2016 Arnold Bode prize
Schering Stiftung Art Award
2017 Documenta 14 (group exhibition)
KW (solo show)
2016 This Lemon Tastes of apple, KOW
2015 Home Works, Kunsthalle C, Stockholm, curated by Jenny Richards
2014 MY FATHER´S COLOR PERIODS / Prometeon Gallery Milan
2012
Festival Internacional de Las Artes de Castillay
FOR A FEW SOCKS OF MARBLES / Laboratorios 987 at MUSAC, León / Spain curated by Leire Vergara
2011 AS IF IT WAS HERE LONG BEFORE / Solo show, Kunstbuero, Vienna, curated by Aneta Szylak
2010 CHICAGO BOYS WHILE WE WERE SINGING THEY WERE DREAMING / Serpentine Gallery, London
2009 QATEES / Prometeo Gallery Milan
2007 COOKING WITH MAMA / Babel lounge at the Babylon exhibition, Pargamonmuseum Berlin & United Nations Plaza, Berlin, Germany
2015
56 Venice Biennale, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor.
Freedom at the Barricades? Växjö Konsthall, Sweden. Curated by Martin Chibli
2014
Parle Pour Toi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris curated by Marie Muracciole
This Lemon Tastes of Apple, New Museum, NY
Rendez-Vous Sortie De Mon Corps, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, curated by Olivier Marboeuf
2013
Flatness, Oberhausen Film Festival, curated by Shama Khanna
Possession, Khiasma, curated by Olivier marboeuf
RENDEZ- VOUS SORTIE DE MON CORPS, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
This Lemon Tastes of Apple, Relevant Music, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
This Field is to the Sky, Only Backwards, ISCP Gallery, curated by Aneta Szylak
This Lemon Tastes of Apple, Impakt festival, Utrecht
The Reader, BAK, curated by Benjamin Fallon
Schizophnia, Synagogue de Delme, curated by Anna Colin & Sam Thorne
Video Screening, La Gallerie, Paris, curated by Emily Renard
«Have the wanderers of yesterday become today’s backpackers?» curator: Martin Schibli
2012
Materiality, Alternativa 2012, curated by Arne Hendriks, Ines Moreira, Aneta Szyłak and Leire Vergara
What the Barbarians did not do, did the Barberini, 2012 curated by Maria Alicate.
Intense Proximity, a La Triennale Paris, curated by Okwui Enwezor
Edgware Road project, Serpentine Gallery, curated by Janna Graham, London
Hayward Touring Exhibition, Hayward Gallery London 2011, curated by Karyn Culeman-Mojika
2011
Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming. Collaboration with Casco and If I Can Dance…
Studio Dispatches at Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates curated by Victoria Brooks
Estrangement, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012, co-curated with Aneta Szylak
Labor and Leisure, curated by Aneta Szylak, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012
2010
Estrangement Project, The Showroom, London, co-curated with Aneta Szylak
Chicago Boys, When We Were Singing While They Were Dreaming, Center for Possible Studies, Serpentine Gallery, London
Open Eye Award Gala, KOW Gallery, Berlin 2010
Chicago Boys, When We Were Singing They Were Dreaming, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, in the framework of Alternativa 2010-2012
Dwelling In Travel, Art Today Association, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, curated by Andrea Wiarda and Katia Anguelova
This Story Is Not Ready For Its Footnotes, X Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy curated by Pelin Uran and Camilla Pignatti Morano
2009
All that is Solid Melts into Air, City Visions, Mechelen, Organized by MuHKA, Belgium, curated by Bart de Baere
The View from Elsewhere, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane curated by Catherine Weir and Mark Nash
Cooking with Mama, Summer Drafts, Bolzano, curated by Paolo Plothegers
The Inescapable Experience of Translation, curated by Season 5, Ecole du Magazin, Grenoble, France
7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2008
Manifesta 7 The Rest of Now, X- Alumix in Bolzano, Italy, curated by Raqs Media Collective
Cooking with Mama, webcast project, Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany and 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, USA
2007
Cooking with Mama, webcast project for Intimacy, Submission, Performance Festival, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Digital Department
Cooking with Mama, webcast event for World Chat 7080 at Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
You won’t feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality and Anesthesia, curated by Aneta Szylak, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
2006/2007 Participation in The Institute for New Social Research, a project organized by the United Nations Plaza e.V., Berlin, Germany
2006 You won’t feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Rituality an Anesthesia, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany, curated by Aneta Szylak, selected for (the never realized) Manifesta 6 Exhibition as a School in Cyprus.
