Category: Sculpture
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Sonia Kacem (*1985) lives and works in Geneva, where she earned a master’s degree from the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD) in 2011. She has won numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leenard’s Cultural Grant (2023), the Zurich Art Prize (2022), the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize (2015), the Manor Art Prize (2014), and the…
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Alla Abdunabi (b. 2001, Freiburg) delves into the potential existence where all matter, organic or inorganic, possesses a soul realised through sculpture and installation. Central to her artistic methodology is the utilization or production of fragments, assembled to construct a sense of wholeness, whether rooted in factual events or products of the imagination. Her practice…
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Manal bint Murshed Al-Harbi, who holds a PhD in sculpture in 2009, as the first Saudi sculptor to obtain a master’s degree and a doctorate in this field. She also obtained a high diploma in ceramics and polymer sciences from the Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland, in 2013. Manal bint Murshid Al-Harbi, who…
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Born in 1960, Katya A.Traboulsi is a Beirut based multimedia artist whose practice is characterized by the emotional intensity with which she confronts the effects of the Lebanese civil war. Both her painting and sculptural works are characterized by her bold use of color, which disrupts the viewer’s expectations of the dark subject matter they…
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Wafa Al Qunibit, an artist and trainer, earned her master’s degree from Savannah University in 2016, specializing in General Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), along with an Online Master of Business Administration from Columbus University. With over seven years of experience in various art forms such as carving, engraving, printing…
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Mona was born in Beheira Governorate (Egypt), and her childhood was simple, which crystallized with her going to the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek in Cairo and living alone during that period, where she began to see herself and the surrounding world in a different, confrontational way. After Mona finished her academic studies and…
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Rawan Abbas (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She has participated in many shows where she exhibited textiles, sculpture, installation art, and video. Notably, she participated in the Dak’art Biennial in 2022, London’s 1-54 Art Fair with Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2021, and had two solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany…
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Nessrin Hassan, born on July 30, 1977, in Alexandria, Egypt, is an artist and a member of the Fine Artists Syndicate since 1999. She is known for her captivating works in mural paintings, reflecting a profound connection to her roots and a keen exploration of diverse cultural themes. Nessrin has left an indelible mark on…
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Born in 1992 in Bizerte, Asma Ben Aissa lives and works in Tunis. In her work, Asma is fundamentally interested in the landscape as an aesthetic concept, where experimentation serves her art. Her work explores themes of habitat, transmission, architecture, interior and exterior spaces, social transformations, and local heritage, echoing the relationship between environmental construction…
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Rima Rezaiguia simultaneously pursues her career as an architect, managing an engineering firm, and her work as a visual artist. Born in Annaba in 1985, Rima Rezaiguia joined the Higher School of Plastic Arts in Nord-Pas de Calais and graduated with a DNAP in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in Annaba and Algiers. “This…
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(1932 – 2018) Jumana El Husseini was born in Jerusalem on April 2, 1932, to Jamal El Husseini and Nimati al-Alami, members of two prominent Jerusalem families. On her father’s side, her links to Jerusalem extended back to at least the 13th century. She had six brothers and five sisters, including Serene Husseini Shahid, and…
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1916 – 2017 Born in 1916 in Ain el Mreisseh, Beirut, Lebanon, Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians. Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values. When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair’s mother,…
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Nevine Farghaly is an Egyptian artist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Applied Arts (1997) as well as both a master’s degree (2001) and a PhD (2007) from Helwan University where she is currently a professor. Farghaly produces work on various scales, small works that include tens of intricate pieces are not…
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(1940 – 2022) Laila Shawa was born on 4 April 1940 in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine, eight years prior to the 1948 Nakba and the founding of the State of Israel. Shawa was well educated; she attended boarding school at the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute in Cairo from 1957 to 1958, then went to the…
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Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans from photography, video, sculpture to architecture and multi-media installations. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth, memory, socio-political narratives and the…