Artists PortfoliosRumi dalle, rola el hussein, YASMINA HILAL, AIDA HALLOUM, adrian peppe, hussein nasserdine
RUMI DALLE
Rumi Dalle is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker based in Beirut. Her practice works across moving image and photography, with a focus on intimate, narrative-driven forms that explore memory, identity, and emotional experience.
Her approach is characterized by a subtle and introspective visual language, often engaging with personal perspectives as a way to reflect broader social and psychological conditions.
Participated in group exhibitions and curated presentations including UnMasked 2.0 (Iwan Maktabi, 2022) and international platforms such as Nomad St. Moritz, with works also featured in regional exhibition contexts exploring contemporary craft and material practice.
RUMI DALLE
Rola El Hussein is a Lebanese visual artist based in Beirut. Her practice engages with contemporary image-making and material exploration, contributing to the city’s emerging art scene. Working within a context shaped by social and political instability, her work reflects an interest in perception, narrative, and the construction of visual meaning.
Exposure Program, Beirut Art Center; Group exhibition featuring emerging artists
Participation in independent and artist-run exhibitions in Beirut, within collaborative and experimental platforms
YASMINA HILAL
Yasmina Hilal is an emerging artist and full time photographer.
Hilal received her BA in Visual Media Arts, with a minor in Photography, from Emerson College. While there, she experimented heavily in the dark room, observing alternative techniques to scanning, printing, and manipulating images.
Hilal has exhibited her works in group exhibitions, including A Complex Embodiment (Los Angeles, 2021), The Chemistry of Feeling (Dubai, 2021), The Cutting Studios Annual Exhibition (Doha, 2022), Dear Moon (Beirut, 2022), Solo Exhibition: I See Me In You at MENA Art Fair (Brussels, 2023), The Age of Dystopia at Dalloul Art Foundation (Beirut, 2024), and The Material Woman at Soho Revue (London, 2024).
Her work has been featured in GQ Middle East Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, AD Middle East, Condé Nast, Jdeed Magazine, It's Nice That, Mille World, Vice Arabia, WePresent, L’Orient Le Jour, Highsnobiety, Dazed Magazine, NPR, and Another Magazine.
AIDA HALLOUM
Halloum is a painter based in Bekaa.
After earning her diploma in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in 1993, she started teaching the craft in the Bekaa and in Arsal in 1994.
Halloum’s oeuvre consists of semi-abstract representation of the nature and environment that surround her. As if painting from a window, or framed to look like it, her vibrant oil paintings portray the landscape that is around her. Reminiscent of late impressionism and early modernism, her work focuses on light and color. In fact, as a student of the renowned Lebanese painter Fatima El Hajj, her work evokes the luminescence in her teacher’s work.
The artist’s most recent body of work, moves her further into abstraction with collage works that bring out the strength of her color blocking technique further.
ADRIAN PEPE
Adrian Pepe is a Honduras-born fiber artist based in Beirut. His practice focuses on textile traditions of the Levant, working closely with local artisans to reactivate ancestral craft processes within contemporary art and installation. Through materials such as wool, hide, and fiber, his work explores themes of materiality, ecology, labor, and cultural memory, often taking the form of large-scale textile pieces, soft sculptures, and site-specific installations.
His work has been exhibited in Lebanon and internationally, including Entangled Matters (Agial Art Gallery, Beirut, 2021), Take Me Away to Better Days (Sursock Museum, Beirut, 2022), and installations in Beirut (Villa des Palmes, 2024). He has also participated in Dubai Design Week (2021), Sharjah Architectural Triennial (2024), and Beirut Design Week (2016).
Hussein Nassereddine
Hussein Nassereddine is a multidisciplinary artist living and working between Beirut (Lebanon), and Paris (France). His work in installation, writing, video and performance originates from a practice around language that builds fragile monuments - some verbal, some sonic, some tactile - rooted in collective histories and resources of poetry, ruins, construction and image-making.
His works, performances and texts have been presented in museums, biennales and institutions around the world, including the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2023), Jameel Art Center (2022), MISC Athens (2021), and Beirut Art Center (2020) among others.
His first book How to see the palace pillars as palm trees was published in Arabic in 2020 with Kayfa ta. The English translation was published in 2024.
