Christine Tohmé

Beirut-based curator Christine Tohmé is the founding Director of Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, established in 1993. Ashkal Alwan is a non-profit organisation that supports contemporary art through numerous initiatives including the multidisciplinary platform Home Works: A Forum of Cultural Practices, initiated by Tohmé in 2001. Other initiatives include Video Works, a grant and screening platform supporting the development, production and diffusion of projects by artists and filmmakers residing in Lebanon, created in 2006, and Home Workspace Program, a tuition-free, interdisciplinary study programme founded in 2011.

Tohmé was the recipient of a Prince Claus Award in 2006, given in recognition of her achievements in supporting local multidisciplinary art production and art criticism, as well as the 2015 CCS Bard Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. She is on the boards of Marsa (Beirut), a sexual health centre providing specialised medical services for at-risk youth and marginalised communities, and SAHA (Istanbul), an association supporting contemporary art from Turkey. The seventh edition of Home Works opens on November 12, 2015.

(Aus Presseinformationen, September 2015.
Foto: Tarek Moukaddem)

Christine Tohmé in Artikeln des Nafas Kunstmagazins:

Home Works Forum 6
Rezension von Kaelen Wilson-Goldie und Fotos der multidisziplinären Veranstaltung in Beirut, 14. - 26. Mai 2013.

Home Workspace
Internationale künstlerische Fortbildung bei Ashkal Alwan in Beirut mit Dozenten aus aller Welt. Von Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Januar 2012

Home Works 5
Diskussionen, Ausstellungen, Filme. Ein Bericht über das Forum für kulturelle Praktiken in Beirut. Von Daniel Berndt, Mai 2010

Ashkal Alwan
Libanesische Vereinigung für Bildende Künste, gegründet 1994 von Christine Tohmé in Beirut. Von Anne Maier, Februar 2006