Lamia Joreige (born in

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, Lebanon) is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA (Painting, Filmmaking) from

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. Since the late 1990s, her works have been widely displayed. She is a co founder and co director (with Sandra Dagher) of the

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. In 2011, Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige organized “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” at

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Work

Lamia Joreige works with various media including painting, writing, photography, video and installation. She explores the archive and other subjects related to memory. Objects of War, a series of testimonials on the Lebanese War was acquired by the

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in 2011, being the first major piece of a Lebanese artist on display in this museum’s permanent collections. Her video Beirut, Autopsy of a City is part of Story Board, a digital hub produced by the

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Publications

* Works 1994–2017, Lamia Joreige (Kaph Books, 2018) *Time and the other (Alarm Editions, 2004) *Ici et peut-être ailleurs / Hier, und vielleicht anderswo (

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, 2003)

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*Under-Writing Beirut, Marfa Projects, Beirut, 2017 *After the River,

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, 2017 *Records for uncertain Times, Art Factum Gallery, Beirut, 2013 *A Strange Feeling of Familiarity, Galerie Tanit, Munich, 2009 * Strange Feeling of Familiarity, Naila Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut, 2008 *Time and the Other, Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, 2006 *Time and the Other, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2005 *Time and the Other, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 2004 *Ici et peut-être ailleurs, Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2004 *Le Déplacement, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 2001 *Objets de Guerre & Le Déplacement, Nikki D. Marquardt Gallery, Paris, 2000 *Paintings, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, 1999 *Surfaces, French Cultural Center, Beirut, 1997

Group exhibitions

*Cycles Of Collapsing Progress, curated by

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and Anissa Touati, Rashid Karami International Fair,

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* Across Boundaries. Focus on Lebanese Photography, curated by Tarek Nahas, Beirut Art Fair 2018 * On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2012 * Beirut, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2011 * All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism, Quad, Derby, 2011 * Told Untold Retold, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2010 * All about Beirut, Kunsthalle White Box, Munich, 2010 * The Storyteller (Touring exhibition), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010 * The Storyteller (Touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010 * Bless my homeland forever, Kunsthalle, Exnergasse, 2010 * Usages du document, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2009 * Provisions for the Future: Past of the Coming Days,

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09, Sharjah, 2009 * Zones of Conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, 2009 * Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2008 * Foreword, Pavilion of Lebanon, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007 * Coding Decoding, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2006 * Rumour as Media, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, 2006 * Out of Beirut,

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, Oxford, 2006 * Consumption of Justice, Dyarbakir Art Center, Dyarbakir, 2005 * Presence Absence, Tanit Gallery, Munich, 2004 * DisORIENTation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2003 * Bater Dance Project (with Zeid Hamdane), Hamdane House, Bater, 2002 * Missing Links, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, 2001 * Hamra Street Project, Cinema Colisée, Beirut, 2000

References

External links

Website of Lamia Joreige

Website of Beirut Art Center
{{DEFAULTSORT:Joreige, Lamia Lebanese painters Lebanese photographers Lebanese women photographers Lebanese women painters Artists from Beirut 1972 births Living people Lebanese contemporary artists Rhode Island School of Design alumni