Agial Art Gallery & Saleh Barakat Gallery

Kalache, HibaLebanon, 1972

Hiba Kalache (b. Beirut, 1972) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Kalache draws on her daily life for her materials – often extra-artistic – and process. In 2005, Kalache received a Masters of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. She has since exhibited her work in Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, New Orleans, Oakland, San Jose (USA), San Francisco, and Tehran. In 2012, she had solo shows in Beirut with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, and the FFA Private Bank. In 2017, she taught fine arts at the Lebanese American University. Her work has been shown at art fairs including Art Dubai, Drawing Now (Paris), and Gwangju Art (South Korea).

Recent group exhibitions include Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite (2018) curated by Natasha Gasparian at Saleh Barakat Gallery; Mimesis Expression Construction (2016) curated by Octavian Esanu at the American University of Beirut’s Rose and Shaheen Saleeby Museum; Heartland (2015) curated by Joanna Chevalier at the Beirut Exhibition Center; and Under Construction, Exposure (2014) curated by Marie Muracciole at the Beirut Art Center. In 2019, she produced an artist project entitled, Encounters—ongoing for Art Margins Journal, which was adapted in 2020 to an exhibition at Saleh Barakat Gallery.

VIEW Artist’S CV

a good or bad sign Considering the
state of the world, who could tell the
difference
Mixed media on canvas
150x130 cm
2020

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these were not ungraspable dreams
but a frenzy of living hours. and in
these fluid hours I witnessed wondrous
things
Mixed media on canvas
245x150 cm
2020

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our quiet rage gives us wings
Mixed media on canvas
150x150 cm
2020

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a lot of rough things happened,
begetting things even more terrible
Mixed media on canvas
174x148 cm
2020

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a lot of rough things happened,
begetting things even more terrible
Mixed media on canvas
210x150 cm
2020

Ref.#: hk_06_O

time has a way of still going,
ticking away, new things one
cannot alter, cannot get down
fast enough
Mixed media on canvas
174x148 cm
2020

Ref.#: hk_07_O

Display

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Display

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i try to be more aware of the
passing hours, that I might see
it happen, that cosmic shift from
one digit to another
Mixed media on canvas
174x148 cm
2020

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