(this page was last updated in February 2019)
Lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.
Member of the PIPA Nominating Committee in 2019.
Amanda Khalil is an independent curator and founder of the Temporary Art Platform.
Fields of research and interest
– Contemporary Art; Research based art practices; Cultural Policy and Sociology of the Arts; Public Space; Museum practices; Contextual Art; Art Management; Art in and from the MENA region; Audience outreach policies; Art; Education, Exhibition practices and curatorial discourse
– Nominated in 2016 by the ICI (Independent Curators International) for the Independent Vision Curatorial Award
Education
2009
– Master’s Degree, Curatorial Practices for Public Spaces, Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France
2008
– Master’s Degree, Sociology and Anthropology, Major: cultural policies, Denis Diderot University, Paris, France
2006
– Bachelor, Art Mediation and curatorial practice, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France
Curated Exhibitions
2019
– “Make yourself a(t) home – ongoing research on the theme of Hospitality”, exhibition in the making. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Beirut, Lebanon
2018
– “Threshold”, solo exhibition by Hatem Imam, Letitia Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2016
– “White Cube… Literally – On form and convention of display”, Hassan Sharif, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Edouardo Abaroa, Wilfredo Prieto, John Carswell, Michael John Whelan, Haleh Radjaian, MentalKLINIK, Saba Innab, Omar Fakhoury, Raed Yassin, Mohamed Kazem, Jérémy Gobé, Alice Mulliez, Annabel Daou, José Bento, Montez Magno, Adel Abidin, Gilbert Hage, Christiana de Marchi, Arnaud Rivieren, Yann Sérandour, Evariste Richer, Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, Arab Emirates
2015
– “Dust”, co-curated with Anna Ptak and Nazgol Ansarinia, Caline Aoun, Mehraneh Atashi, Vartan Avakian, Naser Bakhshi, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Ali Cherri, Vikram Divecha, Negar Farajiani, Barbad Golshiri, Mikołaj Grospierre, Ali Kazim, Komuna//Warszawa, Mehreen Murtaza, Jurgen Ots, Monira Al Qadiri, Wojciech Pustoła, Iza Tarasewicz, Center for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
– “When all seemingly stands still”, Angle Leccia, Sanne Vassen, Albrecht Pischel, Pauline Bastard, Kermelo Bermejo, LucFosther Diop, Michael John Whelan, Lantian Xie, Grey Noise, Dubai, Arab Emirates
– “Pipperoo, Pippera, Pipperum”, Doa Aly, Adel Abidin, Maeve Brennan, Mirna Bamieh, Ahmad Ghossein, Randa Mirza, Paul Hage-Boutros, Badr el Hammami, Daniel Kotter, Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
– “Only In”, Michael John Whelan, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK
2014
– “Simple Past, Perfect futures”, Lamia Joreige, Adel Abidin, Ali Cherri, Siska, Larissa Sansour, Estefanìa Pañafiel, Bill Balaskas, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
2013
– “Intangible experiences, arrangements and manoeuvres”, Charbel-joseph H.Boutros and Stéphanie Saadé, Grey Noise, Dubai, Arab Emirates
– “Echgi Memeh”, Laure de Selys, French Institute, Beirut, Lebanon
– “Postponed Noon”, Raed Yassin, Vitrine Gallery, London, UK
– “We hesitated between arrangements, modulations and manoeuvres”, Charbel-joseph, H.Boutros, Caline Aoun and Stéphanie Saadé, Minus 5, Beirut, Lebanon
– “POURQUOI-MOI”, Emmanuelle Raynaut, Le ZINC, Marseille, France
2012
– “By Hook or By Crook”, co-curated with artist Edward Salem, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
– “Waterfront”, Hala Younes, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
– Annual fundraising auction exhibition”, Walid Raad, Sophie Calle, Walid Sadek, Gilbert Hage, Amal Saadé, Ilaria Lupo, Hatem Imam, Raed Yassin, Karine Wehbé, Omar Fakhoury, Nathalie Harb, Estefania Penafiel Loaiza, Jeroen Kramer, Noël Nasr, Souheil Sleiman, Alfred Tarazi, Nada Sehnaoui, Houssam Bokeili, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
2011
– “No Vacancy”, Estefania Penãfiel Loaiza, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
– “Monopolis, a house of cards”, Souheil Sleiman, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
– “A bus and its replicas”, Houssam Bokeili, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
