Susan Hefuna (b. 1962) is a German-Egyptian, multidisciplinary artist who spends her life between Cairo, Düsseldorf and New York. Hefuna’s studies at the Kunstakademie in Karlsruhe were followed by a postgraduate degree in multimedia at the Institut für Neue Medien, Städelschule, Frankfurt. In 1998, she participated in the Cairo Bienniale, where she won the International Award, and in 2013, she was presented with the Contemporary Drawing Prize by the Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Paris. The artist’s works are held in many prestigious public collections including the British Museum, London; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and New York; the Louvre, Paris; MoMA, New York; the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; and Tate Modern, London. Hefuna’s oeuvre is characterised by her interests in the architectural and cultural structures that frame social interactions and expectations. Inspired by cityscapes and urban architecture, the artist’s geometric explorations into socio-political issues investigate the intersections between location, self-realisation and perception. In her practice, Hefuna questions subjectivity and the existence of multiple realities between public and private spaces.
