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98weeks is a cultural association and a Project Space founded by Mirene Arsanios and Marwa Arsanios on the 31st of October 2007. It is conceived as a research project that shifts its attention to a new topic every 98 weeks. Focusing on artistic research, combining both theoretical and practical forms of inquiry, 98weeks’ projects take multiple forms such as workshops, community projects, seminars, reading groups, publications and exhibitions.
Beginning in November 2009, 98weeks also operates as a Project Space located in the area of Mar Mkayel, Beirut.
Mirene Arsanios
Mirene is the co-founder of 98weeks. She studied art history in Rome and ... more »
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Born in Tehran, Abbas Akhavan currently lives and works in Toronto. His practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and performance. For the past five years, the domestic sphere has been an ongoing area of research in Akhavan’s work. Earlier works explore the relationship between the house and the nation state and how the trauma of systemic violence enacted upon civilians can be inherited and re-enacted within the family lineage – the home as a forked space between hospitality and hostility. More recent work has shifted focus onto spaces just outside the home – the garden, the backyard, and ... more »
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Born in New York, 1968.
Currently lives and works in New York.
She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her photographs are in major public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, ... more »
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Born in 1977, Wahran, Algeria more »
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Born in Alabama, USA, 1972
Lives and works in Egypt more »
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Annabel Daou (b. 1967) is an artist whose recent solo exhibitions include "AMERICA" at Josee Bienvenu Gallery, in New York, "ideas about the thing and the thing itself" at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia,"The Last Painting Show" at the Conduit Gallery, in Dallas, TX, and "Fleshpots", at Entwistle Gallery, London. As a founding member of the ... more »
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Photo Credit: KT48 Khaled TAKRETI 'Les Voleurs d'étoiles more »
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Born in the United States, raised in Tehran and having lived between Canada and the Middle East since 1996, Babak Golkar has developed bodies of work which attempt to manoeuvre and negotiate the space between these cultures. Examining the tension between pre-modern and modern traditions is often the directionof Golkar’s research, which can result in production of drawings,objects/installations, videos and performances. Golkar’s recent works juxtapose specific Modernist tendencies, such as the use of Minimalist language in modern architecture, against very specific traditions of the Middle Eastern culture, such as the patterns found in nomadic Persian carpets.
In the series “Negotiating Space”, ... more »
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Born in Assiut, Egypt in 1977, Basim Magdy currently lives and works in Basel and Cairo. Magdy works with different media including drawing, painting, animation, installation, sculpture, film, video and sound. He is particularly interested in creating narrative structures that explore the space between reality and fiction and its influence on science, history, global culture and the dissemination of knowledge.
Selected solo exhibitions include ‘Pray For Me’, Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa; ‘Last Good Deed’, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel/Muttenz, ‘1968: Memorial to a Rising Continent’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York (2009); 'On a Better Day Than This', Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2008); 'The Common Deceit of Reality', ... more »
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