Lebrecord Calendar: Lebanon Art Calendar

Tom Young: Portraits of Beirut

2010-06-07T13:35:43.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-06-07 11:00:00 EEST
Duration: 32400
Where: Aida Cherfan Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Tom Young est né à Londres en 1973. Diplôme de beaux-arts de la "Norwich School of Art", et diplôme d'architecture de "l'Üniversité de Newcastle upon Tyne. Il a aussi fait des études partielles à l'université d'istanbul. En 1998 Il expose pour la première fois à Londres En parallèle à ses expositions en Europe, Tom enseigne le dessin et la peinture. Grand portraitiste et paysagiste, il a réalisé des commandes qui l'ont mené en Inde, au Maroc, en Syrie, en Malaisie, en Italie et récemment en Espagne. Il expose actuellement à Beyrouth des paysages pris sur le vif dans la ville de Beyrouth, sur la côte et dans les montagnes... Aida Cherfan Art Gallery Place de l'Etoile 62, Hussein el Ahdab Street Sector Najmeh 11 Beirut Central District Tel: +961 1 983111 / 983222 Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 11AM to 8PM http://www.aidacherfan.com/

Exhibition: Balsam Abou Zour

2010-06-07T13:28:18.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-06-26 11:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Where: Agial Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: (Note: call for exact opening hours) Opening: Thursday 26 June, 2010 at 6:00 pm The exhibition is on through July 24th. Agial Art Gallery Lebanese and Arab Contemporary Art 63 Abdul Aziz street, Hamra district, Beirut, Lebanon Telefax: +9611 345213 - Mobile: +9613 634244 E-mail: agial@cyberia.net.lb Contact person: Saleh M. Barakat - Carol A. Chehab http://www.agialart.com

Sumayyah Samaha “Aesthetics: art and politics”

2010-06-07T20:20:26.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-06-03 11:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Where: Art Circle
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: We are pleased to inform you that Art Circle will be hosting artworks by New-York based, Lebanese established artist Sumayyah Samaha. The exhibition Sumayyah Samaha “Aesthetics: art and politics” takes place from June 3 to 24 Opening reception on Thursday, June 3, from 18:30 to 20:30 Born in Lebanon, Sumayyah Samaha receives her Bachelor of Arts from the American University of Beirut, and then pursues her Master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1965. Since then she works and lives in the United States, making of New York her home. She holds several solo exhibitions in NYC and participates in numerous collective shows in the UK, the US, Poland, Lebanon and Kuwait. Her work is also part of various public collections, namely Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in New York, and Bank Audi in Beirut. Many publications, such as Fayeq Oweis’ “Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists” and Helen Khal’s “Women Artists in Lebanon”, have included her work. Having always worked with different media at the same time, Sumayyah Samaha’s show entitled “Aesthetics: art and politics” comprises oil on canvas works as well as mixed media and paper. Being an abstract painter, she deals with painting issues, focusing on drawing elements, color, weight, texture etc., never wanting to use art to express her feelings but rather to respond to her feelings. In most of her paintings, the picture plane is divided into 2 sections; she explains: “It seems to me that I am consistently trying to harmonize my two identities, that of Lebanese and American”. A major shift in her work was triggered by the Israeli attack on Jenin in 2003. Since then, much of her work revolves around the Middle East: “Making art makes you survive wars,” says Samaha. Hamra, Antoine Gemayel st, Assaf bldg, Beirut tel: +961 3 027776 | mobile: +961 3 774510 E- mail: alia@art-circle.net | www.art-circle.net

IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER BODY

2010-05-03T20:24:13.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-05-13 20:30:00 EEST
Duration: 7200
Where: AL MADINA THEATRE
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER BODY Type: Music/Arts - Performance Start Time: Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 8:30pm End Time: Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9:30pm Location: AL MADINA THEATRE - HAMRA - BEIRUT DescriptionLAU Major Theatre Production In celebration of the poet and writer ETEL ADNAN and in her presence: "IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER BODY" a collective creation directed by Nagy Souraty inspired by texts written by ETEL ADNAN will be performed at AL MADINA THEATRE - HAMRA - SAROULLA BLDG Thursday, May 13th at 8:30 pm. Friday, May 14th at 8:30 pm. FREE ADMISSION Production Manager: Hala Masri Technical Director & Lighting Designer: Mona Knio Set Designer: Bernard Mallat Costume Designer: Sue Z Chamaa Poster, program & all print design : May Ghaibeh Music Research: Carine Mneimneh

