Ziad Antar was born in 1978 in Saida, Lebanon. He obtained a degree in Agricultural Engineering in 2001 and has been working with video and photography since 2002, and lives between Paris and Saida. Antar’s work is held in a number of international institutions including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the FNAC Centre (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain). His work has been exhibited around the world including the Palais de Tokyo Paris La Triennal and The Sharjah Art Foundation in 2012, as well as The New Museum New York in 2009.

Ziad Antar’s short films evoke a world in conflict through a playful tone. In the Aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon War, Ziad Antar produced a short film entitled La Marche Turque. The image shows the hands of a pianist playing Mozart’s partition, while the sound is hammered, reminding the one of bombings. In 2002, Antar had directed a documentary film devoted to his mentor, the photographer Jean-Luc Moulène.

In 2000, he acquired a 1948 Kodak Reflex and 10 rolls of black-and-white film that had expired in 1976. He began using this outdated material, producing a blurred and almost abstract effect on his photographs. One of the photographs depict Walid Jumblatt and supposedly evokes the danger the Lebanese Druze leader faces after having criticized Hezbollah and the Syrian regime.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2014 

Expired, Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon sur Saône, France

Safe Sounds, curator Francois Cheval

Safe Sounds, La Criée centre d’art contemporain,  Rennes, France, curator Sophie Kaplan

2012 

Expired, galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

Portrait of a Territory, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, E.A.U. curator Christine Macel

2011

Expired, Selma Feriani Gallery, Londres, R.U.

2009

Terres de pommes de terre, galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

2007

Sweet Eye, Ein Al Hilwé Refugee Camp, Saïda, Lebanon

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COLLECTIVE EXHIBTIONS

19 rue de Saintonge, galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France 2013

Ici, Ailleurs (Here, Elsewhere), Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France 2012 ,Une approche méditerranéenne, MAC, Marseille, France

Art is the answer, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Bruxelles, Belgique

La Triennale – Intense Proximité, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FranceChkoun Ahna, Carthage Museum, Tunis, Tunisie 2011

Blockbuster. Cinema for Exhibitions, MARCO, Mexico City, MexicoCollector, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Lille, France

Big Brother. L’artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France

Towards the Social Landscape, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Chine

Une approche méditerranéenne, 54ème Biennale de Venise, Palazzo Zenobio, Venise, Itaie

The Future Generation Art Prize, Victor Pinchuk  Foundation, Pinchuk Art Centre, Venise, Italie

The Future of a Promise, Contemporary Art from the Arab World, événement en parallèlede la 54ème Biennale de Venise, Magazzini del Sale, Venise, Italie

Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, E.A.U.

Live Cinema / In the Round, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie, U.S.A.

Suspended Spaces. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2010

Morality – Act VI: Remember Humanity, Witter de With, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

Trust Media City Seoul. Seoul Museum of Art. Séoul, Corée du sud

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COLLECTIONS PUBLIQUES

Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

British Museum

FRAC Alsace, France

Nadour Collection, Allemagne

Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Zurich, Suisse

Dakis collection

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MONOGRAPHIE

Ziad Antar, Portrait of a Territory, Sharjah :  Sharjah Art Foundation; Actes Sud, 2012

Beirut Bereft, ziad antar and rasha salti The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict 

Performing Images, Liban : Edition Group Med, 2005

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CATALOGUES

Blockbuster. Cinema for Exhibitions, Mexico City : Marco, 2011

Au Centre Pompidou, Paris : Édition Centre George Pompidou, 2006

12345678, Paris : Édition Palais De Tokyo, 2004