Complete Bio

JOANA HADJITHOMAS & KHALIL JOREIGE
BORN
1969
Beirut, Lebanon
Live and work in Beirut, Lebanon
EDUCATION
1995
Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Upcoming: Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2016
Upcoming: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Se souvenir de la lumière / Two Suns in a Sunset, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Two Suns in a Sunset, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
I must first apologise…, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
2015
I must first apologise…, HOME, Manchester, UK
2014
I must first apologise…, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Adelaide Internationale 2014: Worlds in collision, Contemporary Art Center of South Australia, Adelaide,
Australia
2013
Khiam, l’emploi du temps, 3Bisf, Aix en Provence, France
The Lebanese Rocket Society, A Tribute to Dreamers (Parts II, III, IV and V), CRG Gallery, New York, USA
The Lebanese Rocket Society, A Tribute to Dreamers (Parts II, III, IV, V, and VI), InSitu Gallery, Paris, France
2012
Aida, Save Me, Inivia, Rivington Place, London, UK
Lebanese Rocket Society, Part III, IV, V, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
How Soon is Now: A Tribute to Dreamers, Beirut Exhibition Centre, Lebanon, Beirut
2010
Histoire du vent, Festival d’Avignon, Ecole d’Art, France
I want to see, Gasworks, Triangle Arts Trust, London, UK
Is there anybody out there, In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
2009
Je suis là même si tu ne me vois pas, I am here even if you don’t see me,
Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada
Tels des oasis dans le déser, Eglise des Célestins Festival d’Avignon, France
Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Villa do Conde, Portugal
Faces, Art première (avec Renaud Auguste Dormeuil), Art Basel, Switzerland
Wonder Beirut, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Space Gallery (Part of Image Festival), Toronto, Canada
We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
2008
We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Circulo de confusion, Musée de Gigon, Espagne
Back to the present, Homeworks IV, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Histoires tenues secrètes, Fort du Bruissin, openning of the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Francheville,
France
2007
Circle of Confusion, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Ou sommes-nous?, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographique de l’art, Paris, France
2000
Wonder Beirut, Ecole regionale des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
1998
Wonder Beirut, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
1997
Beirut: Fictions urbaines, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS
2016
Let's Talk About the Weather: Art and Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
Barjeel Art Foundation Collection: Imperfect Chronology – Mapping the Contemporary II, Whitechapel
Gallery, London
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2015
Streamlines, Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, Hamburg, Germany
The School of Kyiv: Leipzig Class. Seminar: Politics of Form, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig,
Germany
Autonomy of Self, P21 Gallery, London , UK
All the World’s Future, 56th International exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
Commond Grounds, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Let’s the Two seas Meet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2014
Une histoire – Art, Architecture, Design des annees 1980 a nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Disquiet, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
Festival des Arts Visuels de Veney, Theatre Vidy-Lausanne, Switzerland
A Letter Always Arrives…, La Panacee, Montpellier, France
True to Life? New Photography from the Middle East, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Lee Nan-Young and Oum Kulthoum, Gwangju Museum of Art, South
Korea
Fotofest Biennial, Contemporary Arab Photographic Art, Houston, USA
Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
2013
Future Imperfect, Tate Modern, London, UK
Vues d’en Haut (Views from Above), Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Terms and Conditions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Cultural Centre, Doha, Qatar
Light from the Middle East, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Lasting Images, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Ici, Ailleurs, Marseille Provence, Friche belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Galerie de la Mediterranee, opening exhibition of the Museum MUCEM, Marseille, France
Shifting Sands, CACSA Contemporary Art Center for South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Brouillon, Argos, Kaaitheater Belgium and Musee de la danse, Rennes, France
