Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Education

• 1995Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France

Solo Exhibition

• 2017Haus der Kunst, Munich, Allemagne
• IVAM, Valencia, Espagne
• 2016Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah
• I must first apologize…, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
• Two Suns in a sunset, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
• 2015Films retrospective, MOMA, New York, USA
• I must first apologise… HOME (curators Omar Kholeif & Sarah Perks), Manchester, UK
• 2014I Must First Apologize… Villa Arson, Nice, France
• 2013Lebanese Rocket Society- A Tribute To dreamers (Part II, III, IV & V), CRG Gallery, New York, USA
• « Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV, V & VI ». Gallery in situ fabienne leclerc, Paris, France
• « KHIAM, l’emploi du temps ». 3 bis F, Lieux d’art contemporain, Aix en Provence, France
• 2012Lebanese Rocket Society: Part III, IV & V . The Third Line Dubai, UAE
• How soon is now : a tribute to dreamers, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon
• 2010Histoire du vent, Festival d’Avignon, Ecole d’Art
• I want to see, Gazworks, Triangle Arts Trust, London
• Is there anybody out there, Gaerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris,
• 2009Wonder Beirut, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
• Wish we could tell, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Wish we could tell, Centro de Mémoria, Museum of Vila Do Conde, Portugal
• I am here even if you don’t see me , Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Tel des oasis dans le désert , Eglise des Célestins, Festival d’Avignon, France
• Faces , Art première, Art Bassel, Bâle, Switzerland
• We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
• 2008Circulo de confusion, Musée de Gigon, Spain
• We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
• Histoires tenues secrètes, Fort du Bruissin, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Francheville, France
• Back to the présent, Homeworks IV, Ashkal Alwan, in AGIAL Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• Où sommes-nous?, Festival d’Automne, Espace Topographique de l’art, Paris, France
• Circle of Confusion, CRG Gallery, New York, USA
• 2000Wonder Beirut, Ecole régionale des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
• 1998Wonder Beirut, Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beyrouth, Lebanon
• 1997Beyrouth: Fictions urbaines, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

Group Shows (selection)

• 2016But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• 2015The 56th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, IT
• Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
• Lest te two seas meet, Warsaw museum of modern Art, Poland
• 2014Fotofest, 15th International Biennial of Photography & Photo Related Art, Houston, Texas
• Libelle, 2009-2012, Galerie des Multiples, Paris
• Art by telephone… Recalled, La Panacée, Montpellier
• Adelaide festival, Adelaide, Australie
• 2013Light from the Middle East Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
• Lasting Images, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• Terms & Conditions, SAM, Singapore Art Museum, Singapoor
• Vue d’en haut, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz France
• Ici, Ailleurs, Marseille Provence 2013, Friche belle de Mai, Marseille 2013
• Encounters, Royal Academy of Arts & Katara, Doha Qatar
• Galerie de la Méditerranée, Openning exhibition of the Museum MUCEM, Marseille
• Shifting Sands, CACSA Contempory Art Center for South Autralia, Adelaide Autralia
• Accrochage permanent, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Brouillon, Argos, Kaaitheater Belgium & Musée de la danse, Rennes, France
• Sweet sixties : Stories and Morals, Gallery Nova, WHW, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2012Kochi Muziris Biennale», 2012, Kochi Kerala, India
• Six Lines of flight Shifting geographies in contempory art », SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
• Round Table, The 9th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
• L’histoire est à moi, Le printemps de Septembre, Le BBB, Toulouse, France
• Rumo ao Sul (Destination South), Sam art projects, MUBE, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paolo, Brasil
• Arab Express, Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan
• Beirut 2, Contempory Art Platform, CAP Kuwait
• L’institut des archives sauvages, Villa Arson, Nice , France
• Spectral Imprints, Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012, Dubai, UAE
• Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography, Museum of fine Arts, Houston, USA
• Intense proximity, Triennale de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
• 2011Due to unforeseen events… », New Museum, New York, USA
• Seeing is belleving, KW institute, Berlin, Germany
• 3eme FIAC d’Alger, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain d’Ager, Algeria
• Image in the Aftermath, Beirut Art Center, Beirut Lebanon
• Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
• A terrible Beauty is born, 11eme Biennale de Lyon, La sucrière, Lyon, France
• Locus Logistics, Meeting Point 6, (Berlin, Brussels, Beirut, Athenes)
• Paysages avec objets absents, le Centre d’art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
• All about Lebanon, White Box Kunst Halle , December, Munich
• Plot for a Biennial, 10th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
• 2010Soft Machine, Panorama 12, Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
• La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
• Perpetual Battles, Baibakova Art Project, Moscow, Russia
• Utopie(s), Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
• Nobody’s Property: Art; Land; Space, 2000-2010, Modern and Contemporary Art de Princetown University Art Museum, Princetown, NJ
• 2009Fictions du réel, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
• Promised Lands, 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contempory Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• Crossing (Traversées), Bab Rouah, & Bab el Kébir, Rabat, Morocco
• Image in Question, 41st national Artists’ Salon Cali, Colombia, USA
• 9th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
• Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
• 2008Roads were opened/roads were closed, Gallery The Third Line, Dubaï, UAE
• Art now in Lebanon, Darat al Funun, Khalid Shoman foundation, Amman, Jordan
• Forum Homeworks 4, organised by Ashkal Alwan association, Beirut, Lebanon
• Conspire, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
• Orients Sans Frontières, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
• Stratégies de l’histoire, Stratégie de l’art, 6th Biennale Goumri, Armenia
• 2007Ah les belles images, Gallery In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
• Ah les belles images, La Tolerie, Clermont Ferrand, France
• Distorted Fabric, De Apple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Whenever it starts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2004Present Absent, Gallery Tanit, Munich, Germany
• Love it or leave it, Montenegro Biennale, Montenegro
• Appel à témoin, Le Quartier, Quimper, France
• Mediterraneans, Macro, Rome, Italia
• Laughter, Bargehouse LIFT, Londres, UK
• Nazar, Nooderlich Photofestival, Akerkhof, Netherlands
• 2003The Eccho Show, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• Deslocamentos, VideoBrazil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Homeworks2, Forum Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon 2003
• 2002Iconoclash, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Fundamentalism of the new order, Charlottenborg, Copenhaguen, Denmark
• 2001Missing links », Gallery Townhouse, Cairo, Egypt
• 2000Espace vital, La Criée, Rennes, France
• Promenons en ville », Espace Mira Phalaina, Montreuil, France

