Installation view, ‘The Shade,’ curated by Jean-Marc Prevost, 2025, Sfeir-Semler Karantina. (Credit: Artists and Sfeir-Semler Gallery)
BEIRUT — “The Shade,” the current exhibition at Sfeir-Semler’s Karantina space, is one of several shows that the gallery is staging at its Beirut and Hamburg locations to mark gallerist Andrée Sfeir-Semler’s anniversary — 40 years in Kiel/Hamburg, 20 in Beirut.The Karantina expo is showing work by 20 of Sfeir-Semler’s artists. In his written introduction to the show, curator Jean-Marc Prévost notes that the contributors are drawn from three generations of artists. More from the art scene Beirut's autumn brings powerful work to its galleries When Sfeir-Semler launched this white cube-style venue in 2005, her core entourage was drawn from Beirut’s post-Civil War contemporary art scene, whose aesthetic was critically minded, politically aware and nonpartisan, tendencies shared by her artists from elsewhere in the MENA region....
BEIRUT — “The Shade,” the current exhibition at Sfeir-Semler’s Karantina space, is one of several shows that the gallery is staging at its Beirut and Hamburg locations to mark gallerist Andrée Sfeir-Semler’s anniversary — 40 years in Kiel/Hamburg, 20 in Beirut.The Karantina expo is showing work by 20 of Sfeir-Semler’s artists. In his written introduction to the show, curator Jean-Marc Prévost notes that the contributors are drawn from three generations of artists. More from the art scene Beirut's autumn brings powerful work to its galleries When Sfeir-Semler launched this white cube-style venue in 2005, her core entourage was drawn from Beirut’s post-Civil War contemporary art scene, whose aesthetic was critically minded, politically aware and nonpartisan, tendencies shared by her artists from elsewhere in the...