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Selections Arts Magazine – Lebanon Galleries

We Design Beirut: What To See, Where To Go

We Design Beirut is one week away from transforming into a living canvas. Five landmark locations, each carrying its own intimate history with Beirut, will open as spaces for reflection, re-imagination, and rediscovery of a city ridden with triumphs and…

Ghassan Zard and Marc Mouarkech on ‘ALTARS’

Ghassan Zard’s solo exhibition ALTARS, curated by Marc Mouarkech, unfolds at Villa Audi in Beirut until 11 October 2025. Through sculpture and painting, Zard explores how memory, trauma, and survival can be held within form. In Zard’s body of work the…

Nour Najem, Guilaine Elias, and Gregory Gatserelia on ‘FRAGMENTA’

FRAGMENTA is a pioneering design and sustainability initiative founded by Nour Najem and Guilaine Elias, with curation by Gregory Gatserelia. Rooted in circular economy principles, the project redefines discarded marble fragments as sources of cultural and creative potential. The inaugural…

Sherif Hayek and Dani Chakour on Curating Art in the Culinary World

Blurring the boundaries between gastronomy and culture, the Em Sherif Art Foundation transforms restaurants into living galleries, where Lebanese art, design, and cuisine converge. Founded by Chef Mireille Hayek and CEO Dani Chakour, and curated by Sherif Hayek, the Foundation…

We Design Beirut Returns with its 2nd Edition

We Design Beirut returns for its second edition from 22–26 October 2025, staging a five-day programme of exhibitions, installations, excursions, and talks across some of Lebanon’s most significant historical and architectural landmarks. Anchored in the pillars of empowerment, preservation and…

Dia al-Azzawi on ‘False Witnesses’ at Saleh Barakat Gallery

False Witnesses, a solo exhibition by Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi (b. 1939), is on view at Saleh Barakat Gallery, in Beirut. Spanning ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, Azzawi’s practice has long engaged with the shared histories and political ruptures…

Ghada Zoghbi, The Recreation of Adam, 2025, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 46.5×83.5cm. Courtesy of Galerie Janine Rubeiz and the artist

Between Dust and Dawn: Ghada Zoghbi at Galerie Janine Rubeiz

Galerie Janine Rubeiz presents Ghada Zoghbi’s fourth solo show titled Between Dust and Dawn, from September 10 to October 10, 2025. In her previous body of work, Ghada Zoghbi offered a profound meditation on the poetic relationship between humanity and…

‘What Remains’: Adel Abidin at Galerie Tanit

Adel Abidin returns to painting with the solo exhibition What Remains curated by Tamara Chalabi, at Galerie Tanit in Beirut. The artist turns to the horizon as both a visual anchor and a metaphorical threshold. Across seascapes and fractured terrains,…

La toile résonnante: A Collective Reflection on Fragility, Form, and Resistance

Galerie Janine Rubeiz presents La toile résonnante, a curated collective exhibition featuring works by fourteen artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media. Going into its last week on display, the exhibition offers a porous surface upon which…

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