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We asked you to share the legal questions, challenges, and uncertainties you encounter in your work as artists and cultu...
16/10/2026

We asked you to share the legal questions, challenges, and uncertainties you encounter in your work as artists and cultural practitioners.

The questions we received point to a need for more accessible, practical and locally relevant legal knowledge around artistic practice.

This is what the Beirut Legal Clinic for Artists is here to explore.

Register for the roundtable discussions
27–28 October 2026, link in bio

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ما هي الفجوات القائمة في المعرفة القانونية المرتبطة بالممارسات الفنية والثقافية؟
كيف يمكن للفنانين الوصول إلى معرفة قانونية عملية ومرتبطة بواقع ممارساتهم، تساعدهم على حماية حقوقهم واستدامة عملهم؟

هذه الأسئلة هي نقطة انطلاق عيادة بيروت القانونية للفنانين.

انضمّوا إلينا في النقاشات الحوارية يومي 27 و28 تشرين الأول 2026 في مركز بيروت للفن.

التسجيل مجاني عبر الرابط في البايو

Alla Abdunabi I endured for you 2025Available on view at the Made With Your Magic Exhibition — Beirut, until October 24....
16/10/2026

Alla Abdunabi I endured for you 2025
Available on view at the Made With Your Magic Exhibition — Beirut, until October 24.

Large-scale salt sculpture, dimensions variable, 2025

Originally commissioned and produced by 421 Arts Campus in 2025

The Amazigi lion appears as a salt sculpture, suspended between extinction and myth. Native to North Africa, these majestic animals were driven to extinction by 1950,
casualties of successive imperial settlements and resource extraction.
Ironically, their legacy lived on in heraldry as symbols of vigilant guardianship, forged by the very forces that destroyed them.

The postures of the lion in the installation reverse their inherited representations, free from its enforced role as imperial guardian. It reclaims life in stillness, returning as
spectral forms.

Saba Innab “Tunnel... sorry, I mean Trench!” 2026Mixed-media drawings and prints produced between 2011 and 2024, accompa...
15/10/2026

Saba Innab “Tunnel... sorry, I mean Trench!” 2026

Mixed-media drawings and prints produced between 2011 and 2024, accompanied by excerpts from an essay of the same title

Commissioned by Made with Your Magic — Beirut Exhibition at Beirut Art Center, supported by the Culture
Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafi), through the Regional Artistic Collaboration Program

Saba Innab’s artistic practice is distinguished by a singular aesthetic and conceptual approach that emerges from her position as an artist, architect, and urban researcher.

Innab worked for more than a decade in the reconstruction of Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, an experience that further complicated her inquiry with questions rooted in her personal position within the Palestinian displacement.

Innab engages with concepts of rebuilding, building, destruction, and the meaning of dwelling, whether in exile, in the camp, or under the Zionist settler occupation and its continuous land theft and expansion.
Her work is not confined to the immediate moment—the catastrophic violence of the genocide and destruction of Gaza and the south of Lebanon—but moves across
times and places to consider building and dwelling as political acts and to explore the epistemic frameworks that animate them. Innab navigates between what she calls the “imaginary of land” as a source of knowledge that resists its erasure and renews itself against colonization, and the “imaginary of the time we inhabit”: a temporality constantly moving toward return, from within and beyond the camp.

15/10/2026

What new forms of cultural practice are institutions helping facilitate?
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‎An art center is more than a place to encounter art. It is also a space where ideas, energies, and possibilities converge.
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‎Through Curatorial Labs, Beirut Art Center opens up these possibilities as a space for collective learning and exchange.

This is a development program in partnership with the British Council.

14/10/2026

‎Curators Marc Ghazali, Lin Dabbous and Daoud Andos reflect on their journey spent working alongside Tarek Abou El Fetouh to form Made With Your Magic — Beirut.

The exhibition is on display till October 25th

‎Curatorial Labs is a development program initiated by Beirut Art Center in partnership with the British Council.
The inaugural edition nurtures early-career curators based in Beirut through a structured learning journey grounded in site-specific research, critical dialogue, and experimental exhibition-making.

Made With Your Magic — Beirut exhibition is ongoing till October 25th, 2026. We have recently installed artworks borrowe...
14/10/2026

Made With Your Magic — Beirut exhibition is ongoing till October 25th, 2026. We have recently installed artworks borrowed from the Dalloul Art Foundation collection. With 10 days left to the exhibition, we invite you to preview.

