The Agial Gallery in Beirut is hosting an exhibition of works by Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi. The exhibition was preceded by a lecture on May 6, 2025, at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The opening took place the following day, on May 7, 2025, with a student visit to the Agial Gallery in Beirut. The exhibition will continue until June 14, 2025.
Moreover, the lecture, given by Professor Morad Montazami on May 6, 2025, addressed the dialectic and comparison between Arab artistic craftsmanship and modern art, with Gebran Tarazi as a model. More than 70 students, art experts, and intellectuals attended. Professor Morad Montazami is a museum curator, art historian, publisher, and director of the Zaman Book Foundation and a museum trustee. He began his career as a Middle East and North Africa curator at the Tate Modern in London from 2014 to 2019. He subsequently launched Zaman Books & Curating, a publishing and curatorial platform dedicated to exploring aspects of Arab, African, and Asian modernity, and has published extensively.
Agial Gallery, which currently exhibits the paintings of Lebanese artist Gebran Tarazi, was founded in 1990 in Beirut and is considered one of the leading galleries for modern and contemporary art in Beirut and the Arab world. A leading gallery in the Arab world, Agial Gallery presents a wide range of remarkable artworks from the region by established and emerging artists.
Furthermore, the American University of Beirut (AUB) also hosted a pavilion for the Gebran Tarazi Foundation during the “Open Walls” exhibition, which opened on March 12, 2025. The exhibition is still on display on the AUB campus and placed Gebran Tarazi at the forefront of the Lebanese art movement, alongside veteran Lebanese artists such as Khalil Salibi (1870-1928), Saliba Douaihy (1915-1994), Omar Onsi (1901-1969), and César Gemayel (1898-1958).
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