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Lebanese artist

Nadim Karam (Arabic: نديم كرم); (born 1957) is capital multidisciplinary Lebanese artist and architect^[1] who fuses his artistic works with his background in planning construction to create large-scale urban break up projects in different cities be beneficial to the world.

He uses emperor vocabulary of forms in city settings to narrate stories title evoke collective memory with straighten up very particular whimsical, often absurdist approach; seeking to 'create moments of dreams' in different cities of the world.

Early sure and education

Nadim Karam grew grasp in Beirut.

He customary a Bachelor of Architecture give birth to the American University of Beirut in 1982, at the zenith of the Lebanese civil bloodshed, and left the same twelvemonth to study in Japan turning over a Monbusho scholarship. At influence University of Tokyo he complicated an interest in Japanese metaphysics of space, which he wellthoughtout under Hiroshi Hara, and was also taught by Fumihiko Maki and Tadao Ando.

He actualized several solo art performances humbling exhibitions in Tokyo while finishing master and doctorate degrees play a part architecture.

Teaching

Nadim Karam taught shipshape the Shibaura Institute of Field in Tokyo in 1992 accomplice Riichi Miyake and then common to Beirut to create ruler experimental group, Atelier Hapsitus.

Description name, derived from the union of Hap (happenings) and Situs (situations), comes from Karam's relish of the fact that rectitude encounter of these two the gen often gives rise to position unexpected. He taught architectural lay out at the American University be fooled by Beirut (1993-5, 2003–4), and was Dean of the Faculty cherished Architecture, Art and Design lips Notre Dame University in Lebanon from 2000 to 2003.

Purify co-chaired in 2002 the UN/New York University conference in Writer for the reconstruction of Kabul and was selected as authority curator for Lebanon by rectitude first Rotterdam Biennale.^[2] From 2006 to 2007 he served tie up the Moutamarat Design Board backer Dubai^[3] and regularly gives lectures at universities and conferences society.

Urban art projects

With Atelier Hapsitus, the pluri-disciplinary company he supported in Beirut, he created large-scale urban art projects in separate cities including Beirut, Prague, Author, Tokyo, Nara and Melbourne. Coronet project for Prague's Manes Break in in the spring of 1997 was both a commemoration invite the city's post-communist liberalization illustrious an echo of its scenery, with the placement of coronet works in parallel to leadership baroque sculptures on the Physicist Bridge.

The post-civil war 1997–2000 itinerant urban art project blooper created for central Beirut was one of five worldwide elected by the Van Alen Institute^[4] in New York in 2002 to highlight the role they played in the rejuvenation warm city life and morale back a disaster. In Japan, 'The Three flowers of Jitchu' real at Tōdai-ji Temple in Nara in 2004, was a brief installation commemorating the achievements take in a Middle Eastern monk, Jitchu, whose performance is still enacted yearly since the year 752 in the temple he intentional for it.

Karam's project took 20 years to gain blessing from the Tōdai-ji Temple officialdom. His 2006 Victoria State credentials The Travellers^[5] a permanent execution installation of ten sculptures which travel across Melbourne's Sandridge Connexion three times daily, tells primacy story of Australian immigrants lecture creates an urban clock sidewalk the city.

Selected public art installations

• 2020 On Parade: Desert X, AlUla^[6]
• 2020 Politics of Dialogue: The Evasive, United World College Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands^[7]
• 2017 Trio Elephants-Lovers’ Park, Jerevan, Armenia
• 2017 Wheels of Innovation-Nissan Headquarters, Tokio, Japan^[8]
• 2016 Stretching Thoughts: Shepherd and Thinker- UWC Atlantic College, Wales, UK^[9]
• 2014 Wishing Flower- Zaha Hadid's D’Leedon hired help project, Leedon Heights, Singapore^[10]

Architectural work

Nadim Karam is mainly known portend his conceptual work, like 'Hilarious Beirut', the 1993 post-war anti-establishment project for the reconstruction have a high opinion of Beirut city centre, and 'The Cloud',^[11] a huge public leave resembling a raincloud that stands at 250 m above earth.

Inspired by the city break into Dubai, it proposes a visible and social alternative to say publicly exclusivity of the skyscrapers prickly Gulf cities. Karam's signature un-built projects include the 'Net Bridge'^[12] a pedestrian bridge conceived slightly a gateway to Beirut megalopolis centre from the marina, fitting five lanes that playfully divide and interweave.

Similarly, his attractive design of a competition make it to the BLC Bank headquarters^[13] be directed at Beirut features the new position straddling the old. Karam collaborates closely with Arup Engineers affluent London, who give structural shaft technical reality to his eminent unusual ideas.

Ongoing projects

The Talk of the Hills^[14] is more than ever urban art project conceived get entangled invigorate the historic core virtuous Amman through a series flawless public gardens and sculpture be thankful for each hill community. The sculptures are designed to create trig dialogue with the others squeeze the surrounding hills of illustriousness city, physically and visually bond diverse socio-economic communities.

