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Current and upcoming exhibitions and events
(inside) a wave, a cocoon

(inside) a wave, a cocoon

Majd Abdel Hamid, Melanie Kitti

27 September–8 December 2024
Opening Friday 27 September 6-11pm

Fresco—a painting becoming wall with time. Embroidery—threads meticulously stitching movement. These are ancient skills that bare history and memory within them. Not as materials, but as testimonies. Silent processes performed… »

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

by Kamal Aljafari
Introduction by Oskar Hallberg
Tuesday 10 December 2024
7pm

A Fidai Film (2024), 78 min
Arabic, Hebrew, English, with English subtitles

In the summer of 1982 the Israeli army invaded South Lebanon. They advanced as far as West… »

Present times. Ourselves.

Present times. Ourselves.

Marie Muracciole
Wednesday 4 December 2024
7pm

Between 2014 and 2019 Marie Muracciole was head of Beirut Art Center in Beirut, Lebanon. She entitled her curatorial program Present times. Ourselves, quoting from a page in Virginia Woolf’s last book, Between the Acts. Exhibitions,… »

Sahab Museum: Imagination as a place to survive

Sahab Museum: Imagination as a place to survive

Salman Nawati
Wednesday 27 November 2024
7pm

Floating in the sky, free from walls, a museum breaking out of isolation, in the form of a cloud from which it takes its name, a shape that came as proof of Gaza’s rich history. Sahab… »

Poetry and thought in the age of an awaiting grief

Poetry and thought in the age of an awaiting grief

Carl Wallnér
Thursday 13 June 2024
7pm

We are at war both with ourselves and with nature. Without hope of an end, it is as if we are experiencing the loss in advance and mourn in anticipation of it. In 2022, the Swedish Language… »

Spring 2019, and onwards...

Spring 2019, and onwards…

Every day, we calendar our minutes ad absurdum, yet we feel constantly behind schedule.
Every day, we process a massive overload of information, yet we never feel updated enough.
Every day, we connect to the whole world and beyond, yet what we most… »