Panos Aprahamian in conversation with Han Nefkens (EN)
Han Nefkens joins Panos Aprahamian, recipient of the 2024 Han Nefkens Foundation - Museu Tàpies Video Art Production Grant, for a screening and conversation on his new short film More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water (2025). Set in Beirut’s former quarantine district of Karantina, the work navigates a blend of documentary realism and speculative fiction to evoke memory, toxicity, and survival within the city’s fractured urban fabric.
PROGRAMME
19:00 I Screening More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water
19:30 I Conversation Panos Aprahamian & Han Nefkens
Panos Aprahamian, More Spilled Blood Than Drinkable Water, 2025, 19 min, English spoken.
BIOGRAPHY
Panos Aprahamian (b. 1986) is a Berlin-based unfiction filmmaker, media artist, and writer from Beirut's peripheral rustbelt. Through language, image, and ritual, his practice explores the spectral presence of the future past in undead bodies, sacrificial landscapes, and social relations. He studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts London, graduating with an MA in Documentary Film in 2015. Aprahamian was a scholar at Caspian Arts in 2015 and a fellow at Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program between 2017 and 2018. He is the winner of the Ecumenical Prize at the 2022 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, recipient of the Eliza Moore fellowship for artistic excellence in 2024, and the Han Nefkens Foundation—Museu Tàpies Video Art Production grantee for the 2024–2026 cycle. Between 2019 and 2021, he taught at the American University of Beirut in the Fine Arts Department and the Media Studies Program.
Han Nefkens (Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1954) is a writer, art collector, and art patron based in Barcelona. What started in 2001 with the purchase of a video installation by Pipilotti Rist has grown into a collection of contemporary art consisting of photographs, videos, installations and paintings that is lent as ‘promised gifts’ to several museums in the Netherlands. In 2006, Nefkens established the Han Nefkens Foundation that supports emerging and mid-career video artists by financing production and providing them with an international platform through its collaboration with, up until now, more than sixty art institutions worldwide, including the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, MAXXI in Rome, the Singapore Art Museum, M+ in Hong Kong, MUAC in Mexico City, the Bass in Miami, MACBA, the Museu Tàpies and the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Nefkens’ reflections, inspired by encounters in his daily life, can be found at hannefkens.com