LAWHA

15/01/2026

Today, we mourn the loss of Rima Amyuni, a hugely significant artist and a wonderful person. Rima enjoyed a long and deeply productive career full of remarkable highlights.

Amyuni left her substantive academic learning behind to paint her world with love. A simple and vibrant place full of thick and layered parts making a whole that speaks directly to the feeling of place, life, moment. For Amyuni, the world held a clarity that could appear naive, unreal, but was perhaps conversely, deeply real, deeply felt and understood.

Rima Amyuni will be deeply missed, but her work and vision remain alive.🤍

07/01/2026

Tomorrow, Thursday 8 January, 5-7pm at the OIB Orient-Institut Beirut. All are welcome!

Orient-Institut Beirut, Thursday, 8 January 2026, 5-7pm The Orient-Institut Beirut invites you to the launch of Manazir Journal 7: Defying the Violence – Lebanon’s Visual Arts in the 1980s, edited by Nadia von Maltzahn (OIB/LAWHA). The 1980s in Lebanon were dominated by...

16/12/2025

16/12/2025

Join us this Wednesday December 17, at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, for an afternoon with Julie Bou Farah, around her solo show “iCloud”.

Pass by between 12pm and 6pm and let Julie walk you through the process of creating “iCloud”, and how she preserves fleeting memories and transforms them into a constellation of imaginary clouds.

09/12/2025

On the Politics of Fragments, the Role of Science, and the Perception of Lacunas. An engaging day discussing science diplomacy, heritage and memory politics, and how museums can be places to allow stories to emerge. With a treat at the end: a performance of Ali Cherri’s The Book of Mud with and , asking if mud had a memory of its own, what would it deem worth remembering? Thank you for bringing us all together!

01/12/2025

LAWHA is participating in the conference “Science Diplomacy and Heritage: On the Politics of Fragments, the Role of Science, and the Perception of Lacunas”, which will take place on December 4, 2025, at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi in Venice, from 09:30 to 19:00. It...