Sweet sixties; Stories and Morals, Gallery Nova, WHW, Zagred, Croatia
2012
Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2012, Kochi Kerala, India
Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
CA, USA
A Letter Can Always Reach Its Destination, La Triennale: Intense Proximity, Paris, France
Round Table, The 9th Gwangiu Biennale, South Korea
L’histoire est a moi, Le printemps de Septembre, Le BBB, Toulouse, France
Rumo ao Sul, Sam art projects, MUBE – Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Arab Express, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Beirut 2, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait
L’institut des archives sauvages, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Intense Proximity, Triennale de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, France
2011
The Lebanese Rocket Society, 11th Biennale de Lyon, France
Plot for a Biennial, 10th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Due to unforeseen events.., New Museum, New York, NY, USA
Seeing is believing, KW Institute, Berlin, Germany
3eme FIAC d’Alger, Musee d’art moderne et contemporain d’Ager, Algeria
Image in the Aftermath, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
A terrible Beauty is born, 11th Beinnale de Lyon, France
Locus Logistics, Meeting Point 6, Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Beirut, Lebanon; Athens, Greece
Paysages avec objets absents, le Centre d’art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
All about Lebanon, White Box Kunst Halle, Munich, Germany
2010
Soft Machine, Panorama 12, Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
Perpetual Battles, Baibakova Art Project, Moscow, Russia
Utopie(s), Curated by Jany Bourdais, Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
Brouillon, Musée de la dance, Rennes, France
Nobody’s Property: Art; Land; Space, Modern and Contemporary Art de Princeton University Art Museum,
Princeton, NJ, USA
2009
Image in Question, 41st national Artists’ Salon Cali, Colombia
9th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
Fonction Critique, Aperto, Montpellier, France
Fictions du réel, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Promised Lands, 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contempory Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Crossing (Traversées), Bab Rouah, & Bab el Kébir, Rabat, Maroc
2008
Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
Roads Were Opened / Roads Were Closed, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Art now in Lebanon, Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman foundation, Amman, Jordan
Forum Homeworks 4, organised by Ashkal Alwan association, Beirut, Lebanon
Stratégies de l’histoire, Stratégie de l’art, 6th Biennale de Goumri, Armenia
Conspire, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Orients Sans Frontières, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2007
Ah les belles images, Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
Whenever it starts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Ah les belles images, La Tolerie, Clermont Ferrand, France
Distorted Fabric, De Apple, Amsterdam, Holland
2006
Cote court, Pantin, France
Taking Place, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Out of Beirut, Modern Art, Oxford, UK
2005
Sequence of tense, Altpool, Korea
Forum Homeworks 3, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
2004
Present Absent, Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany
Love it or leave it, Montenegro Biennale, Montenegro
Appel a temoin, Le Quartier, Quimper, France
Mediterraneans, Macro, Rome, Italia
Laughter, Bargehouse LIFT, London, UK
Nazar, Nooderlich Photofestival, Akerkhof, Holland
2003
The Echo Show, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Deslocamentos, Video Brazil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Homeworks 2, Forum Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2002
Iconoclash, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Fundamentalism of the new order, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Missing links, Gallery Townhouse, Cairo, Egypt
2000
Espace vital, La Criee, Rennes, France
Promenons en ville, Espace Mira Phalaina, Montreuil, France
FILMS
2012
Lebanese Rocket Society
2008
Je Veux Voir, Baddi Chouf (Arabic Title)
2006
Enfances
2005
A Perfect Day, Yawmon Akhar (Arabic Title)
2003
Ashes, Ramad (Arabic Title)
2000
Khiam
1999
Around the Pink House, Al bayt al zahr (Arabic Title)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2015
Hadjithomas, Joana & Joreige, Khalil The Rumors of the World Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet,
Co-published by Sternberg Press; Villa Arson, Nice, France; HOME, Manchester, UK; and MIT List Visual
Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Internet Does Not Exist, e-flux journal, published by Sternberg Press