Ammar Farhat Café Chantant 1957
Gouache on paper, 49.5 x 64.5 cm

Mohamad Ben Ali Rbati Banquet Après La Fēte Religieuse N.D.
Aquarelle on paper, 59 x 44.5 cm

Elias Zayat Ma'loula 1966
Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 75 cm

Maliheh Afnan Untitled 1963
Mixed media on paper, 43 x 27.5 cm

Seif Wanly Untitled circa late 1950s
Oil on panel, 65.5 x 46 cm

Samira Salameh Untitled 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 75 x 75 cm

Hafidh Droubi Sunset over Djila 1970
Oil on board, 81.5 x 55.5 cm

فلسطين راحة الأرواحرحلة موسيقية وسردية في الأغنية الفلسطينية، تستعيد محطات من الذاكرة والتاريخ من خلال مختارات من المورو...
09/09/2026

فلسطين راحة الأرواح

رحلة موسيقية وسردية في الأغنية الفلسطينية، تستعيد محطات من الذاكرة والتاريخ من خلال مختارات من الموروث الغنائي الفلسطيني، وأغانٍ ارتبطت بمراحل مختلفة من التجربة الفلسطينية، من فترة ما قبل النكبة وصولًا إلى الأغنيات التي رافقت الثورة والمقاومة الشعبية.

يتنقل العرض بين هذه المحطات عبر الغناء والسرد، فتتحول كل أغنية إلى جزء من حكاية وذاكرة مشتركة.

أمل كعوش — سرد وغناء
جورج الشيخ — بزق وناي
مازن ملاعب — إيقاع
مكرم أبو الحسن — كونترباص

Join us for the screening of "This Time_Beirut" on Friday September 11 at 6PM for its premiere at Beirut Art Center.Admi...
07/09/2026

Join us for the screening of "This Time_Beirut" on Friday September 11 at 6PM for its premiere at Beirut Art Center.

Admission is by donation.
Runtime: 16:09 minutes

The documentary offers a glimpse into Beirut’s local skate scene. Amidst an environment defined by crisis, skaters use a piece of wood, two trucks, and four wheels to take a break from the chaotic world around them.

What makes this project unique is that the local skaters filmed themselves to capture their own reality. While the documentary acknowledges the crisis-laden atmosphere in the background, it focuses its perspective on skateboarding and the skaters' body language.

German editor Michael Parse filmed some of the footage himself and collected other clips via Instagram of the skaters. He worked closely with Mike Ritchard, a local deeply embedded in the "Skate Beirut" community—a group that regularly organizes skate workshops, contests, and other events for all ages. Michael Parse assembled the material on a strictly non-profit basis in Mannheim, Germany, and handled the final edit.

"This Time_Beirut" showcases a community that transcends boundaries. Regardless of religion, gender, or social class, people—not just the youth—find a sense of solidarity here. The film demonstrates how skateboarding acts as a universal language, building bridges and offering hope amidst the chaos.

We invite you to our second batch of events within our public program for Made With Your Magic — Beirut. This time hoste...
04/09/2026

We invite you to our second batch of events within our public program for Made With Your Magic — Beirut.

This time hosted by Omar Mohamed, Ali Jaber and Farah Kaddour

Conversations, listening sessions, and encounters. Swipe for information on each event, and RSVP through the link in our bio.

ندعوكم للمشاركة في الدفعة الثانية من فعاليات البرنامج العام لمعرض صُنِع بسِحْرك – بيروت.
بمشاركة Omar Mohamed، Ali Jaber Farah Kaddour.
حوارات، جلسات استماع، ولقاءات.
اسحبوا للاطلاع على تفاصيل كل فعالية، وسجّلوا مشاركتكم عبر الرابط في الـbio.

كيف تحفظ مدينةٌ ذاكرتها حين تصمت المسارح وتغيب الصور؟ في هذه الأمسية، يصحبنا عمر محمد من الموصل في تجربةٍ تجمع الحكاية بالأداء الحي، لكشف ما يحمله المقام العراقي من تاريخٍ وألمٍ ونجاة. ضمن «صُنِع بسحرك»، نصغي إلى نغمٍ أعاد للمدينة قدرتها على الحلم.

