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Sursock Museum Program March – May 2017 SurSock muSeum Program March – May 2017 The Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum is a mod- ern and contemporary art museum in the center of Beirut first opened in 1961, with a mission to collect, preserve, and exhibit local and in - ternational art. Through our collection, archives, exhibitions, and public programs, we aim to produce knowl- edge on art practices in the region and explore work that reflects on our contemporary moment. Our goal is to support local art production, to provide a platform for encounter and exper - imentation with art and ideas, and to inform and challenge different audiences in new and unexpected ways. www.sursock.museum 1 Exhibitions and displays 2 public program Tours 6 ConferenCes 7 Talks 7 film program 10 performanCes 12 speCial evenTs 13 upcoming Exhibitions 14 calEndar 15 hito steyerl m factory of the sun (film still), 2015 ind the gap Single-channel video, 23’ 1 Exhibitions and displays FaBrIK Curated by florian ebner in partnership with the goethe-institut and ifa 31 march – 8 may 2017 special exhibitions Hall, level -2 FABRIK (Factory) presents the work of five in- Participating artists are Jasmina Metwaly and ternational artists reflecting on notions of “work,” Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl, and Tobias “migration,” and “revolt.” Zielony. This constellation transforms the exhibition Exhibition curator Florian Ebner is the Head space into a factory: a virtual factory of our new of the Photographic Collection at Museum networked world; a defunct Egyptian factory; Folkwang in Essen, Germany. and a factory for political narratives and the FABRIK is a touring presentation of the analysis of our visual culture. At the heart of German Pavilion at the 56th Venice all the works, we meet figures of revolt, be they Biennial, 2015. The Sursock Museum is its theatrical, photographic, filmic, virtual, and / or point of departure. physical in nature. An exhibition by the ifa (Institut für The exhibition can be read as a parable for the Auslandsbeziehungen), www.ifa.de metamorphosis of visual media, from pictures as classical recordings to the generating, processing, #fabrik #sursockmuseum and projection of images. It can also be seen as a statement about the changing use of images, blurring the boundaries between document, testimony, and fiction. hito steyerl factory of the sun (film still), 2015 Single-channel video, 23’ 2 maha maamoun the law of Existence 24 february – 12 June 2017 Twin galleries, gf Working primarily with video and photography, Maha Maamoun lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Maha Maamoun’s work deals with the circu- Her work is generally interested in examining lation and function of images in vernacular the form, function, and currency of common culture, reframing these as tools for critical cultural visual and literary images as an entry insights and analysis. point to investigating the cultural fabric that The Law of Existence brings together works that we weave and are weaved into. She also works deal with the many faces and forms of state collaboratively on independent publishing and power in contemporary Egypt, from its man- curatorial projects. She co-founded the inde- ifestation in the intimate lives of citizens to pendent publishing platform called Kayfa-ta power solidified in the edifices of government in 2013. She is also a founding board member headquarters. of the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), an independent non-profit space for art and culture, The works exhibited here were produced within founded in Cairo in 2004. the last five years, during a time of great change and upheaval in Egypt. At the heart of these Recent exhibitions include The Time is Out of works is a reflection on human nature, both dark Joint, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2016; Century of and bright, in times of uncertainty. Centuries, SALT, 2015; Like Milking a Stone, Rosa Santos Gallery, 2015; The Night of Counting the Years, Fridricianum, 2014; Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, 2014; and Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks, Meeting Points 7, 2014. #mahamaamoun #lawofexistence #sursockmuseum maha maamoun Dear animal (film still), 2016 Single-channel video, 25’30’’ Arabic with english subtitles 3 Visit Beirut! postcards and travel guides from the Fouad debbas collection 24 february – 12 June 2017 The fouad Debbas Collection gallery, level 1 As early as 1865, seven passenger lines began boost the profile of Beirut’s hotel establishments, to regularly service Beirut. The modest lodg- and make the city a sought-after destination, and ings hitherto available to travelers, the locandas, no longer the mere stopover it had long been. were to evolve. Through postcards, guides, and other publica- In just a few years, hotels proliferated, along tions from The Fouad Debbas Collection (avail- with travel agencies set up on the quays. able for consultation at the Sursock Museum Hôtel Gassman, Victoria, Royal, Beyrouth library), picture yourself as a tourist in early Palace, Métropole, Hôtel Bassoul d’Orient, Saint- 20th century Beirut, and begin by choosing Georges, Palm Beach… Travel writing from the your hotel! 