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Resurgence in MotionAn exhibition created in memory of August 4th, at LabyrinthArt institutions today are evolving beyon...
31/08/2026

Resurgence in Motion

An exhibition created in memory of August 4th, at Labyrinth

Art institutions today are evolving beyond spaces of quiet observation into places for participation, reflection, exchange, and well-being. At Labyrinth, Resurgence in Motion brings this idea to life by inviting audiences not only to look at art, but to experience the space through movement, presence, and connection.

The exhibition brings together photography, painting, and drawing to explore how trauma continues to inhabit memory, emotions, bodies, and the spaces around us. The works move between the intimate and the collective, revealing how architecture, objects, bodies, and fragments of everyday life can become vessels for remembering, processing, and reimagining experience.

It is conceived as a living environment, where art can be encountered through different forms of participation. Join us at Labyrinth, slow down, become present, and experience the exhibition beyond visual observation.

The exhibition is currently on view till September 18.

Monday to Friday | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Venue: Labyrinthe, Gergi Zeidan , Achrafieh, Beirut

Currated by Annie Vartivarian
Scenography by Yasmine Wakim

Thank you to every single person who was involved in the exhibition. As Freedom Recalled comes to an end, we want to tak...
15/01/2026

Thank you to every single person who was involved in the exhibition.

As Freedom Recalled comes to an end, we want to take a moment to thank all the artists who came together and exhibited their work at such short notice at Beit Beirut. Your talent, generosity, and dedication made this project possible — none of it could have existed without you.

Thank you as well to everyone who visited the exhibition, and of course to our sponsors and supporters who placed their trust in us.

Freedom Recalled was a space for reflection — on memory, freedom, justice, and the questions we continue to carry, both individually and collectively.

Thank you — until next time 🤍

Lamia Joreige — Here and Perhaps Elsewhere / Houna wa Roubbama HounakBorn in Beirut in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a visual a...
12/01/2026

Lamia Joreige — Here and Perhaps Elsewhere / Houna wa Roubbama Hounak

Born in Beirut in 1972, Lamia Joreige is a visual artist and film-maker who lives and works in Beirut. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting and filmmaking.

She uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on history and its possible narration, and on the relationship between individual
stories and collective memory. In her practice, rooted in her country’s experience, she explores the possibilities of representing the Lebanese wars and their aftermath. Her work is essentially on time, the recordings of its trace, and its effects on us. Her artwork has been presented in various international exhibitions.

Her artworks ask the the inhabitants she encounters one same question: Do you know anyone who was kidnapped here during the war?

Her investigation carries her through the many districts around the “Green line”, which used to divide Beirut between East and West, and where militias set up their checkpoints, the scenes of many kidnappings, and crimes. I thereby attempt to trigger the process of memory and to reveal the multiplicity of existing discourses on the war and the immensity of the drama.

As she crosses town and discovers places laden with history, she
draws a personal map of the city.

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige — Super8 FilmFilmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige work between...
12/01/2026

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige — Super8 Film

Filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige work between
photography, installations, video, and cinema, whether documentary or fiction films.

They question storytelling, the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries and the writing of history. Their multi-awarded films include Memory Box (2021), Ismyrna (2016), The Lebanese Rocket Society (2012), Je Veux Voir (2008), A Perfect Day (2005)…

Several retrospectives of their films have been presented
in renowned institutions. Their artworks are part of the most important exhibitions and public and private collections. They have been awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2017 for their project Unconformities.

Joana and Khalil are both very involved in
Metropolis, Cinematheque Beirut and are the co-founders of Abbout Productions with Georges Schoucair.

On August 19, 1985, Khalil’s maternal uncle, Alfred Junior Kettaneh was abducted. He is still reported missing today, like the seventeen thousand other people kidnapped during the Civil War and whose fate remains officially unknown.

In March 2001, the artists stumbled on Kettaneh’s archive of photographs and films. There was one Super 8 film reel that had not been developed. Stored in a yellow bag for fifteen years, it had survived the ravages of the war and a fire that destroyed the house.