2015 Kunstfonds to take part at 56 Venice Biennale
2014 Göthe Institute for Chicago Boys project in Amman
2012 IFA Grant to take part in Alternativa 2012
2011 IFA Grant to make a presentation of Estrangement Project in Sazmanab, Teheran
2007 IFA, Study trip to Istanbul to pursue research for Estrangement project at Platform Garanti, Istanbul
2012 MACRO, Rome, Italy
2010 Serpentine Gallery, London, in the framework of the project, Edgware Road: Center for Possible Studies, curated by Janna Graham and Sally Tallant
2009-2010 ACC Gallery Weimar, Germany
Here And Elsewhere catalogue, New Museum 2015.
Here and Elsewhere, New Museum 2014, NY.
My Father´s Color Periods 2014, Prometeo Gallery. Edited by Aneta Szylak, Alfredo Cramerotti,Hiwa K and Francecsca Recchia
59. International Oberhausen Film Festival
Using His “Penkie” as Weapon, Jordan Times, interview with Stefan Branisavljevic
The View from Elsewhere, exhibition catalogue, edited by Fiona Egan,Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 2009, pp. 37, 86
Catalogue Intense Proximity, Palai de Tokyo, Edited by Okwui Enwezor 2012
Group Affinity publication, Kunstverein Munich, 2011
All that is Solid Melts Into Air, exhibition catalogue, ed. Dieter Roelstraete, MuHKA 2009
You won’t Feel a Thing, exhibition catalogue, ed. Christiane Mennicke, Aneta Szylak, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2007
7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2009
Hiwa K, YA5 volume 1 issue 2 June 2011 by David Knowles
Group Affinity publication, Kunstverein Munich, 2011
Catalogue students of Simon Starling class, Städelschule Frankfurt
Catalogue Intense Proximity, Palai de Tokyo, Edited by Okwui Enwezor 2012
Catalogue Manifesta 7
Estrangement, Edited by Aneta Szylak
Nicholas Blincoe, Middle Eastern Nostalgia for the 1970s, Guardian, April 19, 2010
Collin Perry, Estrangement, Art Monthly, June 10, 2010, pp. 20-21
Hiwa K, interview by Benjamin Lobko, Landings Magazine no1/2009
Drawings, A Prior Magazine, VZW no 13, 2006, pp.152-165
Monika Branicka, Nic nie poczujesz – o lęku i przestrzeni, Architektura no 1(148), 2007, p.12
Photo, Umelec magazine 2/ 2012, cover
2015 (Upcoming) MA students, Goldsmith College, London, UK
2014 Cooking with Mama, MA Raumstrategien, Weissensee
2013 Chicago Boys, Makan art space, Amman
2012
Summer Arts Intense, Sada/Echo, Iraq
We Are The Time, Rietveld Aademie, Amsterdam
2011
Affinity Group, summer school Munich Kunstverein, Germany
We Are The Time, Rietveld Aademie, Amsterdam
DAI Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, 2011The Netherlands
Forever Academy - The New DIY Art School 2011, Swansea, Wales
Hoogeschool voor Kunsten, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2010 Goldsmith College, London, UK
2009
Estrangement Workshops Amna Suraka, Aram Gallery and Sha’ab Teahouse in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil, Iraq, with Aneta Szylak
American University of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
2008 Estrangement Workshops in Art Institute in Halabja, Aram Gallery and Amna Suraka in Sulaymaniyah and Media Center in Arbil, Iraq, with Aneta Szylak
2014 Chicago Boys While We…, at Makan atr space, Amman
2012
State of Unrest Northern Iraq. no.w.here, London, UK
Chicago Boys While We Were Singing They Were Dreaming. Royal College of Art, London
We Are The Time Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
2011 Kunstverein Munich, Germany
2010
Bulegoa, Bilbao, Basque Country, with Aneta Szyłak
Centre for Possible Studies/ Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Journey With No Return Goethe Institute London, UK, with Janna Graham
Artist presentations and discussion, Chaired by David Thorp with Adrian Paci and Hiwa K, Artes Mundi Encounters, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Homeworks, Ashkal Alwan Beirut, Lebanon
Goldsmiths College, London
2009 KASK, Ghent
2008
Summer Draft, Lungomare Gallery, Bolzano
Media Centre, Arbil, Iraq