Kleiner Brauner Lookbook 2024 “It started with me reading a menu in a Viennese coffeehouse and unexpectedly finding myself.” Conceived of as wearable sculptures that travel, Brishty Alam’s Kleiner Brauner series is an ongoing celebration of identity and process of claiming space. Working with dye and color palettes tuned especially for her complexion, the custom […]
KB2024 2024, open edition Exhibited at Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria, Lady Liberty Library, Berlin, Ve.Sch & Air101, Gmunden. Photos by Flavio Palasciano & Martin Vesely.
Another white solid2023 Exhibited at the Office, Vienna. Photos by Sophie Pölzl.
Kleiner Brauner*2022–2024 As my German got better, I was reading the menu in a Viennese coffeehouse and unexpectedly found myself Limited edition available at Wien Museum MUSA. Kleiner Brauner Lookbook commissioned by Palais des Beaux Arts. Exhibited at Lady Liberty Library, Berlin, Ve.Sch & the Office. Pictured: Aaron Amar Bhamra, Ava Binta Giallo, Richard Kangethe, […]
Oily fish2020 Exhibited at viennacontemporary ZONE1, (2023). Photos by Sophie Pölzl & Brishty Alam.
Heavy Weight Wre-ster-ler2021–2023 Exhibited at SET Kensington, London, (2024) and Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art, (2023). Photos by Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna, Brishty Alam & Katherine Waters.
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Kleiner Brauner (embroidery) 2022–2023 Exhibited at ZONE1, Vienna Contemporary, Galerie Wonnerth Dejaco, (2023) and GOMO, Vienna, (2023). Photos by Sophie Pölzl & Brishty Alam.
The Ass in the Tiger’s skin2023 the tiger’s mightthe ass’ sinthe tiger might have skinned herselfa rug a cape a cloak a clawa hidden beasta broken law excoriated second skinhung upon the wretch’s flesh the wretched stretchof dermis drawn abraded thinuntil the light creeps sight seeps in there lies the braying fool within Elliot Lewis@elliotlllewis […]
Family Meeting 2016–2023 Exhibited at GOMO, Vienna (2023) and Kunsthaus Hamburg (2017). Photos by Sophie Pölzl.