Bassam Kyrillos is a Lebanese sculptor who lives and works in Byblos, Lebanon. His body of work encompasses both the monumental and the figurative, demonstrating mastery in a variety of media, including unconventional bronze and aluminum casting techniques, as well as the incorporation of industrial materials.
His recent work delves into the stories of place through cycles of destruction and regeneration. Bassam Kyrillos creates sculptures of an alternate urbanity, a place bearing witness to its history while simultaneously regenerating itself, inhabiting the border zones between devastation and renewal. These structures bear the scars of conflict while also bursting with organic potential, searching for survival strategies that are essential to the continuation of life.
Bassam, a Ph.D holder at the University of Sorbonne, has exhibited both locally and internationally, most notably at the Sursock Museum in Beirut and several International Biennales, including the Islamic Biennial in Iran and the Alexandria Biennial in Egypt. He has taken part in several group exhibitions and art fairs in Paris, Moscow, Hong Kong, Basel, Dubai, and Beirut. Bassam has been a professor of fine arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut since 2001.