Raed Yassin

Raed Yassin (b. 1979 Beirut) lives and works between Beirut and Berlin. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003, and in 2015 he was awarded a research fellowship at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. An artist and musician, Yassin’s work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. One of the organizers of Irtijal Festival – Beirut’s experimental contemporary music festival – Yassin has released several music albums and founded the production company Annihaya in 2009.

He has exhibited and performed in numerous museums, festivals, and venues, including The British Museum, London (2021), Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2021), IVAM, Valencia (2020), ECLAT Festival, Stuttgart (2020), Borderline Festival, Athens (2019), Minnesota Museum of American Art (2019), Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2018), MaerzMusik, Berlin (2018), Nottingham Contemporary (2017), Kalfayan Galleries, Αthens (2011, 2014, 2017), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Yοrk (2016), Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014), ICA London (2014), Gwangju Museum of Art (2014), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2014), Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels (2013), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012), New Museum, New Yοrk (2012), Sharjah Biennial 9 & 10 (2009, 2011), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011), and Delfina Foundation (residencies 2010-2011 & 2014). Yassin is also a recipient of the Sharjah Art Foundation Project Fund (2014), Abraaj Group Art Prize (2012), Fidus Prize (2009), AFAC grant for production (2010), YATF grant for production (2008 & 2012) and the Cultural Resource grant for production (2008).