Jad
Khoury

In El Khoury’s practice, ecological sensitivity, politics, architecture, and heritage come together in pursuit of healing. The medium and techniques are constantly metamorphosing in response to the serendipities and contexts he encounters. Always with a sense of urgency and site-specificity, his projects vary from static visual installations to socially engaged practices.

After his master's degree in architecture at the Lebanese University (graduated in 2016), he worked with war traces that are found on buildings of Lebanon. “Being from the first post civil-war generation, transforming accidental monuments of bitterness in the city into choreographed installations dancing with the wind, was a necessity”. A poetic method of rebelling against religious sectarianism. “Burj El Hawa” (2018) was the highlight of Jad’s war traces works that he produced before moving to Oslo in 2020 to undertake the Master in Art and Public Space at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (graduated in 2022).

His work has been shown internationally and he has received many awards such as the Arte Laguna Prize for Urban Art and Land art. His residency at Rådhuset i Oslo Atelier (Oslo City Hall Art Studio) is currently ongoing until 2024.