Journey Home & Back Again

2010-06-07T13:25:49.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-05-27 11:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Where: Agial Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Exhibition: (Note: call for exact opening hours) 27 May-12 June, 2010 Helen Zughaib, born in 1959, Lebanon,. and who is a Washington DC artist of Lebanese descent, will be exhibiting for the first time in Beirut at Agial Art Gallery with a show entitled “Journey Home and Back Again.” Helen and her family left Lebanon in December 1975. She has never been back, until now. Her paintings for this show address the very emotional issue of the journey-the bittersweet stories her father told her of the family's life before they had to leave, their passage out of Lebanon, and her own feelings upon returning. Helen's paintings for this exhibition employ her signature style, progressing from the richly illustrated Stories series, to a more graphic abstract style reflecting the progress of her artistic life in the United States. Agial Art Gallery Lebanese and Arab Contemporary Art 63 Abdul Aziz street, Hamra district, Beirut, Lebanon Telefax: +9611 345213 - Mobile: +9613 634244 E-mail: agial@cyberia.net.lb Contact person: Saleh M. Barakat - Carol A. Chehab http://www.agialart.com

Witness: Exhibition

2010-06-07T13:12:08.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-06-10 12:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Witness: Exhibition June 10.10 - September 9.10 Opening reception: Wednesday June 9, from 6pm to 9pm About the exhibition Beirut Art Center is pleased to present Witness, the first solo exhibition in Lebanon by internationally acclaimed Palestinian/British artist Mona Hatoum. Mona Hatoum first became widely known in the mid 80s for a series of performance and video works that focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the ’90s her work has moved increasingly towards large-scale installations and sculptures that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. Her work addresses notions of displacement, uncertainty and conflict through the use of familiar domestic objects transformed into foreign and sometimes threatening sculptures. The exhibition, which follows a five-week residency by the artist in Beirut, will feature recent work as well as a number of new works developed especially for Beirut Art Center. Witness (2009) (after which the exhibition is named) is a miniaturized rendition in porcelain of the monument of the Place des Martyres in the centre of Beirut. Turned into an ornament it nevertheless faithfully reproduces the monument’s mutilation by the bullets and shells of the civil war that it ‘witnessed’. Worry Beads (2009) is another work that plays with scale. This time it is an enlargement of a “masbaha” or “worry beads” where the beads have been scaled up to the size of cannon balls. Another large work, Impenetrable (2009-10), is a delicate and precariously suspended cube made entirely of barbed wire. The exhibition will also include Misbah (2006-07), a rotating lantern that looks playful, but the silhouettes of marching soldiers projected around the room gives it a sinister reading. Also included is the work 3-D Cities (2008-09) made up of printed maps of Beirut, Baghdad and Kabul with cut out parts that create concave and convex areas referring to the cycle of destruction and rebuilding that these cities have gone (and still go) through. Works produced in Lebanon will present a continuation of Hatoum’s work in themes taken up by the artist throughout her career including a new environment of found objects and furniture that have been transformed to create a personal “Interior Landscape” and a rendition of the world map in large sheets of glass that lay uneasily on the floor, as if about to shift. Biography MONA HATOUM Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. Hatoum studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has participated in numerous important exhibitions including the Turner Prize (1995), The Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005), The Istanbul Biennial (1995), Documenta XI (2002), the Biennale of Sydney (2006), the 3rd Auckland Triennial (2007) and the Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2008). Solo exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (1994), Tate Britain, London (2000) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2004), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009), and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in the context of The Venice Biennale (2009). Mona Hatoum was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Sonning Prize given biennially by the University of Copenhagen. In the same year, she was also awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Stiftung prize from Zurich. In 2008 she was the visual arts laureate of the Rolf Schock Prize given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She is also the current recipient of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2010 given by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=108&statusid=2 Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Home Works 5

