Paola Yacoub, Artist, draftsman, photographer, architect

Tapis réalisé en 1683 jours de tissage. 4m, 82 x 3,54m 20 kilos de laine 53 couleurs

Emmanuel Macron, Ministère de la Culture Montpellier

Their public lectures and essays were brought together in the monograph Beirut is a Magnificent City. Synoptic Pictures (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2003). Yacoub and Lasserre have been awarded several grants and residencies, including the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2005. They have exhibited together in, amongst others, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2000); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, (2002); Le Plateau, Paris (2002); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2003); Venice Biennal (2003); Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine/Mamco Geneva (2004); Gwangju Biennal (2006); Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2008).

Paola Yacoub is a visual artist based in Berlin. She is currently working on a PhD in Aesthet-ics, Science and Technology of the Arts, Visual Art and Photography at University of Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She graduated from the Architectural Association in London where she has worked on automates in photography and architecture. Subsequently, she worked at the French Institute of the Near East’s (IFPO) archaeological excavation in Beirut city centre. In 2000, she began collaborating with Michel Lasserre on the perception of territories in conflict and post-conflict situations. Today, they work on effective action in the framework of “proac-tionism”.

Paola Yacoub’s solo exhibitions include: BEY002 at DAADGallery, Berlin (2021); Kiss the black Stones at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2012); and the retrospective, Drawing with the Things Themselves, at Beirut Art Center (2011). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Distant Divides at Halle 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2022); Sabine Weiss, les villes, la rue, l’autre at Centre Pompidou (2018), Home Beirut: Sound-ing the Neighbors at Maxxi in Rome (2017/2018); En Suspens at Le Bal in Paris (2018); The Pencil of Culture at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2016); and the Taipei Biennale in Taiwan (2016). Paola Yacoub is the founding director of the program ARP (Artistic Research Practices, 2013–2018) at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in collaboration with the Sursock Museum.