Abbas Sbeity — Artistic & Curatorial CV
Born 1991 in Beirut, Lebanon
Based in Helsingborg, Sweden
for Strategy & Facilitation work - check my work at creativeinsights.studio
Cultural Management
Curator, Kulturrummet, Helsingborg, Sweden
Designer, Creative Insights Studio AB, Sweden
Project Lead, Söderscen, Helsingborg, Sweden
MENA Design Research Center
Beirut Design Week 2015
Beirut Design Week 2016
Beirut Design Week 2018
Beirut Design Week 2019
Architects for Change
Hivos
Internews
MitOst
Goethe-Institut
Artistic & Research Projects
2026 Green Living Room - Climate Narratives & Everyday Ecologies
2025 Here Together Exhibition
2025 Design for Urban Change Toolkit (Method Toolkit)
2025 Unfolding Arrival - Part of Resonant Field — A CuratorLab Festival
2023 Southern Sweden Design Days (2023) – Malmö, Sweden (product design)
2021 Play: a third space experiment – Malmö, Sweden (installation
2020 Design for Urban Change: Researching Urban Activism in Beirut
2019 Ideas for the City Exhibition & Forum
2018 Beirut Design Week – Playing with the City (public intervention)
2017 Beirut Design Week – Confess (installation)
2017 Youth Engagement in Beirut (2017) - Architects for Change
2016 Reimagining Tarik Jdide: Participatory Urban Research
2014 Mapping Al-Bachoura: Evictions Narratives
2018 Human-centered Design for Crisis Response
Spatial Design
KED
Goethe-Institut
HIVOS Beirut Offices
Academic Teaching
American University of Beirut (AUB) - Center for Collaobrative Design - Guest Lecturer
HDK-Valand - Embedded Design (MFA) – Guest Lecturer
Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts (ALBA) - Global Design (MA) Lecturer & Jury member, Design Theory and Design Management
Education & Research
Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2025-2026)
CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm (2025)
MA in Design, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA), Lebanon
Bachelor of Architecture, Lebanese University, Lebanon
Courses
Konst som social omvandling; S:t Sigfrids folkhögskola - 2025-2026
Contemporary Arts & Politics / Summer course (15,0 hp) / HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg
Courses are part of the MSc. Urban Studies (45. hp) / Malmö University - 2022-2023
Residencies
2023 New Urban Practices – Co-Create in Veszprém Veszprém, Hungary.
2021 Artist-in-Residence at Skånes Konstförening
2017 Designer-in-Residence at GroundWork New Orleans
2016 AA Visiting School Jordan
2015 Maltepe University
Awards & Grants
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2025
2025
2021 Tandem 360 (Mitost) - Grant Recipient & Participant
2021 Creative Force Grant Recipient (Swedish Institute)
2017 Mideast Creatives (Hivos) Mobility Grant
2017 Goethe-Institut Moving MENA Mobility Grant
Conferences
2025 Placemaking Week Europe
2025 Living Neighborhood Trencin
2019 Urban Art - Lund University
2018 TEDxBAU
2016 European Development Days