Public programs

Join us for an evening of presentations by Beirut Art Residency’s (BAR) current artists-in-residence: photographers Babak Kazemi and Pargol Einaloo, ceramist Elena Gileva, and painter Beatriz Morales.

Join us for the launch of the exhibition catalogue of Poetics, Politics, Places, curated by Nayla Tamraz as part of BienalSur (the international Contemporary Art Biennial of South America).

Join us for the screening of Liwaa Yazji's Haunted (Maskoon) (2014), organized by Ettijahat-Independent Culture in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Middle East.

Join us for the book launch of Amal Traboulsi’s Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste : Chronique d’une galerie sur fond de guerre. This occasion is to mark the generous donation of the archive of Galerie Épreuve d’Artiste by Amal Traboulsi, cofounder of the gallery.

In this talk, Dr. Kamel Mohanna, founder of Amel Association International, will speak about the association's recent work in the Bekaa.

A lyrical and intimate documentary on companionship, memory, and new beginnings, Amal’s Garden is the moving portrait of one couple moving forward in a new Iraq, where, as one world is disappearing, another is being born.

This talk by Hélène Eristov presents on the several contradicotry roles in wall paintings in Lebanon.  

In this panel discussion, the notion of borders in contemporary art, as well as in the geopolitical and broader sense of the word, will be explored through the works of three artists based in Mexico, who are currently artists-in-residence at Beirut Art Residency (BAR).

Taking the Bekaa valley as a case in point, this talk by Lorenzo Trombetta aims to shed the light on the multi-layered panorama of perceptions, elaborated by various political, military, cultural, and socioeconomic entities.

The Mulberry House follows the filmmaker’s personal documentation of a casual reunion between estranged family members which escalate into an all-engulfing popular uprising.