Rayyane Tabet
- Rayyane Tabet
- Work
MUDAM Luxembourg, 2023
Rayyane Tabet (1983, Ashqout, Lebanon) studied architecture at Cooper Union University in New York and Fine Art at the University of California at San Diego. Drawing from experience and self-directed research, Tabet explores stories that offer an alternative understanding of major socio-political events through individual narratives. Informed by his training in architecture and sculpture, his work investigates paradoxes in the built environment and its history by way of installations that reconstitute the perception of physical and temporal distance.
In recent years, Tabet has had solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021), Sharjah Art Foundation (2021), Storefront New York (2020), Parasol Unit Foundation of Contemporary Art London (2019), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2019), Louvre, Paris (2019), Carée d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes (2018) and at the Kunstverein, Hamburg (2017). He took part in numerous international group shows, among which the Whitney Biennial (2022), Yohama Triennial (2020), Lahore Biennial (2020), Jameel Art Center (2018), 21st Sydney Biennial (2018), Manifesta 12 (2018), 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017) and the 32nd Sao Paolo Biennial (2016).
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2021 | Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite Corpse, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE Rayyane Tabet: Arabesque, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany Deep Blues, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA | ||
2020 | Arabesque, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA | ||
2019 | Encounters, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom Alien Property, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Forgotten Kingdoms, Louvre Museum, Paris, France FRAGMENTS, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France | ||
2018 | FAULT LINE, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy FRAGMENTS, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon | ||
2017 | BRUCHSTÜCKE / FRAGMENTS, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany KOPF HOCH! MUT HOCH! UND HUMOR HOCH!, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany Ah, my beautiful Venus!, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
2016 | La Mano De Dios, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy | ||
2015 | ONLY GODS NEVER DIE, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany | ||
2014 | Here Today Gone Tomorrow, TrouwAmsterdam, Netherlands | ||
2013 | The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon | ||
Selected Group Exhibitions | |||
2024 | A Model, MUDAM, Luxembourg | ||
2023 | Guest Relations, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE Machinations, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | ||
2022 | Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS – 27th Edition, Various locations in Brussels, Belgium A Casa é Sua: Migração e hos(ti)pitalidade fora do lugar, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany | ||
2020 | A sun yellow with anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany AFTERGLOW, Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama, Japan Desert X AlUla, AlUla, Saudi Arabia between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan | ||
2019 | Phantom Limb, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE When the Present is History, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
2018 | Living in the Mediterranean, Institut Valencià d’art Modern, Valencia, Spain Crude, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE Cycles of Collapsing Progress, Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon Superposition - 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Australia Dear Victoria, performance, Fast Forward Festival Five, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, 30th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan | ||
2017 | A Good Neighbor, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey 4.543 billion: The matter of matter, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France The Restless Earth, Trussardi Foundation at the Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy WAITING. Between Power and Possibility, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany | ||
2016 | Faisons de l’inconnu un allié, Fondation Lafayette, Paris, France Incerteza Viva, 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil ... und eine welt noch, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany Wunderlust, High Line Art, New York, USA Not New Now, Marrakech Biennial 6, Morocco | ||
2015 | New Skin, AISHTI Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon The Past, The Present, The Possible, Sharjah Biennial 12, UAE Heartland, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon Presque Rien, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France | ||
2014 | This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Netherlands Un Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | ||
2013 | extra | ordinary, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013, Dubai, UAE Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice, The 55th Venice Biennial, Italy HIWAR: Conversations in Amman, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan | ||
2012 | The Future Generation Art Prize 2012, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA | ||
2011 | Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, UAE | ||
2010 | Noise, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon | ||
2008 | Art Now in Lebanon, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan | ||
2006 | Moving Homes, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon | ||
Awards & Residencies | |||
2016 | DAAD Artists in Residency Program, Berlin, Germany | ||
2013 | Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, UAE | ||
2012 | Future Generation Art Prize Jury Award, Ukraine | ||
2011 | Sharjah Biennial 10 Artist Prize, Sharjah, UAE | ||
Publications | |||
2018 | FRAGMENTS/BRUCHSTÜCKE, published by Kunstverein, Hamburg, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program & KAPH Books |
Education | |
2012 | MFA, University of California in San Diego, USA |
2008 | BArch, The Cooper Union, New York USA |