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Art from Heartache

Oasis Art Gallery The heartache of the war multiplies each day as the deaths pile up, as our leaders sup at laden tables and take their time to come to a ceasefire agreement, as hopes are tempered by the sheer waste and bloodshed. The eight Palestinian and Jewish artists whose work is currently exhibit in...
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Discover Abed Abdi’s Public Artworks with Our Interactive Map

We are pleased to present an interactive map that invites you to explore the powerful legacy of Palestinian artist Abed Abdi through his public artworks created between 1976 and 2025. This growing archive includes mosaic murals, monuments, environmental sculptures, and site-specific installations across a wide range of public and educational spaces.The map showcases all known...
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From 1962 to Today: Milestones in the Press and The Media Legacy of Abed Abdi

Explore the Abed Abdi Media & Press Archive – 600+ Articles, Interviews & Reviews The newly opened Abed Abdi Art Library is now live online, offering a structured and multilingual archive that traces over six decades of artistic activity, social commentary, and cultural legacy of the Palestinian artist Abed Abdi. This expansive collection contains more...
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The Abed Abdi Digital Library Now Online – A Multilingual Archive Spanning Six Decades

The newly launched Abed Abdi Art Library is now available online, offering a rich and structured digital archive that documents over 60 years of creativity, social commentary, and cultural engagement by Palestinian artist Abed Abdi. This dynamic library features more than 600 published materials—including articles, interviews, critical essays, exhibition catalog texts, and press clippings—spanning from...
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Group exhibition: “Heartache | מועקה وجَع”

We believe that this damned war must stop now. You’re invited to the exhibition “Heartache | מועקה وجَع” Opening: 4 July 2025, 15:30–18:30 Oasis Art Gallery, Wahat al-Salam – Neve Shalom Featuring works by 9 artists, curated by Dyana Shaloufi Rizek. The exhibition will remain open until September – visits by prior coordination.
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Abed Abdi in “The Holocaust and the Nakba”

In the groundbreaking volume The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, Tal Ben-Zvi’s chapter “Culture of Memory: Holocaust and Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi” explores how the visual works of Abed Abdi and Lea Grundig open a rare dialogue between two foundational traumas: the...
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Poetry and painting: The Arab visual artists who found inspiration through the timeless literature of Mahmoud Darwish

n honour of Mahmoud Darwish’s 84th birthday, we examine how the Palestinian wordsmith continues to inspire creativity in the region, even after his death Culture Rawaa Talass 12 March, 2025 March 13 marks the 84th birth anniversary of one of the Arab world’s most influential literary voices: Mahmoud Darwish. Born in 1941 and raised in...
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Auction: Middle East Modern Art / Paris

Abed Abdi is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Palestinian art. Born in 1942 in Haifa, Palestine, Abdi experienced the traumatic events of exile and loss, themes that have been central to his work throughout his career. After the Nakba of 1948, which led to the mass displacement of Palestinians, he fled his...
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Locals Nowhere: Global Histories of Labor, Art, and Migration, Summer 2024

by Tobias Rosen · Published 12/01/2024 ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews There is no there there, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt (MMK), April 13 – September 29, 2024 Global contemporary exhibitions have invented a new conceit: they have begun to locate migrants everywhere and nowhere. Both There is no there there at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern...
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Prints & Printmaking

Curated by Wafa Roz Exhibition from 5 September till 5 December 2024 The Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF) in Beirut presents Prints & Printmaking, a unique exhibition celebrating the artistry of Arab artists-printmakers. The exhibition showcases a rich selection of fine art prints on paper from the DAF collection, some of which have rarely been seen by the...
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