MKM Galley presents Christine Gedeon's “A Portrait of Michel,” an investigative video portrait of Michel Saadé, the Uncle of the artist, who was abducted by the Hafez al-Assad regime in Damascus in 1978. The film researches the circumstances surrounding his fateful abduction, following hints leading to the site of three different prisons: Mezzeh, Sednaya, and Palmyra. Michel was never seen or heard from since. We are showing the entire film during the opening, inviting our guests to join a discussion with the artist who is present. Christine Gedeon, born in Aleppo/Syria and raised in the USA, is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker who lives in Berlin and New York. She is the recipient of numerous residencies, grants, and fellowships, and held various solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Dubrovnik, New York, and Toronto, among others. Gedeon's film "A Portrait of Michel" has been shown at a number of venues, recently at UnionDocs - Center for Contemporary Art in New York. This is the first public screening of "A Portrait of Michel" in Berlin. Solo & Friends exhibitions are dedicated to one single position, accompanied by the entire current ensemble of MKM artists. Christine Gedeon's "A Portrait of Michel" is accompanied by works of Walid Raad, Maryam Motallebzadeh, Chaza Charafeddine, Benyamin Reich, Ali Kaaf, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Ekin Su Koç, Emin Turan, Elisabeth Masé, Patricia Lambertus, Razan Nassreddine, Alexander Polzin, Chris Newman, Raziye Kubat, Maliheh Afnan, Katharina Karrenberg, Joseph Sassoon Semah, a.o.