Past
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INSIDE OF OUTSIDE
Solo exhibition 9 - 30 Oct 2026 In INSIDE OF OUTSIDE, Sara Chaar presents a new body of work that begins with the walls of Beirut. Marked by time, wear, and repeated transformation, these surfaces become points of departure rather than subjects to be reproduced. Working from photographs of cracked facades, Chaar isolates fragments of forms and... Read more -
SHARED GROUNDS
Collective exhibition 6 Aug - 26 Sep 2026 Curatorial Text In times of uncertainty, what sustains us is often the ground we share: our collective memories, experiences, aspirations, and capacity to endure. SHARED GROUND brings together thirteen contemporary artists whose diverse practices reflect on themes of identity, belonging, landscape, memory, and human connection. While each artist approaches these... Read more -
OFF THE GRID / اشتراك
Solo exhibition 2 - 25 Jul 2026 Curated by Noha Wadi Moharram Curatorial text Art on 56th Gallery is pleased to present OFF THE GRID / اشتراك, a solo exhibition by Lebanese artist Dyala Khodary. This exhibition considers the transformation of Beirut’s urban landscape through its electricity crisis and the hybrid systems of infrastructure that have emerged... Read more -
Nevertheless
Collective Exhibition 7 Apr - 20 Jun 2026 In a time marked by uncertainty, disruption, and continuous change, Nevertheless brings together a group of artists whose practices persist amid a fragile and shifting landscape. Rather than offering a direct response to current events, the exhibition reflects on the quiet act of continuing. Through painting, drawing, collage, assemblage, and... Read more -
Landscape Conversations
Group show 7 Nov - 5 Dec 2025 Wissam Beydoun My favorite time of day is the early morning, just before sunrise, when the natural light inspires me to explore the surrounding landscapes. I translate these impressions into abstract, often minimalist, compositions; experimenting with color, form, and texture to capture their essence. Working with watercolor and ink on... Read more -
MY OWN SWEET SOLITUDE
solo exhibition 25 Sep - 18 Oct 2025 It is within a universe steeped in solitude and silence, this chosen, sacred, and precious solitude that Georges Bassil evolves, creates, withdraws and invites the gaze to rest. Through some twenty canvases, where his signature, atmosphere, and talent are instantly felt in a single glance, in a single emotion, the... Read more -
Unexpected Dialogue
Solo exhibition 16 May - 7 Jun 2025 Beirut, you have always captivated me. Every time I pass through the streets of this vibrant city, I am overwhelmed with inspiration. This series of Beirut paintings is not about realism, but rather about capturing the city’s essence; the density, the structures, the complexity; all through abstraction. After the past... Read more -
Early Morning Exercise
Solo exhibition 11 Apr - 3 May 2025 “My childhood summers in the mountains of Bologna, near Dhour el Choueir, were a gateway to a secret heaven. The woods, with their intricately intertwined branches and twisted columns, became my sanctuary. The scent of earth and pines anchored me to those dreamlike moments, where trees and rocks were my... Read more -
From Heartland to Homeland
Solo exhibition 13 Feb - 8 Mar 2025 From Heartland to Homeland consists of three series of paintings created between 2023 and 2024. This body of work takes the viewer on a journey through my heartland, unfolding in three parts: Euphoria, Shared Perspectives, and Restlessness. The city of Beirut, with its beauty and streets that continuously unfold stories... Read more -
TIMELESS TRADITIONS
Solo Exhibition 17 Jan - 8 Feb 2025 Artist Statement My collage art encompasses cityscapes, local landscapes, and themes of heritage and nostalgia. The artworks are deeply inspired by the moments and issues I encounter in day-to-day life, reflecting my memories and my emotions with authenticity and care, drawn from my surroundings. A notable and recent evolution in... Read more -
Works on Paper 2016–2023
Mansour El Habre 7 - 22 Jun 2024 In my case, painting and drawing are one” Henri Matiss The drawing is not the result of memory, it is placed within a specific temporal reality that is happening in front of me. The topic may have dozens of possibilities. Drawing first, at a varying speed, then color comes as... Read more -
Beyond Screens
