“A Portrait of Michel” is an investigative video portrait of the Uncle of the artist, Michel, and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious abduction by the Hafez al-Assad regime in Damascus in 1978. Through witnesses and bribery, we found out he was sent to three different prisons: Mezzeh, Sednaya, and Palmyra. Michel was never seen or heard from since.

Christine Gedeon, born in Aleppo/Syria and raised in the USA, is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker who lives in Berlin and New York. She is the recipient of numerous residencies, grants, and fellowships, and held various solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Dubrovnik, New York, and Toronto, among others.

In this exhibit, Kaaf's The Byzantine Corner is accompanied by a Couch of Scholars, and surrounded by the entire ensemble of Mnemosyne artists, such as Walid Raad, Elisabeth Masé, Taysir Batniji, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Mohamad Al Roumi, Maliheh Afnan, Joseph Sassoon Semah, a.o. 

Ali Kaaf, born 1977 in Oran, Algeria, to Syrian parents, is a widley exhibited artist. He lives and work in Berlin. 

Funny, exuberant, and disturbingly aggressive, Elisabeth Masé's The Bride opens a discourse on female (sexual) desire, and unleashed artistic creativity.

Masé's Solo is ccompanied by artists of Meine Kleine Mnemosyne: Walid Raad, Ali Kaaf, Taysir Batniji, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Željka M. Miljkovic, Ekin Su Koç, Joseph Sassoon Semah, Patricia Lambertus, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Mohamad Al Roumi, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Joseph Sassoon Semah, a.o.

Standing in the tradition of the (Jewish) salonières and the autonomous apartment exhibitions of the 1920s, 80s, and 00s in Berlin (Moscow, Beirut, Istanbul) MKM gallery invites the public to its first vernissage. Only one single work will be exhibited -  accompanied, however, by the entire ensemble of MKM artists. 

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 4-7pm



Chaza Charafeddine, born in Tyros, is an internationally exhibited writer and artist who lives and works in Beirut. www.taswir.org