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Gregory
Buchakjian
Institutional links:
Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Alba)
http://alba.edu.lb
Sorbonne Université,
Centre André Chastel
http://www.centrechastel.paris-sorbonne.fr
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Gregory
Buchakjian is an art historian and
interdisciplinary visual artist.
He lives and works in Beirut,
where he was born in 1971. PhD
graduate at Sorbonne Université,
he is director of the School of
Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise
des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) where he
co-founded, with Pierre
Hage-Boutros and Rana Haddad,
Atelier de Recherche ALBA
(1997-2004), a transdisciplinary
platform that triggered public
interventions in issues such as
memory and space appropriation.
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Gregory
Buchakjian est historien d’art
et artiste visuel
transdisciplinaire. Il vit et
travaille à Beyrouth, où il est
né en 1971. Titulaire d'un
doctorat à Sorbonne Université,
il est directeur de l'École des
Arts Visuels à l’Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (Alba),
où il avait cofondé, avec Pierre
Hage-Boutros et Rana Haddad,
l’Atelier de Recherche ALBA
(1997-2004), une plateforme
transdisciplinaire ayant
appréhendé des problématiques
urbaines telles la mémoire et
l’appropriation de l’espace.
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Buchakjian’s
research deals with modern and
contemporary art in Lebanon,
focusing on city and history.
Political and social turmoil,
dereliction and heritage are among
the issues in his PhD
dissertation: ‘Abandoned Dwellings
in Beirut. Wars and Transformation
of the Urban Space. 1860-2015’ and
the subsequent book, Abandoned
Dwellings, A History of Beirut
(Beirut, Kaph Books: 2018, Valerie
Cachard, ed.). The relation
between image and urban narratives
is present in his publications Fouad
Elkoury, Passing Time
(Beirut, Kaph Books: 2017) and Traversées
Photographiques. Le journal du
Docteur Cottard (Beirut,
Arab Image Foundation: 2017) and
his contributions to On
Photography in Lebanon: Essays
and Stories (Beirut, Kaph
Books, 2018). He also published
literary texts such as “Les petits
lits blancs” (Revue Le Courage
n.2, Paris, Grasset: 2017).
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Ses
recherches gravitent autour de
l’art au Liban et dans le monde
arabe. L'instabilité politique, la
ruine et le patrimoine figurent
parmi les problématiques abordées
par sa thèse de doctorat intitulée
: « Habitats abandonnés de
Beyrouth, guerres et mutations de
l'espace urbain, 1860-2015 » ainsi
que la publication qui en a
découlé, Habitats abandonnés,
une histoire de Beyrouth (Beyrouth
: Kaph Books, 2018, Valérie
Cachard, ed.). La relation entre
image et récit est omniprésente
dans ses ouvrages tels Fouad
Elkoury, Passing Time
(Beyrouth : Kaph Books: 2017) et Traversées
Photographiques. Le journal du
Docteur Cottard (Beyrouth :
Fondation Arabe pour l’image,
2017) ainsi que ses contributions
à Sur la photographie au Liban
Récits et essais (Beyrouth :
Kaph Books: 2018). Il est
également auteur de textes
littéraires dont « Les petits lits
blancs » (Revue Le Courage
n.2, Paris, Grasset : 2017). |
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His
visual work emerged with the short
film What, Shoes? and the
photographic series Nighthawks,
both produced in the aftermath of
the 2006 war in Lebanon. From 2009
to 2016, the exploration of
abandoned dwellings and PhD
dissertation generated the
exhibition Abandoned
Dwellings, Display of Systems,
at Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2018,
curated by Karina El Helou. Also
in 2018, his Fragments from
the Ridge Line are
presented in the first pavilion of
Lebanon at the Venice Biennale of
Architecture and his Fragments
from the History of
Civil Aviation in Lebanon
are part of the Works on Paper
accompanying Cycles of
Collapsing Progress
exhibition in Oscar Nimeyer's
Tripoli International Fair.
