Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, both born in 1969 in Beirut, collaborate across various mediums such as film, photography, and installations. Their work delves into the concept of absence,...
JOANA HADJITHOMAS AND KHALIL JOREIGE, Lebanon (1969)
Bio
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, both born in 1969 in Beirut, collaborate across various mediums such as film, photography, and installations. Their work delves into the concept of absence, often utilizing fragments of cinema to explore its power.
Their focus lies on the emergence and vanishing of images, particularly archival records stemming from the Lebanese Civil War, which spanned fifteen years starting in 1976. Merging personal narratives with political engagement, Hadjithomas and Joreige adopt a documentary-style approach to investigate the significance of visual remnants.
Renowned for their extensive research, they delve into personal and political archives, unveiling hidden histories such as the aftermath of wars, forgotten space endeavors from the 1960s, peculiar ramifications of internet scams, and the subterranean landscapes of cities both geological and archaeological. Their work reflects a fascination with uncovering traces of the invisible and the absent, shedding light on latent narratives often obscured from mainstream discourse. Today Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige work and reside between Beirut and Paris.Bottom of Form.
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CV
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Comme le jour se fait lorsque la nuit s'en va, in SITU - Fabienne Leclerc, Romainville, France
Triënnale Brugge 2024: Spaces of Possibility, Triennale Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
2022
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige: Messages with(out) a code, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2021
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige: Rewind Fast Forward, In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc, Romainville, France
2019
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige - On Scams, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2017
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige Two Suns In A Sunset / Se Souvenir De La Lumière, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2016
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Se souvenir de la lumière, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologize…, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2015
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Common Grounds, in SITU - Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologise, Home Manchester, Manchester, UK
2014
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Je Dois Tout D'abord M'excuser... I Must First Apologise, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2013
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Lebanese Rocket Society, in SITU, Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
2012
Solo exhibition, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2010
Khalil Joreige et Joana Hadjithomas, in SITU, Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
2008
Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige, Fort du Bruissin /centre d'art contemporain, Francheville, France
Solo exhibition, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008–09), Paris, France
1997
Beyrouth: Fictions urbaines/The Archeology of our Gaze, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
The Circle Was A Point, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The Circle Was a Point, Foundry Downtown Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023
Formes de la ruine, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Ashkal Alwan: Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut), Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
Guest Relations, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Disappearances, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
A Return Of The Sun, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Prix Pictet Fire, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
2022
In The Heart Of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1: An Exercise in Looking, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
15 Years, Crossed Perspectives, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Lebanon
Ruins and Fragments, Gagosian, Athens, Greece
Prix Pictet: Fire, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland
2021
How will it end?, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
Prix Pictet: Fire, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
The Distance from Here, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Miroir du Ciel, EAC, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Unsettled Objects, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2020
Potential Worlds II: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Trembling Landscapes. Between Reality and Fiction, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
THERE IS FICTION IN THE SPACE BETWEEN, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2019
Times of Upheaval. Stories and microstories in the IVAM collection, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
A Stitch In Time, Today Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
Group Exhibition, In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc, Romainville, France
BEYOND: Modern and Contemporary Lebanese Art and Design, Phillips London, Mayfair, London, UK
Time, Forward!, V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Italy
Etel Adnan Et Les Modernes, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Your footsteps are the road, for there is no road” - A tour amid the artists of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Red Brick Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
Beirút, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018
A Journey to Freedom, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
BUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE: Contemporary Art from the Middle East and North Africa, GAM Milano, Milan, Italy
2017
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Electronic Superhighway (1966-2016), Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
From Ear to Ear to Eye: Sounds and Stories from Across the Arab World, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
New Acquisitions (2014 – 2017) of the EMST Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST), Athens, Greece
No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale On Hudson, New York, USA
No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA
Documenta 14, In Situ/Fabienne LeClerc, Romainville, France
Tous, des sang-mêlés, MAC VAL, Paris, France
2016
Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2015
Streamlines, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Space Between Our Fingers, apexart, Soho, New York, USA
Common Grounds, ATHR Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2014
Common Grounds, ATHR Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Parle Pour Toi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Richard Grayson : Adelaide International 2014, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2013
Lasting Images, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2012
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kerala, India
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V, The Third Line, Doha, Qatar
2011
Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center: Due to Unforeseen Events…, New Museum, New York, USA
Seeing is Believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The State: Social/Antisocial?, Traffic, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The State: Social/Antisocial?, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sharjah, Biennial 2011, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2010
Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
2009
I’m There Even If You Don’t See Me, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2008
Roads Were Open / Roads Were Closed, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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