Raed Yassin (b. 1979, Beirut, Lebanon) is an artist and musician. He  lives and works between Berlin and Beirut. He graduated from the theater department at the Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2003, and since then has developed his conceptual practice through multiple mediums such as video, sound, photography, text, sculpture and performance. Yassin’s work often originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within a collective history, through the lens of consumer culture and mass production. In 2015 the artist was awarded a research fellowship at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne.

Raed Yassin has exhibited and performed his work in numerous museums, festivals and venues, including 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2026, “In Minor Keys” curated by Koyo Kouoh; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); Stedelijk Museum (Amserdam); Castrum Peregrini (Amsterdam); Kunsthalle Wien; ICA, London; Gwangju Museum of Art; Castello Di Rivoli, Turin (all 2014); The Running Horse, Beirut; Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels; 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art; Singapore Art Museum; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Beirut Art Center (all 2013); New Museum, New York (2012); Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2014 & 2011); Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki; Sharjah Biennial 10; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2011); Delfina Foundation, London (residency 2014 & 2010-2011); Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010). Awards and Grants: Sharjah Art Foundation Project Fund (2014), Abraaj Group Art Prize (2012), Fidus Prize (2009), AFAC grant for production (2010), YATF grant for production (2008 & 2012) and the Cultural Resource grant for production (2008). Yassin is one of the organizers of IRTIJAL Festival, and has released 14 music albums and founded the production company Annihaya in 2009. He is also a founding member of “Atfal Ahdath”, a Beirut based art collective.

As a musician, he is one of the organizers of the Irtijal Festival for Experimental Music (Beirut), and has released several solo music albums, as well as part of groups such as “A” Trio and PRAED. In 2009, he founded his independent music label Annihaya.