent sculptural works have included a series of marble flags that articulate the continued relevance of beauty in classical materials alongside works that draw on the symbolism of the horse. His recent sculptural paintings similarly oscillate between classical and contemporary concerns for form and colour, where each work possesses a specific sense of movement and is accented with a monochrome or intense colour hue that reflects a mood or suggests a sensation.
- Solo exhibitions include the knight divided, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2022); everywhen, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2017); in the shape of centuries, James Freeman Gallery, London (2015); gleam, Kristin Hjellegjerde, London (2014); the end of england, Galleries Goldstein, London (2012); new portrait capes, The Horse Hospital, London (2012); and a walk at dusk and dawn, Burgh House (2012).
  
  Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Eye of the Collector, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2023); Untitled Miami Beach, with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Miami, USA (2022); Nature Morte, Rowe Gallery, US (2022); Art Paris, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Paris (2022); Under a Serene Sky, CoBra Gallery, Shanghai; Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2021); Westbund Art Fair, Shanghai with CoBra Gallery (2021); Quickenings, James Freeman Gallery, London (2021); A Splendour among Shadows (with Lorena García Mateu), Kristin Hjellegjerde, London (2020); All the Days and Nights, Kristin Hjellegjerde, London (2020); Art Dubai (2019); Skulpturegarten, Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, Austria (2018); Art Brussels with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2018); Kunstsalon Perchtoldsdorf, Burg Perchtoldsdorf, Austria with Brunnhofer Galerie (2018); Sweep~Landskip, Kinokino, Sandnes, Norway, curated by Roberto Ekholm (2018); Guildhall, London (2018); Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Dora House, London, curated by Jo Baring, Director of the Ingram Collection (2018) and Imago Mundi, Triestre, Salone degli Incanti, Italy (2018); The Four Domes Pavilions, National Museum of Wrocław (2017); Volta Basel with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2017); Volta Basel with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2016); London Art Fair with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2016); Konsthallen - Bohusläns, Sweden (2016); Ha gamle prestegard, Norway (2015).
- Highlights and collections. Richard Stone’s works can be found in prominent collections in the UK, Europe and the United States. He has been published alongside Vija Celmins, Kris Martin and Gabriel Orozco and exhibited with Matt Collishaw, Derek Jarman and Michael Raedecker. He has an MA from Central Saint Martins and has been awarded and shortlisted for numerous awards and residencies, including Art Council England Grant for the Arts, the Brian Mercer Bronze Scholarship and Residency, and the Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture.
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- Richard Stone, mirrored by the moon (Selene), 2023
- Richard Stone, the knight divided i , 2022

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Eye Of The Collector : Afifa Aleiby, Sara Berman, Rebecca Brodskis, Amy Beager, Soheila Sokhanvari, Richard Stone

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