Published in Radio Haifa by Omer Mozer 20 March 2024 / translated from Hebrew Dozens of paintings fill the studio of 82-year-old artist Abed Abdi in Wadi Nisnas. One of them, standing alone in a corner, distills 65 years of artistic creation intertwined with his personal story.“This is the landscape of my childhood: the exit...Continue Reading

Originaly published in German in Junge Welt, Aus: Ausgabe vom 05.03.2024, Seite 11 / Feuilleton By Gerhard Hanloser. From the perspective of the Global South: An exhibition at the Berlin House of World Cultures about good and bad experiences with the GDR No, this GDR exhibition is not a “West German invention.” It is not...Continue Reading

Abed Abdi, 81, is a Palestinian visual artist who was expelled from Haifa in 1948 and returned three years later. By Zena Al Tahhan Published On 29 May 2023 / Aljazeera During the Nakba, Zionist militias carried out dozens of massacres and destroyed more than 500 Palestinian villages, while three-quarters of the Palestinian population was expelled...Continue Reading

New exhibits have been added that bring attention to the Haifa Museum of Art. By BARRY DAVIS The Jerusalem Post Published: AUGUST 9, 2022 22:56 Museums, by definition, are bastions of culture, the arts in general, across an ever-widening range of disciplines and schools of thought. People flock to them all over the world, enter...Continue Reading

Huge new show celebrates museum’s 70th anniversary and includes works of 128 Israeli and Palestinian artists. Palestinian artist Abed Abdi stands in front of his painting “Refugees Waiting for Their Return” (2018) at the Haifa Museum of Art. (Gil Mezuman) (The Media Line) When he first set out to organize a large-scale exhibition of Israeli...Continue Reading

Abed Abdi interviewed by Selections art magazine Taking up this issue’s theme of ‘The Diary of an Artist in Confinement Interesting Times’, Selections invited artists to share their thoughts on work, art and life in general since the beginning of the year. We guided them with the following questions: What image(s) illustrate(s) 2020 for you...Continue Reading