Raed Yassin

Lebanon
Raed Yassin is a Lebanese artist and musician. He graduated from the theater department at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003. Since then, he has developed his conceptual practice in multiple mediums, including video, sound, photography, text, sculpture and performance. Raed's work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. He was a resident artist at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2008-2010), the Delfina Foundation in London (2010 and 2014) and Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne (2015). He is a recipient of the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2012). As a musician, he is one of the organizers of the Irtijal Festival for Experimental Music (Beirut) and has released several solo music albums. In 2009, he founded his independent music label Annihaya. Raed currently lives between Berlin and Beirut.