Other Curated Projects (Public Space, Public Art, Screening Programs)
2018
– “Art at AUBMC”, Temporary Art Platform, six site-specific commissions for permanent public artworks for the new American University of Beirut’s Medical Center (in progress), Tamara el Samerraei, Hatem Imam, Nadim Mechlaoui and Sharif Sehnaoui, Zeina Badran and Rayya Badran, Lara Tabet, Catherine Cattaruzza
– “‘Chou Hayda’ Mathaf Mathaf”, in collaboration with the Beirut Museum of Art on a participatory art commission taking the form of an audioguide for the National Museum of Beirut by artist Annabel Daou
2017
– “Dalieh Art Interventions”, Temporary Art Platform, site specific commissioned interventions in the framework of the civil campaign for the protection of Dalieh, unique natural and cultural site on Beirut’s coast endangered by a real estate project Nadim Mechlaoui, 200grs, Ieva Saudargaité, Omar Fakhoury, Raymond Gemayel, Ghassan Maasri, Mustapha Jundi
– “BeMA Jezzine Artists in Residency”, one month residency and public program focusing on the theme of water, Jezzine, South Lebanon
2016
– “Works on Paper | Oeuvres sur Papier”, Fan bel tabe3., Contemporary art interventions commissioned by APEAL for four daily Lebanese newspapers, Al Akhbar, As Safir, The Daily Star and L’Orient le Jour Annabel Daou, Walid Sadek, Haig Aivazian, Gilbert Hage, Sirine Fattouh, Caline Aoun, Nada Sehnaoui, Omar Fakhoury, Ilaria Lupo, Danielle Genadry, Raafat Majzoub, Ahmad Ghossein
– “Ras Masqa Artists in Residence”, one-month residency and public program focusing on the theme of art education (Apeal), Ras Masqa, North Lebanon
2015
– Pipperoo, Pippera, Pipperum”, Video program, Alfilm, Berlin, Germany
2014
– “InVisible Public Art Commission”, Vartan Avakian, Shaikha El Mazrou, Monira Al Qadiri, Vikram Divecha, Doa Aly, Shindagha Heritage Village, Dubai, Arab Emirates
– “Meziara Artists-in-Residence”, Temporary Art Platform, one-month residency with seven international artists on a context-responsive environment accompanied by a public program, Meziara, Lebanon
– “Parallel events”, Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
– “Like a flower waiting to bloom, like a light bulb in a dark room”, Video program, Laure de Selys, Ali Cherri, Hatem Imam, Sawsen Al Sarraf, Bassem Mansour and Dana El Jouder, Kinda Hassan and Dalia Naous, Paul Hajje Boutros, Caline Aoun, Charbel-joseph H.Boutros, Karine Wehbé
– “‘ART IS’, Popular Front for the Liberation of Art”, Intervention in public space
– “Emerging?”, Lamia Joreige, Amal Issa, Saleh Barakat, Roy Dib, Roundtable
2013
– “A thousand tapes”, co-curated with Raed Yassin, Mansion, Beirut, Lebanon [VHS tapes film program]
2012
– “Uncovered”, Basak Senova, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon [Residency and talks]
– “Dedans dehors”, Lieux Fictifs, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon [Series of workshops and video program]
– “Newyesterday”, Mustafa Kapplan, Filiz Sizlani and Camille Louis, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon [Performance]
– “The Hangar Youth Council”, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon [Series of youth workshops]
2010
– “12”, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon [Weekly film program]
Invited Speaker
2018
– “Emerging new geographies: Cultural dialogue and practice in today’s multipolar world”, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt
2017
– “Madrassa”, Regional program of residencies, meetings and trainings in contemporary curatorial practices, Casablanca, Morocco
2016
– “Roots and Routes: Challenges and Opportunities of Connectivity”, ResArtis international meeting, Tehran, Iran
2015
– On “Dust”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tehran, Iran
– “How to look at video….”, Campus Art, Dubai, Arab Emirates
– “Beirut 2020”, lecture-performance, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
– “Art practices in context of crisis”, Kunsthall Bergen, Norway
– The international meeting of residencies “Residencies as learning environments”, Frigoriferi, Milanesi, Milan, Italy
2014
– “Young Curators Invitational”, FIAC, Paris, France
– “Art practices beyond the contextual narrative in the Middle East: Forms, poetic images and other aesthetics”, Art Basel Salon, Basel, Switzerland
