Roula Chreim

Internationally acclaimed artist, curator and founder of Beirut Art World NGO, Roula Chreim shares reasons for an ongoing theme that surfaces in her work. Between extensive traveling in her previous career and being displaced after her house was destroyed via war, “home” is a pivotal idea and crucial place that manifests from her psyche and heart in many of her works as well as in her life.
Roula paints her figures, interior scenes and cityscapes with an aesthetic that evokes Symbolism, Abstraction and German Expressionism. Some of here operatic and ballet scenes have bits of Degas in them, perhaps more in subjects matter than style. Her works retain many unique characteristics, such as her preference for abstracted human figures, buildings and compositions while her wonderful palette knife sketches are elegant, sophisticated and usually display a violin or cello, all setting a tonality of mood. Her passion for color is displayed in her artwork along with her abstractions one will find a subtle quality that exudes sensuousness at its core, layered with romantic composure and always a compellingness that exudes passion.
Collectively, her oeuvre is made up of vivid expressionistic paintings that communicate profound feelings to the v...

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Roula has curated and exhibited in Lebanon and abroad in solo and group shows, permanent collections and museums.
“Permanent Exhibitions and Auctions Locally and Internationally all year long”

Grimaldi Gallery New York, 2019/2020/2021/2022/2023
Lakefield Gallery Achill, 2020/2021/2022 /2023
ART Auction in Beirut, 2019
Gallery Rochane Christmas Exhibtion, 2019/2020
THE SATISFIED SLAVE, Vienna, 2019/ 2020
Matignon Gallery, lebanon, 2009 till 2023
Palazzo Versace Dubai, Dubai Care Auction, Emirates,2018
Riverside Gallery, Barnes, London 2018
ART Auction, Beirut, 2018
Clyde &Co Mean Awards, Dubai, Emirates, 2018
Lkefield Gallery, Achill Island, Ireland, 2017
Without Veil, Achill Island, Ireland, 2017
Curating and Exhibiting 'MUSE' , German Kulturzentrum, Jounieh, 2016
‘’A.R.T. Auction’’, Beirut, Winter, 2016
“Christmas Exhibition” Rochane Galerie D’Art, Saifi Village, 2016
‘’INTOXICATION’, German Cultural Center, Jounieh, 2016
“SME WORLD SUMMIT. Dubai” Atlatis, Dubai, 2016
“Art For Life” Le Yacht Club Beirut Gallery, Zaituna Bay, Beirut, Lebanon, 2016
”A Tribute to Lebanese Artists”, LAUMC, Beirut, Lebanon, 2015
Curating and Exhibiting, “Beirut International Art Show 2015”, Monot, Lebanon, 2015
“Riverside Gallery”, p...