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Condo London 2025 Marfa' hosted by Sylvia Kouvali
Past 11 Jan - 9 Feb 2025 Read more -
Mohamad Abdouni - Barren Seeds
Past 17 Sep 2024 - 24 Jan 2025 Drawing inspiration from six of his father’s unpublished writings, Mohamad Abdouni embarks on an intimate journey, weaving together their shared fears in his latest work. Barren Seeds delves into the universal themes of isolation, the pursuit of love, and the elusive quest for belonging, all while reflecting on the inevitable... Read more -
Seta Manoukian - Dew Drops
Past 25 Jun - 7 Sep 2024 In “Dew Drops,” Seta Manoukian displays works made in the last two decades which have never been exhibited in Lebanon. The exhibition includes a wide range of works from various series which are linked by threads of themes of work that have been present from the start of her career... Read more -
Omar Fakhoury - The Forest
Past 13 Mar - 30 May 2024 What is the Forest? The Forest is a series of portraits of places and plant species from my childhood forest in Beit Chabab, Mount Lebanon. It all started with the desire to revisit a very specific rock where we used to play and hide things. It looked like a terrace... Read more -
Condo London at The Approach - Solace of The Afterimage
Past 20 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 We are happy to be invited by The Approach to participate in the 2024 edition of Condo London with a solo presentation by Talar Aghbashian Condo is a collaborative exhibition by 50 galleries across 23 London spaces. Read more -
Talar Aghbashian - Solace of the Afterimage
Past 13 Dec 2023 - 24 Mar 2024 Everything is a tree, Everything is painted, everything everywhere. My landscapes slowly transition. I catch myself painting figures. As I start from a structure, a shape that can stand or be. A monster? A transient vampire, that lives through the times, where bits of landscape gets stuck to these character-structures,... Read more -
Ahmad Ghossein - Serotonin, Benzine and a Renegade Body
Past 27 Sep - 7 Dec 2023 When a wave overwhelms you, you forget your voice and surrender to the void. The tempestuous events have penetrated my being, reaching deepest within; hitting that infinitesimal point in the relentlessly throbbing nerve; whose beats never cease to haunt me; even when I shut my eyes. I have been thrashed... Read more -
Tamara Al Samerraei - Promise You Made
Past 4 Jul - 14 Sep 2023 In “Promise You Made ”, Tamara Al Samerraei produces a new body of work that revisits both familiar and unknown spaces but also the space of painting itself. The exhibition includes her Black Book series in which the artist paints from photographic documentation of her diary of watercolor drawings that... Read more -
Maysam Hindy - Unspoken | ما لا يُروى
Past 4 May - 27 Jun 2023 Marfa’ is pleased to present Unspoken, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the artist Maysam Hindy. Hindy’s series of paintings features multiple characters, sitting in their familiar spaces, surrounded by their personal still lives that populate their environments. They are seated, in paintings, behind their narratives. Patterned clothing, objects and... Read more -
Caline Aoun - Are androids covered with electric dew?
Past 8 Mar - 28 Apr 2023 The exhibition explores how artificial mechanisms can change the way we engage with our physical surroundings, which are always evolving through invisible forces. By disrupting the gallery’s very own environment, the different works describe the changing moments from invisible forces to visible and tangible things, and reveal the ambiguity between... Read more -
Lamia Joreige - Uncertain Times
Past 8 Nov 2022 - 27 Jan 2023 The exhibition Uncertain Times involves the research, writing and production of a body of work covering the period between the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the French and English mandate in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine (1914- 1920). The Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Balfour Declaration, as well as... Read more -
Group Exhibition - Fondu Ré-enchaîné
Past 8 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 Group exhibition at l’Atlas, galerie des mondes in Paris. With works by Tamara Al Samerraei, Caline Aoun, Omar Fakhoury, Rania Stephan and Raed Yassin Read more -
Stéphanie Saadé - Stage of Life
Past 6 May - 12 Sep 2022 Stéphanie Saadé is Ulysses and Penelope, both at once. A side of her embarks on vagabondage while the other stays put; the urge to wander elsewhere is infused with the need to be grounded. She and her kin have been around, driven by circumstance and the desire to discover, but... Read more -
Omar Fakhoury - Things and Other Things | أشياء وأشياء أخرى
Past 10 Feb - 29 Apr 2022 Omar Fakhoury’s most recent series of paintings, Things and Other Things result from encounters in the exercise of living. They belong to the realm of affect and world-building, extending the artist’s impulse to shift power dynamics between the big and the small, the grand and the trivial through the act... Read more -
Group Exhibition - 09-12-21 / 30-01-22
Past 9 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Group exhibition with works by Caline Aoun, Lamia Joreige, Omar Fakhoury, Raed Yassin, Stéphanie Saadé, Talar Aghbashian and Tamara Al Samerraei Read more -
Group Exhibition - Water
Past 21 May - 13 Aug 2021 Marfa’ has finally reopened with a group show titled Water . This show is our contribution to Galleries Curate: RHE , the first chapter of a collaborative exhibition and online platform reuniting 21 galleries from across the globe. Water brings together a group of artists from the gallery around a... Read more -
Group Exhibition - When the image is new, the world is new
