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Group Exhibitions

The Lost Paintings at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (Group Exhibition)

The Lost Paintings opening is just a few days away at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.We are delighted to welcome visitors to Bristol for the next chapter of The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, on view from June 19 – September 27, 2026.What began as a search for the lost works of Palestinian-Lebanese artist...
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Double Distance: Salvage and Presencing (Jaffa)

Al-Mathaneh Gallery in Jaffa invites you to the opening of the exhibition: “Double Distance: Salvage and Presencing”, Featuring the artists: Abid Abdi, Gershon Knispel, and Nardeen Srouji. Thursday, 30/4/2026 at 19:00 Al-Mathaneh Gallery – 25 Salameh Road, Jaffa. Register here: www.al-mathaneh.com/en/events/7 The exhibition examines art as a site of active memory rather than a passive...
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Group Exhibition: “The Lost Paintings” (London, UK)

The Lost Paintings: a Prelude to Return brings the forefront of contemporary Palestinian art to the P21 Gallery in London. After a successful tour in Montreal, Boston and Belfast, we are honoured to display the work of 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, and offer compelling programming around it. Tracing the memory...
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Group Exhibition “Past Through Here” in Sharjah / UAE

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Past Through Here—a student-curated exhibition, taking place on Sunday, 1 February at 11:00 am at Maraya Art Centre. Past Through Here explores the imprints of memory, movement, and transformation through modern and contemporary Arab art. Featuring paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations from the collection of...
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Group Exhibition: The Lost Paintings (Canada)

The Lost Paintings, a Prelude to Return is an imagined recreation of the last exhibition held in Palestine by Palestinian-Lebanese artist Maroun Tomb, which opened on November 29, 1947 in Haifa.  The 1947 opening coincided with the very day in which the UN approved the Partition Plan of Palestine, igniting the war and events that...
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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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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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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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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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The Lost Paintings in Conversation – a series of online panels
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The Lost Paintings at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (Group Exhibition)
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Double Distance: Salvage and Presencing (Jaffa)
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Group Exhibition: “The Lost Paintings” (London, UK)
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Conversation with an American Journalist on the Land Day Monument
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Group Exhibition “Past Through Here” in Sharjah / UAE
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Group Exhibition: The Lost Paintings (Canada)
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Recent Works

A Closed Horizon by Abed Abdi, showing two shadows standing before a territory enclosed by barbed wire.
A Fragile Shelter by Abed Abdi, showing a mother holding her three children inside a refugee tent amid destruction in Gaza.
A Cry Without Words by Abed Abdi, depicting a young man in a Gaza refugee camp with wide-open eyes and mouth expressing shock amid destruction.
Original acrylic painting by Abed Abdi depicting photographic negatives with the faces of people from Gaza against a background of destruction.
wounded figure with red background in Abed Abdi A Wounded Silence
Humanist art by Abed Abdi - A mother and her children hide in a fragile shelter during wartime, capturing fear, vulnerability, and resilience.

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