2010-05-03T20:40:17.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-04-22 12:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: About the exhibition April 22.10 - May 22.10 Opening reception: Thursday April 22, from 3pm to 5pm About the exhibition From April 22 to May 22, 2010, Beirut Art Center will be hosting an exhibition within the framework of Home Works 5. Home Works is a multidisciplinary platform organized by Ashkal Alwan that takes place in Beirut, Lebanon approximately every other year for research and exchange on artistic and cultural practices. Home Works 5: A Forum on Cultural Practices will explore through exhibitions, lectures, panels, dance, performances, film and video screenings, music, and publications the following five themes: IN AND OUT OF EDUCATION…What Can We Teach Nowadays/ WHERE IS BEIRUT, RAMALLAH, CAIRO…from the Saadiyat Islands/ Sound & Citizenry/ The Odd Years/ Militarism. An exhibition will also take place at Ashkal Alwan for Contemporary Arts and the Home Works Academy (Jisr El Wati). Artists exhibiting at both venues: Ruanne Abou- Rahme and Basel Abbas, Ayreen Anastas, Marwa Arsanios, Vartan Avakian, Broomberg & Chanarin, Decolonizing Architecture, Cevdet Erek, Shahab Fotouhi, Ghassan Halwani, Amal Issa, Bengü Karaduman, Hassan Khan, Maha Maamoun, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Marwan Rechmaoui, Raed Yassin, and Ala’ Younis. For further information concerning the program of Home Works: http://www.ashkalalwan.org Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12 http://www.beirutartcenter.org/exhibitions.php?exhibid=105&statusid=1

Exhibition title: "Homage to Helen El Khal"

2010-05-03T20:30:11.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-05-20 EEST
Duration: 86400
Where: Agial Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Exhibition title: "Homage to Helen El Khal" Agial Art Gallery pays homage to pioneer artist Helen El Khal (1923-2009) on the occasion of the first year of her death as a tribute to a great painter and art critic. Opening: Thursday 20 May, 2010 at 6:00 pm The exhibition is on through May 26th. Agial Art Gallery Lebanese and Arab Contemporary Art 63 Abdul Aziz street, Hamra district, Beirut, Lebanon Telefax: +9611 345213 - Mobile: +9613 634244 E-mail: agial@cyberia.net.lb Contact person: Saleh M. Barakat - Carol A. Chehab

Video Documentation of Performances from the 1980s by Mona Hatoum

2010-06-07T13:19:11.000Z

When: Wed Jun 23, 2010 8pm to 9pm EEST

Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Video Documentation of Performances from the 1980s by Mona Hatoum Wednesday June 23, 2010 at 8pm Duration: 67 min. Entrance: 3 000 LL About the event Don’t smile, you’re on camera! . 1980 Video documentation of live action with a video monitor, two live video cameras, a video mixer and various props at Battersea Art Centre, London Video duration: 11:16 min. The artist points a live video camera directly at the audience, panning up and down the rows, very slowly, sometimes stopping and focusing on parts of a person’s body. Faces, torsos, crotches appear on the monitor facing the audience. A shirt slowly fades away and a ghost image of bare breasts appears behind it, creating the illusion that the camera could see through the person’s clothes. In the same way a shoe disappears and reveals a bare foot inside it. A man’s jacket turns transparent and a hairy chest or a woman’s naked torso is seen through. Superimposed on another person’s chest is the ghost image of an x-ray of the same part of the body. This performance is made possible with the participation of three assistants who are not visible to the audience. Two assistants use a second live camera to scan their own naked bodies while a third assistant mixes the images fed in by the two live cameras. Roadworks . 1985 Video documentation of live action with Doc Martens boots in Brixton, London Video duration: 6:45 min. The artist walks barefoot through the streets of Brixton dragging behind her a pair of large boots attached to her ankles by their laces. Variation on Discord and Divisions . 1984 Video documentation of live action with hood, knife, bucket, scrubbing brush, red paint, table, chairs, plates, raw beef kidney, newspapers at The Western Front, Vancouver Video duration: 27:45 min. The floor and walls of the performance space are lined with newspapers. The performance consists of a series of vignettes: the artist, dressed in black overalls, an opaque stocking masking her face slithers with some difficulty on the floor along the aisles between the rows of spectators into the performing space; she tries to scrub the floor but smears it with red-stained water; she tries to unmask her face by slitting eyeholes through the stretched out stocking with a long-bladed knife; she circles a long table and chairs, and trying to sit down, she falls; she sets the table with plates, then, removing raw kidneys from under her clothes, cuts them up, puts on the plates, and serves them, one by one, to the audience. The Negotiating Table . 1983 Video documentation of live action with table, three chairs, a hanging light, sound tape, plastic sheet, raw beef kidneys, surgical gauze and red paint at The Western Front, Vancouver Video duration: 20:33 min. The room is dark, lit only by a light bulb lowered over a table on which the artist lies motionless. Empty chairs surround the table. Her body is bloodstained, covered with entrails, wrapped in plastic, and her head is firmly covered with surgical gauze. On the soundtrack, news reports about civil war and speeches by Western leaders talking about peace can be heard. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Letters: Video Screening

