8 May 2013 - 2 June 2013
Jean-Marc Nahas is known for his artworks of intricate, imagined shapes and figures. In this exhibition, the artist covers his retrospective work, but goes beyond it with a new challenge.
7 March 2013 - 21 April 2013
Prior to, during and after the barbaric July War of 2006, and up to my Desert Experience, I undertook several experiments in my painting. Some were a scream against the savage Israeli bombardment. These would be followed by another series of ‘Nature Revisited‘ a new experiment with...
16 January 2013 - 24 February 2013
Huguette Caland is part of a generation of artists including Shafic Abboud, Yvette Achkar, and Helen Khal, the main players of the Lebanese art scene after the independence. They were the artists who shaped the artistic identity of their young country. All of them studied and worked in Europe or...
25 October 2012 - 9 December 2012
Art from Lebanon is a tribute to our country. The project consists in both an exhibition and a book that document lives and significant works of 60 selected Lebanese artists, active starting 1880 to 1975.
Initiated by Nour Salamé Abillama, Art from Lebanon is a journey through Lebanon...
12 September 2012 - 14 October 2012
This installation, conceived by Nada Sehnaoui, is a monumental aesthetic gesture, a visceral desire for expression on the political, social and cultural state of Lebanon but also of the region. “Light at the end of the tunnel” is an expression neither naively optimistic nor nostalgic of...
7 September 2012 - 14 October 2012
Angelika von Schwedes came to painting from times and places through which a stormy wind blew and left her shaken by conflicting emotions and changes. Upheavals not only in politics, but also in art, philosophy, ethics and how people saw their own humanity and their relationship to nature and the...
16 July 2012 - 2 September 2012
The Glasstress project offers a comprehensive analytical and critical view that looks beyond the boundaries of glass, a material that until now has been imprisoned by clichés and confined to limited scopes and uses. The project was conceived by Adriano Berengo, a Venetian cultural...
24 May 2012 - 8 July 2012
I was born in 1969, in a field of sculptures.
Shapes were jutting from the ground like ever-growing trees.
I can still see myself climbing those stone fortresses, those modern towers carved by my father’s hands; hiding behind those figures, playing with cousins and friends. That was my...
8 May 2012 - 8 July 2012
Shafic Abboud (1926-2004) is one of the major figures of Lebanese and Arab contemporary art of the second half of the XXth century. A retrospective exhibition for the artist was curated by Claude Lemand at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in 2011.
28 February 2012 - 28 April 2012
Ashkal Alwan and the Beirut Exhibition Center present How Soon is Now: A Tribute to Dreamers, the first solo exhibition of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in Beirut. While not a retrospective, the show includes projects from 1997 to 2012 that underscore the artists’ ongoing...
28 January 2012 - 17 February 2012
The annual “Salon D’Automne” of Sursock Museum is back to the Beirut Exhibition Center.
23 November 2011 - 30 December 2011
Art in Iraq Today, organized by Solidere, Meem Gallery and Rula Alami Zaki and curated by Dia Al-Azzawi and Charles Pocock, brings together the works of a group of Iraqi artists with varying working methodologies, whom are united in their experience of exile. One of the major aims of this project...
27 September 2011 - 13 November 2011
Saloua Raouda Choucair: The Retrospective features the artist’s major artwork that was produced over the span of seven rich decades. The show includes pieces that have never been seen before—making it the most comprehensive collection of the artist’s work to be displayed in...
10 August 2011 - 18 September 2011
Jean Boghossian features at the Beirut Exhibition Center his recent works on paper and canvas. They all bear, at different degrees, traces of burnt degradation. These bites draw marks on plain colour surfaces, where the artist let step in chance. But the colour can also conceal work of fire...
16 June 2011 - 31 July 2011
Following the success of the exhibition organised in March 2010 for the Contemparabia Group of American and European collectors and curators, we are pleased to present, with the participation of Solidere, the exhibition “Rebirth: Lebanon XXIst Century Contemporary Art.” Rebirth was...
14 April 2011 - 30 May 2011
‘Zendegi’ in Persian means Life. This first major group show of contemporary Iranian artists in Beirut, sheds light on life and art in Iran as seen through the eyes of several of its most prominent and emerging artists. Coming from different generations, and using diverse media, they...
25 January 2011 - 13 March 2011
In addition to paintings from the different periods of Samir Khaddaje's career, the exhibit will contain brand new paintings with video loops of extracts from films on the artist and his work.
15 November 2010 - 31 December 2010
The annual “Salon D’Automne” of Sursock Museum presented the 118 pieces realized by 98 artists and selected by the jury after 4 rounds of selection. Prices of the Thirtieth Edition were distributed as followed: the Sursock Museum Prize awarded the work of Raouf Rifai, the price of...
4 November 2010
An evening to remember! With the presence of his excellence the interior minister Ziad Baroud, Liliane Tyan took all the guests into a world full of colors and magic with her paintings that blew the guests minds!
22 September 2010 - 31 October 2010
An exhibition of nine contemporary artists from the Arab world – is the first collaboration between Rose Issa Projects in London and Beirut Exhibition Center. The exhibition features the work of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Buthayna Ali, Chant Avedissian, Ayman Baalbaki, Hassan Hajjaj...
22 June 2010 - 22 August 2010
“Nabil Nahas : Perpetual Energy,” the first retrospective exhibition to examine the entire career of painter Nabil Nahas (born Beirut, 1949, lives in Beirut and New York) was curated by eminent American art critic Vincent Katz and was be the inaugural exhibition at the Beirut Exhibition...