من الموصل، عمر محمد رئيس مؤسسة «تطوع معنا» في نينوى وعضو أوركسترا وتر، ويشرف على مشروع «محطات مقام الموصل» لأرشفة المقام وتدريب المؤدين وتقديم عروضه.

جلسة استماع ونقاش مباشرة عبر الإنترنت

As part of the public program of “Made With Your Magic” at Beirut Art Center, “Fear in the City”, a lecture by Ali Jaber, takes place on Wednesday 16 September at 7pm.

The lecture considers fear as a condition that survives the authority that produced it, and the gaze as something that belongs not to the one who looks but to the one who is looked at. In a city where surveillance is heard before it is ever seen.

Ali Jaber is a lecturer in film studies and visual arts and a PhD researcher in philosophy and film studies.

Free and open to the public. Lecture In English moderated by Daoud Andos, member of the curatorial team of Made With Your Magic.

بمناسبة معرض "صُنِع بسِحْرك – بيروت" الذي يستعير اسمه من الجملة التي وُضِعَت لتسهيل حفظ المقامات الموسيقية الشرقية، ينظم مركز بيروت للفن جلسة استماع بقيادة متخصصين موسيقيين ومحترفين في مجال الموسيقى، كل منها تُقدم أغاني من أحد المقامات الثمانية الأساسية. يدعو المركز عازفة البزق والمؤلفة الموسيقية والباحثة فرح قدور لتقدم أغاني من مقام البياتي.

في حين أن المعرض يلقى الضوء على تاريخ المقامات واكتشاف التفاعلات الثقافية والاجتماعية والسياسية التي تشكلت على مر قرون وتعكس تنوع فني وثقافي ثري يتخطى أي صورة نمطية للهوية اللغوية أو الدينية أو القومية، تقدم جلسات

We invite you to our first batch of events within our public program for Made With Your Magic — Beirut. Conversations, ...
28/08/2026

We invite you to our first batch of events within our public program for Made With Your Magic — Beirut.

Conversations, listening sessions, and encounters. Swipe for information on each event, and RSVP through the link in our bio.

"Having decided to leave Lebanon after finishing writing my book Undeserving Lebanon (it was published a few months later, in December 2007), did I choose Turkey for destination solely because of my affinity for Ottoman classical music and its continuation in Turkish art music, as well as for Sufi music? Some part of me must also have felt the need to draw closer to the site of a largely unacknowledged loss that had occurred there before my birth, a loss that had made me a born loser."

Jalal Toufic is “today, and has been for some time, the most original thinker on the planet” (Etel Adnan), in other words, “one of the most important ‘living’ writers (I put the word ‘living’ in quotation marks for Toufic would never refer to himself as solely a living writer, but more as a writer and a mortal to death)” (Walid Raad). Volume 1 of the three-volume The Collected Writings (1991–2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic was published by No Place Press in 2025. He has made over twenty conceptual or essay films and videos, ranging from short works to “inhumanely” long ones (50 and 72 hours).

بمناسبة معرض "صُنِع بسِحْرك – بيروت" الذي يستعير اسمه من الجملة التي وُضِعَت لتسهيل حفظ المقامات الموسيقية الشرقية، ينظم مركز بيروت للفن جلسة استماع بقيادة متخصصين موسيقيين ومحترفين في مجال الموسيقى، كل منها تُقدم أغاني من أحد المقامات الثمانية الأساسية. يدعو المركز عازف العود والمغني والمؤلف الموسيقي زياد الأحمدية ليختار أغاني من مقام نهوند.

في حين أن المعرض يلقى الضوء على تاريخ المقامات واكتشاف التفاعلات الثقافية والاجتماعية والسياسية التي تشكلت على مر قرون وتعكس تنوع فني وثقافي ثري يتخطى أي صورة نمطية للهوية اللغوية أو الدينية أو القومية، تقدم جلسات الاستماع للجمهور أغاني ومقطوعات وموشحات تراثية وحديثة ومعاصرة إلي الجمهور لاكتشاف جماليات المقامات وتعقيداتها إلي جمهور بيروت.

‎عازف العود والمغني والمؤلف الموسيقي زياد الأحمدية درس العود في المعهد الموسيقي الوطني إلى جانب دراسته العلوم البصرية والسمعية في الجامعة اللبنانية الأميركية.
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