Adam Mghari
Born in Gaza in 1989, Adam Maghari is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across painting, performance, and collaborative projects. His work spans multimedia and experimental techniques. In 2016, he received formal training in drawing, engraving, and printing techniques through the Second Contemporary Arts Program at Al-Ittiqa Gallery in Gaza. Adam’s solo exhibition, Manbat, was held at the French Institute Gallery in Gaza in 2017, and in 2019, he was awarded an artistic residency at Shababik Studio in Gaza City. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the 2020 group exhibition 32 at Monot Gallery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In 2021, Adam participated in a specialized workshop on experimental arts and multiple Technologies, led by artist Raed Ibrahim and organized by Eltiqa Gallery. In 2023, he contributed to the Sahab Museum, a project by the collective Hawaf, which was showcased at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris as part of the exhibition What Palestine Brings To The World, and at the Palais de Tokyo, also in Paris.
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Sliman Mansour
Sliman Mansour, born in Birzeit in 1947, is one of Palestine’s most emblematic artists.
Marked by the occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem in 1967, his works bear witness to the pain of loss and the resilience of a people. Incorporating symbols drawn from Palestinian culture, such as orange trees (the land lost in 1948), olive trees (the land occupied in 1967) and women in traditional dresses, or Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock, he documents the Palestinians’ attachment to their land and the dream of return.
Since the 1970s, his art, rich in symbolism, has helped to forge an iconography of the Palestinian struggle. Among his most famous works, Jamal al-Mahamel (The Camel of Burdens) depicts a bearer carrying Jerusalem, a symbol of Palestinian identity. This image, widely distributed despite Israeli censorship, embodies the spirit of resistance. In 1987, in response to the first Intifada, he co-founded the New Visions movement, which called on artists to use local materials, such as mud or henna. It has also played a major role in structuring the Palestinian art movement, co-founding the League of Palestinian Artists in 1973 and the Centre d’Art al-Wasiti in Jerusalem in 1994, dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Palestinian art. Sliman Mansour’s work, which has been exhibited worldwide, has won him numerous awards, including the Palestine Prize for Visual Arts in 1998 and the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture in 2019.
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Raed Issa
Raed Issa is a contemporary artist born in al Breij refugee camp, Gaza, in 1975. Holding a Diploma in Computer Science from Al Aqsa University, Gaza, he is laureate of the Cité des Arts fellowship in Paris in 2011. He is founder of the Fine Art Program of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza and a founding member of the Gaza Contemporary Art collective Eltiqa. His art explores the themes of vulnerability, loss and bereavement of living under siege and war. He has been exhibited in Palestine, Jordan, Switzerland, Japan, Tunisia, Dubai, Italy, Australia, Ireland and the documenta fifteen. In Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza his homeand much of his artwork was destroyed.
“The work in this exhibition: “Jabal Al-Mahamil” carries a profound symbolism that reflects the reality of repeated displacement under harsh conditions, imposed by continuous bombardment and severe weather that destroyed the tents of the displaced. The work expresses the heavy burden borne by displaced individuals as they carry what remains of their lives amid this devastation. This piece is considered one of my most significant works, as it encapsulates the experience of displacement and human suffering in a simple yet deeply impactful form”.
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Shareef Sarhan
Currently living in France, born in Gaza in 1976, is visual artist and photographer. He is a founding member of Shababeek for Contemporary Art and a member of the Association of Palestinian Artists. Sarhan received his diploma in Art. He participated in Darat Al Funun academy in Jordan. He received the Bronze award of the Festival of Arab Photographers in 2008 and the recognition award in 2007. Sarhan produced a Picture Book “Gaza Live”, His work was exhibited in Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Amman and the United States, France, Germany and Italy.
“In the heart of Gaza, a city with countless stories etched into its walls, “Shababeek” emerged to be more than just a space for visual arts—it became a wellspring of light in a time of shadows. Established in 2009, Shababeek grew from a small seed sown amidst the hum of daily life into a sanctuary for artists, a refuge for their dreams, and a mirror reflecting their diverse identities.
Shababeek added a fresh touch to Gaza’s other face—the face that few see, a face overflowing with boundless beauty. But in April 2024, when war struck Gaza, Shababeek fell to ruin among the city’s rubble, completely destroyed. The walls that once displayed thousands of artworks turned to silent rubble, fragments of the artists’ spirits vanishing in an instant. The loss was not only in the works themselves but also in the artists who had been a living part of this space—their free spirits soaring here, proclaiming their love for this land and for life. Now, we dream of rebuilding this space—not only to restore walls but to replant hope and recover the colors that war took away. Here, art was never just canvases and colors; it was a life that resisted. We will keep dreaming, and we will rebuild because Shababeek is more than a place… it is a window onto the Gaza we love”.
