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Karine Wehbé

Karine Wehbé is an artist and graphic designer based in Beirut. She obtained a diploma in Graphic Arts from the Paris School of Graphic Arts (Esag Penninghen) in 1996. She has exhibited her work at the Beirut Art Center (2008), co-directed “Summer 91” (2014), winning the Pavilion Award and Sacem Prize. Wehbe went on to co-direct “It’s the war in Syria that killed her” (2016) that screened at Videoworks and Pantin Festival. More recently, Wehbe created the publication “Stop Here for Happy Holiday”(2017) funded by the Sharjah Biennale. Through photography, cinema, archival footage, and geographic maps her work embeds intimate and public chronicles, drawing on adolescent experiences, cinematographic and musical influences, and the mechanisms of memory and nostalgia.

Works

Karine Wehbé
Les Mouettes 1

2018

120 x 100 cm

Print on wall, cassette and plastic chair

Exhibitions
28 November, 2025 to 11 January, 2026
Beit Beirut, Sodeco Square, Monot, Ashrafieh, Beirut.

Freedom Recalled

Freedom Recalled is a landmark exhibition at Beit Beirut which confronts Lebanon’s unresolved history of impunity, the failures of justice and the unhealed wounds that continue to echo through its collective psyche. At its heart, Freedom Recalled asks: Do we bear a responsibility to remember — and if so, how? What silences do we choose to uphold, and what price must truth exact in return? And ultimately, how might the pursuit of justice become a catalyst for personal healing and national renewal? Explore