Beyond Ruptures includes works of Aref el Rayess, Jean Khalife, Samir Khaddaje, Samia Osseiran, Shafic Abboud, Said Akl, Akram Zaatari and Nesrine Khodr as a testimony and tribute to the cultural resistance led by artists, cultural workers, and art patrons, in the challenging environments Lebanon has presented over the years. Selected works in the timeline, mark important events in the lives of each artist, and act as time capsules showing different artistic practices shaped by violence.
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On view until August 06: In “Out of Season”, Shirin Sabahi presents a series of site-specific interventions and sculptures that relate to the motif of a garden. The garden is taken on as a place of contradiction – as a borderland between rationality and speculation, between utopia and dystopia. Sabahi’s garden evokes a time out of joint, in which plants and species live on only as effigies, and in that the supposed place of refuge is countered by its transience, artificiality, and commodification.
On view until August 7: A collaboration between Assar and Bavan galleries, “Absence” is the first exhibition of a series to be held at various praised associate galleries during Assar’s provisional state of relocating.
On view until August 08: The group exhibition introducing selected new generation is held simultaneously at XHoma and Shirin gallery.
On view until August 08: The group exhibition introducing selected new generation is held simultaneously at XHoma and Shirin gallery.
On view until August 11: Exploring how people position their bodies in different contexts has always fascinated Elaheh Ramezani. In this series, she portrays them dancing in nature and to perfectly blend them with nature and richen their expressions, she let go of the clothing.
On view until August 11: The solo exhibition of Parva Karkhaneh titled “Vignettes” is held at Soo Contemporary.
On view until August 11: The exhibition aims to bring together divergent set of works. Representing, but also upsetting the relationship of the artists and their connection to reality. Spheres that contain paradoxes, and manage to juxtapose the ideal with the unattainable.
On view until August 20: The group exhibition “In the Foothills – Reflection” featuring works by Sepideh Zamani and Anahita Esfandiari is held at Rinde am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
On view until August 20, 2023, Finissage at 17:00 CET: In frame of the exhibition “Beyond Home. Feminist Deconstruction” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin. mohit.art NETWORK member Raha Faridi shows her new film “Zurückbleiben bitte!” @Trailer.
On view ntil August 21: The two-person exhibition of Sima Chavoshi and Mostafa Dashti, entitled “Paintings from August 22 – January 2023”, is held at Etemad Gallery.
Selected from the Erol Tabanca Collection, the works on display share a sensibility towards optical, thermal, metamorphic, and affective phenomena surrounding sunlight and its atmospheric refractions, exploring aesthetic possibilities surrounding mimicry as a biological and cultural impulse.
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On view until August 27: The group exhibtion with contemporary photographs by German and Iranian women photographers who deal with questions of self-determination in the field of tension between tradition and modernity. All five participating artists live in Iran, come from Iran or have worked there for a long time. Whether on site or from a (safe) distance: their own experiences, history, family stories and the situation of other women in the country are the starting point for their photographic and video works.