Dan Jakubowski

Dan Jakubowski is an independent scholar who writes about contemporary visual culture in Africa and the Middle East. He lived in Cairo for three years, where he researched his dissertation exploring Egyptian video art and its reception in a globalized read more

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exhibition reviews • 12 min read

Wael Shawky’s sculptural works bring the bizarre, violent world of his films into the present

Dan Jakubowski | On 3 recent solo exhibitions of Wael Shawky’s work in Germany, Denmark and Italy

10 August 2018

exhibition reviews • 12 min read

A conflict of urban imaginaries: Ahmed Mater explores a brutally changing city in Mecca Journeys

Dan Jakubowski | Mecca Journeys captures the the marked dichotomies of Mecca’s recent explosive growth

19 April 2018

visual art • 12 min read

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz’s diversionary model of history fits our catastrophic moment

Dan Jakubowski | Strange marginal curiosities can help us detect a larger truth like the bending light around a black

14 October 2017

visual art • 33 min read

Moments of turmoil are daily latencies made visible: A conversation with Hassan Khan

Dan Jakubowski | The Egyptian artist's Composition in a Public Park won the Sliver Lion at this year's Venice Biennale

29 August 2017

visual art • 10 min read

Don’t Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet: The works of Iraqi artist Hiwa K

Dan Jakubowski | Encountering abominations with gaiety, interrogating the body’s openness dominance by outside forces

26 July 2017

visual art • 22 min read

Distressed and homeless in Athens, settled but compromised in Kassel: On documenta 14

Dan Jakubowski | Dan Jakubowski navigates institutional ethics and painfully human art

19 July 2017

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