Gilbert Hage

Gilbert Hage (born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1966) is a Lebanese photographer. He studied at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik and teaches there since 1990. He also teaches at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA. He sometimes collaborates with curator and researcher Ghada Waked, his wife, and is co-publisher and co-editor, with Jalal Toufic, of Underexposed Books.
Work
In 2004, he introduced Ici et Maintenant (Here and now), an encyclopedia like collection of large scale portraits of Lebanese citizens aged 18–30, all posing in the same position and looking directly at the camera.
Gilbert Hage took advantage of cell phones cameras to take shots of women’s cleavage in his series Phone[Ethics] that was part of the 2011 Rencontres d'Arles.
In the Aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon War, Hage documented buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs that were bombed, in a frontal and monumental framing.
In 2009, Gilbert Hage produced a series of Eleven Views of Mount Ararat. Referring to Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, the photos depict representations of the famous mountains in homes of the Armenian community in Lebanon.
In 2018, Gibert Hage was selected to be part of The Place That Remains, the first national Pavilion of Lebanon curated by Hala Younes at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
Publications
Here And Now (Alba University of Balamand, 2017)
Ana, Berthe, Emmanuelle...... (Underexposed, 2013)
I Hated You Already Because Of The Lies I Had Told You (Underexposed, 2013)
242cm2 (Underexposed, 2012)
With Strings Attached (underexposed, 2012)
Toufican Ruins? With Jalal Toufic (Underexposed, 2010)
Screening Berlin (Underexposed, 2010)
Eleven views of Mount Ararat (Underexposed, 2009)
Ici et maintenant (Galerie Tanit, 2005)
Beirut (Galerie Alice Mogabgab, 2004)
28 Roses b/w (Galerie Alice Mogabgab, 1999)
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Galerie Tanit, Beirut, 2017
Galerie Tanit, Munich, 2012
Espace Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut, 2012
French Cultural Center, Beirut, 2010
Espace Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut, 2009
University of Balamand, 2006
Espace SD, Beirut, 2004
Galerie Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, 2004
Galerie Tanit, Munich, 2004
Galerie Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, 2002
Galerie Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, 1999
Group exhibitions
Third Biennale of Contemporary Arab Photographers, Arab World Institute, Paris, 2019
Across Boundaries. Focus on Lebanese Photography, curated by Tarek Nahas, Beirut Art Fair 2018
The Place that Remains, Lebanese Pavilion, 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2018
Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, 2013
Katara, Doha, 2012
Foto Museum, Anvers, 2012
Subtitled-Royal College Of Art, London, 2011
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, October 2011
Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, 2011
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, 2011
White Box, Munich, 2010
Kunsthal_Rotterdam, 2009
Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2007
Casa arabe, Madrid, 2007
Institute of contemporary art, Dunaujvaros, 2007
Arabise me, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2006 -
Out of Beirut, Modern Art Oxford, 2006
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2005
Mantes la jolie, 2004
Vidéo Brazil, São Paulo, 2003
Galerie V+A, Berlin, 2002
References
External links
Website of Gilbert Hage
Lebanese photographers
Artists from Beirut
1966 births
Living people
Holy Spirit University of Kaslik alumni
Academic staff of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
Mount Ararat