Abed Abdi press archive Archives

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...

December 1, 2024ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

On Abed Abdi’s Solo Exhibition “Between Two Worlds”

Introductory text from the exhibition catalog Presented in this exhibition is an extraordinary collection of recent but unusual paintings by Abed Abdi, most of which have been created in the remote Hungarian village of Chokako. This remarkable showcase unveils captivating works of Abed Abdi, who hails from the vibrant city of Haifa in the Middle...

May 13, 2024ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive

The 82-Year-Old Artist from Haifa: “Refugeehood Has Accompanied Me All My Life”

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...

March 20, 2024ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

The Foreign Brothers / Berlin Exhibition Review

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...

March 5, 2024ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

Abed Abdi at the Albertinum in Dresden: “I call for the recognition of Palestine as a second state.”

“Appeals for Friendship between Peoples” form the fundamental motif of the Palestinian-Israeli artist Abed Abdi. His works are on display in Dresden.Sylvie Kürsten09.11.2023 | Berliner Zeitung Actually, he didn’t want to leave at all, not Haifa, and he didn’t want to feel like a refugee again. Like in 1948 when, as a six-year-old, he had...

January 5, 2024ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive

Memories of Nakba inspire Palestinian artist’s work

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...

June 21, 2023ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive

In The Month Of Ramadan, We Honour Abed Abdi

Abed is a generational talent that uses his art to be a bridge builder for peace As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, it is important to recognize the contributions of Muslim artists who use their talents to build bridges and promote peace. One such artist is Abed Abdi, the first Palestinian artist to...

March 28, 2023ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive

Haifa Museum of Art new exhibits explore physical and social interfaces

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...

August 10, 2022ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

Opinion | Israel’s Moment of Truth Is Approaching – Will It Choose to Be Jewish or Democratic?

Gideon Levy Jun. 27, 2021 12:31 AM HAARETZ NEWSPAPER On Wednesday, we’ll know whether the Knesset wants a state that is Jewish or democratic. The Knesset has no other choice but one of these two. Israel has no other real choice except one – one alone – of these two possibilities. It can’t be both,...

June 29, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

After Israel’s Jewish-Arab Unrest, Haifa Museum Opens ‘Exhibition of Healing’

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...

June 18, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInAbed Abdi press archive, Reviews

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