2010-06-07T13:20:53.000Z

When: Wed Jun 30, 2010 8pm to 10pm EEST

Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Wednesday June 30, 2010 at 8pm Duration: 101 min. Entrance: 3 000 LL About the event Within the framework of the exhibition Witness by Mona Hatoum, Beirut Art Center will present Hatoum’s video work Measures of Distance alongside Belgian filmmaker and artist Chantal Akerman’s News from Home. The two works deal with communication across continents between mothers and their daughters who have left home. Mona Hatoum Measures of Distance 1988. Video (color, sound). 15:26 min. English and Arabic Measures of Distance is constructed from a series of grainy stills shot in extreme close-ups of Hatoum's mother in the shower of the family home in Beirut. The images are overlaid with a mesh of Arabic writing, like a curtain or a veil, which represent her mother's letters from Beirut to her in London. On the soundtrack can be heard an animated conversation between Hatoum and her mother overlaid with Hatoum's voice reading a translation of the letters into English. The video is concerned with the artist's separation from her Palestinian family and in particular, her relationship with her mother. The personal and political are inextricably bound up in a narrative that explores identity and sexuality against a backdrop of traumatic social rupture, war, exile and displacement. Chantal Akerman News from Home 1976. 85 min. French with English subtitles Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Artist Presentation by Mona Hatoum

2010-06-07T13:15:36.000Z

When: Fri Jun 11, 2010 8pm to 9pm EEST

Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Friday June 11, 2010 at 8pm Language: English Free Entrance About the event Mona Hatoum will present an overview of her work over the course of her career. Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin. Hatoum studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has participated in numerous important exhibitions including the Turner Prize (1995), The Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005), The Istanbul Biennial (1995), Documenta XI (2002), the Biennale of Sydney (2006), the 3rd Auckland Triennial (2007) and the Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2008). Solo exhibitions include Centre Pompidou, Paris (1994), Tate Britain, London (2000) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Magasin 3, Stockholm (2004), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2005), the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009), and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in the context of The Venice Biennale (2009). Mona Hatoum was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Sonning Prize given biennially by the University of Copenhagen. In the same year, she was also awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Stiftung prize from Zurich. In 2008 she was the visual arts laureate of the Rolf Schock Prize given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. She is also the current recipient of the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2010 given by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

NOISEISTANBUL

2010-06-07T13:17:33.000Z

When: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8pm to 10pm EEST

Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Audio Visual Project with Field Recordings and Electronic Music by Batur Sönmez Wednesday June 16, 2010 at 8pm Entrance 15 000 LL About the event In the project NOISEISTANBUL, Batur Sönmez is presenting the sounds and noises of Istanbul with an electronic and experimental music approach. The project, inspired by the habitat, will consist of electronic music productions to be presented with accompanying visual materials based on Istanbul city and its original sounds and noises. Besides its legendary beauty, Istanbul has an ambient comprised of various sounds and noises which are not realized within daily life. This provides the basis for the project. The musician Batur Sönmez is interpreting this content with his artistic style, and approaching the case through his endeavor to present these ambient sounds with musical expression, rather than analyzing them. Cities partly shape the characteristics of their residents, and on the other hand cities become a constitution and reflection of these residents. The artist considers this project as involving diligent efforts, and he is fully aware of this duty at the initial stage. The project can also be associated with medical studies using toxic materials for producing antidotes. In our context, the main theme is taking the relation between the city and the noises of the city as material and translating this material to music and art, in order to make it an audio-visual artwork. This performance is presented by Acousmatik System with the support of Ruptured (Ziad Nawfal) Batur Sönmez is an experimental musician and audio-visual artist from Istanbul, Turkey. Born in 1975, he started his first experimental electronic industrial music project in 1998. His musical style spans the genres of industrial electronic music, noise-based experimental sounds, and improvisation... Sönmez heads several musical projects, including Analog Suicide, Noiseistanbul, Mindscan, Btr. Unit, Dadaloop, Radiophonik, and UHF. Sönmez founded TRansmit// Records & Audio Visual Arts in October 2006. The label and its various offshoots specialize in the organization of live events in Turkey, and have released several CDs and videos. Covered music genres include experimental, electronic, industrial, noise, power electronics, ambient, drone, minimal music, etc. Sönmez’s goal is to widen and liven up "experimental electronic noise music" and "contemporary art" in Turkey. He also works on sound art, video art, multimedia and short-film. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Arab Heroes: Between Reality and Mythology