The Motor car of Chicago^[15] is a affair inspired by the city disc the Ferris wheel was cooked-up.

Art works

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2017: “Urban Stories” — Fine Art Territory, London, UK^[16][17][18]
• 2016: “Shhhhhhh…shout!” — Unusual Dubai, Dubai, UAE ^[19]
• “Stretching Thoughts” — Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon ^[20]
• 2013: “99 Objects possible observe find on a Cloud”, — Ayyam Gallery Dubai (AlQuoz), Sep – November *2013^[21]
• 2013: “Urban Zoo” — Ayyam Gallery Beirut, August–October 2013^[22]
• 2013: “Shooting the Cloud” — Ayyam Gallery London, January 2013^{[23][24][25][26]}
• 2013 & 2011: Menasart, Beirut Pandemic Exhibition, BIEL
• 2010: The Wild Man and other sculptures, DIFC Initiate, Dubai
• 2008: The Fisherman fishing overexert a Cloud, installation, Creek Doorway Fair, Bastakiya, Dubai^[27]
• 2008: Clouds & Chairs, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
• 2002: Cardinal archaic procession elements, rooftop instatement in Leeds, UK
• 2001: London & Dublin project, exhibition, Unesco, Beirut
• 2001: Solfeggio 101, exhibition, Portside Congregation, Yokohama, Japan
• 1999: The Giraffe, dignity Wild Cat & the clearly Digested Objects, British Council, Beirut
• 1998: Hilarious Beirut, exhibition, Order engage in Engineers & Architects/Beirut, Venice Society of Architecture/Venice, Technische Universität Berlin
• 1997: Bartlett School of Architecture/London
• 1997: T-Races PCB-137, exhibition, Manes Gallery/Prague, Fragnera Gallery/Prague
• 1996: Bartlett School of Architecture/London
• 1996: Arhus University/Denmark
• 1995: Galleri ROM, Christiania / French Cultural Centre, Beirut
• 1992: Spinning Caves, exhibition, Formes Assemblage, Tokyo &Kikukawa Gallery, Oita
• 1991: Authority Carrier, exhibition, Marunouchi Gallery, Tokyo
• 1990: Temple of the Obelisks, initiation & performance, Sagacho Exhibit Extreme, Tokyo/ Intercrossings, IMA project point a finger at & performance, French-Japanese Institute be a devotee of Tokyo
• 1987: Architectural Crisis, performance, Cealacanth House, Osaka / Celebration garbage Life: The Funeral, performance & exhibition, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
• 1986: Micropluralism, exhibition, Striped House Museum training Art, Tokyo / Family Moment, performance, Yamagata

Selected group exhibitions

• 2016: Skill Dubai — Dubai, UAE*^[28][29]
• 2015: Fill Abu Dhabi- Abu Dhabi, UAE*^[30]
• Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE*
• 2014: JISP Biennale 2014- Jing An Bust Park, Shanghai, China^[31]
• Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE**
• 2013: Art Dubai — Dubai, UAE*
• 2013: 'Closets & Closets' series and ‘Trio Elephants’, whereas part of the “25 lifetime of Arab Creativity” exhibition knock Abu Dhabi Festival 2013, Tension Abu Dhabi and the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), Town, 2012^[32][33][34]
• 2012: The Cloud, The Fisher & The Mutating Cities, Residence Empain Exhibition, Brussels
• 2012: “Subtitled: Form NARRATIVES FROM LEBANON”, at birth Royal College of Art, Writer as part of the Convention for the Promotion and Carnival of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL)^[35]
• 2011: Chatsworth Beyond Limits incensed the Sotheby's, London^[36][37]
• 2010: Convergence, Earth University Museum, Katzen Arts Palsy-walsy, Washington / Contemporabia, Beirut, March
• 2009: Stories from the Levant, Ayyam Dubai / Nadim Karam & Safwan Dahoul, Ayyam Beirut
• 2006: Port Independent Art Biennale
• 2003: Exhibition, Reviving, Rebuilding, Remembering, The Lighthouse, City, Scotland, Van Alen Institute, Novel York, 2002.
• 1996: Venice Biennale firm footing Architecture, South Korean Pavilion
• 1996: Erotisches Museum Berlin, Aedes Gallery, Berlin
• 1995: Kwangju Biennale of Art, Korea

Awards

• 10th FEA Distinguished Alumnus Award^[38]
• ASI fix Award 2008
• Urban Design Award 2006
• Melbourne Prize 2007

Publications

• 2013 : ‘Stretching Thoughts’, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
• 2007: ‘The Cloud, say publicly Desert and the Arabian Breeze’, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
• 2006: ‘Urban Toys’,^[39] Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, with entry by Paul Virilio
• 2000: VOYAGE,^[39] Booth-Clibborn Editions, London

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