Jacqueline Béjani

Jacqueline Béjani is a French / Lebanese / Palestinian artist born in Beirut. She lives and works in Luxembourg. After studying in atelier met de Penninghen and Ensad Paris, she joined the Ecole Nationale des Beaux arts of Arlon in Belgium. Her mother is from Haifa Palestine, her father from Ras Beirut and she has a Syrian grand mother from Aleppo, hence, feels a strong middle eastern belonging, bringing together these rich diverse origins. Palestine is a land that she has never been able to visit. Her mother was barred going from going back to her home even just to collect her belongings.

Béjani wants to maintain this very strong Palestinian heritage. With this series of portraits of prominent Palestinian characters, she would like to show that Palestinians had, before the Nakba (eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in 1948) and today, a very lively cultural life spanning all the fields that can be representative of a civilization.

These portraits are part of a larger series of more than fifty paintings. It’s a chance to experiment with several techniques with different outcomes expressing the diversity of these, often very different, individuals, yet, part of a same body, building a unique identity, the only rules being to use the colours of the flag and to stay in the same format. 

She also makes videos, collages, mixed media paintings and ceramics.

Béjani has participated in several shows in Luxembourg, Belgium and the United States.  She was selected as one of the artists of the year in Luxembourg in 2020 and 2021.