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Yara Zuhod
Born in 2003 in Gaza, Palestine, Yara Zohud holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education, specializing in Graphic Design from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Recently settled in Paris, she currently studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and is devoted to contemporary art.
She has accomplished numerous artistic projects and diverse experiments, in addition to university studies in portraiture, artistic anatomy, mixed-media photography, sculpture, and ceramics. Her work is characterized by the use of dry pastels, an expressionist style, and the incorporation of installation art. She has participated in many international and group exhibitions, including the recent Gaza Biennale in Italy, Turkey, and Greece, as well as I Will Write My Family’s Testament Above the Clouds in Spain. She has also taken part in local events such as Art Sanctuary at Al-Multaqa Gallery in Gaza.
Yara also holds experience in writing, photography, and video art, as well as engraving and printmaking. Her passion lies in continuous research and development in the field of visual arts, focusing on depicting scenes from everyday life and revealing what the realistic image, as perceived by the public, does not express, transforming them into artworks that invite reflection and contemplation.
Artwork title: “In an Attempt to Survive Death” “A work that depicts the state of destruction the city endures each day and the horrific condition of its people, who live amid this devastation. There is no safe place and no sign of life—only constant flight from one place to another in search of survival, surrounded by death that haunts them like a daily nightmare, yet one rooted in reality”. (Chalk pastel on black paper, A5, 2024).
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Duaa Qishta
Born in 1991 in Saudi Arabia and raised in Gaza, Duaa Qishta is a self-taught Palestinian visual artist whose work reflectsthe human impact of war, exile, and occupation. Since 2015, she has explored themes of memory, identity, and resistance through various media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation.Her art blends realism with magical and poetic elements, creating powerful visual critiques of political and social conditions in occupied Palestine.
In 2019, she presented her first solo exhibition, Al-Awda Ice Cream, supported by the A.M. Qattan Foundation.
Qishta was awarded an art residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2019–2020), and later participated in the PAUSE program of the Collège de France (2021–2023) at ESAM in Cherbourg and ESAD in Valence and Grenoble in France. In 2023–2024, She got a diploma Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique at the European School of Art of Brittany (Lorient, France).
In this exhibition: “Doaa’s Nightmare” (Oil on canvas, 80×80 cm) Realisation by artists Duaa Qishta and Shadi Alzaqzouq.
“This painting displays the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza and shows the nightmare experienced by all Gazans, men, women and children. We also see in this painting the relationship between people and their homes, which are supposed to be a center of safety, full of dreams and memories. But unfortunately, these walls, which were blocking their memories and dreams, will become a medium through the American-Israeli war machine that bombs these homes, turning the nightmare into a reality that crushes the heads of its residents”.
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Shadi Alzaqzouq
Shadi Alzaqzouq is a Palestinian visual artist, born in 1981 in Benghazi, Libya, who returned to Gaza in 1993.
His works reflect his dual identity and experience of exile, blending realism and symbolic satire to address contemporary issues of identity, religion, politics, and diaspora.
He began his artistic journey studying classical music at the Palestinian Technical College in Deiral-Balah (2000–2002) before turning to visual arts.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Paris 8 University in 2010 and taught visual arts at the Municipal School of Saint-Denis from 2009 to 2012.
In 2024, he obtained the National Diploma of Plastic Expression from the European School of Art of Brittany (Lorient, France).
Alzaqzouq has gained significant international recognition, with solo exhibitions in France, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, and the United Kingdom. He has also participated in group exhibitions in the Netherlands, South Korea, Tunisia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Among his most notable participations is the 2015 Dismaland exhibition in Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom, to which he was personally invited by Banksy.
Some of the most important collectors of his work include the Kamal Lazar Foundation, the Dalloul Art Foundation, the Barjeel Art Foundation, and Banksy.
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Maha Daya
Visual artist and I work in Palestinian embroidery Every new artwork carries a special experience, and the strongest motivation that drives me is the material that combines influences inspired by life and memory mixed with the present and the future., also worked on a performance research project in Arabic decoration and heritage The Palestinian through repurposing these elements into a unified scene, and collecting old Palestinian dresses that are limited to the period after 1967 to the 1980s through research and recycling.
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Samia Halaby
Samia Halaby (b.1936 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian-American artist, and scholar living and working in New York. Halaby is a painter who was educated in the 1950s in USA. While her work is very much in line with American art movements she evolved with, it is consciously enriched by the history of pictorial expression worldwide. Her oeuvre is today central to the study of abstraction within both global and Arabic visual language.
In her practice, she methodically studies the textures, surfaces, and colours of her surroundings, through the prism of her ongoing theoretical studies. Looking at the effect of light on the aspect of objects around her, or creating illusions of roundness on plane surfaces, she continuously investigates how the human eye records the world. In the mid-1980s, her time as a visiting artist at the University of Hawaii marks a turning point in her exploration of motion. The constant flux she tries to capture on canvas pushes her to break free from the traditional rectangular fabric. Using the most advanced tools available to her at the time, Halaby teaches herself coding and starts in 1986 to program kinetic paintings on an amiga computer, even coding sound into several pieces. As an independent scholar she has contributed to the documentation of Palestinian art of the twentieth century. As an educator, Halaby introduced a groundbreaking undergraduate studio art program to art departments throughout the Midwest, and was the first full-time female associate professor at the Yale School of Art for nearly a decade. A New York-based advocate, Halaby has also been organizing for causes concerning class, race, and Palestine since the 1970s.
The poster in this exhibition: “𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑 𝑴𝒐𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅” was originally created in 1969-1970.
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May Murad
May Murad (1984 Gaza) is an independent visual artist living in Paris. She studied Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Her work is deeply rooted in her lived experience in Gaza and engages with the social, economic, and political implications of life under siege. Murad considers that artists from Gaza do more than express emotions or bear witness to a condition; through courage and persistence, they seek meaning—or at least a response—to an otherwise unfathomable reality.
Her artistic research addresses questions of identity, enclosure, and confinement, as well as relations of domination. These concerns resonate strongly in a contemporary context marked by repeated lockdowns and social distancing, where the boundary between action and inertia becomes blurred, and confronting oneself, one’s emotions, and solitude turns into a daily challenge. While digital platforms facilitate communication, they also have the power to suppress, transform, or trivialize emotions, diminishing intimacy, closeness, and sensory
experience. In her recent work, Murad explores disappearance as a lived condition—the fading of memories, the loss of places, and the gradual erasure of everyday life shaped by violence, occupation, and destruction. Her projects reflect on how personal and collective histories can be fractured or erased, while digital spaces and social networks increasingly mediate how memory, absence, and emotion are experienced and transmitted.
Murad has accumulated extensive experience in teaching. She has led numerous workshops with children and adults, including 2D animation, theatrical practices, painting, and craft workshops using found materials, and has participated in art therapy programs. She holds a Master’s degree in Geopolitics of Art and Culture from Sorbonne Nouvelle University, (focused on contemporary Palestinian art in times of crisis).
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Malak Mattar
Malak Mattar was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. From a family of talented cultural practitioners, Mattar started making art as a teenager during a period of open conflict (Operation Protective Edge, 2014), and she soon began to sell work online and exhibit internationally. She won a scholarship to study political science at Istanbul Aydin university (2018–22) and another to study a Masters of Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s, London, in 2023.
Soon after arriving in the UK, Mattar’s entire world was turned upside down, causing her work to undergo a dramatic shift in style, subject matter and palette. While artist-in-residence at An Effort in Central London (December 2023–February 2024), she documented the genocide in her homeland through a series of mostly monochrome drawings and paintings. She later combined these scenes into a monumental greyscale painting called No Words. This work is a testimony to the apocalyptic horror and extent of the displacement, ethnic cleansing and atrocities being ravaged upon Mattar’s fellow Palestinians: “It needs to be completely horrific,” she stated while making the work, “otherwise it will not accurately reflect the genocide.”Mattar wrote and illustrated the bestselling children’s book Sitti’s Bird (2021) based on her own life experiences, which is already in its second print run. In defiance of strict travel restrictions, Mattar has lectured in universities across the USA (2020–21) and she has had solo exhibitions in Palestine (2015 onwards); Costa Rica (2015); Great Britain (2017, 2018, 2023, 2024); Sweden (2018); USA (2019, 2021); Germany (2020); Lebanon (2021); Portugal (2022) and Italy (2022). Most recently, Malak had two concurrent exhibitions in London, and her monumental painting No Words was shown for the first time (March 2024). Her artworks have also been collected, published, and exhibited in numerous group shows worldwide. Artwork in this exhibition- title: “Children of Gaza dreaming of peace”
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Carmel Alabbasi
Carmel Alabbasi is an anti-disciplinary artist whose work investigates how colonial and patriarchal violence shape bodies, places, and identities. Their research-based and experimental practice explores loss through its material and spatial traces.
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Fadi Thabet
Fadi Thabet, a photographer and human rights activist, was born in the central area of the Gaza Strip in 1978. He believes that any work that does not serve a cause is dull work that cannot cross borders to reach the world. He is an art education teacher who works with children who have lived through the nightmares of war in Gaza, to heal their traumas through artistic expression, supporting them with guidance to overcome the effects of war and living in camps.
During the genocide, in common with his media colleagues, Thabet has faced significant risks while attempting to document events in the areas of the worst bombings and destruction, using his media skills to convey the true picture of what is happening on the ground to civilians and their infrastructure, bringing the voices of violated Palestinians to global attention. He has continued his work despite threats from the Israeli military and the dangers surrounding him.
He has been approached many times to publish his work in the Israeli press, but he has always refused, saying, “I will not search for fame and limelight at the expense of my cause, my homeland, and my Arab nationalism.”
He has won several awards for his photographs, including the gold medal in the Watani al-Akbar competition and the Abdul Razzaq Badran Award,* validating the artistic quality of his production. His work documents daily life in Gaza, the life of ordinary people, highlighting the layers of suffering during the wars and the genocide but also shining a light on moments of hope and beauty. He captures the expressions, dreams, and hopes of both children and adults in Gaza. He believes that a true photographer is one who connects with people and their issues, working to reflect their relationship with the world around them.
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Flu Hartberg
Flu Hartberg is a Norwegian cartoonist and illustrator. Part of the Dongery art collective in the early 2000s, now a well established creator of children books, graphic novels, album covers, milk cartons and many other things. Typical for his work is satiric humor and a close and twisted look at the norwegian everyday life and personnel. He is also the founder of the artistic movement working for regulation of AI and big tech, called KIKI.
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Zarina Saidova
Zarina Saidova (b. 1992, Kazakhstan) is an artist, illustrator, and comic creator based in Oslo. She works with visual storytelling through drawing, comics, fanzines, and exhibitions, often exploring symbolism, language, and nature as recurring motifs. Saidova holds a Master’s degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and is co-founder of the independent comics publisher Træsh. Her work has been exhibited at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Køsk in Oslo, and Tegnerforbundet.
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Kine Kolstad
Kine Kolstad (f.1997, Norway) is a graphic designer/ illustrator/ bartender/ støttekontakt who has studied graphic design and illustration at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She makes work that revolves around humans/our shared humanity/social matters, and is interested in how design and illustration can be used as a tool for social change.
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Viktorija Semjonova
Viktorija Semjonova is a Latvian illustrator and designer. Her work is full of colour and playful textures, focusing on capturing emotions and mundane moments of life. She draws a lot of her inspiration from diverse artistic and cultural influences. With a passion for drawing from observation, she specialises in creating illustrations for publications and products using traditional materials like gouache, pastels, pencils and printmaking. Viktorija is passionate about encouraging others to draw, she is running the monthly Bergen Drawing Club here at Isotop and has written and illustrated instructional drawing books for adults.
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João Doria
João Doria de Souza (b. 1982, Rio de Janeiro, RJ) works with the economy and ecology of graphic design applied to publishing, orbiting around interests such as mediation, tool-making, community building, science fiction and the politics of collaborative work. Through Plantas Press and Plantas Studio, he works cross-media balancing commercial, self-initiated projects, teaching and tactical fundraising.
Doria holds a BFA in Visual Communication from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art. He was a part of Fazed Grunion, sharing a residency spot at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, co-founded The Ventriloquist Summerschool together with Kristina Ketola Bore and co-founded the mutual-aid publishing network Good in Theory with Alena Beth Rieger and Ingrid Dobloug Roede.
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Adel Altaweel
Adel Al-Taweel was born in Al-Nuseirat Camp in Gaza City in 1995.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in art education in 2018, then became a member of the Palestinian Artists Syndicate.
He works as a contemporary visual artist in France (Paris).
I am currently studying at (École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts)
He is interested in humanitarian issues and seeks to archive the past linked to the present and daily life.
His methods of producing visual arts vary according to the issues he works on, including the Palestinian issue in general and the issue of camps (refugees) in particular.
His works belong to the style of engraving and graphic printing, and his sculptural and installation works with contemporary concepts.
He participated in many group exhibitions locally and internationally, and joined many contemporary art workshops from abroad, including “Contemporary Art with Nicolas Combarro. And “Contemporary Engraving and Graphic Printing” with the artist Hakim Juman.
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Hani Zurob
Hani Zurob [b. 1976 in Rafah camp, Gaza Strip – Palestine], is a contemporary artist who has been living and working in Paris – France since 2006. The artist obtained his BFA from Al-Najah University in Nablus.
