Maïa Beyrouti
Material research
Ceramic glaze craft
Historical & cultural contexts of urban material ecologies
2026
Learning How to Count
Two-channel projection, reading and artist talk. Part of Soil Temporalities, Haus der Statistik
Stoneware and Olive tree ash
Text published in Gazeta do Mar issue 3
On Sand
Guest lecturer and materials class, Science of the Underground, Columbia University
Landing/Bodies
Reading and conversation with Kathryn Yusoff, Kindl Berlin
RECENT PROJECTS
Clay, bricks and rubble as sites of memory culture
Research project at various sites. Two channel projection, text, sculptural work. Berlin. 2025/26
Sand Portables
Sharjah Biennial 2025, collaboration with Rossella Biscotti. Material research and sculptural works.
Land, material, identity
Material research project. Culture Moves Europe grant. Lisbon, 2024
READINGS / ARTIST TALKS
Reading and artist talk. Savvy Contemporary, part of Clay as Witness, invited by Amara Abdl Figeroa, 2025
Land, Material, Identity
Artist talk at Lo Invisible Studio, Lisbon, 2024
SCULTPURAL MATERIAL RESEARCH
Response to field research with materials collected, developed using glaze and ceramic techniques. Including bricks, rubble, oil palm ash, olive tree ash, wild urban clay, rust, paving stones, and ceramic materials developed in the studio
Maïa Beyrouti is a Franco-Palestinian ceramic artist and researcher living and working in Berlin. Her artistic practice focuses on material contexts, namely through ceramic materials research and glaze work, which includes sculptural, photographic, and text-based works. As part of her practice, Maïa gives talks and glaze classes that address material narratives and how their inherent symbolic, cultural, historical, personal, and geological storylines work in constellation.
Testimonies of absence. Politics of distance. Working through the lens of collapse and accumulation. A desire to deconstruct, allow, mimic, and provoke constraints and serendipity with the compulsion to break apart and re-assemble, engaging with the movements of material.
An ongoing affinity for sand, its properties and ecologies. Interested in personal and collective material-based narratives found in mythology, geography, repetition, language, map-making practices, politics and the built environment.
