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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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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For The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches, Nairy Baghramian has created four abstract polychrome sculptures with components that seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam in the voids of their respective niches. The project is the artist’s first public installation in New York City and is the fourth in the series of contemporary commissions for The Met’s facade.
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Meşher’s new exhibition Istanbul as Far as the Eye Can See: Views across Five Centuries is curated by Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı. Based on a selection of more than 100 rare works from the Ömer Koç Collection, the exhibition spans 500 years, from the 15th century – when Istanbul became Ottoman Empire’s capital – to the first quarter of the 20th century. Paintings and engravings showing wide-angle views, together with rare books, albums, panoramic photographs, and even souvenirs of Istanbul, offer visitors a richly varied visual record of the city. Curated by Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı.
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On view until October 10: The solo exhibition showcases paintings and drawings by Hamideh Azimi.
On view until October 14: Mojé Assefjah creates imaginative worlds between figure, landscape, and stage. One can associate them with floral or geometric forms reminiscent of patterns found in historical carpets or the draperies of the Baroque era. Her technical and theoretical interest in European and Italian Renaissance painting is also enriched by the mysticism of the pictorial and written traditions of ancient Persia.
Input and discussion with Hannah Jacobi and Julia Jalaeefar. In frame of the exhibition “I Am Right Here” that is still on view at Villa Ichon until November 4, art historian and writer Hannah Jacobi will speak about the politics of artistic production in Iran. Activist Julia Jalaefar will introduce her view at the context of art and politics and speak about her work with Bremen for Iran. A cooperation of Villa Ichon, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Bremen, and Künstlerinnenverband Bremen, GEDOK.
For the first annual spatial intervention in Beirut Art Center’s central hall, artist Marwan Rechmaoui will create Municipalities, a proposal for a space within a space. An inhabited sculpture that mimics and behaves erratically and formally all at once. A self declared autonomous structure within an existing reality, Municipalities contemplates processes of lived reality and the loss of sense of time, or frozen time, that we experience when we attempt to withdraw and build worlds that offer other insights and realizations.
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The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan has reignited the fire of ethnic and tribal wars. The Hazara Afghans who are under an immediate threat from the Taliban enter Iran illegally. Ahmad is an exiled Iranian teacher in one of the poor villages of Iran close to the Afghanistan border. Upon acquainting a Hazara family from Afghanistan he sees the real face of prejudice and dogmatism in the region. A forbidden love makes him act and discover the lack of love and bravery in his own life. “Endless Borders” (directed by Abbas Amini, Iran/Czech Republic, 2023, 111 min.) is screened at ACUD MACHT NEU Kino, Berin. The filmscreening is an event by Goethe Institut in Exile.
A Festival For Electronic Music & Digital Art – West Asia & North Africa. This platform present an exciting spectrum of Electro-acoustic, Electronic, and Explorative music, as well as Audio-Visual performances, with a focus on showcasing the strength of electronic musicians, producers, and DJs with immigration backgrounds coming from West Asia & North Africa. Join for the festival’s third edition, set to immerse you in this sonic and visual journey on the 20th and 21st of October 2023 at Musikbrauerei – a historic Berlin brewery nestled in the heart of the city.
For more information and the program please visit the festival's website.
The festival continues through Saturday.
Mina Mohseni is an Iranian artist residing in Berlin. As a multidisciplinary artist, she also excels as a printmaker and co-founded Daraprunts Collective in 2009. Her artistic practice is diverse, encompassing drawing, installation, video, and printed matter, all driven by a socially engaged and research-led methodology. Mina's pursuits revolve around critical themes, including power systems, public space, water, nature ethics, and their influence on identity formation. Delving into the margins of daily life and subcultures, she explores possible futures through speculative fiction, reflecting on personal struggles and perspectives. The studio visit takes place on Saturday and Sunday. Please contact: roomfordoubts@gmail.com for RSVP and to receive the studio address.
The studio visit continues through Sunday. Please contact: roomfordoubts@gmail.com for RSVP and to receive the studio address.
On view until October 30: Hoda Balouti’s Experimental Game exhibition is currently being showcased at Bavan Gallery from October 13 to October 30, 2023. Balouti has used her understanding of nature as a source of inspiration to approach landscape painting in this series. However, the hidden notions and metaphors beyond each work, the instincts and desires of humankind, are just as important to her as the approach.
On view until October 31: “The Others” is a group of thirteen oil paintings by Alireza Chalipa. The paintings feature human/non-human figures and things that are frequently encountered in everyday life, with understandable relationships between the characters in each image, as well as human relationships in interior and external views. The artist uses texture and expression patterns to express the clarity of his vision.
On view until October 31: Homayoun Hayati’s exhibition, Our Thousand and One Nights, is currently on display at Doost Art Gallery from October 13 to October 31, 2023. The exhibition features a collection of artworks that explore the interplay between reality and fantasy. Hayati’s works are known for their unique texture and pattern of expression, which convey the precision of his vision.
On view until October 31: “Paradox IV” is the fourth exhibition of a series to be held at various praised associate galleries during Assar’s provisional state of relocating, in collaboration with O Galleries. The exhibition features Javad Modaresi’s recent collection of paintings, created over the past three years as a continuation of his previous collection, “Paradox III,” which was exhibited at Assar Gallery in 2020.