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Son travail visuel
a émergé avec le film court Quoi,
des Chaussures? et la série
de clichés Nighthawks,
tous deux consécutifs à la guerre
de 2006 au Liban. De 2009 à 2016,
son exploration des habitats
abandonnés et la thèse de doctorat
qui en a découlé ont généré un
livre ainsi que l’exposition Abandoned
Dwellings, Display of Systems,
présentée au Musée Sursock,
Beyrouth en 2018 (Commissaire :
Karina El Helou). Toujours en
2018, ses Fragments from the
Ridge Line figurent au
premier pavillon du Liban à la
Biennale d’architecture de Venise
tandis que ses Fragments from
the History of Civil Aviation in
Lebanon font partie des
Works on Paper accompagnant
l’exposition Cycles of
Collapsing Progress à la
Foire Internationale de Tripoli. |
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He was member of
the advisory committee of the
Saradar Collection (2012-2019) and
took part in many juries including
Sursock Museum Salon d’Automne
(2009), Villa Empain’s Boghossian
Prize (2012), Beirut Art Center’s
Exposure (2013), Beirut Art
Residency (2017) and Arab
Documentary Photography Program
(2019). |
Membre
du comité consultatif de la
Saradar Collection de 2012 à 2019,
il a pris part à de nombreux jurys
académiques et artistiques, dont
le Salon d’Automne du musée
Sursock (2009), le Prix Boghossian
(2012), Exposure (Beirut Art
Center, 2013), Beirut Art
Residency (2017) et Arab
Documentary Photography Program
(2019).
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::timeline::
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| 2020 (10) |
[talk] "Se
reconstruire", with Joana
Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
and Zeina Arida, moderated by
Anne Picq and Aude Adrien.
Arts4society [view video] |
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| 2020 (09) |
[talk] "Beirut,
we care", with Carlo Massoud,
Nada Debs and Hiba Kalache,
moderated by Joanna Chevalier.
The Art Circle, Abu Dhabi, AE |
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| 2020 (02) |
[exhibition] LEAF Limited
Edition Art Fair, Brussels, BE [view website] |
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| 2019 (11) |
[exhibition] Abandoned
Dwellings of Beirut, Villa
Empain, Brussels, BE [view website] |
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| 2019 (11) |
[exhibition] Beyond.
Modern and Contemporary
Art and Design,
Phillips, London, UK [view website] |
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| 2019 (10) |
[exhibition] Beirut Lab:
1975(2020). UC Irvine’s
Universities Art Galleries
(UAG), Irvine, CA, US [view website] |
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| 2019 (07) |
[talk] "Tales and
misadventures of real and
imaginary, legal and informal,
famous and infamous, monuments",
Gregory Buchakjian and Said
Baalbaki. Workshop Socially
Engaged Art. Design akademie
berlin SRH Hochschule für
Kommunikation und Design,
Berlin, DE
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| 2019 (06) |
[consultancy]
Juror in the Arab Documentary
Photography Program (ADPP); The
Magnum Foundation, The Arab Fund
for Arts and Culture (Afac) and
The Prince Claus Fund [view website]
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| 2019 (04) |
[talk]
"Collecting, Documenting, and
Sharing Lebanese Art", BeMACC
symposium, Rice University
Humanities Research Center,
Houston, TX, US [view website] |
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| 2019 (04) |
[exhibition] Where
do Filmmakers Go? Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
(ALBA), Beirut, LB
[view project] |
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| 2019 (04) |
[consultancy +
talk] 2nd Alba
Ciné-rencontres: Filming in
times of War 1975-1990. Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
(ALBA), Beirut, LB
[view website] |
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| 2019 (03) |
[publication]
Seta Manoukian.
Painting in Levitation.
Published by Kaph Books and
Saradar Collection [view project] |
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| 2018 (11) |
[exhibition]
Abandoned Dwellings, Display of
Systems. Curated by Karina
el-Helou, Sursock Museum
Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2018 (11) |
[publication]
Abandoned
Dwellings, A History of Beirut.