Solo exhibition 2 - 24 Feb 2024 'Celebration of Human Interaction: Rediscovering Authentic Connections in the Age of Technology' formally invites you to dive into the profound beauty of genuine human engagement within the context of our increasingly digital society. This art exhibition at Art on 56th gallery meticulously explores the intrinsic art of in-person conversations, sincere... Read more -
Intermediary Spaces
solo exhibition 29 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 In the early 1950’s, when artists and critics partial to abstraction declared figurative painting to be obsolete, Clement Greenberg said to De Kooning: “In today’s world, it’s impossible to paint a face”. “That’s right. And it’s impossible not to”, replied De Kooning. Instead of abandoning figuration, De Kooning reconsiders the... Read more -
Le Corbeau et Le Regard
Solo exhibition 8 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Le Corbeau et Le Regard (Beyrouth en M otifs II) Directives : · Corbeau : En architecture, un corbeau est un support de pierre ou de bois faisant saillie sur un mur, ayant sa face intérieure moulurée ou sculptée, et ses faces latérales droites ou évidées en quart de cercle.... Read more -
Fugues
Solo exhibition 5 - 27 May 2023 The works in this exhibition are from three series of my drawings, Requiem, Traces and Odes. Requiem is a study of the dynamics of order and chaos. The rhythmic pattern in each drawing is restrained by a simple structure. This can be a grid, a line or a dot. Without... Read more -
Beau Négatif
Solo exhibition 23 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Read more -
LOCAL INSPIRATIONS
Solo exhibition 13 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 Artist Statement: This exhibition focuses on a series of collages and oil paintings that depict a range of subjects rooted in both memory and reality in today’s landscape of Lebanon. My process involves creating semi-abstract compositions from motifs and textures that I gather. Most recently for this collection, I have... Read more -
Escapism
Solo exhibition 18 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 I have been interested in art my entire life. I began painting since I was young. To me it is a language, an expression, interpretation and response to the world around us. My recent work explores the city-human relationship. How cities can modify our everyday life, our lifestyle and our... Read more -
R E - I M A G I N I N G B E I R U T
Solo exhibition 20 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 It is all about Beirut. It ’s about a city that is deep under my skin like an old, fading tattoo. It ’s about a love and hate relationship that has been going on for almost 47 years. It is a map: A personal cartography. With an abstract approach, I... Read more -
Under the same roof
Solo exhibition 25 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Art on 56th is pleased to announce “Under the Same Roof”, a solo exhibition of works by Syrian artist Tarek Butayhi. The gallery will showcase his body of paintings, conceived between 2016 and 2022, focusing on his personification of suffering through portraiture. He moves away from his traditional subject matter,... Read more -
Belonging For (1990-2022)
Solo Exhibition 25 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Belonging For . This series was painted on location, the places were chosen by how the light reveals the landscape, and its timeless relationship with my country. The paintings are absorbed by this continuum, where I explore my belonging through panoramic perspectives. When I’m on location I contemplate my heritage,... Read more -
Brilliance of Nature
Solo exhibition 26 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Art on 56th is proud to announce ‘Brilliance of Nature’, a solo exhibition of works by Lebanese artist Issa Halloum. The gallery will showcase paintings with vibrant colors and strong brushstrokes bring the semblance of a garden and nature inside the gallery space. Born in Kuwait in 1968, Issa Halloum... Read more -
Imagined Certainty
Solo exhibition 10 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 ' I have a compulsion to create chaos and then bring order to it.' When working I create my own world through mixing different techniques and making them work together, things that feel wrong and making them feel right... My work is driven by instinct, thereby creating something that I’ve... Read more -
Comeback 2020
Group exhibition 11 Dec 2020 - 15 Jan 2021 Rebirth, Renaissance, Revival - concepts that have inspired this upcoming exhibition to celebrate the re-opening of our gallery. Art on 56th, like Beirut, will rise again. In light of the tragic events that took place on August 4th, Art on 56th will once again open its doors to welcome creativity,... Read more -
