In this iteration of Open Walls: The AUB Art Collection (Chapter 3), we are featuring three new art institutions: the Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation, the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut, and the Kamal A. Shair Central Research Science Laboratory at AUB. This exhibition continues to display artworks from the permanent collection of the American University of Beirut (AUB), entering a dialogue with pieces from other collections and forging relationships with other institutions. The project highlights the importance of cooperation among Beiruti and regional institutions engaged in the study of art.Read More
Please join us for the opening of our latest exhibition curated by Bassam Kahwagi
as of September 30, 2025, in AUB Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum (Sidani street – Hamra). The exhibition
Against the Window offers the most interesting painterly manifestations in Beirut and Lebanon today, according to Bassam's personal view. A committed painter himself, he is firmly convinced that painting remains one of the means of expressing one's humanity—our innermost feelings, doubts, uncertainties, and emotions. Bassam enthusiastically took on most of the roles in this exhibition: initiating the dialogue with the painters, selecting the works, writing the curatorial statement, designing the poster, creating the labels, and installing the exhibition. For all of this, we are deeply grateful.
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