Marseille Project Gallery started as an art project by us, Lira Kay and Daniel Kanaan, to create and show our own expansive contemporary artwork in the new house, where we moved in March 2008: painting, sculpture, photography and film.

Very soon project was joined by other artists we new back from London and also our new artists friends in France and USA.

From September 2008 our house will become an open studio gallery space for local and international artist to collaborate, discuss creative process, share they experience and show artwork. Basically everything we do now anyway is going to be open to a public.

We are planning to run projects as they come. Though outdoor film screenings and sculpture and painting exhibitions are going to be a regular, once a month events.

Our first project is called Housewarming as it is our first invitation to the wider audience to take part. We looking forward to meeting everybody we know and making new friends.

We believe opportunities come as you ask for them. So come and join us, you'll be always welcome as a collaborator, viewer or a patron.

As curators of our house-gallery space we seek to develop and encourage experimentation and dialogue in contemporary art practice, provide exhibition place for new art and artists, emphasise the important role that artists play in shaping our visual language and our communities.

We consider international exchange to be essential to both making and appreciation of the contemporary art.

We want to make the world beautiful and happy place to live, starting from as little as our own house, garden, our lives.