Past 5 Feb - 30 Apr 2020 “When the image is new, the world is new” (Bachelard, 1957) With works by Stéphanie Saadé, Tamara Al-Samerraei, Caline Aoun, Vartan Avakian, Lamia Joreige, Saba Innab, Talar Aghbashian, Paola Yacoub, Ahmad Ghossein, Raed Yassin & Rania Stephan Read more -
Paola Yacoub - Radical Grounds
Past 19 Sep 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 Radical Grounds brings together a group of photographs of the ground taken between 1990 and 2012 in the region that stretches from Lebanon to Kurdistan. They represent grounds, heaps of pebbles, white and black stones, sometimes flat and sometimes sloping, at other times uneven and broken. Most are indeterminate aediculae... Read more -
Tamara Al Samerraei - What Floats in Space
Past 30 Apr - 13 Aug 2019 At the heart of Tamara Al-Samerraei’s new research, there is an object. Or rather, the idea of an object; a form which has shifted from the realm of the real to become an obsession, where the origin of this shape is of little importance. It could as well be a... Read more -
Vartan Avakian - Of All that is Seen and Unseen
Past 24 Jan 2019 - 13 Apr 2020 Sugar as a memory Salt as an image Skin as a witness Hair as a timeline Light as a reflection of all that is seen and unseen Vartan Avakian’s work stems from a reading of data as stains and scratches: as a series of inscriptions that exists in sculptural form... Read more -
Group Show - That is Water, That is Earth
Past 20 Sep - 22 Dec 2018 Marfa’ presents That Is Water, That Is Earth , a group exhibition of works by Caline Aoun, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Dala Nasser, Zoë Paul, curated with Mari Spirito. Artworks in That Is Water, That Is Earth are linked by navigation of the conditions of our times, giving materiality to the immaterial... Read more -
Talar Aghbashian - Transposition
Past 21 Apr - 30 Jul 2018 At once familiar and alien, landscapes are at the core of Aghbashian’s work. They seem to have been the theater of chaotic events left in a state of disturbing yet peaceful silence. An uncanny feeling is felt as one identifies with these anthropomorphic landscapes that speak of a fantasy place.... Read more -
Raed Yassin Yassin - Haute Couture
Past 17 Jan - 7 Apr 2018 In this multimedia exhibition, Raed Yassin immerses viewers in a plethora of images, sounds, lights, forms, memoirs culled from pop culture, where he laces facts, histories with fiction to invoke a romanticized representation of the past and simultaneously conceal deep personal wounds. The artist has been tailoring the ideas behind... Read more -
Lamia Joreige - Under-Writing Beirut
Past 10 Oct - 29 Dec 2017 In her multi-chaptered project Under-Writing—Beirut, Lamia Joreige investigates historically and personally significant locations within Beirut’s present. Like a palimpsest, the project incorporates various layers of time and existence, creating links between the traces that record such places’ previous realities and the fictions that reinvent them. Mathaf (2013) was the first... Read more -
Ahmad Ghossein - There Is No Right Or Wrong Here - الأرض لـمَن يُحرّرها
Past 27 Apr - 24 Sep 2017 Starting from a piece of land without a trace, Ahmad Ghossein’s project aims to question the conceptions of space, land, and its thickness – or the limits of its depths before it can be considered ‘underground’ in South Lebanon. This part of the country has no official cadastral record and... Read more -
Stéphanie Saadé - The Second Space
Past 19 Jan - 31 Mar 2017 The work of Stéphanie Saadé develops a language of suggestion, playing with poetics and metaphor. She shares clues, signs, imageless and occasionally silent trails with us, which interact like the words of a single sentence. It is for the viewer to decipher them, as would an archaeologist faced with traces,... Read more -
Saba Innab - Al Rahhalah (The Traveler)
Past 13 Sep - 30 Dec 2016 Al Rahhalah (The Traveler) rethinks dwelling and building in temporariness departing from the Palestinian refuge, exile and migration. It is a process of collecting spaces, architectural typologies and know-hows of dwelling in suspension and waiting. Reclaimed from personal memory and experience, those spaces are then recreated and materialized, becoming a... Read more -
Rania Stephan - On Never Being Simply One
Past 25 May - 30 Jul 2016 The exhibition is driven by the differences between images, still and moving, the trace of an absence that is originary to those images. Approaching images like an editor – part detective, part cinephile – Stephan investigates how images collide and collude, multiply and subtract. In her own words: “As an... Read more -
Caline Aoun - Fields of Space
Past 9 Mar - 14 May 2016 Caline Aoun (b 1983, Beirut) is a visual artist whose work engages issues related to urbanism, architecture, print and digital advertising space. Aoun invites the audience to consider and question a set of elements that open up to larger notions of over-consumerism, excess and saturation. In Fields of Space ,... Read more -
Tamara Al-Samerraei - Let Me Stay A Little Longer
Past 17 Dec 2015 - 27 Feb 2016 'First I thought that maybe all this tension was filling the space and that by now our souls must have already haunted the places where we lingered, but I was wrong and it all made sense in a dream, because in reality those places they actually haunted us and tasked... Read more -
Vartan Avakian - Collapsing Clouds of Gas and Dust
Past 22 Oct - 12 Dec 2015 The exhibition comprises artworks made from dust collected from an abandoned photo studio located in the Barakat Building. The Barakat Building is a historic landmark of Beirut and the site of the future museum of the history and memory of the city; “Beit Beirut”. The first artwork is a series... Read more