2010-03-10T14:33:46.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-04-21 09:00:00 EEST
Duration: 28800
Where: USJ University
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Arab Heroes: Between Reality and Mythology Location: Beirut, Lebanon at USJ University (Human Sciences campus) in Achrafieh April 21st (Wednesday) Opening Evening 19h00 Until April 29th (Thursday) Opening times: 11h00 – 20h00 (21st April – 29th April) 2 Seminars: Location: Salle Polyvalent Topic 1: Representation and Misrepresentation of history through contemporary practices Time: Monday 26th April 18h30 – 20h00 Topic 2: Psychological and Sociological effects of written, visual and oral history Time: Thursday 29th April 18h30 – 20h00 Name of exhibition: Arab Heroes: Between Reality and Mythology This exhibition will emphasize the importance of knowing the history of the Middle East, and the relationship between east and west with regards to the shaping region through historical figures and personalities. (E.g. Sharif Hussein, King Faisal I (Saudi Arabia), Malik Kadiv Farouq II, Moussa El Sadr, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Lawrence of Arabia, Mark Sykes) As well as the inclusion of patterns as a background to show how our cultures merge into each other through fabrics thus creating iconic images in our minds that we remember throughout our lives (living within or outside the Middle East). The way these figures have been represented to us via new media is also a cause for debate. This and many other subjects will be discussed in a series of 2 seminars that will take place throughout the course of the exhibition: Seminar 1: Representation and Misrepresentation of historical figures through contemporary practices (New medias) Time: Monday 26th April 18h30 – 20h00 Seminar 2: Psychological and Sociological effects of written, visual and oral history Time: Thursday 29th April 18h30 – 20h00 The seminars will feature guest speakers that will be commenting and raising arguments about the effects of new media and memory with regards to history and how it is documented and remembered through time. Artist: Laudi Abilama Phone: +961 3 130 262 , +961 1 499 880 Website: www.laudiinc.com Email: laudi@laudiinc.com

Workshop: One page Comic

2010-03-01T12:17:08.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-03-27 12:00:00 EET
Duration: 21600
Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: True Stories: 1 Page - No Words Workshop led by Titus Ackerman Organized with Samandal Saturday March 27 - Wednesday March 31, 2010 From 12pm - 6pm “In recent years the comic book market has witnessed the surge of autobiographical stories, such as Persepolis by Marjan Satrapi, Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown or the traveling reports by Guy Delisle, to name a few. Suddenly, everyone has a story to tell. I am interested in the personal stories of the workshop participants. Inspiration can come from anywhere: a memory, a joke, a song or a found object at the nearby flea market. Our goal is to turn it into a wordless, one page comic.” (Titus Ackerman) Spaces are limited, so those interested must send a portfolio for selection by the artist to submissions@samandal.org Participation fee: 50,000 LL With the support of the Goethe-Institut http://beirutartcenter.org/educational-activities.php?exhibid=102&statusid=2 BEIRUT ART CENTER Opening Hours: From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address: Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org. T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Launching of Samandal Issue #8

2010-03-01T12:18:38.000Z

When: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8pm to 10pm EEST

Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Wednesday March 31, 2010, from 8pm to 10pm Beirut Art Center is happy to host the launching of the new issue of Samandal, a quarterly trilingual comics magazine published in Beirut. Works produced during the workshop “True Stories: 1 Page - No Words” led by Titus Ackerman will be presented at the same time. BEIRUT ART CENTER Opening Hours: From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address: Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org. T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Desires, Nightmares and Dreams

