The seductive surfaces in Kamil Dossar's (1988, DK) enigmatic films, paintings, and sculptures grow from dire questions of masculinity, migration, and monstrous or outcast, even invisible identities.
In his first large-scale institutional solo exhibition, launching at O—Overgaden in late autumn 2025, Dossar's point of departure is his position as an ethnically minoritized man with an Iraqi and Hungarian background. Employing AI and "deep fake" technologies, a video turns the musician in a classical Bach piano concerto into a monster. Commenting on the apparent benevolence of the classical music that has become the backbone of European culture, this gesture hints at the link between the divertissement of the ruling class and colonial brutality and oppression. Meanwhile, grand-scale, living cityscapes in Iraq show locals transformed into reptilian creatures—a personal and intimate landscape mirroring Dossar's own experience of alienation, confronting ideas of Western orientalism, and identity and its erasure.
Kamil Dossar, 2025. Photo: Josefine Seifert
Kamil Dossar (b. 1988, DK) is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2024) and lives and works in Copenhagen. Dossar’s upcoming solo exhibition at O—Overgaden marks the culmination of his participation in the one-year postgraduate program, INTRO 2025, supported generously by the Louis-Hansen Foundation. He has previously exhibited at venues including Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen (2024, 2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2024, 2022); Andersen’s, Copenhagen (2023); Annual Reportt, Copenhagen (2021); and New Release, New York (2016). Dossar has been awarded the Poul Erik Bech Foundation’s Art Prize (2024) and the Blix Foundation’s Special Honorary Prize (2024).
The exhibition is supported by:
- Aage Og Johanne Louis Hansens Fond