art, where people
actually are
mabar gives emerging local artists visibility and real exhibition opportunities: in lobbies, offices, hotels and public spaces: beyond gallery glass. artists join a living directory; we stage curated art encounters in everyday places.
if a piece moves you, you tell us, and a real conversation begins. no cart, no checkout. a meeting.
mabar
nounfrom arabic معبر
a crossing point. the place where one passes through. a ford, a threshold, a passage.
the root عبر means to cross, and carries everything that crosses with it: expression, the passage of meaning from inside to outside. mabar is where the crossing happens. a lobby can be one. so can an elevator, a corridor, any wall that lets art through.
melike yildiz & myriam salah-eddine, founders