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Mirene Arsanios

lives and works in Beirut
Guest curator at Villa Romana from April to May 2011


Biography

2008
Instructor, American University of Beirut, Fine Arts and Art History Department

2007
Co-founder, 98weeks-Forschungsprojekt und 98weeks-Projektraum, Beirut

2008 – 2009
Project Researcher, Ashkal Alwan, Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut

2006 – 2007
MA in Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths College, London

2004 – 2006
Assistant curator, MACRO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome

1999 – 2003
BA in Art Hostory, John Cabot University, Rome

Awards and Participations

2010
Young Curator Invitational

2010
Program, Paris Guest Juror, Final Year Projects, Graphic Design Department, American University of Beirut
Jury member, Exposure 2010, Beirut Art Center
Jury member, Video Works, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut

CONSENSUS OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA (2010)

Beirut every other day. Workshop 3. On Mar Mkayel ( 2010)
98weeks-Projektraum, Beirut

Curated Projects

2010
Words/ Action (Moving through the body mind), Workshop with Alia Hamdan about writing and performance
Why Do You Publish?, presentation of artist books, Lebanese Art Book Festival, Beirut
98weeks Bazaar, No Soul For Sale Festival, Tate Modern London
March Meeting, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah

2009
Beirut every other day. Workshop III. On Mar Mkhael, Beirut
Words…Action!, Subvision Festival, Hamburg

2008
Beirut every other day. Workshop II. As Long As I am Walking with Francis Alÿs and Cuauhtémoc Medina, Beirut
Beirut every other day. Workshop I. The Ruin in the City with Lara Almarcegui and Cecilia Andersson, Beirut


Articles

2011
The Cat is on the Table
(kollektiver Text, in Auftrag gegeben von Chris Fitzpatrick), in: The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt
Collective Images. On groups, Portraits and the Collective, in: Arab Image Foundation Journal
Consensus Over the Mediterranean Sea, in: The Second World Congress of Free Artists, Aarhus, DK

2010
Artistic Research in Contemporary Beirut, in: The Rumpus Online Magazine, März 2010
Contributor for CURA art Magazine
Rom Ausstellungsbesprechungen für Bidoun Magazine Publikationen
How to make (nice) things happen, No 0, June 2010
Why do you publish?, printed and edited by 98weeks on the occasion of the Lebanese Art Book Festival