The new Beirut Arts Center is opening on January 15, 2008 with its first exhibition Closer.
Beirut Arts Center (BAC) is a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary arts in Lebanon — an independent building located in an industrial zone of the city with the aim of producing, curating and presenting local and international contemporary art and cultural practices in Beirut.
The center is an unprecedented initiative in Beirut: a public space that makes art accessible to a wide and growing audience of both residents and visitors. Along with its main exhibition space, BAC includes a screening and performance room, a mediatheque and a bookshop. BAC will organize regular activities such as lectures, concerts, performances, video projections and workshops.
Beirut Art Center’s opening exhibition Closer, features art works drawn from personal and intimate stories, creating a space to reflect on experiences both common and unique, familiar and without precedent, public and intensely private.
Artists: Jananne Al-Ani Tony Chakar, Antoine D’Agata, Mona Hatoum, Emily Jacir, Jil Magid, Anri Sala, Lina Saneh, Lisa Steele, Akram Zaatari and Cynthia Zaven.