2013
Hadjithomas, Joana & Joreige, Khalil Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Co-published by JRP|Ringier and
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada, with the support of the National Centre for Visual
Arts, Paris, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Clark, Shaula. MIT put Spam in Art Gallery. Boston Magazine, February 22, 2016
Noelle, Bodick. Shows That Matter. Blouin Artinfo, April 4, 2016
Tsui, Denise. Two Suns in a Sunset, ArtAsiaPacific, April 2016
Akkermans, Ari. Two Lebanese Artists reconstruct an Annihilated History, Hyperallergic, May 9, 2016
Kholeif, Omar. Dreaming our way to the Future, Mousse Magazine, April 2016, pg 251-255
2014
Loret Eric, Les arnaqueurs, en cher et en hoax, Liberation, August 17, 2014, pg. 28 – 29
Shifting the gaze, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, January/February 2014, pg. 96 - 105
2013
Muller Nat, Of Images, Ghosts & Other Tomorrows, artasiapacific, March/April 2013, pg. 72 – 81
2012
Muller Nat, What Was Lost, Ibraaz, May 2, 2012
Hadjithomas, Joanna, Influences: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Jorgeige, frieze, May 1, 2012
Scarborough, James, Spectral Imprints, Abraaj Capital Art, Art Dubai 2012, Huff Post Arts, April 19, 2012
East, Ben, Reflections on the Arab Culture, The National, April 16, 2012
Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V, L’agenda, March/April 2012, pg. 48
Artinthecity Speak to Joana Hadjithomas, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 Winner, ArtintheCity online, March
2012
Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V, Islamic Arts Magazine online, March 14, 2012
Chistine, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, ArtLuvah online, Febuary 2012
Everyone’s a Winner!, Harpers Bazaar Art, January 2012
Shalabi, Sam, Lebanese Rocket Society: Elements for a Monument. The Golden Record, Menifesta Journal,
Issue 14, pg. 43 – 45
2011
Axmaker, Sean, I Want to See, Seattle Weekly, July 2011
Binder, Pat & Haupt, Gerhard, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Nafas Art Magazine, September 2011
Lupton, Victoria, Image Conscious, Now Lebanon, September 2011
2010
Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema, 1960’s-Now, ArteEast, November 2010
2009
Rehberg, Vivian, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, March 2009
Modern Painters: The Photography Issue, April 2009
Goodboy, Bridget, Art in Review; Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, May 2009
2008
Lord, Christophe, Snaps from Oblivion, Time Out Dubai, September 2008
Mohamed, Arsalan, The Road Less Travelled, The National, September 2008
Yusuf, Mohamed, Burning Cedar, Gulf Today, September 2008
Haroon, Layla, An Ode to Inspiration from Pain, Gulf News,
Weekend Review, September 2008
Columbus, Nikki, Art Forum, Homeworks IV, Beirut, June 2008
2007
Mack, Josua, Art Review, Art and Politics in the Gulf and the Middle East, July 2007
Goodbody, Bridget L., New York Times, Art In Review, May 18, 2007
Zehil, Sylviane, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige exposant a la CRG de New York, L'Orient, LE JOUR,
May 10, 2007
2006
Oxford out of Beirut, BIDOUN, Spring Issue 7, May 2006
2005
Carver, Antonia, Hysterical Repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's A Perfect Day, BIDOUN,
Issue 6, Winter 2005
Wonder Beirut, La bataille des hôtels, Mission impossible
2004
The story of a pyromaniac photographer in Cabinet, Issue 16, The sea, Immaterial
Incorporated, winter 2004
Like an Oasis in the Desert: in catalogue Appel à témoin, Edition Quartier 2004
2003
Don’t walk publication, The Echo Show
Donner à voir /se donner à voir : dans Al ADAB n° 53 Beyrouth. 2003
2002
Latency, conference in "HOMEWORKS" ed. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2002
OK, I’m going to show you my work : in DISCOURSE 24.1 (winter 2002)
2001
A state of latency, ICONOCLASH published by ZKM & MIT press, 2001
1998
Que faisiez vous entre cette aube et la dernier, SPECIMEN n°4 (Paris, 1998)
1997
Beyrouth: Fictions urbaines Photobook published by Mind the gap (Beyrouth 1997)
AWARDS
2013
The Lebanese Rocket Society, Best Feature Documentary, Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Qatar
2012
Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai, UAE
ACQUISITIONS
Abraaj Capital Art Collection
Artothèque Villeurbanne, France
Athens National contemporary art museum, Greece
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
British Museum, London, UK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
FNAC, France
FRAC Bretagne, France
FRAC Lorraine, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, France
Musée de Mariemont, Morlanwelz
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Saradar Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Eels, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK