GALLERIES

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Intersections of Memory and Matter at Galerie Tanit

Galerie Tanit hosts two parallel exhibitions that invite viewers into distinct yet overlapping visual worlds. Sorry for Interrupting by Jacques Vartabedian and Flow by Joumana Jamhouri unfold across the gallery’s rooms, each staging a meditation on fragmentation, memory, and the…

Fawzi Baalbaki Opens Inaugural Exhibition at the Dalloul Artist Collective

The Dalloul Artist Collective launches its curatorial programme with The Escape to Joy, a solo exhibition dedicated to the Lebanese painter Fawzi Baalbaki. On view at Stone Gardens – a landmark building by architect Lina Ghotmeh – the exhibition situates…

Voices from Gaza: Laila Shawa at CAP Kuwait

Voices from Gaza showcases the compelling work of Laila Shawa, an artist whose practice bore witness to the violence, erasure, and steadfast spirit of her homeland. Born in Gaza, Shawa spent decades transforming the pain of occupation into urgent visual…

No Trespassing at Ishara Art Foundation: The Street Reimagined

Marking its first summer exhibition, Ishara Art Foundation presents No Trespassing, curated by Priyanka Mehra. Bringing the street into the white cube, the show assembles six artists from the UAE and South Asia whose practices reflect the complexity of urban…

Antevasin – Richi Bhatia at Gallery Isabelle

Antevasin: the one who sits at the border of two worlds marks Richi Bhatia’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Isabelle, presenting a body of work that moves between drawing, performance, object-making, food interventions, and assemblage. Working across India and the…

Wavering Hope: What Remains, What Returns

As Syria navigates an uncharted chapter in its history, Ayyam Gallery marks its 20th anniversary with Wavering Hope, a summer collective that brings together thirteen artists whose practices have long borne witness to the nation’s unraveling and its quiet refusals…

Impressions of Paradise: Lebanon’s Image on Display

Impressions of Paradise: Travel, Tourism, and the Visual Performance of Modern Lebanon is on view at the Nuhad Es-Said Pavilion for Culture until 30 October 2025. Curated by Nour Osseiran, with catalogue and research by art historian Marie Tomb, the…

‘Sunrise at the Vortex’: Energy, Geometry, and the Practice of Drawing

Sunrise at the Vortex, Nima Nabavi’s second solo exhibition at The Third Line gallery, presents a body of work developed between 2022 and 2025, tracing the artist’s evolving engagement with geometry, introspection, and the practice of making. Comprising pieces created…

Sara Shamma: ‘Interference Green’ at Mark Hachem Gallery

The solo exhibition Interference Green by Syrian-British artist Sara Shamma is on view at Mark Hachem Gallery in Beirut from 12 to 26 June 2025. Presenting 20 recent and previously unseen paintings, the exhibition explores the colour green as both…

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