JOANA HADJITHOMAS & KHALIL JOREIGE
BORN
1969 Beirut, Lebanon
Live and work in Beirut, Lebanon
EDUCATION
1995 Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 I must first apologise…, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Adelaide Internationale 2014: Worlds in collision, Contemporary Art Center of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2013 Khiam, l’emploi du temps, 3Bisf, Aix en Provence, France
The Lebanese Rocket Society, A Tribute to Dreamers (Parts II, III, IV and V), CRG Gallery, New York, USA
The Lebanese Rocket Society, A Tribute to Dreamers (Parts II, III, IV, V, and VI), InSitu Gallery, Paris, France
2012 Aida, Save Me, Inivia, Rivington Place, London, UK
Lebanese Rocket Society, Part III, IV, V, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
How Soon is Now: A Tribute to Dreamers, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Lebanon, Beirut
2010 Histoire du vent, Festival d’Avignon, Ecole d’Art, France
I want to see, Gasworks, Triangle Arts Trust, London, UK
Is there anybody out there, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
2009 Je suis là même si tu ne me vois pas, I am here even if you don’t see me, Galerie Leonard &
Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada
Tels des oasis dans le déser, Eglise des Célestins Festival d’Avignon, France
Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Villa do Conde, Portugal
Faces, Art première (avec Renaud Auguste Dormeuil), Art Basel, Switzerland
Wonder Beirut, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Space Gallery (Part of Image Festival), Toronto, Canada
We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
2008 We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Circulo de confusion, Musée de Gigon, Espagne
Back to the present, Homeworks IV, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Histoires tenues secrètes, Fort du Bruissin, openning of the Centre d’Art Contemporain,
Francheville, France SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2014 Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Lee Nan-Young and Oum Kulthoum, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea
Fotofest Biennial, Contemporary Arab Photographic Art, Houston, USA
2013 Future Imperfect, Tate Modern, London, UK
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Vues d’en Haut (Views from Above), Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Terms and Conditions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Cultural Centre, Doha, Qatar
Light from the Middle East, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2012 Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2012, Kochi Kerala, India
The Third Line booth H-10, Frieze London, Regents Park, London, UK
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, CA, USA
Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
A Letter Can Always Reach Its Destination, La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Paris, France 2011 The Lebanese Rocket Society, 11th Biennale de Lyon, France
The Lebanese Rocket Society, 10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
2010 Soft Machine, Panorama 12, Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
Perpetual Battles, Baibakova Art Project, Moscow, Russia
Utopie(s), Curated by Jany Bourdais, Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
Brouillon, Musée de la dance, Rennes, France
2009 Image in Question, 41st national Artists’ Salon Cali, Colombia
9th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
Fonction Critique, Aperto, Montpellier, France
Fictions du réel, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Promised Lands, 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contempory Art, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia
Crossing (Traversées), Bab Rouah, & Bab el Kébir, Rabat, Maroc
2008 Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
Roads Were Opened / Roads Were Closed, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Art now in Lebanon, Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman foundation, Amman, Jordan
Forum Homeworks 4, organised by Ashkal Alwan association, Beirut, Lebanon
Stratégies de l’histoire, Stratégie de l’art, 6th Biennale de Goumri, Armenia
Conspire, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Orients Sans Frontières, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2007 Ah les belles images, Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
Whenever it starts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Ah les belles images, La Tolerie, Clermont Ferrand, France
Distorted Fabric, De Apple, Amsterdam, Holland
FILMS
2012 Lebanese Rocket Society
2008 Je Veux Voir, Baddi Chouf (Arabic Title)
2006 Enfances
2005 A Perfect Day, Yawmon Akhar (Arabic Title)
2003 Ashes, Ramad (Arabic Title)
2000 Khiam
1999 Around the Pink House, Al bayt al zahr (Arabic Title) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2013 Hadjithomas, Joana & Joreige, Khalil Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Co-published by JRP|Ringier and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, with the support of the National Centre for Visual Arts, Paris, France
2006 Cotter, Suzanne, Stephen Wright, Bilal Khbeiz, Kaelen Wilson Goldie, and Simon Harvey. Out of Beirut. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 Muller Nat, Of Images, Ghosts & Other Tomorrows, artasiapacific, March/April 2013, p. 72-81
2012 Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V, L’agenda, March/April 2012, pg 48
Artinthecity Speak to Joana Hadjithomas, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 Winner, ArtintheCity online,
March 2012
Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V, Islamic Arts Magazine online, 14 March 2012
Chistine, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, ArtLuvah online, Febuary 2012 Everyone’s a Winner!, Harpers Bazaar Art, January 2012
Hadjithomas, Joanna, Influences: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Jorgeige, frieze, May 2012
Scarborough, James, Spectral Imprints, Abraaj Capital Art, Art Dubai 2012, Huff Post Arts, 19
April, 2012
Shalabi, Sam, Lebanese Rocket Society: Elements for a Monument. The Golden Record,
Menifesta Journal, Issue 14, pg 43-45
East, Ben, Reflections on the Arab Culture, The National, 16 April 2012
2011 Axmaker, Sean, I Want to See, Seattle Weekly, July 2011
Binder, Pat & Haupt, Gerhard, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Nafas Art Magazine,
September 2011
Lupton, Victoria, Image Conscious, Now Lebanon, September 2011
2010 Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960’s-Now, ArteEast, November 2010
2009 Rehberg, Vivian, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, March 2009
Modern Painters: The Photography Issue, April 2009
Goodboy, Bridget, Art in Review; Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, May 2009
2008 Lord, Christophe, Snaps from Oblivion, Time Out Dubai, September 2008
Mohamed, Arsalan, The Road Less Travelled, The National, September 2008
Yusuf, Mohamed, Burning Cedar, Gulf Today, September 2008
Haroon, Layla, An Ode to Inspiration from Pain, Gulf News, Weekend Review, September 2008
Columbus, Nikki, Art Forum, Homeworks IV, Beirut, June 2008
2007 Mack, Josua, Art Review, Art and Politics in the Gulf and the Middle East, July 2007
Goodbody, Bridget L., New York Times, Art In Review, May 18 2007
Zehil, Sylviane, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige exposant a la CRG de New York, L'Orient
LE JOUR, May 10, 2007
2006 Oxford out of Beirut, BIDOUN, Spring Issue 7, May 2006
2005 Carver, Antonia, Hysterical Repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's A Perfect Day,
BIDOUN, Issue 6, Winter 2005
Wonder Beirut, La bataille des hôtels, Mission impossible 2004 The story of a pyromaniac photographer in Cabinet, Issue 16, The sea, Immaterial
Incorporated, winter 2004
Like an Oasis in the Desert: in catalogue Appel à témoin, Edition Quartier 2004
2003 Don’t walk publication, The Echo Show
Donner à voir /se donner à voir : dans Al ADAB n° 53 Beyrouth. 2003.
2002 Latency, conference in "HOMEWORKS" ed. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2002.
OK, I’m going to show you my work : in DISCOURSE 24.1 (winter 2002)
2001 A state of latency, ICONOCLASH published by ZKM & MIT press, 2001.
1998 Que faisiez vous entre cette aube et la dernier, SPECIMEN n°4 (Paris, 1998)
1997 Beyrouth: Fictions urbaines Photobook published by Mind the gap (Beyrouth 1997)
ACQUISITIONS
MuCEM, Marseille, France
The British Museum, London, UK
Abraaj Capital Art Collection Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE Guggenheim, New York, USA Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
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