مراسل حيفا نت | Haifa Net Reporter | 26/11/2021, All photo’s courtesy Haifa Museum of Art The painting that will Never Leave Haifa Last night, the Haifa Museum of Art celebrated an important addition to its art collection: an artwork by Haifa born artist Abed Abdi. A group of Palestinian and Jewish donors recently acquired...Continue Reading

This memorial monument was designed in 2022 by artist Abed Abdi and sculpted by Hatem Oweidah of Sajur, in honor of Dr. Ramzi Tufik As’ad—a distinguished Palestinian-American physician born in Nazareth in 1942 and raised in Haifa. Dr. Ramzi As’ad was among the first Arab students admitted to a major medical school in Jerusalem, and...Continue Reading

In the 1990s, Palestinian artist Abed Abdi had the honor of meeting Hungary’s first democratically elected president, Árpád Göncz (in office 1990–2000) gonczarpad.hu+11en.wikipedia.org+11teraz.sk+11. During Göncz’s presidency, Abdi gifted him a special limited-edition silk-screen print, which was installed in the presidential residence as a lasting token of their cultural exchange. Following the passing of President Göncz...Continue Reading

Success of auction house’s category sale signals hope for sector, confidence in ME art amid virus pandemic DUBAI: A month ago, no one would have imagined that their existence would soon be relegated to the place that they call home. For the latest updates, follow us on Instagram @arabnews.lifestyle The world has had to learn...Continue Reading

In the painting “Father on the Background of Displacement from Haifa April 22nd, 1948” Abed Abdi reconstructs through his and his family’s personal experience the traumatic historical event of the Palestinian people: The Nakba. In 1948, Abdi who was born and lives in Haifa, was uprooted with his mother to Lebanon, where they spent four...Continue Reading

Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Map of New Art Five continents, 38 collections, 6930 artists with 10×12 cm artworks In the current climate of arrested utopias, attacks on cultural heritage, assaults on imagination and knowledge, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton’s global art project, comes to Venice to propose an art without borders that breaks the silence,...Continue Reading