Beirut Art Center
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  Location within Beirut | |
| Established | 2009 |
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| Location | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Coordinates | 33°52′48″N 35°31′50″E / 33.879976°N 35.530477°E |
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| Director | Haig Aivazian and Ahmad Ghossein |
| Website | beirutartcenter |
Beirut Art Center is a space for exhibiting contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon
History[]
Beirut Art Center opened to public in January 2009. It is managed as a non-profit organization whose founders and executive board members were Sandra Dagher, Lamia Joreige, Nathalie Khoury, Rabih Mroué and Maria Ousseimi[1] The project roots in the growing interest to local contemporary art. It was an initiative of Sandra Dagher, who previously curated a private art space, Espace SD, and Lamia Joreige, visual artist.[2] In 2007, Sandra Dagher curated with Saleh Barakat, owner of Agial Art Gallery in Beirut, the first Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.[3]
In 2011, New York City's New Museum hosted “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” a project that includes an exhibition, the presentation of Beirut Art Center’s Médiathèque, and a series of events.[4]
After co-founders Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige have been in charge of the BAC for five years, Marie Muracciole was appointed in February 2014 to take its direction for a five-years mandate.[5] In 2019, Rana Nasser-Eddin was named administrative director and two artists, Haig Aivazian and Ahmad Ghossein were appointed artistic directors. [6]
Building[]
The BAC opened in Jisr el Wati, an industrial area on the banks of Beirut River. The building was refurbished by architect Raed Abillama from a factory into a white cube space.[7] The 1500 sq m space occupied 2 floors. The ground floor included the main exhibition space, a book store and an auditorium. The first floor included a secondary exhibition space, a médiathèque, a cafe with a terrasse, and the administrative offices. In 2019, Beirut Art Center moved into a new location, in the same neighborhood, occupying two floors in a warehouse building.[8]
Exhibitions[]
2019
- Home Works 8: I will return, and I will be millions
- Home Works 8: The distance between your eyes and the Sun (Charbel-joseph H. Boutros)
- Touché! (Gesture, Movement, Action)
- How to Reappear: through the Quivering Leaves of Independent Publishing
2018
- Of Words and Stones. Zineb Sedira
- Things That Shine and Things That Are Dark. Joachim Koester
- International Tourism (Staging Real Life). Marie Voignier
- Slow Light. Daniele Genadry
- Space Edits (The Trouble with Language), with Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Nairy Baghramian, Janette Laverrière, Marcel Broodthaers, William S. Burroughs, Guy de Cointet, Robert Wilhite, Claude Closky, Baris Dogrusöz, Gheith Al Amine, Jean-Pascal Flavien, David Hammons, Iman Issa, Nesrine Khodr, Ali Meer, Pallavi Paul, Ieva Saudargaité Douaihi, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Nicholas Bussmann, Roy Samaha
- Two Meetings and a Funeral. Naeem Mohaiemen
- Knots'n Dust. Francis Alÿs
2017
- Sharjah Biennial 13. Tamawuj: an unpredictable expression of human potential
- Photography at Work. Allan Sekula
- Falling is not Collapsing, Falling is Extending. Marwa Arsanios
2016
- Esma Listen
- Landversation Beirut, Octobong Nkanga
2015
- Exposure 7: Mobility
- Home Works 7: On Water, Rosemary and Mercury
- Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy. Xavier Le Roy
- Unfinished Conversations
2014
- Breath is a Sculpture. Giuseppe Penone
- Contre Nature. Kader Attia
- Meeting Points 7. Beirut: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks
- Afteratlas
2013
- Video Vintage 1963 - 1983, from Centre Pompidou′s New Media Collection[9]
- Groundwork. Jananne Al-Ani[10]
- Now Here Then Elsewhere, Eric Baudelaire[11]
2012
- Exposure 2012
- White Wall
- Khalil Rabah, review
- Gerhard Richter - Beirut
- Revolution vs Revolution with Abbas, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Francis Alÿs, Hai Bo, Steven Cohen, Phil Collins, Tacita Dean, Fadi El Abdallah, David Goldblatt, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, Marysia Lewandowska & Neil Cummings, Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov[12]
2011
- Exposure 2011
- The Beirut Experience
- Be...longing. Fouad Elkoury
- Image in the Aftermath
- Meeting Points 6. Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic
- IMAGE WORKS. Harun Farocki
- Drawing with the Things Themselves. Paola Yacoub
2010
- Par quatre chemins. Chris Marker
- Exposure 2010
- Witness Mona Hatoum
- Home Works 5
- Place at Last. Walid Sadek
- affiliations. Emily Jacir
2009
- America
- Earth of Endless Secrets. Writing for a Posterior Time. Akram Zaatari
- Prisoner Of War. Bernard Khoury
- The Road to Peace
- 4
- Exposure 2009
- Closer
BAC Design[]
BAC Design was a program dedicated to local industrial and product design.
2013
- Fly Bird Fly by Dar Onboz
2012
- Biomechania by Ranya Sarakbi
- Contemporary Perspectives in Middle Eastern Crafts. BAC design Exhibition by Carwan Gallery with Karen Chekerdjian, Khalid Shafar, Lindsey Adelman, Marc Baroud, Studio mischer'traxler, Nada Debs, Oeuffice, Paul Loebach, Philippe Malouin, [13]
- Street Art Bag by Sarah's Bag
- Pathways by Nada Zeineh
- Custom Miles by Azzi & Osta
- All that is reminiscent of her name by Krikor Jabotian
- The Creative Space
2011
- Beirut Rock Center. By Spockdesign - Karim Chaya
- Beirutkon. Anastasia Nysten, Carlo Massoud, Joelle Achkar, Marc Dibeh
- Seeds. A BAC design exhibition by Nathalie Khayat
- STARCH your summer. An exhibition by STARCH designers 2008-2009-2010
- The Order of Angels. by Hoda and Elias Baroudi
- Who's living on the 13th floor?. An Exhibition of Ceramics by Mary-Lynn Massoud and Racha Nawam
2010
- Capturing Culture. by Rana Salam
References[]
- ^ "Beirut Art Center". 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ "Beirut Art Center". Beirut Art Center. Nafas Art Magazine. Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Germany, Elke aus dem Moore, in cooperation with Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved January 2009. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Pavilion of Lebanon". 52nd International art exhibition. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 2007. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center: Due to unforeseen events..." New Museum. 2011. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
- ^ "Nomination announcement in Timeout of Marie Muracciole at the direction".
- ^ "Beirut Art Center Announces New Artistic Directors". Art Asia Pacific. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Global Art and the Museum: MoCA of the Month". ZKM. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
- ^ "April 14, 2019 - Beirut Art Center - Beirut Art Center marks 10 years". e-flux. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Video Vintage 1963 - 1983". MutualArt. April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ^ "Jananne Al-Ani in Beirut". Arab Fund for Art and Culture. 5 Feb 2013. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ "Eric Baudelaire: Now Here Then Elsewhere". MutualArt. February 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Flora Moricet (15 March 2012). "REVOLUTION VS REVOLUTION / BEIRUT ART CENTER". Inferno Magazine. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
- ^ "Exhibitions". Carwan Gallery. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
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