Paola Yacoub

Paola Yacoub (born 1966 in Beirut) is an artist based in Berlin and Beirut.

Life and work

Paola Yacoub studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1993. She worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in charge of the excavation’s drawings in downtown Beirut from 1995 to 1999. She exhibited her project Affects (1998) at Univerzitav Ljubljana’s gallery. She developed her artistic production in Beirut in 2000 and started a collaboration with Michel Lasserre. In 2001 and 2003 they were invited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and in 2004/2005, they received the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) artist’s program fellowship. Since this residency, Paola Yacoub has been living and working in Berlin and in Beirut.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Collections (selection)

Her works are in a number of public collections including FNAC, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; FRAC Poitoux-Charentes; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine/Mamco, Geneva among others. For the Museion collection and opening exhibition Peripheral vision and collective body (2008), she produced the work Gio Ponti, Paradiso Del Cevedale.

Publications

Her photo-essays in collaboration with Michel Lasserre were anthologized in the publication Beirut is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Tables, published by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2003) on the occasion of Contemporary Arab Representations, in which she participated, curated by Catherine David at the Barcelona Foundation, Witte de With, Rotterdam and BildMuseet, Umea.

References

  1. "Drawing with the Things Themselves Paola Yacoub". Beirut Art Center. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  2. "LABOR BERLIN 9: PAOLA YACOUB KISS THE BLACK STONES". Haus der Kulturen der Welt. March 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  3. "Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon". Witte de With. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  4. "Out of Beirut". ern Art Oxford. 2006. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  5. "Art Now in Lebanon. Curated by Andree Sfeir Semler". Darat Al Funun. Retrieved 23 March 2012.

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