Opening of the exhibition “Toxic Grounds” , featuring works by renowned Lebanese architect and artist Bernard Khoury. Curated by Yara Zein Gallery 1 February 7 – August 23, 2026 For over two decades, Bernard Khoury has stood at the edge of the discipline, refusing its conventions, exposing its hypocrisies, and rebuilding its language from the ground up. He is one of the most provocative and influential voices to emerge from the post-war Beirut. His work is not about buildings. It is about what buildings reveal when they are stripped of symbolism and forced to speak. This is his first exhibition in Iceland, and it is a confrontation. Installed across Gallery 1 at Listasafn Árnesinga, the exhibition unfolds through spatial storytelling. It offers no neutral ground. It draws you in and implicates you. Khoury tells stories others are afraid to touch. Stories embedded in terrain marked by conflict, exile, surveillance, seduction. His artistic vision gives shape to territories that resist...