The Aïshti Foundation was founded by Tony Salamé in Beirut, Lebanon in (2015) and aspires to define an institution dedicated to contemporary culture, ranging from art to design, from architecture to performance; it will operate in the 21st century amid the worldwide epochal changes resulting from globalization.

The Foundation will undertake the challenge to comprehend the span of exchange of all possibile cultures from East to West. The intention is to collect, exhibit, preserve, and conduct visual research in areas on international art with attentinon to visual research in the Middle East, concentrating largely on living artists, in the fundamental moments of their contributions to our time. The Aïshti Foundation further proposes public education, endeavoring to put it’s programs in relation to the most current international research.

The collection of the Foundation consists of approximately 5000 works, of painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and works of new media. More than 300 artists are represented, and the collection includes many works which mark the first ten years of the 21st century, from 2000 to the present.

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