Charbel Samuel Aoun
multidisciplinary artist
Born in 1980, Charbel Samuel Aoun holds a master’s degree in architecture (2004). During the following five years he worked as a conceptual designer in several architectural firms in Beirut and explored the fields of audiovisual and theatre. At the same time, he started creating a wild garden, combining hundreds of varieties of plants and trees. In his work he combines his education as an architect and his passion for nature, experimenting with different materials and elements. He thereby creates a system that both examines and questions social and environmental realities.
Since 2017, he is involved in academic teaching. He has been developing a master program in architecture studying the dynamics of social structures in critical areas and seeking the possible role of design as a democratic social operator facing political and urban strategies shaping the city.
“My work explores through social and environmental elements, a dialogue between the magnitude of the disaster and the poetic dimension of “leftovers”. The Human, the urban and the environment evokes boundaries we exceed and borders we create.”
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Paratopia– Anima Gallery, Doha
2015 L’Exode Du Fragile – Tanit Gallery, Beirut
2015 From the Dust – lab 44 Gallery, Paris
2012 Lost Spring – Smo Gallery-Beirut
2011 Pulse - Art Space Gallery, Dubai
2010 Flows – Art Lounge, Beirut
2007 Out of Space – French Cultural Center-Beirut
Collective Exhibitions:
2019 Prague Quadrennial- team Leader USEK University
2019 The Natural, The (Un)Cleansed & The Foreign- Beirut
2017 Imago Mundi-contemporary art of Lebanon- Palermo
2016 “Borders” Global Grand Central–residency in Sweden
2016 “La Force de la Peinture”-Galerie du Comble-Belgium
2015 “Arab Territories”- Capital of Arab Culture, Constantine
2015 “Rebirth of a Nation”-Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut
2014 “Subversione of sensible”-Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
2014 “Mac International 2014”-Belfast
2014 “Unsaid Unheard Untitled”-Villa Paradiso-Beirut
2014 “In the flesh”-Das Weisse Haus-Vienna
2014 “Voice Of The Invisibles”-Arab Modern Institute-Paris
2014 “Retour a la biennale”-Espace Culture-Marseille
2013 “jeux de la francophonie” representing Lebanon in painting -Nice
2013 “Biennale of young Mediterranean artists”- Ancone, Italy
2013 Residency in Caos museum -Terni-Italy
2013 Tasmeem design fair-Friendly Gas- Doha
2012 “Salon d’Automne” by Sursock Museum - Beirut Exhibition Center
2010 “Tear down the Walls” – Art Space Gallery, Dubai