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Paola Yacoub studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1993.
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She worked at the Institut Français d’Archéologie du Proche-Orient in charge of the excavation’s drawings in downtown Beirut from 1995 to 1999. She exhibited her project Affects (1998) at Univerzitav Ljubljana’s gallery. She developed her artistic production in Beirut in 2000 and started a collaboration with Michel Lasserre.
In 2001 and 2003 they were invited at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and in 2004/2005, they received the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) artist’s program fellowship.
Since this residency, Paola Yacoub has been living and working in Berlin and in Beirut. Solo Exhibitions
2011 Drawing with the things themselves at the Beirut Art Center (first solo show, co-curated with Corinne Diserens)
2012 Labor Berlin 9.
Paola Yacoub: Kiss the Black Stones, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2000 Stand der Dinge at the KW Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2000 Venice Biennale
2002 Contemporary Arab Representations, Beirut/Lebanon, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2003 Venice Biennale
2004 Busan of Korea Biennial
2005 After the fact, the 1st Berlin Photography Festival, Martin-Gropius-Bau
2006 Gwangju Biennial
2006 Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
2007 Thessaloniki Biennale
2008 Lebanon Now, Darat al Funun, Amman
2009 Shenzhen fast food, Beautiful Heart at OCAT, Shenzhen, China
2009 Tirana Biennial
2010 GLÜCK happens.. at the Städtische Galerie Erlangen (2010)
Foreign the Museion collection and opening exhibition Peripheral vision and collective body (2008), she produced the work Gio Ponti, Paradiso Delegate Cevedale.
