Dr. Monique Bellan
Monique Bellan works as a postdoctoral researcher in the LAWHA project. She previously worked as research associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut (2013–19) where she examined aesthetic reflection and art critique in 20th-century Lebanon and Egypt. She also worked at the collaborative research centre Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits at Freie Universität Berlin and the Performing Arts Section of the Academy of Arts in Berlin
She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and an MA in Islamic Studies, Sociology and Political Science from the University of Bonn. Within LAWHA she focuses in particular on exhibition practices, art critique and the database and digital platform (DDP).
This research was conducted as part of the LAWHA project (“Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943”), a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 850760).
