NEWS
Gallery Tanit
Collective exhibition 18/12/25
Will be taking part in Mix and Match collective exhibition at Gallery Tanit Beirut. Opening on 18th of December 2025.
Participating artists are: Zena Assi, Nevine Bouez, Franck Christen, Les Indisciplinés, Jad Khoury, David Kramer, Yolande Labaki, Ahmed Manawishi, Maïa Tabet. More info on Gallery Tanit website
Arts Heritage and Performative Politics
Book launch 27/11/25
The book launch took place at Kristiansand Kusthal on the 27th of November 2025. A panel discussion took place, for some of the contributors to the book: Luanda Carneiro Jacoel, Fernanda Branco, Kirstine Reffstrup and me. Link to get the book
FREEDOM RECALLED
Collective exhibittion 28/11/25_11/01/26
Organized and curated by Art Design Lebanon, the collective exhibition takes place at Beit Beirut Museum.
At its core, Freedom Recalled asks: Do we have a duty to remember, and if so, how? Which acts of silence do we accept, and what profound cost does truth demand in return? Ultimately, how can the collective quest for justice become a catalyst for personal healing and national reconstruction. Participating artists are:
Abdallah Kassem & Cathy Jardon, Ahmad Baydoun, Anna Ogden-Smith, Ara Azad, Bernard Khoury, Chérine Yazbeck, Christine Safatly, Baal creations: Claudia Chahine & Gilbert Debs, Cybelle Moutran, Frederic Imbert, Georges Haddad, Gregory Buchakjian & Valerie Cachard, Hadi Zaccak, Cloud Pulse, Hala Mouzannar, Hassan Idriss, Jad Khoury, Jean Boghossian, Joanna Andraos, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Karen Chekerjian, Karine Wehbe, Lamia Joreige, Lana Daher & Qutaiba Barhamji, Merlin Ferret, Michel Tabet, Moses Magharian, Nasri Sayegh, Nayla Romanos, Oliver de Gem, Petra Serhal, Philippe Aractingi, Yaraqa: Romy Assouad, Sabah Haider, Silat for Culture: Maya & Asaad, Simon Berger, Soha Ghandour, Safran du Liban, For The Art association.
V FESTIVAL
Workshop 25/11/25
Taking part in a panel discussion/workshop organized by Verdensrommet V festival at UKS. The focus of this working table is how to maneuver all the regulations and institutional processes when making art in public space. UKS website
SIGRIDS STUE
Art residency 15/03/26_15/06/26
Between March and June 2026 I will be going back and forth to Aarhus Denmark, for a collaboration with Sigrids Stue Art platform. Sigrids Stue website
Thorleif Kleves Torg på Mortensrud
Public art competition 06/01/26
Got invited by Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling to a closed competition, for making an artwork proposal for Mortenstrud public square.
Presentations of the proposals by the invited artists (Jad El Khoury, Erlend Leirdal, Vanna Bowles) will take place on the 8th of January. Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling website
Kulturytring
Public presentation 23/06/25
Presenting Open House as part of the yearly cultural event Kulturytring . A one year artistic field project, commissioned by Drammen Kommune.
NRK
Press release 11/05/25
A portrait on my ongoing and previous works on the Norwegian national news website NRK. Written by Mohammed Tayyeb Ahmad. Link to article
CPR - Hello New York
Art residency 07/07/25_18/07/25
From 7th till 18th July, I was part in CPR Hello New York art residency. It was a networking residency where selected artists got to meet Curators and Directors of major art institutions such as MOMA Ps1, Highline Art, Sculpture center, Sotheby's and many others. CPR website
Care Portal
0.5 Workshop 15/06/25As part of Care portal participatory installation in STRAAT museum Amsterdam, every summer I drive from Oslo to the museum to collect the notes which the museum visitors wrote. These notes are used for making different types of workshops that questions, what is hope and our role in it, especially in relation to people in war zones or under opression. While in STRAAT I organized drawing workshop where notes were used as a starting point. The generated drawings got to be exhibited on the flip side of the portal. STRAAT webstie
Steder For Empati Og Endring
Public presentation 04/12/24
Presenting my art practice in a seminar orgonized by Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamling and MESENE. Event link
Mildred’s Lane
Art residency 08/07/23_25/07/23
Residency at Mildred’s Lane New York, Led by Mark Dion, Amy Yoes, Mary Jane Jacob and Merete Rostad Organized by KHIO and Chicago art institute, In collaboration with Abakanowicz Fellows.
More info on Mildred’s Lane website.
In the pictures left to right, Flea Market intervention - “Closed” Is my Sculptural bonfire installation for the end of the residency - “Anti-Action Figure” my work for “Everything could go” exhibition - Photo by Elisa Benzo of the residence site.
