Maïa Beyrouti
Material research
Glaze craft
Sculptural development
Historical and cultural contexts
Upcoming talks/events/exhibitions
June 2026
Learning how to count
talk and presentation as part of Soil Temporailities, Haus der Statistik, Berlin.
Stoneware and Olive tree ash
Text published in Gazeta do Mar. Spring 2026
Landing/Bodies lecture, reading and conversation with Kathryn Yusoff. Kindl Berlin. January 2026
Clay, bricks and rubble as sites of memory culture
Research project, Berlin. 2025-2026
Text reading & talk at Savvy Contemporary as part of Clay as Witness, a workshop by Amara Abdl Figeroa, 2025
Land, Material, Identity
talk at Lo Invisible Studio, Lisbon, 2024
Sand Portables
Sharjah Biennial 2025
Collaboration with Rossella Biscotti
Land, material, identity
Research project, Lisbon, 2024
Culture Moves Europe grant
Scultpural material research
working with materials collected and developed for various projects including bricks, rubble, oil palm ash, olive tree ash, wild urban clay, rust, and ceramic materials developed in the studio
Maia Beyrouti is a Franco-Palestinian ceramic artist and researcher living and working in Berlin. Her artistic practice focuses on ceramic materials research and glaze work, which includes image and text-based works that unpack thoughts and mechanisms around land, material and identity. As part of her practice she gives talks and glaze classes that address material narratives and how their inherent symbolic, cultural, historical, personal, and geological storylines work in constellation.
Working through the lens of collapse and accumulation. A desire to deconstruct, observe, mimic, and provoke constraints and random factors. A compulsion to break apart and re-assemble, entertain serendipity, and engage with the moevements of material.
Testimonies of absence.
An ongoing affinity for sand, its properties and ecologies. Interested in personal and collective narratives told through material found in mythology, geography, repetition, language, map-making practices and the built environment.