Marwa Arsanios considers practices in agriculture and farming as the starting point of her research. She has investigated communal farming practices by eco-feminist groups in places such as northern Syria. This resulted in the production of two films, presented as a video installation in this year’s Sharjah Biennial 14. Arsanios’s research for the triennial expands to communities […]

The symposium is the first public presentation in an ongoing 3-year artistic research project initiated by Professor and artist Petra Bauer, focusing on the role of aesthetics in women’s organising and resistance.

Timely and provocative, SOFT POWER is an exhibition about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. Appropriated from the Reagan-era term used to describe how a country’s “soft” assets such as culture, political values and foreign policies can be more influential than violence or coercion, the title SOFT POWER suggests […]

Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices, is a multidisciplinary forum taking place across Beirut every three years and featuring group exhibitions and artist projects and commissions, talks, panels, and readings, music, dance, and theatre performances, film and video screenings and publications.

In January 1963, Al Hilal magazine published an article on the establishment of a ballet school in Cairo. The school, described as a “factory of new bodies”, was to become an important institution in Nasser’s nation-state building project. Ballet was positioned to become the new dance form that would create a rupture with folkloric dances and “modernize” […]

The project Stars Are Closer and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees inhabits different times and spaces, thinking in the languages of the region, including Arabic, English, French, Kurdish and Turkish.

This years Warsaw Biennial will feature “Who is afraid of Ideology?, Maria Arsanios latest film. Screening will be on June 15

Towards Planetary commons, Maria Arsanios film “Who is Afraid of Ideology?” parts I and II will be screened on May 23 and July 6, 2019 at Arts Catalyst in London.

“I’ll open the door straight, dead straight to the fire” is a group show curated by  the collective What, How and for Whom that presents works in which the figure of women partisans in a post war context. Show will be on view in State of Concept, Mpotsari Tousa 19, Athina 117 41, Greece.

Sharjah Biennial will open tomorrow at 10.00 am in Al Mureijah Square