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Galleria Continua presents Etel Adnan

Galleria Continua presents Etel Adnan

Poet, short story writer, essayist, and artist Etel Adnan was born in Beirut in 1925 to a Syrian Muslim father and a Greek Christian mother. Adnan grew up among the landscapes of Lebanon and Syria before moving to France for a time, and then to America.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Galleria Continua presents Ahmed Matter

Galleria Continua presents Ahmed Matter

Physician turned artist, Ahmed Mater is one of the most significant cultural voices documenting and scrutinising the realities of contemporary Saudi Arabia. Forging an ongoing, complex mapping of the Kingdom, his practice explores collective memories to uncover and record unofficial histories. The historical, geographical and topical breadth of his research-led inquiries is sharpened by the incisive actions of his conceptual works. With this scope, Mater imagines possible prognoses for a land of unprecedented religious, social, economic, and political influence.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Galleria Continua presents Moataz Nasr

Galleria Continua presents Moataz Nasr

Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr explores traditions and new globalism, questioning geopolitical and social development in Africa. The artistic practice for Nasr is a tool and a language that embraces art, sociology, Sufism and history, in order to encourage dialogue across geographical boundaries.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Mono Gallery presents Muatasim Al Kubaisy

Mono Gallery presents Muatasim Al Kubaisy

Born in 1968 in Baghdad, Iraq. Al Kubaisy graduated in 1991 from the Fine Art Academy of the University of Baghdad, Al Kubasiy currently working as a professor of Pottery and Sculpture at Sharjah Collections of Art and an "Artist Adviser" for upcoming and existing artists.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

By Lara Sedbon & Durazzo Projects present Michel Platnic

By Lara Sedbon & Durazzo Projects present Michel Platnic

Born in 1970, Michel Platnic is a French–Israeli visual artist who has been working in Tel Aviv since 1998, and in Berlin from 2014 to 2017. He is known for his "living paintings".[1] He uses multiple mediums including photography, video, performance and painting.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Ayn Gallery presents Dalel Tangour

Ayn Gallery presents Dalel Tangour

Dalel Tangour is a performer, visual artist and photographer. Graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis in 1980 and after many years, she devoted herself to photography. She is one of the first women photographers in the Maghreb. She teaches photography at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Nabeul.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Ayn Gallery presents Amina Zoubir

Ayn Gallery presents Amina Zoubir

Visual artist and videomaker, Amina Zoubir graduated a Master Theory and practice of contemporary art and new media from the University Paris 8 and a DESA Graphic design obtained in 2006 at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers. Her artworks had been exhib- ited at La Biennale Di Venezia, Algerian Pavilion (2019), and other Biennales at Cairo (2019), Dakar Biennale (2018)… Her installations, drawings, videos, sculptures, photographs, and art are textual and contextual interventions on materials: wax, wood, metals, and wall, reveal and deconstruct a behavioral allusion of the unconscious and the imagination of individuals, evolving in a predetermined space according to the sociocultural, ethnopsychical and political contexts.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Hanieh Delecroix

Shirin Art Gallery presents Hanieh Delecroix

Born in 1974 in Tehran (Iran). Exile, the downgrading of social status, the calling into question of her identity, Hanieh Delecroix has been through it all, as a child, when the Iranian revolution rattled the comfort of a family of lawyers. The universe of Hanieh Delecroix is full of scars, bruises to the soul, black holes of submerged pain, and dark clarity. If her work is sensitive, it is because she has first of all taken the metaphorical path, barefooted over broken glass, which gave her the right to admit her frailties. Lives and works in Paris

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Katayoun Rouhi

Shirin Art Gallery presents Katayoun Rouhi

Born in 1965, Iran, Katayoun Rouhi graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris, painting section. Doctorate in Aesthetics and Sciences of Art from Paris I,Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Duration : 47s
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Born in 1944 in Qazvin, Iran, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. In a career spanning six decades, he has established himself as an artist of great discipline, social awareness and manual skill, working in a wide array of different media, from graphic design to painting, photography and furniture design. Drawing inspiration from Iranian visual culture, Shishegaran is best known for his scribble line abstract paintings (Khatkhatis). These dynamic colourful lines, depicting the contemporary human condition, enabled the artist to find a style and language expressive of the modern era.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982, Sepehr Bakhtiyari has a B.A in Graphic Design, Sooreh Art University, Tehran.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Kurkdjian lives and works in Beirut. Through the turbulent years of the Lebanese Civil War, she first studied fine arts and psychology at the Lebanese University, followed by theology at St. Joseph’s University. Kurkdjian has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Gallery Sader, UNESCO, Salon Sursock, Royal School of Arts London, and Biennale Arts Hors Normes in Lyon, amongst several others.

Duration : 55s
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Saoud Abdallah Saoud Abdallah was born in 1976. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2005 and he got his postgraduate diploma in 2006. Abdallah’s work was shown in several exhibitions in his homeland, Lebanon, Kuwait, UK and Italy. His work combines different types of natural sand to produce a rigid yet emotional layer of figures on canvas.

Duration : 29s
Maturity Level : all

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 in Larache, Morocco. He lives and works between Marrakech and London. He evolves between several artistic universes: photography, fashion, music, cinema and design, while presenting a critical and uninhibited point of view on consumer society. Hassan Hajjaj questions tradition and identity, focusing in particular on the wearing of the veil, as well as on the daily life of the people he meets, friends or strangers crossed in the streets of Morocco or elsewhere.

Duration : 35s
Maturity Level : all

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Shua`aAl Muftah is a self-taught artist. After living in various places for twenty-two years, she returned to her homeland, Qatar. The local reality was comparatively different from her childhood. The rapid urbanization and the social and cultural changes of the country inspired her to explore, artistically, various topics such as the relationship between tradition and modernity and the Qatari cultural identity, to name a few.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Enoc Perez | Interiors

Enoc Perez | Interiors

Enoc Perez discusses the influence of Jean-Luc Godard on his "Casa Malaparte" paintings, and revisits his “Mollino/Insides” exhibition through a cinematic perspective.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Max Hollein | The MET

Max Hollein | The MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Director, Max Hollein, reflects on the challenges, opportunities and multiple roles of the Museum both as a local and global institution.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm and Elise Mougin discuss the exhibition “One Minute in Taipei” and how COVID-19 has influenced the artist’s creative process.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

Rashid Johnson discusses social injustice in “The Hikers”, a film addressing the artist’s recurring themes of escapism, and the black body in space.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau reflects on memory, climate change, and her lifetime artistic relationship with the Dead Sea.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Shifting Vision

Shifting Vision

Check this dedicated channel for Shifting Vision which examines how current social, political, and ecological issues influence our perception of the arts.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Adel Abdessemed | Hope

Adel Abdessemed | Hope

Adel Abdessemed reflects on issues of identity and dislocation through “Hope”, a work inspired by contemporary global migrations. Courtesy Shifting Vision

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Biennale Architettura 2021, Sneak Peek: ELEMENTAL

Biennale Architettura 2021, Sneak Peek: ELEMENTAL

Project: ELEMENTAL Narrated by: Alejandro Aravena Video: Vicente Fernández Footage: Francisco Huichaqueo, ELEMENTAL Vicente Fernández and Raul Ruiz (extract from documentary "Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano", Chile, 1971) Music: Tecnología para ser libres Spanish translation: ELEMENTAL Mapuzungun translation: Leonel Lienlaf with the collaboration of Cesar Ancalaf With the collaboration of: Tironi and Asociados An initiative of: Asociación de Comunidades Mapuche de Loncoche and Arauco

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all