MASS Alexandria

05/11/2024

https://artlyst.com/people/wael-shawky-appointed-first-artistic-director-of-qatar-museums-fire-station/

The internationally acclaimed Egyptian-born artist Wael Shawky has been appointed the first Artistic Director of QM’s creative hub, Fire Station...

20/07/2024

The New York Times
The Egyptian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
By: Aruna D’Souza

نيويورك تايمز
عن الجناح المصري في بينالي فينيسيا

At the Biennale, Wael Shawky represented his country with a lush retelling of a failed revolution that offers hope in a troubled political landscape.

29/07/2023

Our last event this summer!

Programme announcement:

SEEKING PLENITUDE IN THE MIDST OF SCARCITY
TALK BY HAIG AIVAZIAN
AUGUST 5, 2023
18:30 PM – 20:30 PM

In this talk, Haig Aivazian will draw from his time directing Beirut Art Center (BAC) (2020-2022) to talk about the various attempts BAC and others have taken on, to develop modes of address and making that might inhabit, on one hand, the welling of an unprecedented revolutionary horizon in Lebanon since 2019 and, on the other, the near total collapse of the economic and social orders, along with the various depressions, depletions and deflations it engenders.

What kinds of affect or fields of potential do practices, which we have come to call research-based, investigative, forensic… put into motion, when they unearth hidden infrastructures of violence and dispossession, or render visible the machinations of our degradation and humiliation? Can we think of cultural practices that are not solely predicated on suspicion and that instead aim to, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “assemble and confer plenitude”?

Haig Aivazian is an artist living in Beirut. Working across a range of media and modes of address, he delves into the ways in which power embeds, affects and moves people, objects, animals, landscape and architecture. From 2020 to 2023, Aivazian was Artistic Director of Beirut Art Center (BAC) where he was founding editor of thederivative.org, among several other projects he initiated.

The language of the talk will be English.

Part of the MASS Alexandria Summer Programme at the Kunstverein in Hamburg's THE EDUCATIONAL WEB

The MASS Summer Programme is funded by art.ifa

29/07/2023

Programme announcement:

SEEKING PLENITUDE IN THE MIDST OF SCARCITY
TALK BY HAIG AIVAZIAN
AUGUST 5, 2023
18:30 PM – 20:30 PM

In this talk, Haig Aivazian will draw from his time directing Beirut Art Center (BAC) (2020-2022) to talk about the various attempts BAC and others have taken on, to develop modes of address and making that might inhabit, on one hand, the welling of an unprecedented revolutionary horizon in Lebanon since 2019 and, on the other, the near total collapse of the economic and social orders, along with the various depressions, depletions and deflations it engenders.

What kinds of affect or fields of potential do practices, which we have come to call research-based, investigative, forensic… put into motion, when they unearth hidden infrastructures of violence and dispossession, or render visible the machinations of our degradation and humiliation? Can we think of cultural practices that are not solely predicated on suspicion and that instead aim to, in Eve Sedgwick’s words, “assemble and confer plenitude”?

Haig Aivazian is an artist living in Beirut. Working across a range of media and modes of address, he delves into the ways in which power embeds, affects and moves people, objects, animals, landscape and architecture. From 2020 to 2023, Aivazian was Artistic Director of Beirut Art Center (BAC) where he was founding editor of thederivative.org, among several other projects he initiated.

The language of the talk will be English.

Part of the MASS Alexandria Summer Programme at the Kunstverein in Hamburg's THE EDUCATIONAL WEB

The MASS Summer Programme is funded by art.ifa

22/06/2023

22/06/2023

REMINDER
Summer Programme at the Kunstverein in Hamburg's Educational Web

FILM SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK
Friday, 9 June 2023, 18:30–20:30

With: Marianne Fahmy

PERFORMANCES AND ARTISTS' TALKS
Freitag, 23 June 2023, 18:30–20:30

With: Rania Atef, Mohamed Adel Dessouki and Mahmoud Tarek

EXHIBITION TOUR, ROUNDTABLE TALK AND SCREENING PROGRAMME
Saturday, 24 June 2023, 17:00–20:30

With: Rania Atef, Asmaa Barakat, Mohamed Adel Dessouki, Marianne Fahmy, Tareque Elsharquawy, South of Ajdabiya (Saif Fradj and Esraa Elfeky) and Mahmoud Tarek

TALK AND DISCUSSION
Saturday, 5 August 2023, 18:30–20:30

With: Haig Aivazian

Image courtesy: Kunstverein in Hamburg
Photos by: Fabian Schwarze

Thanks to the team of the Kunstverein in Hamburg for the great collaboration, namely director Milan Ther, exhibition manager and mastermind Linda Epp, assistant curator Theresa Roessler, head of press and communication Theresa Weise, assistant curator and accomplice Nicholas Tammens, technical director Robert Görß, head of finances Jörg Joswiak, assistant to the technical director Otis Dusör and research assistant Francisca Markus

The summer programme is supported by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)

02/06/2023

MASS Alexandria's current project: An exhibition with works by Rania Atef, Mohamed Adel Dessouki, Marianne Fahmy and Mahmoud Tarek as part of the Kunstverein in Hamburg's THE EDUCATIONAL WEB, open till 6 August. Photos: Berit Schuck, Nicholas Tammens

30/03/2023

Announcing a project by MASS Alexandria within an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany:

THE EDUCATIONAL WEB
March 31 - August 6, 2023
Opening: Friday, March 31, 2023

The project consists of an exhibition with works by: Rania Atef (Cairo, EG), Marianne Fahmy (Alexandria, EG), Mohamed Adel Dessouki (Cairo. EG) and Mahmoud Tarek (Franfkfurt / Main, Germany).

It will be complemented by a programme of performances screenings, talks and conversations with the artists across June 9 - August 5.

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27/01/2020

Thank you, Mada Masr and Ash Moniz!

The exhibition is MASS Alexandria's first since 2016.

21/12/2019

Many thanks to everyone who came and saw our exhibition, we are grateful, very moved and seriously happy!