Ashkal Alwan, The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts is a non-profit organization based in Beirut. Since its founding in 1993, Ashkal Alwan has dedicated itself to promoting contemporary artistic practice, fostering critical thinking around social realities, and engaging in community mobilization.

The organization aims to create networks of exchange between practitioners and institutions, archive cultural endeavours, provide artists support and resources for the development of their work, rethink arts education and interdisciplinary modes of knowledge production, and support civic and political initiatives.