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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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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On view until November 11: Curated by Amirali Ghasemi, the exhibition brings together a profound reflection on our connection to water, asking us to reflect on its importance and our collective responsibility in managing this invaluable resource by Redefining our relationship with water in an increasingly fragile world.
Artists: Sevgi Aka, Pieter Geenen, Hengame Hosseini, Nebras Hoveizavi, Nooshin Jafari, Allahyar Najafi, Jaleh Nesari, Roya Noorinezhad, Bahar Samadi, Morteza Soorani and Marzieh Rashidi
On view until November 03: The Third Line is hosting Sahand Hesamiyan’s third solo exhibition, Prolepsis, from September 28 to November 3, 2023. The exhibition showcases a collection of sculptures that celebrate the artist’s 24-year journey with steel and highlights a trove of long-cherished yet unrealized projects.
Running until November 03: “Meidan-e-Parlaman” is a play written by James Fritz and directed by Mahsa Sharifi, with translations by Hossein Jamali and Mehrnoush Ghahramani. The play is about the Parliament Square protests in London in 2011.
On view until November 4: The group exhibition showcases photo and video works by eighteen female artists in Iran. It highlights works by artists who are internationally not yet known and who mostly live and work away from Iran's art centers such as Tehran. The works feature a progressive presence and poetic language and playfully deal with traditional motifs. Selfconsciously, the artists address questions of self-determination and cultural identity, as well as themes such as the problematic relatonship between humans and their natural environment.
On view until November 4: “Hekayata Mojaradat” by Sabah Hamad, an Iraqi artist who works with abstract art. The exhibition is called Abstract Stories and it will be held at Hewar Gallery in Baghdad,
Iraq The exhibition is the second solo show by Hamad, who has been active in the Iraqi art scene since 2003.
This is the most comprehensive exhibition of Handan Börüteçene, whose practice has firmly focused on archaeology, history, and nature for over forty years. The title points to a geography that has inspired the artist with its land and seas as well as cultural heritage and myths: Anatolia and Thrace.
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On view until November 09: Requiem for A Revelation is the title of a solo exhibition by Bahareh Babaei, an Iranian artist who works with mixed media. The exhibition showcases a collection of artworks that expresses her personal journey of healing and transformation after experiencing trauma and loss.
On view until November 10: Sima Shahmoradi’s Macro/micro Narratives is a collection of mixed media artworks. The exhibition is held at Nian Gallery, a contemporary art space in Tehran.
Her exhibition, Macro/micro Narratives, showcases her artistic vision and technique in blending different elements such as text, image, sound, and video to tell stories that reflect her personal experiences and cultural background.
On view until November 10: Zartosht Rahimi’s Calling All Angels is a collection of artworks that explores the concept of angelic beings in various cultures and religions. Zartosht Rahimi has also depicted angels detached from their historical and visual context, relying on references from Art History and mythology.
Davood Azad is an Iranian singer and composer who specializes in classical and Azeri folk music. He is known for his unique voice and style, as well as his mastery of various instruments such as tar, setar, tanbur, and daf. He has performed in many countries and festivals.
On view until November 10: “Kannst du mich hören?” focuses on the media and cultural codes that enable and prevent us from understanding the human conditions in other geographical and cultural contexts. The exhibition deals with Iran and the movement “Women, Life, Freedom” in 2022.
On view until November 11: Heavy Poems is a collection of artworks by Hamideh Mohebbi that explores the themes of identity, memory, and trauma. Using various media such as painting, collage, and sculpture. She uses symbolism to convey her emotions and thoughts.
On view until November 17: In the Realm of Darkness is a collection of artworks by Ameneh Ramezani that explores the themes of death, grief, and rebirth. Ramezani creates dark and mysterious compositions that reflect her personal and artistic expression. She draws inspiration from her own experiences of losing loved ones, as well as from literature, philosophy, and religion.
Running until November 17: Theater play called Father, written by Florian Zeller and directed by Arvand Dashtaray is about an elderly man who suffers from memory loss and his relationship with his daughter. The play is part of a trilogy by Zeller, along with Mother and Son.
Damahi is a band that combines Iranian folk music with jazz, rock, reggae, and other genres. Alongside their performance, Ehsan Abdipour, a renowned Persian storyteller and director, will share mesmerizing tales of southern Iran.
Sahba Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Manchester, UK.
On view until November 24: Twenty years ago, friends and partners, Samira Eskandarfar and Hamed Sahihi, held their first duo show at Laleh Gallery. This exhibition is a celebration of twenty years of their collaboration, showcasing the exhibitions that they held together and a selection of what came later.
On view until November 26: The exhibition embodies a decade-long journey through surroundings, guided by a quest for discovery. What commenced as a visual exercise, aimed at shedding light on the often-overlooked aspects of our world through the selection of diverse subjects, has gradually transformed into a collection of form-centered compositions by eliminating superfluous elements. Hassan and Hossain Rowshanbakht are twin brothers hold a master degrees in photography at Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Tehran, are accredited professors at Kashan University, and creative directors of Kashan´s Steve House, House of Lucie, Sooleh Art Space, and Hashtcheshmeh Art Space.
Organized by Ashkal Alwan as part of the first chapter of “Home Works 9: A Forum on Cultural Practices,” this exhibition revisits forms of critical artmaking in Lebanon from the 1990s onward. The title is a reference to Ashkal Alwan’s inaugural project, at Sanayeh Garden, Beirut (1995). The exhibition draws on lived experiences and acts of writing a subjective history and prompts us to consider what it means to tend to Lebanon’s recent woes from the vantage point of everyday life. An accompanying film program will run bi-weekly starting in January 2024.
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