Beirut Art Center

Beirut Art Center is a space for exhibiting contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon

Beirut Art Center
Location within Beirut
Beirut Art Center (Lebanon)
Established2009
LocationBeirut, Lebanon
Coordinates33.879976°N 35.530477°E / 33.879976; 35.530477
Type
DirectorHaig Aivazian and Ahmad Ghossein
Websitebeirutartcenter.org

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)
  • 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

2015

  • Exposure 7: Mobility
  • Home Works 7: On Water, Rosemary and Mercury
  • Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy. Xavier Le Roy
  • Unfinished Conversations

2014

  • Meeting Points 7. Beirut: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks
  • Afteratlas

2013

2012

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

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, Tamer Nakisci[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
  1. "Beirut Art Center". 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  2. "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. Retrieved January 2009. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. "Pavilion of Lebanon". 52nd International art exhibition. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 2007. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. "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.
  5. "Nomination announcement in Timeout of Marie Muracciole at the direction".
  6. "Beirut Art Center Announces New Artistic Directors". Art Asia Pacific. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. "Global Art and the Museum: MoCA of the Month". ZKM. 2010. Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
  8. "April 14, 2019 - Beirut Art Center - Beirut Art Center marks 10 years". e-flux. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  9. "Video Vintage 1963 - 1983". MutualArt. April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
  10. "Jananne Al-Ani in Beirut". Arab Fund for Art and Culture. 5 Feb 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  11. "Eric Baudelaire: Now Here Then Elsewhere". MutualArt. February 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  12. Flora Moricet (15 March 2012). "REVOLUTION VS REVOLUTION / BEIRUT ART CENTER". Inferno Magazine. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  13. "Exhibitions". Carwan Gallery. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
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