Edited by Valérie Cachard,
published by Kaph Books [view project] |
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| 2018 (10) |
[talk] "Territoires
Irreprésentables", with Catherine
Cataruzza, Gilbert Hage Houda
Kassatly and Hala Younes. Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA),
Beirut, LB
[view website] |
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| 2018 (09) |
[publication] Cycles of
Collapsing Progress,
Tripoli, LB [view project] |
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| 2018 (09) |
[exhibition] Across
Boundaries. Focus on
Lebanese Photography,
Beirut Art Fair, LB
[view
catalogue entry] |
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| 2018 (09) |
Acting Director of
the School of Visual Arts at
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
(ALBA) |
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| 2018 (05) |
[exhibition] The Place
that Remains, Pavilion
of Lebanon, La Biennale di
Venezia, 16. Mostra
Internazionale di
Architettura, Arsenale,
Venice, IT
[view project]
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| 2018 (05) |
[talk]
"Architecture, an entire
practice", with Rudy Ricciotti and
Bernard Khoury, Résidence des
Pins, Beirut, LB |
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| 2017 (11) |
[publication] Fouad
Elkoury. Passing Time.
Kaph Books, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2017 (11) |
[publication] Abdel-Hamid
Baalbaki, Saleh Barakat
Gallery and Alarm editions,
Beirut, LB [view project]
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| 2017 (10) |
[publication]
The lives and deaths of
inhabitants in abandoned houses,
2017
[view project] |
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| 2017 (10) |
[talk] "2007: The
Pavilion of Lebanon", Venice
Biennale and the Arab World
conference, Ca' Foscari, Venice,
IT [view website] |
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| 2017 (05) |
[publication] "Les
petits lits blancs" in Revue Le
courage nº3: Age d'or / Age
de fer. Éditions Grasset
& Fasquelle, Paris, FR
[view project] |
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| 2017 (03) |
[talk] ARP Talk:
Memories of Stones, conversation
with Said Baalbaki. in partnership
with ARP–ALBA-University of
Balamand, Sursock Museum, Beirut,
LB [view website] |
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| 2016 (11) |
[talk] "Refugee
Crisis in the Levant", panel in
Design, Culture and Societies, ARD
11, Ateliers de la Recherche en
Design, at Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts (ALBA), Beirut, LB
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| 2016 (06) |
[PhD defence]
"Abandoned Dwellings in Beirut.
Wars and Transformation of the
Urban Space. 1860-2015", Institut
National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris, FR [view website] |
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| 2016 (06) |
[publication]
Confined Space by Laura J.
Padgett, text by Gregory
Buchakjian. Published by Galerie
Rautenstrauch and Anke
Ehle-Barthel, Frankfurt, DE [view project] |
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| 2016 (05) |
[talk] Discussion
with Ali Cherri following the
projection of his films The
Disquiet and The Digger, Sursock
Museum, Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2016 (04) |
[talk] Discussion
moderator with Antoine
Moreau, Michel
Lasserre and Paola Yacoub,
International Conference: L’action
d’art (The Action of Art), Sursock
Museum, Beirut, LB [view brochure] |
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| 2016 (01) |
[talk] "Excavating
ghosts from one's artwork", in Art
and Ideology, Seminar at the
Centre André Chastel / Institut
National d'Histoire de l'Art,
Paris, FR [view brochure] |
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| 2015 (11) |
[publication] Wadi Abou Jmil.
Artist Book by Saïd Baalbaki,
text by Gregory Buchakjian,
Berlin, DE [view
project] |
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| 2015 (10) |
[publication] Beirut by Night.
