Ali El-Darsa
by Johanna Siegler // Oct. 10, 2025
The low metallic thrum of machinery drifts over from the neighboring industrial yard as the waning, saturated hours of late summer seep in through the wide windows…[read on]
Caline Aoun’s ‘Seeing is believing’ at Palais Populaire
by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 27, 2019
Caline Aoun is the winner of Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2019 Award. Her exhibition at Palais Populaire, ‘Seeing is believing’ is an abstract meditation on ways…[read on]
Article by Sofia Bergmann // Nov. 30, 2018
As Arab culture runs through the veins of Germany’s capital, the evening of ‘Arab Shorts’ – part of Berlin’s Interfilm festival on November 23rd – was as relevant as it was profound and political…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 25, 2016
How can we capture and represent a changing world, caught in the moment of transition? In the work of Marwan Rechmaoui, a large floor-based black rubber map delineates the entire city of Beirut, sixty individual…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 05, 2016
How do we perceive the world as it changes around us, mediating the transition between before and after? How does this process bring with it new meaning, a new understanding of what came first?…[read on]
Article by Maria Achkar – in Berlin; Friday, Jan. 16, 2015.
For years now,
Lebanon has been portrayed in the news as a land ruled by religion, war and chaos. It has been depicted numerous times as a place guided by secularism and instability. Its capital,
Beirut…
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