ONCE UPON A TIME
solo exhibition 1 - 26 Oct 2019 Read more -
Fifty Three Years
Retrospective exhibition 12 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Art on 56th is proud to invite you to the retrospective exhibition celebrating the career and oeuvre of the late contemporary artist Nazir Ismail. In honor of the third anniversary of his passing, the gallery will showcase works that span the different states of his career. The exhibition will bring... Read more -
The wondrous & probable life of Mr. H
Solo exhibition 23 Nov - 15 Dec 2018 Today, thanks to technology, taking a picture at any moment has become astonishingly simple. A large majority of people have a device with a camera in their pockets. Unfortunately, the result has been a monstrous overconsumption of images on social networks, applications, websites etc. The kind of images shared, desensitizes... Read more -
Beirut in Patterns
Solo exhibition 26 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 Wandering the streets of Beirut, younger will be curious to notice the remnants of older times, times that were all but destroyed by the pervasive impact of the dark winds of change that plagued the city for the last couple of decades. The grotesque patchwork of urban landscapes, structures, towers... Read more -
Chronic Blueprint 1995 - 2018
Solo exhibition 28 Sep - 20 Oct 2018 Read more -
Collective 2018
Group exhibition 6 Jul - 28 Sep 2018 Read more -
Dance for
solo exhibition 27 Apr - 12 May 2018 Read more -
A woman defies waiting
Solo exhibition 26 Jan - 17 Feb 2018 And From The Lines, What Is Less And Less Saoud Abdallah begins his work by dispensing from all the virtues and aesthetics of known photography. The thick, transparent colors touch but do not change. The badminton games on the cloth’s surface mean nothing to him, the back and forth is... Read more -
Collective 2017
Group exhibition 7 Jul - 29 Sep 2017 Read more -
Zouhair Dabbagh
Solo exhibition 5 - 27 May 2017 Read more -
Untold stories
Solo exhibition 10 Mar - 1 Apr 2017 Read more -
Roots of identity
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 Read more -
Room 11
Solo Exhibition 21 Oct - 5 Nov 2016 Read more -
Never been seen
Collective Exhibition 21 Jul - 10 Sep 2016 Read more -
Visitors in the presence of neutrality
Solo exhibition 27 Apr - 23 May 2016 Read more -
Kardeşim Beyrut
Group exhibition 1 - 23 Apr 2016 Read more -
Art on Paper
Collective exhibition 11 Dec 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 Read more -
BREATHLESS
Solo exhibition 2 - 24 Oct 2015 Read more -
Icarus
Solo exhibition 8 - 30 May 2015 Read more -
Tailor-made
Solo exhibition 16 Apr - 4 May 2015 Read more -
Women on canvas 2015
Solo exhibition 4 - 28 Mar 2015 Read more -
Rain on me
Solo exhibition 9 - 31 Jan 2015 Read more -
Interpretations
Solo exhibition 18 Nov - 8 Dec 2014 Read more -
Mouneer Al Shaarani 2007-2014
Solo exhibitions 22 Oct - 13 Nov 2014 The work of Mouneer Al Shaarani, prior to being that of a calligrapher who is passionate about Arabic calligraphy, is the work of a designer, and the work of a graphic designer experimenting with calligraphy and using it in new and various functions. Al Shaarani worked on each letter as... Read more -
Spot in Memory
Dual exhibition 8 - 29 May 2014 Whispers of Sand Saoud Al Abdallah works on doing away with the aesthetics of color - what painters find pleasure in - to delve in his treasured terrain, which is the cluster, turning his back to lines and tactility. He refines the elements of his painting: a child, a woman... Read more -
C h i l d ’ s M e s s a g e
Solo exhibition 14 Apr - 5 May 2014 Read more -
2000 - 2014
Solo exhibition 19 Feb - 11 Mar 2014 Read more -
Lost and Found
Solo exhibition 24 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 Read more -
Hasko Hasko
Solo exhibition 11 Jun - 1 Jul 2013 Read more -
2005-2013
16 May - 6 Jun 2013 Read more -
Nazir Ismail
Solo exhibition 25 Mar 2013 Read more -
Layers of a Tale
Solo exhibition 28 Feb - 20 Mar 2013 Read more -
Women In Canvas
4 - 23 Feb 2013 Read more -
Calligraphy art works
Solo exhibition 8 - 29 Jan 2013 My contemporary works derive their sap from Arab calligraphy roots Having studied the six styles of Arab Calligraphy that were mainly influenced by the Ottomans, who limited the styles as well as their application, I gained profound knowledge in the artistic and historical aspects. This in turn helped mold my... Read more -
Edward Shahda
Solo exhibition 13 Nov - 3 Dec 2012 Read more
