Mohammed Sami
Hostless, an exhibition of works by Mohammed Sami, opens at Fridericianum in Kassel on October 3, 2026. Following institutional exhibitions dedicated to Sami’s work in England, Italy, the Netherlands, and Ireland, the Fridericianum is now presenting the artist’s first museum exhibition in Germany.
On view through January 3, 2027, Hostless presents a new body of work by Sami, focusing predominantly on internal spaces. The paintings become a site for mnemonic processes, mental operations in which abstraction falters and something unsettling begins to seep through. Rooms become spectral containers, the interiors are literal in their unease yet evasive in meaning, trembling with a physicality that painting, as a practice, refuses to fully define. Objects behave as floating signifiers, denoting an absent violence or a memory made consumable only through distance. The formal language in his new paintings allow the ‘horror’ to become an optional element for viewers, not performed, but quietly endured, revealed through the stubborn materiality of what remains.
Hostless will later travel to S.M.A.K in Ghent (March – August 2027) and Moderna Museet in Malmo (September 2027 – February 2028).
For more information about the exhibition, please visit the Fridericianum website.