Films

• 2012 The Lebanese Rocket Society, The strange tale of the Lebanese space race
• 2008 Khiam 2000-2007, Doc 103min
• I want to see
• 2006 Open the door, please
• 2005A Perfect Day
• 2003Ramad
• 2000Khiam
• 1999Around the Pink House

Bibliography

• 2012  Utopia Dystopia, Construction and destruction in photography and collage (Museum of Fine Arts Houston) by Yasufumi Nakamori with Graham Bader
• 2007Zehil, Sylviane, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige exposant a la CRG de New York, L’Orient LE JOUR, May 10, 2007
• 2005Carver, Antonia, Hysterical Repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s A Perfect Day, BIDOUN, Issue 6, Winter 2005
• Wonder Beirut, La bataille des hôtels, Mission impossible
• 2004The story of a pyromaniac photographer in Cabinet, Issue 16, The sea, Immaterial Incorporated,winter 2004
• Like an oasis in the desert: in catalogue Appel à témoin, Edition Quartier 2004
• 2003Don‚t walk publication, The echo show
• Donner à voir /se donner à voir : dans Al ADAB n° 53 Beyrouth. 2003.
• 2002Latency, conference in “HOMEWORKS” ed. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2002.
• OK, I‚m going to show you my work : in DISCOURSE 24.1 (winter 2002)
• 2001A state of latency in ICONOCLASH published by ZKM & MIT press, 2001.
• 1998Que faisiez vous entre cette aube et la dernière in SPECIMEN n°4 (Paris, 1998)
• 1997Beyrouth : Fictions urbaines Photobook published by Mind the gap (Beyrouth 1997)

Awards

• 2013The Lebanese Rocket Society, Best Feature Documentary, Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Qatar
• 2012Abraaj Capital Art Prize for 2012, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Public Collections

• Abraaj Capital Art Prize, United Arab Emirates
• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
• Artothèque Villeurbanne, France
• Barjeel Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
• British Museum, London, UK
• The Eels, USA
• Commande publique CNAP (Festival d’Avignon), France.
• Fond municipal d’art contemporain, Paris, France
• Fond national d’art contemporain, Paris-La Défense, France
• Fond régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France
• Fond régional d’art contemporain Lorraine, Metz, France
• Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• IVAM, Valencia, Spain
• Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
• Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, France
• MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Musée de Mariemont, Morlanwelz (Belgium)
• Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
• Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
• Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Saradar Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
• Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige both teach at St. Joseph University in Beirut, Joana gives screenwriting courses and Khalil esthetics and experimental video. http://www.hadjithomasjoreige.com/