Name Michael Najjar         In 2008 Michael Najjar had his first large retrospective on view at the Museum for Photography and the Museum for Contemporary Art GEM in The Hague, curated by Wim van Sinderen. Michael Najjar’s work was part of the 2006 Venice Biennale's 10th International Architecture Exhibition, he was also included in the 9th Havana Biennale 2006 and Convergence Biennale Beijing 2007. Harald Szeemann exhibited his work in 2004 in ”the beauty of failure / the failure of beauty“ at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona.         He has also exhibited at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle Hamburg / Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Deichtorhallen - International Museum of Photography, Hamburg; Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg; Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Berlin; Goethe Institute, New York, Tuscon Museum of Art; Tucson; Science Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham; International Center for Contemporary Art, Terni; New Media Art Insitute, Amsterdam; Museum Trapholt, Kolding; FORMA International Centre for Photography, Milan; Centre pour L´ image Contemporaine; Geneva, Museo DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca; National Museum of Science, Taipeh; Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. His work is also shown frequently at international art fairs in New York, Miami, London, and Madrid.       Michael Najjar’s work is collected by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Deichtorhallen - the International House of Photography, Hamburg; Museum für Kunst and Gewerbe, Hamburg; Willy-Brandt Haus, Berlin; Sony Collection, Cologne; Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan, Sprint Collection, Kansas City; Coff Foundation, San Sebastian; Lutz Teutloff Collection, Bielefeld; Museum DA2, Salamanca; Museum CAC , Malaga; Lord Norman Foster Collection, Madrid; Ron Dennis Collection, London; and many celebrated private collectors.