After much deliberation, the artists decided to send it to the lab. The film turned out to be mostly a bright white. But suddenly, a barely noticeable
presence appeared and vanished. Using color correction techniques, the artists delved into the layers of the film, attempting to revive a presence –a ghostly image that resists disappearance lingering like a mourning without closure, memories whose traces are fated to remain.

Tomorrow at 6:15!
10/01/2026

Tomorrow at 6:15!

Tomorrow at Beit Beirut:Beyond Amnesty and Amnesia: Memory, Truth, and Justice for Victims
10/01/2026

Tomorrow at Beit Beirut:

Beyond Amnesty and Amnesia: Memory, Truth, and Justice for Victims

08/01/2026

Freedom Recalled
📍 Beit Beirut
28.11.2025 - 11.1.2026

The exhibition will be ongoing until this Sunday - don't miss it! 😌

Freedom Recalled is a landmark exhibition which confronts Lebanon's unresolved history of impunity, the failures of justice and the unhealed wounds that continue to echo through its collective psyche.

The exhibition brings together 40 artists who transform memory and the intergeneratiomal scars of Lebanon's traumatic events since 1975 up until the Beirut Port Explosion, into images, forms, and gestures that refuse erasure, challenge complacencies, and heed the murmurs of the past to clear a path toward another future.

At its heart, Freedom Recalled asks: Do we bear a responsibility to remember - and if so, how? What silences do we choose to uphold, and what price must truth exact in return? And ultimately, how might the pursuit of justice become a catalyst for personal healing and national renewal.

Join us this Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 6:07 pm at Beit Beirut for a special screening of 6’07, a 15-episode docuse...
07/01/2026

Join us this Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 6:07 pm at Beit Beirut for a special screening of 6’07, a 15-episode docuseries that weaves together fiction, real-time footage, and personal stories of the Beirut port explosion.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the movie directors, exploring the urgency that compelled them to film in the immediate aftermath of the blast, their journey into the heart of the tragedy, and their critical reflections on their work five years later.

انضموا إلينا يوم السبت، 10 كانون الثاني 2026، عند الساعة 6:07 مساءً في بيت بيروت لحضور عرض خاص لمسلسل وثائقي مكوّن من 15 حلقة بعنوان "07'6"، الذي يجمع بين الخيال، لقطات مباشرة، وقصص شخصية عن انفجار مرفأ بيروت.

سيعقب العرض حوار مع مخرجي الفيلم، يستعرضون فيه الضرورة الملحة التي دفعتهم لتصوير الأحداث مباشرةً بعد الانفجار، ورحلتهم إلى قلب المأساة، وتأملاتهم النقدية حول عملهم بعد مرور خمس سنوات.

Join us this Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 6'07 pm at Beit Beirut for a special screening of 6’07, a 15-episode docuser...
07/01/2026

Join us this Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 6'07 pm at Beit Beirut for a special screening of 6’07, a 15-episode docuseries that weaves together fiction, real-time footage, and personal stories of the Beirut port explosion.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the movie directors, exploring the urgency that compelled them to film in the immediate aftermath of the blast, their journey into the heart of the tragedy, and their critical reflections on their work five years later.

انضموا إلينا يوم السبت، 10 كانون الثاني 2026، عند الساعة 6:07 مساءً في بيت بيروت لحضور عرض خاص لمسلسل وثائقي مكوّن من 15 حلقة بعنوان "07'6"، الذي يجمع بين الخيال، لقطات مباشرة، وقصص شخصية عن انفجار مرفأ بيروت.

سيعقب العرض حوار مع مخرجي الفيلم، يستعرضون فيه الضرورة الملحة التي دفعتهم لتصوير الأحداث مباشرةً بعد الانفجار، ورحلتهم إلى قلب المأساة، وتأملاتهم النقدية حول عملهم بعد مرور خمس سنوات.

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