– “Beirut 2020”, lecture performance, Centre for Contemporary Arts Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
– “Contemporary practices and post-war narratives”, International Colloquium Curatorial Department, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
2013
– “Post-war art practices in Lebanon”, Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
– “Independent Art Spaces and Funding”, Fondation Ricard, Paris, France
– “Art and Patronage”, MENASART Art Fair, Beirut, Lebanon
2011
– “The audience of Arts in Lebanon”, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
– “Independent Space from the MENA region”, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
– “March Meeting, Sharjah Biennial, UAE
2009
– Fiction in documentary films on “Je veux voir” by Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, EHESS, Paris, France
2008
– “Collective memory of the Lebanese war in video-art”, EHESS, Paris, France
Work Experience
2018
– Curator and consultant for Art at AUBMC, Art in healthcare environment, Beirut, Lebanon
– Curator of AiR, Public Art, Art Dubai, Dubai, Arab Emirates
2015 – 2018
– Consultant for Audience Outreach programs, Apeal, Beirut Museum for Art, Beirut, Lebanon
2014
– Curator of InVisible Public Art Commission, Dubai, Arab Emirates
– Programmer, Alfilm Festival, Berlin, Germany
2013 – 2017
– Founder and director of Temporary Art Platform, Beirut, Lebanon
2013
– Artistic coordinator, Nature Addicts Fund, Paris, France
2013 – 14
– Public Art Consultant, Djibouti Ville
2010 – 12
– Director and curator, The Hangar, Beirut, Lebanon
2010
– Opera in creation workshop coordinator, Aix-en-Provence International Opera Festival, France
2008 – 2010
– Artistic coordinator and assistant curator, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
2008
– Artistic coordinator and production manager, Public Art Commission, Stéphane Shankland, city council, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2007
– Programming assistant, Video Art Festival Paris-Berlin, Paris, France
Teaching Experience (Ongoing since 2011)
– Part time professor/ Course: Contemporary Art (Art Now), American University of Beirut
– Part time professor/ Courses: The Art Market / Curating and its problematics/ Public Art Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts Department, Beirut
– Part time professor/ Course: Curating and audience outreach Saint-Joseph University, Curatorial Department, Beirut
Jury Member & Nominator
– Civitella Ranieri, artists residency in Umbria Italy [Nominator]
– Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, reader committee for the Visual art Grant [2018]
– Al Serkal Residency Program, Dubai, selection committee [2016 – 2018]
– Dubai Art Campus, Art Dubai, [2013]
– Exposure, Emerging artists’ exhibition, Beirut Art Center, [2012]
– Art and Archive, Cologne-Beirut exchange program, Heinrich Böll Foundation, [2012]
Selected Bibliography
– Young Curators Invitational, close up on the French contemporary art scene, Cura.books, 2015 (publication of FIAC, French Institute and Fondation Ricard)
– Mémoire individuelle, mémoire collective et Histoire dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines au Liban, Presses de L’Université Saint Joseph edited by Nayla Tamraz, 2015
– L’archive dans les arts vivants, Performance, danse, théâtre, Presses Universitaires de Rennes edited by Isabelle Barberis, 2015
– Art In Residence, AIR publication # 1 issue, Archiviazioni Bologna, July 2013
– Gemüselager des Gestern, Der Freitag, September 8th, 2011
– Lebanese contemporary art and the civil war’s collective memory, Master dissertation, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris 3, 2007
Grantee
– Goethe Institute, Cimetta Fund, Young Arab Theatre Fund, Pro Helvetia, British Council, Boghossian Foundation, French Institute, Turkish Embassy, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Ford Foundation, Danish Art Institute, Tamteen Grant.
Residencies
2019
– International Studio and Curators Program (Iscp), New York, USA
2018
– Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
– Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2017
– Goethe Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015
– FIAC, Paris, France
– Art Dubai, Arab Emirates
– Centre for Contemporary Arts Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland