Category: Countries
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Sarah Richani, originally from Lebanon, is a full-time artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2018. Richani works with mixed media including collage techniques, textural pastes, metal erosion and uses oil, gouache or acrylic paint on canvas or cardboard. In her art, she tackles topics related to philosophy, psychology, and society. She graduated in Fine Arts…
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon. 1945Works and Lives in Los Angeles, U.S.A Born into an Armenian family, artist Seta Manoukian grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She began to draw at an early age and won the first prize in an art competition organized by the Italian Embassy at the age of seventeen and was sent to…
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Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983 in Lebanon. She lives and works in Paris and Beirut. She graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and was an artist in residence at Van Eyck, Maastricht and Cité des arts, Paris. She is one of the four artists selected to be part…
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Yara Chaalan is an emerging artist currently pursuing her master’s in fine arts in the Netherlands. With a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Lebanon, Yara has developed a strong foundation in painting, utilizing various mediums such as oil and watercolor. Yara’s artistic journey is characterized by a unique approach that merges her own body…
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Btihal Remli ( b. 1987, Germany out of Moroccan descent) is a visual storyteller focused on art and documentary photography. Based in Morocco, where her family is originally from, Btihal explores stories related to identity, religion and belief, gender and socio-cultural representation in her home country. She has also attempted to convey the juxtaposition between…
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Born in 1973 in Meknes (Morocco). Lives and works in Marrakech. Ghizlane Sahli embroiders, sculpts and draws. She tells of an interior and organic journey, carried by a universal dimension. With the help of ancestral techniques and the know-how of the women artisans who surround her, she develops her contemporary ideas. Together, they create three-dimensional…
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Artist statement: The history of my practice is overwhelmingly informed by my status as a hybrid migrant, a condition associated with second generation migrants. My father is Syrian, my mother Swiss and I was born in Morocco. I am therefore African .The transient nature of my evolution as a person and as an artist opened…
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Jamila Lamrani graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan in 1998. The artist likes to vary techniques that support her work but space remains her favored tool. She constructs it with from a fragile architecture made from dark fabrics evocative of the secret recesses of memory, she builds infinite layers of shadow…
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Khadija El Abyad is multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Agadir. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts, (Tétouan 2017) and holder of a Master’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Engineering at FLSH Ben M’Sik (Casablanca 2019). Her plastic practice is essentially built around BODY SCREENS in various dimensions: the…
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Mariam Abouzid Souali bears witness to contemporary social, geopolitical, and environmental challenges on local, global, and universal scales. Her recent works immerse us in the world of childhood and the Olympic Games. However, her characters navigate through strange landscapes: containers, highways, mining fields, industrial ports, and many other symbols of overexploitation, climate crises, and migrations.…
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Oumayma Abouzid Souali is a young Moroccan artist, born in 1997 in Rabat. She is currently based between Tetouan and Casablanca. She obtained her Art Diploma in 2021 at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan (INBA). She has experimented with different mediums, including performance, drawing, printmaking, installation, video art, photography and singing. She…
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Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, performance, embodiment, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Yasmine’s films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Tunisia, the US, the UK, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the…
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Born in 1992 in Rabat (Morocco), Yasmine Hadni studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art Villa Arson in Nice, then earned a master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is primarily a painter, while also exploring other forms of expression including video, drawing, sound and printmaking. Her works demonstrate technical…
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Art is her life journey! A Palestinian, born in Jerusalem, currently living in Dubai. Her modern abstract and Religious art is A Call for Peace, from the Holy Land to the Holy Land to all the ends of the earth. Her Hometown Ramallah, Palestine where she lived till age 21, had a great impact on…