A Century of Nightlife
Photography, Middle East Journal
of Culture and Communication,
BRILL, Leiden, NL [view
project] |
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| 2015 (10) |
[publication] Last nights at
the Holiday Inn in Litterature,
art and contemporary world:
narratives, history, memory,
Colloquium papers, edited by
Nayla Tamraz, Presses de
l'Université Saint-Joseph,
Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2015 (10) |
[talk] "Lebanon at
war[s] in Contemporary Artistic
Practices" with Marwan Rechmaoui,
Mounira Solh, Fares Chalabi,
Hachem Adnan, Lamia Abi Azar and
Ghassan Maasri. Colloquium
organized by Ifpo, Mansion,
Beirut, LB [view website] |
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| 2014 (12) |
[seminar] Unintentional
Monuments of the Lebanese War,
Inalco - Institut National des
Langues et Civilisations
Orientales, Paris, FR |
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| 2014 (11) |
[publication] Michelangelo
Pistoletto in Beirut,
Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut,
LB [view
project] |
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| 2014 (09) |
[publication] Michel
Basbous, Beirut
Exhibition Center, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2014 (08) |
[talk] "Modernity
out of the Center", Temporary Art
Platform, Miziara, LB
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| 2014 (06) |
[talk] "Art
Practices Beyond the Contextual
Narrative in the Middle East:
Forms, Poetic Images and Other
Aesthetics" with Umer Butt, Pascal
Hachem, Basim Magdy and Amanda Abi
Khalil (moderator), Art Basel,
Basel, CH [view program
on Artnet]
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| 2014 (05) |
[talk] "Last nights
at the Holiday Inn", in Literature,
art and the contemporary world:
narratives, history, memory
colloquium, Université
Saint-Joseph (USJ), Beirut, LB
[view brochure] |
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| 2014 (04) |
[talk] "Aref Rayess
and the 1960s-1970s Beirut Art
Scene", round table with Catherine
David, Amal Traboulsi and Joseph
Tarrab, Artistic Research
Practices (ARP) at Académie
Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA),
Beirut, LB
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| 2014 (03) |
[consultancy] Michel
Basbous: A Modernist Project
for Lebanon, collaboration
with Agial Art Gallery, Art Dubai
Modern 2014, Madinat Jumeirah,
Dubai, AE |
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| 2014 (03) |
[consultancy] Huguette
Caland: Bringing Life into
Shapes, collaboration with
Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Art Dubai
Modern 2014, Madinat Jumeirah,
Dubai, AE [view brochure]
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| 2014 (01) |
[talk] "The Artist
in the Arab World: Between
Political Crisis and
Petrodollars", in The artist's
identity in European and
International History,
Seminar at the Centre André
Chastel / Institut National
d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, FR [view website]
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| 2013 (12) |
[installation]
Abandoned Dwellings from Beirut to
Namibia, produced by Valerie
Cachard, Kolmanskop, NA [view
project] |
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| 2013 (11) |
[consultancy]
Member of the jury of Exposure
2013 exhibition dedicated to
emerging artists in and from
Lebanon, Beirut Art Center,
Beirut, LB [ view website]
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2013 (09)
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[consultancy]
Pascal Hachem, You Always
Want What the Other Has (Edition
2013), Federica Schiavo
Gallery, Rome, IT [view
website]
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| 2013 (04) |
[installation] Leningrad,
Pellicula exhibition, Galerie
Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2013 (04) |
[talk] "Ethics and
photography", Olayan School of
Business, American University of
Beirut, LB
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| 2013 (03) |
[publication] Hanibal
Srouji. Painting fire, water,
earth and air [view
project] |
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| 2012 (10) |
[publication] Art from
Lebanon, Modern and
Contemporary Artists, volume
1: 1880-1975,
launching, Beirut Exhibition
Center, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2012 (05) |
[consultancy]
Member of the jury of the
Boghossian Foundation Prize for
Lebanese Artists 2012, Villa
Empain, Brussels, BE [view website]
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| 2012 (05) |
[publication]
War
and Other (Impossible)
Possibilities,
launching, Papercup Store, Beirut,
LB [view
project] |
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| 2012 (04) |
[consultancy]
Member of the Advisory board of
the Saradar Collection, Beirut,
LB |
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| 2012 (03) |
[publication]
Art
is the Answer, Villa
Empain, Brussels, BE [view
project]
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| 2012 (01) |
[exhibition]
The
Dress at Platform,
Pictures of the Year event,
National Museum of Singapore,
SG |
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2011
(09)
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[photo
exhibition] Nighthawks
at Metropolis, City Life in the
Urban Age, Noorderlicht
Photofestival, Groniningen, NL [view
website] |
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| 2011 (03) |
[talk] Lebanese
Contemporary Art and its Market,
roundtable, Beirut Art Fair, Biel,
Beirut, LB |
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| 2011 (05) |
