Top Emerging Artists in Beirut

A look at five creative voices shaping the city’s contemporary art scene

Beirut continues to be a city where creativity thrives despite the challenges. A new generation of artists is redefining what it means to create and express in Lebanon today. They’re not just responding to the moment, they’re building something for the future. These five names are worth knowing.

1. Batoul Yaghi

Based between Beirut, London, and Miami, Batoul is a self-taught painter whose abstract works feel deeply intuitive. Her “Mindscapes” series explores the space between emotion and thought through fluid movements and strong color contrasts. She’s gaining attention for her ability to turn raw feeling into refined visual language.

2. Mounira Al Solh

Mounira works across drawing, embroidery, video, and performance. Her projects often touch on themes like migration, identity, and memory, grounded in personal stories and real conversations. In recent years, she represented Lebanon at the Venice Biennale and continues to exhibit internationally while staying connected to the Beirut scene.

3. Ad Achkar

Ad is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in photography and installation. He’s best known for highly personal and conceptual self-portraits that explore space, identity, and transformation. His work often mixes traditional photography with found objects and digital manipulation, creating images that are both grounded and surreal.

4. Alfred Tarazi

Alfred’s art is focused on collective memory and how history is recorded. He uses photography, digital collage, and sculpture to reconstruct and reinterpret Lebanon’s past, especially the Civil War. His large-format prints and immersive installations have been shown in Beirut and across Europe, where they’ve sparked conversations about legacy and identity.

5. Ali Cherri

Ali blends film, sculpture, and research to examine archaeology, monuments, and the politics of preservation. His work questions how we represent history and what we choose to remember. He won the Silver Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale and has exhibited widely in Europe and the Middle East. His practice is as intellectual as it is visual.

Why These Artists Matter

What ties them together is their commitment to pushing boundaries, both in medium and message. Whether through painting, installation, or moving image, they’re all deeply engaged with the questions shaping Lebanese art today.

If you’re looking to discover what’s next in Beirut’s creative scene, start with these five. And if you’re an artist working in Lebanon, we want to hear from you. Submit your work to ArtBei and be part of the conversation.