1850s and guidebooks published by the likes of #hotels #beirut #tfdc #sursockmuseum Joanne, Baedecker, Cook, and Bleu, helped to Hotel st. georges, Beirut, Circa 1934-36 Postcard, 8.7 x 14 cm The Fouad Debbas collection / Sursock museum 4 Collection Display a selection of Works from the sursock museum collection Collection galleries, levels 1 and 2 Distributed along the Museum’s upper two From Khalil Zgaib’s naïve paintings to Paul floors, the collection display traces a history of Guiragossian’s stylized human figures, the dis- Lebanese modern art from the late 1800s to play’s scope and breadth offer significant insights the early 2000s. into Lebanese modern art. Acquired by or gifted to the Sursock Museum Works on display include Farid Aouad’s Three following exhibitions, the works in the collec- Men of Note (circa 1980), Yvette Achkar’s tion also chronicle the history of the Museum’s Composition in black and pink (1987), Jean exhibition program since its opening in 1961 – Khalife’s Phoenician Women (1972), and Rima including the Salon d’Automne – as well as the Amyuni’s Mimosas (1994). evolution of artistic practices in Lebanon. #sursockmuseumcollection nadia saïkali Composition, 1968 oil on canvas, 120 x 200 cm Sursock museum collection 5 tours Collection Tour saturday 18 march, 16:00 to 17:00 in english Led by the Sursock Museum’s docents, these Thursday 13 april, 19:00 to 20:00 in french tours guide you through the Museum’s perma- Thursday 11 may, 19:00 to 20:00 in arabic nent collection, giving insights into its history meeting point: information Desk, gf and highlighting key works on display. free admission spaces limited. first-come, first-served. FaBrIK: Curator’s Tour With florian ebner saturday 1 april, 16:00 to 17:00 in french Join curator Florian Ebner for a tour of the on- and 17:00 to 18:00 in english going exhibition FABRIK. meeting point: Florian Ebner is the Head of the Photographic special exhibitions Hall, level -2 Collection at Museum Folkwang in Essen, free admission Germany. spaces limited. first-come, first-served. tobias Zielony The Citizen, 2015 Installation of 22 photographs, newspapers, dimensions variable courtesy of Tobias Zielony and koW, Berlin 6 conFErEncEs The Photographic Legacy of the middle East and North africa: Priorities for Sustainability in partnership with mEppi To mark the completion of the last series of Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 may workshops, MEPPI is organizing a symposium to 9:00 to 17:00 consider the future direction and sustainability auditorium, level -2 of photographic preservation in the Middle East and North Africa. in english and arabic with simultaneous translation free admission The symposium includes presentations and panel spaces limited, booking required. discussions that collectively highlight the rich Tickets can be booked through our website. and varied collections of photographic holdings The Middle East Photograph Preservation in the region, providing examples of effective Initiative (MEPPI) is a multi-year strategic ef- stewardship and preservation activities, and fort to build the capacity of individuals and identifying challenges and opportunities for the institutions in the care and preservation of preservation of photographic collections. photographic collections in the Middle East and Symposium partners are the Arab Image North Africa. From 2009 to 2017, MEPPI trained Foundation, the University of Delaware, the over seventy participants from 52 institutions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty representing collections in sixteen countries Conservation Institute. – Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. talKs Swiss art Talks: Peter Pfrunder an imaginary country: photography and national identity in partnership with the Embassy of Following his talk, Pfrunder will be in conver- switzerland in lebanon sation with Clémence Cottard Hachem, Head With the support of association of Collections at the Arab Image Foundation. philippe Jabre Peter Pfrunder is Director and Curator of the Thursday 9 march, 19:00 to 20:30 Fotostiftung Schweiz / Swiss Foundation for auditorium, level -2 Photography, Winterthur (Switzerland). His pub- lications and exhibitions on the history of pho- in french tography include Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to free admission the Present – A Different History of Photography With a collection of over 50,000 photographic (Lars Muller Publishers, Baden 2011); and prints, including those by Robert Frank and Roberto Donetta. Fotograf und Samenhändler Balthasar Burkhard, Peter Pfrunder, the Director aus dem Bleniotal (Limmat Verlag, 2016). of the Swiss Foundation for Photography, will Clémence Cottard Hachem is the Head of talk about the imaginary dimension of the pho- Collections at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut. tographic archive. Specialized in 19th-century photographic tech- niques, her research focuses on the reception of images produced at that time.
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