A lecture by Walid Raad

  • A lecture by Walid Raad

    "Preface to the third edition", 2012, ©: Walid Raad

Museum of Modern Art invites to w lecture by Walid Raad, accompanying the "Lest the Seas Meet" exhibition.

In his presentation, Walid Raad will present an overview of his works to date including The Atlas Group (1989-2004), and Scratching on things I could disavow (2007-present). After the presentation, the discussion between the artist, curator Tarek Abou El Fetouh and Joanna Mytkowska (the director of the Museum od Modern Art in Warsaw) will take place in the Museum’s auditorium.


Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA). Raad’s works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include Walkthrough, The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let’s Be Honest The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.

Raad’s solo exhibitions include the Louvre (Paris), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Kunsthalle Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, UK), Festival d’Automne (Paris, France), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, Belgium), The Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany). His works have also been shown in Documenta 11 and 13 (Kassel, Germany), The Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), Whitney Bienniale 2000 and 2002 (New York, USA), Sao Paulo Bienale (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Istanbul Biennal (Istanbul, Turkey), Homeworks I and III (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other museums, biennales and venues in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.

Raad is also the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007), the Camera Austria Award (2005), a Rockefeller Fellowship (2003), among other grants, prizes and awards.

For additional information please visit:
www.scratchingonthings.com
www.theatlasgroup.org
www.sfeir-semler.com
www.paulacoopergallery.com
www.anthonyreynolds.com
 

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