Maria Kassab

Maria Kassab is a Lebanese interdisciplinary artist, she studied Communication Arts and Fine Arts at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. She is currently based in Berlin and completed her Master of Art in Photography at the BTK Arts & Design University Berlin, in 2022.

Kassab’s work mainly focuses on the political and cultural climate in Lebanon and the MENA region using photography, image manipulation, and video work as her dominant mediums. Her work has been exhibited internationally, notably in Beirut, Paris, Washington DC, Copenhagen, Brussels, Palermo, and Berlin. Her artworks were published in international and local art magazines. She is currently researching contrasting visual languages while exploring different mediums such as painting and drawing. Maria says: “when I look at the work, I realize there is a continuity regarding the exploration of the self and what surrounds it, the following themes such as displacement, traumatic memories, or social issues always navigate in my world. They are never dissociated but rather, they build themselves consistently more like a thread of events using multiple mediums connecting them in the overall “