Paola Yacoub
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Life and work
Paola Yacoub studied at the Beirut Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1993. She worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in charge of the excavation’s drawings in downtown Beirut from 1995 to 1999. She exhibited her project Affects (1998) at Univerzitav Ljubljana’s gallery. She developed her artistic production in Beirut in 2000 and started a collaboration with Michel Lasserre. In 2001 and 2003 they were invited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and in 2004/2005, they received the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) artist’s program fellowship. Since this residency, Paola Yacoub has been living and working in Berlin and in Beirut.Exhibitions (selection)
- 2000 Stand der Dinge at the KW Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary ArtKunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary ArtThe Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art institution in Berlin’s Mitte District. It is located at - Auguststrasse 69 D-10117 Berlin....
, Berlin - 2000 Venice BiennaleVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
- 2003 Venice BiennaleVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
- 2004 Busan Korea Biennial
- 2005 After the fact, the 1st Berlin Photography Festival, Martin-Gropius-Bau
- 2006 Gwangju Biennial
- 2007 Thessaloniki Biennale
- 2009 Shenzhen fast food, Beautiful Heart at OCAT, Shenzhen, China
- 2009 Tirana Biennial
- 2010 GLÜCK happens... at the Städtische Galerie Erlangen (2010)
- 2011 Drawing with the things themselves at the Beirut Art Center (first solo show, co-curated with Corinne Diserens)
Collections and Publications (selection)
Her works are in a number of public collections including FNAC, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes; FRAC Poitoux-Charentes; Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine/Mamco, Geneva among others. For the Museion collection and opening exhibition Peripheral vision and collective body (2008), she produced the work Gio Ponti, Paradiso Del Cevedale.Her photo-essays in collaboration with Michel Lasserre were anthologized in the publication Beirut is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Tables, published by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2003) on the occasion of Contemporary Arab Representations, in which she participated, curated by Catherine David at the Barcelona Foundation, Witte de With, Rotterdam and BildMuseet, Umea.