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Teresa Solar Abboud

Kunstverein Hannover

Hannover

Nov 29, 2025–Mar 1, 2026

Installation view of Teresa Solar Abboud at Kunstverein Hannover

Sophienstraße 2

Hannover

Kunstverein Hannover is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Teresa Solar Abboud in Germany, dedicating space to a pivotal moment in her artistic work. The exhibition Self-Portrait as a Pregnant Woman brings together a number of key works and introduces two new commissions: an expansion of the Tuneladora series and a new group of self-portraits that give the exhibition its title.

Teresa Solar Abboud works across large-scale sculpture, delicate drawing, and video. Her works interpret material entities as states of transformation—situated between the organic and the synthetic, the interior and the exterior, the embryonic and the mature. These tensions do not suggest opposites but evoke a non-dualistic, processual reality.

Installation view of Teresa Solar Abboud at Kunstverein Hannover
Installation Views: 1 of 4
Sculpture by Teresa Solar Abboud

Teresa Solar Abboud

Self-portrait, 2025

Sculpture by Teresa Solar Abboud

Teresa Solar Abboud

Tunnel Boring Machine (Atlantic Ridge Multiplicity), 2025

Sculpture by Teresa Solar Abboud

Teresa Solar Abboud

Tunnel Boring Machine, 2025

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Teresa Solar Abboud: Self-Portrait as a Pregnant Woman

Video by Robin Alberding

Sculpture by Teresa Solar Abboud

Teresa Solar Abboud

Tunnel Boring Machine, 2026

Installation view of Teresa Solar Abboud at Kunstverein Hannover
Installation Views: 1 of 3
Portrait of Teresa Solar Abboud

Teresa Solar Abboud’s work spans sculpture, drawing, and video, and is rooted in a fragmented narration of the contemporary world. Rather than proposing a singular, overarching vision, it evokes multiple bodies, events, and histories perceived only in part, which together form a mosaic-like universe.

Solar Abboud occupies space with works of varying scale and materiality: clay, found objects, and human-made symbols coexist within her installations. In her practice, she alludes to material entities in states of transformation and to the tension between seemingly opposing concepts such as the organic and the synthetic, the interior and the exterior, or infrastructure and organism, bringing them into coexistence. She approaches these relationships through an organic sensibility, as if they were bodily functions, while simultaneously foregrounding the complex systems of interdependence that structure the industrial world, where hybrid forms of existence continuously emerge.

Learn about the artist
Self Portrait as a Pregnant Woman | Lehmann Maupin