Edwin Nasr

Edwin Nasr (b. 1994) is a writer and curator from Beirut, now based in Berlin. He was Curator at CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts (2021–23); Assistant to the Director at Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Beirut (2018–23); and a Curatorial Program Fellow at de Appel, Amsterdam (2021–22). His research is broadly concerned with art and archival practices’ engagement with histories of the anti-colonial left, as well as their propensity to render carceral violence legible. Nasr has co-organized exhibitions and public programs at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUCEM, Marseille; Bozar, Brussels; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Quai Branly Museum, Paris; and the Singapore Art Museum. Recent writings have appeared in Afterall Journal, Bidoun, n+1, The Funambulist, Spike Art Magazine, e-flux Criticism, Mada Masr and Mousse Magazine as well as in exhibition catalogues published by the Sharjah Art Foundation, Portikus Frankfurt, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and Grazer Kunstverein. He is currently working on a short book tracing the intellectual and affective afterlives of left militancy in Lebanon following the conclusion of the 1975–90 civil wars.