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Abed Abdi's Online Art Archive

Al-Jadeed’s Guest: The Artist Abed Abdi – The Origin and Foundation of the Arab Visual Arts Movement in the Country

Issue No. 5 of Al-Jadeed Magazine, May 1991 When you meet the artist Abed Abdi and talk with him about his life and artistic activities, you feel as if you are meeting a long and vibrant history of artistic engagement—one that Abdi has been able to convey to us through the events and changes occurring...
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The Border of Peace: An Israeli-Palestinian Artists Gathering at Peace Gallery

Peace Gallery, Givat Haviva Art Center1 June, 1990 – 2 June, 1990Artists: Eshet, Pinchas  |  Gechtman, Gideon  |  Mehutan, Hava  |  Zimbalista, Ofra  |  Shimshi, Siona  |  Nachmani, Naftali  |  Kna’an, Ahmed  |  Karavan, Dani  |  Heller, Dov  |  Hefetz, Yaakov  |  Hofi, Uri  |  Katzenstein, Uri  |  Or Ner, Dov  |  Spitzer, Serge  |...
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Palestinian Expression Inside a Cultural Ghetto

Kamal Boullata In: 159 (July/August 1989) During the summer of 1986,1 spent a month in the West Bank, keen to learn for myself about the effects of Israeli restrictions on Palestinian forms of expression, particularly in the visual arts and local crafts. A quick look at different cultural products indicated that traditional aesthetic values have for...
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It’s possible : 24 Israeli & Palestinian artists unite for peace

حقا ممكن הן אפשר curators, Kamal Boullata, Yona Fischer exhibition administrator, Shulamith Koenig. exhibition catalog: Craryville, N.Y : New York Ad Hoc Committee of Artists & Writers for Israeli-Palestinian Peace “An exhibition of works on paper organized by the New York Ad Hoc Committee of Artists & Writers for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Wednesday, October 12 –...
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Haifa – Portrait of a City: Group Exhibition at Haifa Museum of Art

Haifa – Portrait of a City Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa1988Artists: Avni, Aharon  |  Avnieli, Mordechai  |  Ofek, Avraham  |  Abramovich, Pinchas  |  Uri, Aviva  |  Salama Ortar, Ilana  |  Eisenwasser Jancourt, Batia  |  Eilat, Avraham  |  Issayick, Angeline  |  Alkara, Ovadia  |  Bonneh, Shmuel  |  Bezem, Naftali  |  Bentwich, Muriel  |  Baerwald, Alexander  |...
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Group Exhibition: Haifa and Northern Artists at Haifa Museum of Art

General Exhibition of Haifa and Northern Artists Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa1985Artists: Levy (Weiller), Hanna  |  Grossbard, Batia  |  Hazan, Pnina  |  Ofek, Avraham  |  Bauman, David (Dodi)  |  Abadi, Abed  |  Peralta, Daniel  |  Karoly, Miriam  |  Rabinowitz, Noam  |  Merhav, Dina  |  Shalev, Yael  |  
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Group Exhibition: 3 Arab Artists in Israel

Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa1985Artists: Raian, Khalil  |  Kna’an, Ahmed  |  Abdi, Abed  |  
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Interview with the Artist Abed Abdi

Conducted by the artist Karim DabbahPublished in Al-Tali’a Newspaper, June 22, 1978 I was born in Haifa in 1942, where I completed my elementary and secondary education. In 1964, I traveled to East Germany to study art and enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1971, I received a master’s degree in mural...
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