Public programs

To mark the opening of La Fabrique des Illusions, curators François Cheval and Yasmine Chemali will be in conversation with selected participating artists. 

Join curator Yasmine Chemali for a tour of La Fabrique des illusions : Collection Fouad Debbas et commentaires contemporains.

Join us for a screening of The Invisible Hands, directed by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh. To mark the occasion, Gioti and Salameh will be in conversation after the screening.

Join us for the Beirut premiere of Spaces of Exception directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny. To mark the occasion, after the screening of the film the filmmakers will be in conversation, moderated by Sari Hanafi.

The Table of Confidence is a one-on-one game with artist Valérie Cachard. Each participant will have an intimate exchange with Cachard through a card game that draws on themes from Gregory Buchakjian’s exhibition Abandoned Dwellings: Display of Systems.

Join us for a talk by Petra Serhal, based on her current research project, Adagio, supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).

Join us for a talk by Swiss artist duo Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, who have been developing immersive art installations for more than twenty years.

Join us for the book launch of The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making, edited by Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan from the Orient-Institut Beirut.

Please join us on Thursday 10 January at 19:00 for the 33rd Salon d'Automne Awards Ceremony, as we announce the recipients of the Sursock Museum Prize; the Emerging Artist Prize, offered by Mrs. Hind Sinno; and the Audience Choice Award.

This performance and installation by Bernard Khoury recounts the fabulous story of an impossible modernity. Not a retrospective, nor an objective account of the modern history of our territory, this is Bernard’s story of his father and architect of the modern movement, Khalil Khoury.