Walid Raad: Like a rubber rung on a ladder
Galerie Thomas Schulte•May 01, 2026 — Jun 20, 2026
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With Like a rubber rung on a ladder, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a solo exhibition by Walid Raad in its street-facing Corner Space and adjacent window space. The two installations, which largely consist of fragmentary and composited wall-based elements, activate and visually connect interior and exterior.
As in much of Raad’s practice, his artworks engage the stories and forms made possible by events of extreme violence. These stories and forms are always a blend of the personal and collective, the found and the created. His long term art project, The Atlas Group (1989 – 2004) explored the history of car bombs in the Lebanese wars, kidnapping and captivity narratives, the renaming of Lebanese waterfalls, as well as the color coding of bullets by ammunition manufacturers, among others.
Better be watching the clouds again and again sprawls over two adjacent walls in the front window space. Though it may appear cheerful at first glance, its title hints at something ominous, an attempt…
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Walid Raad: Like a rubber rung on a ladder
Galerie Thomas Schulte•May 01, 2026 — Jun 20, 2026
Press Release
With Like a rubber rung on a ladder, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a solo exhibition by Walid Raad in its street-facing Corner Space and adjacent window space. The two installations, which largely consist of fragmentary and composited wall-based elements, activate and visually connect interior and exterior.
As in much of Raad’s practice, his artworks engage the stories and forms made possible by events of extreme violence. These stories and forms are always a blend of the personal and collective, the found and the created. His long term art project, The Atlas Group (1989 – 2004) explored the history of car bombs in the Lebanese wars, kidnapping and captivity narratives, the renaming of Lebanese waterfalls, as well as the color coding of bullets by ammunition manufacturers, among others.
Better be watching the clouds again and again sprawls over two adjacent walls in the front window space. Though it may appear cheerful at first glance, its title hints at something ominous, an attempt…
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