Exhibitions
Photo London May 2024
Photo London 15-19 May 2024 Megumi Yoshitake Sand Litehouse Gallery proudly presents an exhibition at Photo London 2024 Somerset House showing photographic images from Japanese photographer Megumi Yoshitake. Yoshitake first visited Syria on her own in 1987. When she got married, in 2001, she spent her honeymoon there, and in 2009 when her son [...]
Photo London May 2023 Stand D08
Litehouse Gallery is delighted to announce our participation in the internationally acclaimed Photo London Fair 2023 We will be representing Kazakhstani photographer Julia Flit who will be exhibiting twelve images from her series titled Protean Visions Flit’s work is testament to the whimsical and the ethereal. Flit plays with the fluidity of water, orchestrating and [...]
ACROSS NORTHERN SYRIA Antique art, artefacts & embroidery (10-19 Sept ’22)
ACROSS NORTHERN SYRIA Antique art, artefacts & embroidery 10-19 September 2022 The Silver jewelry pieces on show date back around hundreds of years and are notable examples of a long-standing Jewelry tradition from the home of Syrian silversmithing in Northern Syria. The influences they represent are there to be read, the influence Northern [...]
VELVET SOCIETY: Power and Glamour in 90s Damascus 23June – 23July 2022
VELVET SOCIETY: Power and Glamour in 90s Damascus Heba Al-Akkad and Raghad Mardini in dialogue 23rd June-23rd July 2022 Litehouse Gallery is honoured to present Velvet Society, an exhibition displaying the creative acts of survival in fashion and fabric of two Syrian women, civil engineer Raghad Mardini and artist Heba Al-Akkad. The 90s fashion [...]
ART IN THE AGE OF NOW 20 May 2021 – 06 June 2021
FULHAM TOWN HALL 20 May 2021 - 06 June 2021 Preview 15 May 2021 {{ vc_btn: title=Back+to+Exhibitions&align=center&button_block=true&custom_onclick=true&link=url%3A%252Fexhibitions%252F%7C%7C%7C }}
Syria at Christmas Lines of Communication 12 December, 2020
12 – 6pm Saturday 12th December 2020 St Anne's Church, Soho, 55 Dean Street, London In this illuminating speech, the Director of Litehouse Gallery, Raghad Mardini speaks about the ideas behind the Syria at Christmas exhibition. She opens her heart about her personal journey from Syria to London, and acknowledges the importance of Art and [...]
“Home through the Artists Eyes” 9-10 October 2020 London
Litehouse Gallery presents Home Contemporary Stories Through Artists’ Eyes 9th – 10th October 2020 At the Freeman Foundation, 235 A Portobello Road, London W11 1LT This pop-up exhibition is an immediate response to the recent tragic blast in Beirut’s port that destroyed thousands of houses, leaving thousands of Syrian and Lebanese people homeless. The exhibition [...]
Colours of Syria 14 March, 2019 London
The pop-up art exhibition 'Colours of Syria' presents the awe-inspiring natural landscape of Syria in glorious colour. The paintings and collages on display are infused with the essential beauty and energy of this country. Meanwhile, drawings and photographs in rich tones and darker shades give expression to the inner resilience of Syrian people. Malva’s painting [...]
Armenia Art Fair 11-14 May, 2018 Yerevan
We are participating with five Syrian artists, Heba Akkad, Shadi Abu Saada, Adel Daoud, Fadi Hamwi, Semaan Khawam. besides promoting three individual Syrian Artists: Hasko Yousef, Adel Daoud and Farah Azrak {{ vc_btn: title=Back+to+Exhibitions&align=center&button_block=true&custom_onclick=true&link=url%3A%252Fexhibitions%252F%7C%7C%7C }}
Homes, Syrian stories through artists’ eyes 05 May 2018 Milano
05.05.2018 – 20.05.2018 Spazio delle culture – Khaled al’Asaad The cultural association L'Art9 together with the London-based Litehouse Gallery present the artistic festival "Homes. Syrian stories through artists' eyes designed to give forms and voice to Syrian culture beyond the borders of origin. In Syria, since 2011, the civil war has caused 5 million refugees. [...]
Syria: A Living History Through Artists’ Eyes 12 Feb 2018 London
Showcases the work of 14 Syrian artists. An amalgamation of their individual responses and perspectives to the chaos and distress of our time, the exhibition explores the depths of personal grief, and the capacity of the human spirit to love and hope in the face of the abyss. Participating Artists: Adel Daoud Mohamad [...]
Reflections opens in Paris with “Art et Champagne” event at Damasquino 9 September 2017
Reflections: Our Touring Exhibition Reflections, after London and Japan, took place in Paris at Damasquino 9-23 September 2017 featuring nine emerging Syrian artists. {{ vc_btn: title=Back+to+Exhibitions&align=center&link=url%3A%252Fexhibitions%252F%7C%7C%7C&button_block=true&custom_onclick=true }}
Through Artists’ eyes – Contemporary Syrian Art 11-14 July 2017 Japan
Nara-Japan 11-14 July 2017 Through Artists’ Eyes is an amalgamation of individual perspectives threaded together by the chaos and distress of the time. In their own ways, they deliver strong messages to the communities around the world and offer an exclusive insight into the reality of life in the times of conflict. An Exhibition parallel [...]
Reflections exhibition at Arab British Center 22 June 2017, London, UK
Reflections: A collective exhibition showcasing, for the first time, contemporary artworks by seven talented emerging artists from Syria, who are all currently displaced from their homes. Farah Azrak, whose collages were being exhibited, was present and spoke about her experiences in London, Amsterdam, Turkey, and Beirut. Along with this, a screening of the trailer of [...]
Art for Refugees 26 February 2017 EBRD, London
A fundraising event for the ECHO100 Plus Austrian charity providing solace to refugees arriving in Greece. The event was held at the UK headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where its attendees had an exceptional chance to be enchanted by an award-winning Lebanese storyteller, Alia Al-Zougbi, talented and innovative Syrian kanun player [...]
Celebrate Syria/ Westminster University 26 February 2016
“Celebrate Syria” event is a multi sensory experience of Syrian art, music and food, organized in collaboration with University of Westminster in London on February 2016 showcasing the works of three of our artists : Digital works by Akram Halabi " Cheek ", Hazem Hamwi " The Last Fifteen minutes in the life of a [...]
Syrian Art in Hard Times, Collective exhibition 15 June 2015, Villa Paradisso Beirut
Collective Exhibition and Book launch Beirut at Villa Paradiso in Gemayze on 15 June 2015 with UNHCR. {{ vc_btn: title=Back+to+Exhibitions&align=center&button_block=true&custom_onclick=true&link=url%3A%252Fexhibitions%252F%7C%7C%7C }}