* 1966 Saida, Lebanon. Lives in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photos and information in UiU and Nafas:

Ici, ailleurs

Exhibition part of Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture. 12 January - 7 April 2013, Tour-Panorama, Marseille.
By Bérénice Saliou

Arab Express

The Latest Art from the Arab World. 16 June - 28 Oct. 2012, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. 34 participants from 10 countries. Extensive photo tour.
July 2012

dOCUMENTA (13), 2012

9 June - 16 Sept. 2012 in Kassel, Germany. Artistic director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Photo tour: Untere Karlsstr. 14.

Home Workspace

Ashkal Alwan’s art education program: incubator, research hub, living archive and production fund.
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
January 2012

Akram Zaatari: Grand Prize

Akram Zaatari has been awarded the Grand Prize of the 17th Internat. Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil.
November 2011

Southern Panoramas

30 Sept. - 11 Dec. 2011, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil. Videos, performances, installations, objects, paintings, photographs, etc. by 101 artists. General curator: Solange Farkas. Part of the 17th SESC_Videobrasil International Contemporary Art Festival.

Seeing is believing

Works that serve to oppose media images by means of other images. Group exhibition at KW Berlin, curated by Susanne Pfeffer.
September 2011

Told / Untold / Retold

One of the 3 exhibitions on the occasion of the Mathaf opening in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 2010 - May 2011. Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath.

Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa

28 Nov. 2010 - 13 March 2011. Ex Ospedale Sant’Agostino, Modena, Italy. Curator: Filippo Maggia, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena. 21 artists.

On the Politics of Art and Space in Beirut

Locating the manifestation spaces of a dynamic art scene.
By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
August 2009

Akram Zaatari

The Documentary Turn. Zaatari's multi-strand approach that defines his practice as ‘field work’.
By Suzanne Cotter
April 2009

Art Dubai, Sharjah Biennial

In 2009, Art Dubai and the Sharjah Biennial coincided for the first time. Photos and information.
March 2009

Beirut Art Center

New platform for contemporary art in Lebanon with 1,500 m2 of space, located in an industrial area. Opening exhibition "Closer".
January 2009

Scenes of the South

Artists from the eastern Mediterranean area. Carré d'Art - Nîmes MoCA, 13 June - 21 September 2008.
July 2008

Les Inquiets

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict & the Lebanese Civil War. An exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
By Olivia Hampton
May 2008

DisORIENTation

Contemporary Arab art production from the Middle East, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
By Haupt & Binder
May 2003

Beirut - Lebanon

Contemporary Arab Representations. Project series by Catherine David. Presentation at the BildMuseet in Umeå, Sweden.
March 2003

Fondation Arabe pour l'Image

The foundation in Beirut and its extensive photographic archive, principally from the Near East and North Africa.
By Antonia Carver
August 2003

PhotoCairo 3

International exhibitions, video and film screenings, presentations, panels, workshops.
January 2006

Home Works III

November 2005, Forum on Cultural Practices in Beirut. Exhibitions, films, videos, discussions, performances.
By Anne Maier
February 2006

Ashkal Alwan

The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, founded by Christine Tohmé in 1994 in Beirut.
By Anne Maier
February 2006

52nd Venice Biennial, 2007: Lebanon

National pavilion. Video in Five Movements, 2006.