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A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

A Review

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Stephanie Bailey

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Lizzy Collier

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yazan Ashqar

Meeting Points 8

Wael Shawky at the Fondazione Merz

Negative Ecstasy at Dirimart, Istanbul

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) at the Centre Pompidou

Natasha Marie Llorens

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Vikram Divecha at Tashkeel

Technology and Its Discontents

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

The Sketches of Mahmoud Al Rifai at FADA 317

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

At Aicon Gallery, New York

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

At Ab Anbar Gallery

Rozemin Keshvani

Nicola Baird

The 37th EVA International

Tarek Al-Ghoussein at Galerie Brigitte Schenk

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Earshot by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Portikus, Frankfurt

KVS Theater in Brussels

Grey Noise Gallery

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Green Art Gallery

Walead Beshty at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, James B Duke House

Shady El Noshokaty at Gypsum Gallery, Cairo

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

At the 41st Aeschylia Festival

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will

Maraya Art Centre

Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible

'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, at MACBA

Lantian Xie at Grey Noise

Rana ElNemr at the American University in Cairo’s Sharjah Art Gallery

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

From the Intimate to the World

Le Dessous des Ratures (Beneath the Crossings Out)

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Berlin Documentary Forum 3 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Burak Delier at Iniva

33rpm and a Few Seconds by Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh

Slavs and Tatars at The Third Line

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

Jananne Al-Ani, Excavations, at the Hayward Gallery Project Space

The Sharjah Art Foundation's 2014 March Meeting

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

Mirene Arsanios

The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

Georgia Kotretsos: SPRING CLEANING and KARFI in Rabat

Haig Aivazian’s multi-piece installation FUGERE at Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

/si:n/ Festival of Video Art and Performance, Ramallah

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Kuwait’s National Works at the 55th Venice Biennale

Hauser & Wirth / Alan Cristea Gallery: A Spectrum Review

Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Sharjah Biennial 11 – Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

The Problem of Nationality

Refraction: Moving Images on Palestine at P21 Gallery

Atfal Ahdath at Running Horse Contemporary

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

Khalil Rabah: Pages 7, 8, 9 at e-flux

Reema Salha Fadda

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

A Report from Home Works 7 and Athens Biennale 5 to 6

To close Ibraaz Platform 010, we present new essays by Ibraaz Editor-in-Chief Anthony Downey, Ibraaz Senior Editor Stephanie Bailey, Ibraaz Contributing Editor Ala Younis, and Natasha Hoare; interviews with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled, Toleen Touq, Cevdet Erek, Hammad Nasar; projects by Shadi Habib Allah, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi,...

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Hassan Khan at Beirut Art Center

Inspired by calligraphy

Samah Hijawi

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

An I for an Eye and Death of a Cameraman

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

Waterside Contemporary

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

The Encyclopedic Palace

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern

Omar Kholeif

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Iraq and Palestine at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Basim Magdy at Newman Popiashvili

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

The Enemy Inside Me

Mayssa Fattouh

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Heiko Lange in conversation with Amira Gad

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Simone Fattal in conversation with Mirene Arsanios

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 3: Intervals

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Sheyma Buali in conversation with Turi Munthe and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

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Jim Quilty

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

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Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Ala Younis: On Curating

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

1972-1982 Spaceship Sheraton and the Making of Doha's Masterplans

The Future Was ZZZZZZZZ

Kevin Jones: Marketing Presentation for Boxed Branded Plush Toys as Art

Jim Quilty

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Omar Robert Hamilton

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Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Omar Robert Hamilton

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Hamid Dabashi

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Participatory Art in the Middle East

On Assumption and Authority

Forests, Freaks and Performativity

Organic Growth and the Rise of Visual Arts Organizations in the UAE

Barrak Alzaid

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

The development of a healthy regional Arab art scene, like anywhere else in the world, requires the collaborative efforts of the different components that constitute it.

On Walking and Crawling

Tehran’s Self-portrait

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Edited Urbanism on Dubai Creek

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Practice, Performance, Politics

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Lara Khaldi

Determining the Axis of the Global South and Middle East

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Natasha Ginwala

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

A Provocation to the Question

Burak Delier

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Sophia Al-Maria

Dream Homes and Community-building

Cecilia Andersson

Basma Alsharif

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

I envision the liberation of an archive (from attachment to a person, state, or region) through its transfiguration into a database. This emancipation requires dematerialization and displacement.

Dispatch One: the Artist and the Archive, June–September 2013

Repatriation of Iraq's Looted Heritage under International and Domestic Law and Practice

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Amy Charlesworth

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production

Introduction

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

Tarek Khoury

Artistic Practices, Civil Society, and Secular Determination in Tunisia Today

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in 2011, Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. We publish an annual online platform – consisting of essays, interviews, artists' projects, and platform responses – that focuses on research questions conceived through a network...

Ela Greenberg

In an email dialogue between Beirut-based architect Tony Chakar and critic Stephen Wright (published in the catalogue for Out of Beirut at Modern Art Oxford in 2006), Chakar takes Wright to task for his habitual use of the label 'Middle East': 'The more I thought about it the more it...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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