[consultancy]
Museum of Vine and Wine official
launching press conference,
Bristol Hotel, Beirut, LB
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2011
(03)
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[exhibition]
Beach
Life at Q Calling the
Shots, vol. II, Narrative
Photography, Q Contemporary,
Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2010 (12) |
[exhibition]
Black
Glam at Salon d'Automne,
Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut,
LB |
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| 2010 (11) |
[exhibition]
Bejart/Baalbeck
at Q Calling the Shots,
vol. I, Architectural Photography,
Q Contemporary, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2010 (06) |
[publication
+ exhibition] De
Lumière et de Sang, Fondation
Audi, Beirut, LB, catalogue Alarm
Editions [view
project] |
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| 2010 (04) |
[publication]
Esteban
Lisa, Fundación
Esteban Lisa, Buenos Aires, AR
and Fundación Antonio Pérez,
Disputación de Cuenca, ES
[view project] |
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| 2010 (02) |
[publication]
Convergence. New Art from
Lebanon, Katzen Arts
Center, Washington D.C., US [view
project] |
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| 2009 (07) |
[exhibition]
Under(the)line,
Araman Factory, Bourj
Hammoud, LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (08) |
[publication]
Pièces
Choisies, collection Bank
Audi, Beirut, LB
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| 2008 (06) |
[performance] Le
franc tireur, l'architecte, le
consul et l'arménien, IESAV,
Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut,
LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (05) |
[photo
exhibition] Nighthawks,
Comme des Garçons Guerilla Store,
Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2008 (01) |
[publication
+ installation] Pending
Piece, Académie Libanaise
des Beaux-Arts, Beirut, LB [view
project] |
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| 2006 (09) |
[film] What,
Shoes, Festival de Genève
La Bâtie, Geneva, CH; Beirut D.C.,
Beirut, LB; Nafas Beirut, Espace
SD, Beirut LB; Dubai International
Film Festival, Dubai, UAE; Sydney
Arab Film Festival, Sydney, AU;
Shorts and Shwarma, Institut
Français, London, UK
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| 2006 (05) |
[publication]
Halte,
ed. Labor et Fides, Geneva,
CH |
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| 2003 (08) |
[installation]
Points
d'eau, Salima, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA in
partnership with Patrimoine Sans
Frontières and Institut Français
d'Architecture |
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| 2002 (11) |
[publication]
Pas
de Place, with Atelier de
Recherche ALBA, Beirut, LB
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|
| 2001 (09) |
[installation]
Dialogue
des Cultures dans un jardin de
sourds, Centre Culturel
Français, Beirut, LB, with Atelier
de Recherche ALBA [view
project] |
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| 2001 (07) |
[publication
+ installation] Lieux:
1 Acte / 2 Pièces,
Fraykeh Silk Factory, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA and
Fraykeh Festival 2001 [view
project] |
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| 2001 (02) |
[installation]
1
Acte / 2 Pièces, Théâtre
de Beyrouth, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA and
Shams |
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| 2000 (05) |
[installation]
Machines
Célibataires, Beirut
Hall, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1999 (07) |
[installation]
Bien
Fonds 1237: l'architecte, le
vernaculaire et le franc tireur,
La Fabrika, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA |
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| 1998 (07) |
[projection]
Mois
de la photographie au Liban,
various locations, LB, with
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1997 (10) |
[performance]
Hommage
au Grand Théâtre de Beyrouth,
Grand Theatre, Beirut, LB, with
Atelier de Recherche ALBA and
Companie Théâtre Ecarlate |
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| 1997 (05) |
[installation]
L'ALBA
Marque l'Espace du CCF,
Centre Culturel Français, Beirut,
LB,with Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts ALBA [view
project] |
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| 1997 (04) |
[publication]
Les
maîtres du temps, for
L'Agenda Culturel [view
project] |
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| 1996 (04) |
Launching
of Baron & Baron,
www.baronbaron.com [view
project] |
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| 1995 (11) |
[publication]
Le
musée à l'école: Cezanne,
for L'Agenda Culturel [view
project] |
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1995
(10)
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Starts
teaching at Académie Libanaise des
Beaux-Arts, ALBA, Beirut, LB
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| 1995 (09) |
Diplôme
d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in
Art History, Université Paris IV,
Sorbonne, Paris, FR
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| 1993 (06) |
Maitrise
in Art History, Université Paris
IV, Sorbonne, Paris, FR
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| 1987 (08) |
[performance]
This is a slide of my House,
Legacy International Youth
Program, Bedford, VA, US [view
project] |
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| 1971 (07) |
Birth in
Beirut, LB
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