2010-01-07T20:43:25.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2009-12-07 12:00:00 EET
Duration: 25200
Where: The running horse
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Desires, Nightmares and Dreams December 7 2009 to January 10, 2010 Desires, Nightmares and dreams is a group exhibition bringing together six lebanese and international artists with various styles, techniques and practices. The theme of the show pertains to the inner world of the artist's mind and perspective of the self in response to tempestuous surroundings. Clara Gebran Sigrid Glöerfelt Aaron Johnson Carlo Keshishian Nathalie Labaki Katia Traboulsi Presentation text by Gaby Maamari Open Mon - Fri 12 to 7 PM Saturdays 2pm-5pm and/or by appointment. Sleep Comfort Depot, Medawar District, Beirut, Lebanon tel: 01.562778 mobile: 03.710.225 info@therunninghorseart.com

Joseph Harb - To look behind-

2010-01-07T20:39:13.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-02-03 10:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Janine Rubeiz Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Joseph Harb - To look behind- Exhibition from Feb 3 till Feb 27, 2010 Open Tuesday till Friday from 10am till 7pm Saturday till 2pm Janine Rubeiz Gallery Tel. (961) 1 868 290 Fax. (961) 1 805 061 Address:13-5811 Beyrouth 1102-2070 E-mail: gjr@inco.com.lb

Rim El Jundi - Men -

2010-01-07T20:36:56.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-01-06 10:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Janine Rubeiz Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Rim El Jundi - Men - Exhibition from Jan 6 till Jan 28, 2010 Open Tuesday till Friday from 10am till 7pm Saturday till 2pm Janine Rubeiz Gallery Tel. (961) 1 868 290 Fax. (961) 1 805 061 Address:13-5811 Beyrouth 1102-2070 E-mail: gjr@inco.com.lb

affiliations: Emily Jacir

2010-01-07T19:53:08.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-01-28 12:00:00 EET
Duration: 28800
Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: affiliations Emily Jacir January 28.10 - April 9.10 Opening reception: Wednesday January 27, from 6pm to 9pm About the exhibition Beirut Art Center is proud to present affiliations, a solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir. The exhibition includes four interventions created between 2000 and 2009: Where We Come From, SEXY SEMITE, Untitled (servees), and stazione. In Where We Come From (2001-2003), Jacir asked fellow Palestinians “If I could do anything for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?”; she then used her American passport to carry out each request. From paying a phone bill at a post office in Jerusalem to placing flowers on a mothers’ grave, Where We Come From documents Jacir’s attempt to fulfill the requests she received from Palestinians who are prohibited entry into their own homeland and/or who are restricted movement within it. This piece could no longer be realized today as Palestinians who hold American and European passports are regularly denied entry into the country by Israeli authorities and are no longer granted freedom of movement once inside. In SEXY SEMITE (2000 - 2002) Jacir asked Palestinians to place personal ads in the Village Voice seeking Jewish mates as a way to return home utilizing Israel’s “Law of Return”. In a humorous and sarcastic way, the work points to the fact that Palestinians who are indigenous to the land do not have the right to return to their own country while any Jew on earth, from any country, of any race, has the right to “return”. Untitled(servees) is a site-specific audio work from 2008 located at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. It harkens back to a period of unfettered mobility and exchange while pointing to the present-day fragmentation and disruption of Palestinian daily life and urban fabric. stazione (2009), a public intervention slated to take place at the 53rd Venice Biennale, was to have been situated on each of the 24 vaporetti stops along route #1 of the water bus route. Jacir translated the names of each station into Arabic and planned to place the Arabic translations on all the stops next to their Italian counterparts. The Arabic inscriptions were meant to place each floating platform in direct dialogue with the surrounding architecture and urban design, thereby linking them with various elements of Venice's shared heritage with the Arab world. stazione was abruptly cancelled by Venetian municipal authorities. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Place at Last by Walid Sadek

