Lights of Lebanon: Modern and Contemporary Art from 1950 to the Present Day

A year after the explosion of 4 August 2020 which ravaged the Port of Beirut, the Institut du monde arabe pays tribute to the vitality and resilience of the Lebanese art scene. With the exhibition, the IMA celebrates the prodigious creativity of Lebanon’s modern and contemporary artists and its diasporas, since the early days of its Independence in 1943 up until the present day, featuring artworks by Shafic Abboud, Etel Adnan, Saliba Douaihy, Paul Guiragossian, Hussein Madi, Assadour, Chaouki Choukini, Ayman Baalbaki, Zad Moultaka, Serwan Baran, Hala Matta, Hiba Kalache, Zena Assi, and Tagreed Darghouth.