Category: Countries
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Emna Zghal is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She was trained in both Tunisia and the United States and has shown her work in both countries and beyond. Her images of vast imagined spaces echo the patterns of nature and their infinite variety. And while the colors of her paintings, drawings and prints are surreal, they…
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Hela Lamine, born in 1984, is a Tunisian multidisciplinary artist and a teacher at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. She lives and works in Tunis. Since 2010, she has been developing a hybrid practice that centers around the human being and what they consume: food, social networks, politics, culture, tradition, identity, and…
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Self-taught artist, Khedija Essaied Jeddi (1976), looks at the world through the eyes of an eternal child. The artist uses her sensitivity to subjects, some of which are recurring in her reflection, to deliver narrative work, mixing texts, embroidery, painting and pastels. Her artistic work is constructed and fleshed out mainly around issues that are…
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Born in 1994 – Based in Tunis Harrabi is a visual artist, editor, documentary filmmaker and cultural practitioner. After several experiences in different cultural media in Tunisia as a journalist, video creator, chief editor and communication manager, she found her path in audiovisual collaborations with artists and young artistic collectives in Tunisia and abroad. In…
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Wiame Haddad (1987) is a Tunisian, Moroccan and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work takes on the scope of a photographic and cinematographic study, constituting ethical and formal research. This research is…
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Born in Istanbul in 1961, Gonul Nuhoglu is an accomplished Turkish artist who currently resides and works in Istanbul. Her educational journey began at Boğaziçi University, where she pursued Management, graduating in 1983. Subsequently, she expanded her academic horizons by completing her studies in English at Marmara University in 1988. In 2023, she further enriched…
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Gözde İlkin (b. 1981, Kütahya) uses painting and stitching to create works on repurposed domestic fabrics. Solo shows include The Eye of the Earth, The Mouth of the Ground (2022); Entrusted Ground, artSümer, Istanbul (2022); The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer,…
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b. 1985, Dubai, UAELives and works in Dubai. Latifa is a Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Zayed University with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences in 2007. She obtained the Emerging Artist Fellowship by the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation in partnership with Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 in the…
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Hanan Abdullah Salem Bahamdan is a portrait painter who has exhibited all over the Middle East and Europe. In 2005 she became Sotheby’s first female Saudi artist when her oil portrait painting Mannci sold at three times its top estimate, at the auction house’s first sale of modern and contemporary Arab and Iranian art. Thus,…
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Born in Lebanon in 1978.Lives and works between Beirut and Marseille. In 2005, she won first prize in photography at the 5th Francophone Games. She was also awarded the No Limit prize at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles in 2006, an international prize which rewards an artist whose work takes photography beyond the boundaries of the…
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Born in 1996, Rahma Lhoussig is a visual artist from Taroudant, Morocco, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan. Rahma’s artwork is characterized by a captivating blend of animals, everyday objects, and nature. Her compositions emanate a familiar atmosphere, where dissonant elements coexist harmoniously. Animals, flowers, insects, and tools intertwine, creating a…
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Nagham Hodaifa’s work explores the human condition through the representation of the body and/or by its disappearance. She includes questions such as intimacy/desire, inner/physical, nature/pollution, threshold/ending, birth/death and the notion of what we leave behind to nature. As a painter, she creates using various materials and different techniques. Her painting materializes on different scales: on…
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Safadi was born in Majdal Shams (The Occupied Golan Heights) in 1982, and is based in Ramallah. She is a visual artist, a tutor and a founding member of Fateh Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture in Majdal Shams. Safadi, a visionary artist born with a palette of creativity, has woven an inspiring narrative through…
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Samia Muhammad Khashoggi was born in 1958 in the city of Abha (Saudi Arabia). She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Montfort University, Leicester and a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Kingston University in Britain. She is an artist, curator, researcher and educator. Khashoggi is the first Saudi woman to work as…
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Ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and multimedia installation, the artistic practice of Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine) imbues forms, techniques, concepts, and spatial constructs that define Arab culture with contemporary awareness. Her work spans a variety of materials and techniques and often revolves around reinterpreting geometric patterns as a highly codified and philosophical mode…