Category: Countries
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Maral Der Boghossian is Lebanese artist, born in 1976 in Paris from Armenian origin. She lives and works in Beirut and comes from a family of artists: her late mother Gulen (1951-2022) is sculptor, her late maternal uncle Haroutioun Torossian (1933-2022) is a painter and her father, a landscape painter. Their support had shaped her…
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Shayma Aziz is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work centralises and rethinks the feminine diasporic body, its representation in mythology and its multifaceted existence in the modern world. Born in Asyut, Egypt, Aziz’s artistic approach is informed by her study of ancient Egyptian art, film and international contemporary practices. She obtained her BFA in…
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Nasrin Abu Baker is a multifaceted artist who works with various media, such as installations, paintings, and video art. Her artistic expression is influenced by her use of diverse materials, such as ready-made objects, industrial materials, textiles, tar, threads, wood, photographs, lighting, and more. Her works invite the viewers to enter a unique world that…
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The famous Palestinian artist was born on March 16th 1935in the town of Jaffa in Palestine. At the age of 13, in 1948, shewas among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that witnessed the tragedy of being forced out of their homes andtowns by Jewish forces in order to create Israel. In 1959 Tamam Al-Akhal married…
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Joyce Dallal is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work encompasses a variety of media from small prints and paintings to large installations and public art. The themes that surface in her work are those of collective and personal history, migration, memory, and the evolution of contemporary cultural identity. A first-generation American born…
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Born and based in Tunis (1986), Yasmine Ben Khelil studied at the university Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. Yesmine’s approach consists mainly of re-appropriating or reinterpreting all kinds of images, objects or texts through various means (drawings, collages, installations, paintings, videos) to portray a world saturated with representations, transformed into a flow of information where past…
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Beya Othmani is an art curator and researcher from Tunisia and Algeria. Currently, she divides her time between Tunis and New York. Othmani’s recent research has been focused on exhibition histories, the construction of racial identities in art, and state-led exhibition-making practices in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Othmani is currently a CAORC/Andrew Mellon Art History…
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Olfa Feki is an architect, curator and artistic director/founder of #Kerkennah visual art festival. She has contributed to the establishment of the new generation of photojournalists of the North African shores following the Arab spring. After founding the first visual art center in Tunisia, she decided to move out to extend her experience. From project…
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Rana Beiruti is an independent curator based in Amman, Jordan. With a background in architecture, her research interests focus on studying and documenting land-based and social practices in the region, primarily surrounding topics related to the earth, material, craft, and the built environment. She has curated and designed a multitude of contemporary design and art…
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Hana El Beblawy is a curator and arts professional with a passion for promoting contemporary art, based in Egypt. With a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts from The American University in Cairo (AUC), El Beblawy has a strong foundation in artistic expression and architectural design. Driven by her passion for promoting contemporary art,…
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(1941 – 2023) Growing up in rural villages, in order to get to school, Leila Nseir would walk through impoverished communities with children, in the snow and cold. Reflecting on these memories in her work, she has been searching “for the essence behind those faces.” Born in Al-Haffah, north of Lattakia, Leila Nseir (1941) began…
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Syrian artist Shalabiya Ibrahim gained her reputation as a naïve and spontaneous painter. As soon as the viewer contemplates her paintings, a feeling of freedom and joy immediately spreads on his or her wings and fly without any restrictions or boundaries. Although her themes are earthbound and are not totally imaginative. Born in 1944 in…
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Influenced by the socio-political events of her surroundings, current events and society, artist Asma Fayoumi describes her work as having “often depicted life, events and protests around me. I often painted my obsessions, emotions, and the spirit of things. I painted Damascus, children and mothers in states of happiness and overwhelmed with emotions.” Born in…
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Born in 1994, Sarah Ben Amar started practicing photography at 17. She continued throughout her studies in English and History. She also became interested in film during that period. Her primary focus is on the relationship between the collective and the individual and how space shapes or mirrors that relationship. She has been a resident…
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The arbitrary nature of the capital’s constantly changing facades serves as inspiration for Dalila Hassanein’s work. These layers, which include graffiti, local advertising, commercial calligraphy, dates and names, serve as reminders of the city’s past and urban development. Hassanein paints portrayals of the city in her first solo show “On The Road”, where her large…