2010-01-07T19:49:43.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-01-27 12:00:00 EET
Duration: 28800
Where: Beirut Art Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Place at Last Walid Sadek January 28.10 - April 9.10 Opening reception: Wednesday January 27, from 6pm to 9pm About the exhibition Beirut Art Center is proud to present the first major solo exhibition by Lebanese artist and writer Walid Sadek in Lebanon, Place at Last. The exhibition features works elaborated by Sadek since 2004, which include printed texts, silk-screened texts on walls as well as floor and wall objects. The exhibited works constitute three related clusters which represent a summation of Sadek’s research in art and writing into the conditions of living a protracted civil-war. The first cluster, titled Learning to See Less, traces an itinerary for eyes, stamped with violence, that learn to see the world through near-blindness. The second, titled Love is Blind, approaches the duration of a protracted civil-war as a maker of un-hopeful survivors inhabiting intimate ruins. The third cluster, Mourning in the Presence of the Corpse, considers whether the work of mourning can be initiated in the presence of an object in excess, namely a non-communal corpse, and whether we can learn to linger with the unbridgeable sufferance of the other. Opening Hours From Monday to Saturday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Address Jisr El Wati - Off Corniche an Nahr. Building 13, Street 97, Zone 66 Adlieh. Beirut, Lebanon. E: info@beirutartcenter.org T: +961 (0) 1 397 018 / +961 70 26 21 12

Boulos Richa, Sculptures

2010-01-07T19:46:40.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-03-24 10:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Alice Mogabgab Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Boulos Richa, Sculptures March 24 till April 23 2010 Alice Mogabgab Ashrafieh, Sassine Telephone: 03-210424 E-mail: info@alicemogabgab.com Showing Times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 7pm

Takayoshi Sakabe: Recent Paintings

2010-01-07T19:45:42.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-02-24 10:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Alice Mogabgab Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Takayoshi Sakabe: Recent Paintings February 24 till March 19 2010 Alice Mogabgab Ashrafieh, Sassine Telephone: 03-210424 E-mail: info@alicemogabgab.com Showing Times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 7pm

Christoff Debusschere Recent paintings

2010-01-07T19:36:35.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-01-20 10:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Alice Mogabgab
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Christoff Debusschere Recent paintings Alice Mogabgab Ashrafieh, Sassine Telephone: 03-210424 E-mail: info@alicemogabgab.com Showing Times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 7pm

Exhibition: Street Fight Pop

2010-01-07T18:04:34.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-01-07 09:00:00 EET
Duration: 32400
Where: Agial Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Charles Chahwan , b. 1965, Lebanon. The events of May 2008 in Beirut opened a deep wound in the memories of artist and poet Charles Chahwan. It reminded him of the times where militia men used to control the streets and impose their law of fear and power. This new series focuses on this topic in a very whimsical manner, mixing music with sounds of bombing, portraying fighters as rock stars, and transforming a dreadful sad situation into a colorful comic strip. A very cynical way to criticize a society in crisis. Agial Art Gallery Lebanese and Arab Contemporary Art 63 Abdul Aziz street, Hamra district, Beirut, Lebanon Telefax: +9611 345213 - Mobile: +9613 634244 E-mail: agial@cyberia.net.lb Contact person: Saleh M. Barakat - Carol A. Chehab

Stitches and Bitches by Nadine Sures

2009-12-01T16:34:13.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2009-12-26 19:00:00 EET
Duration: 3600
Where: Fadi Mogabgab Contemporary Art Gallery
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A social commentary on the interconnectivity of pollution and plastic surgery in a post-feminist critique about what women will do to transform their image, to please others, under the pretext of empowering themselves. Ignoring the natural cycles of life, plastic surgery has brought female aesthetics into the realm of the grotesque. In parallel, the disfigurement of the earth, humanity’s ignorance of the environment and refusal to make conscious the adverse effects of pollution. In "Stitches and Bitches", a giant doll is caught behind the façade of a storefront. She awaits her plastic surgery patients with calculated gestures. Audience members are invited to interact with her, inspiring the transformation of the installation. The public and private spheres interlace by means of repeated physical actions and visual narratives so that the boundary between both disappear, and the horror of our contemporary notions of beauty are irreversibly exposed. Date: Dec 26th 2009- Jan 2nd 2010 Location: Fadi Mogabgab Contemporary Art Gallery, Window Front, Gemmayze Str. Admission: Free Info: 01 567 288