In his artwork, Zurob tackles global concepts of identity, place, and memory with all their complex details that come with the states of suspension, delays, waiting, exile, movement and displacement, absence and resistance. His art transcends both borders and geography. Zurob uses different media to the extent of its literal meaning or, at times, his metaphorical understanding of these materials and in as far as it serves the concept, where allows the concept behind a particular work to determine his choice of media.
His works have been exhibited around the world and can be found in several private and public collections internationally.
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Khaled Jarada
A Palestinian visual artist and illustrator from Gaza, currently based in France. He holds a bachelor’s degree in multimedia from the University of Palestine. He has illustrated numerous children’s and young adult books for various publishing houses and has participated in several local and international art exhibitions.
In 2020, he received the “Pandemic Diary” grant from the French Institute and participated in an art residency at Shababik for Contemporary Art in Gaza. In 2021, he took part in an art residency at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome, the residency at la fileuse de reims in 2022, and in la cite du mot in 2024.
Khaled Jarada’s work, which leans toward expressionism, explores the interaction of the human body with reality, particularly the impact of siege and trauma. His art subtly reflects how these experiences shape bodily behavior and reveal the deep psychological effects underlying them.
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Magnhild Winsnes
Magnhild Winsnes lives and works in Oslo. She is trained as an animator, but in recent years she has mainly worked on illustrations for books, especially for children and young people.
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Samaa Abu Allaban
Samaa Abu Allaban, (Gaza) currently living in France, is a visual artist whose dynamic and thought-provoking creations delve into the intersections of art, identity, and humanity. Born in Jabaliya, Gaza, and holding a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Samaa explores the depths of human experience through a variety of mediums, including animation and digital tools. Her work poignantly reflects the complexities of home, the resilience of humanity, and the transformative power of oral history.
Constantly pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms to evoke profound emotional depth and provoke critical reflection, Samaa’s innovative approach to storytelling and visual representation has been showcased in several exhibitions worldwide.
In addition to her exhibitions, Samaa has illustrated several children’s books, where her distinctive artistic style merges with heartfelt narratives to inspire and educate young minds. Through her compelling work, Samaa seeks to instill a sense of wonder and curiosity in the next generation, fostering empathy and understanding for diverse lived experiences.
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Samira Badran
Samira Badran is a Palestinian visual artist. She studied fine arts in Cairo and Florence, where she met her husband, artist and photographer Jaume Serra. For many years, they made their home in Catalunya.
Through her work, Badran develops a visual language that transcends cultural and political boundaries, exposing the universality of oppression and control while also exploring forms of resistance. Her art engages deeply with themes shaped by her perception of Palestinian reality under occupation—collective memory, the body, the loss, and the land. Using a diverse range of techniques, she invites the viewer to rethink and critique. She has a deep passion for Arab calligraphy, inspired by her late father, Jamal Badran, a distinguished artist specializing in Arab and Islamic arts.
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Tiril Valeur
Tiril Valeur lives in Kristiansand and combines activism and visual art. She has both protested and drawn since she was a child, and through combining these activities she has found the point of her expression and a reason to express anything!
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Vanessa Baird
Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) lives and works in Oslo. Baird was educated at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo, Norway and Royal College of Art in London, UK. Baird is considered one of Norway’s leading contemporary artists known for her works on paper, ranging from large scale murals – to intimate series. Baird is represented in the British Museum’s Prints and Drawing Collection as well as key Norwegian collections, such as The National Museum of Norway, Stavanger Kunstmuseum and KODE. Baird has done several permanent commissions in public spaces in Norway.
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Tron Meyer
Tron Meyer is a Norwegian architect, designer and artist from Åsgårdstrand, living in Drammen. Meyer's work consists of paintings, drawings and a sculpture. -Contribution to "posters of Palestine" constitutes a small but valuable work in a larger collective movement.
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Mari Kanstad Johnsen
Mari Kanstad Johnsen (b. 1981) is a Norwegian illustrator and author. She has a bachelor’s degree in visual communications from The National Academy of the Arts, Oslo and a master’s degree in Storytelling from Konstfack University College of Arts, Stockholm.
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Kim Hiortøy
Kim Hiorthøy (born 17 March 1973) is a Norwegian electronic musician, graphic designer, illustrator, filmmaker and writer.
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Christa Barlinn Korvald
Christa Barlinn Korvald is an artist and illustrator living in Oslo. Focusing on drawing and paper-mâché, Barlinn Korvald works in galleries and theaters as well as streets and demonstrations. In 2022,with a group of three, Barlinn Korvald was awarded the Annual National Art Exhibition’s prize for the film “BBQ & Apocalypse”. “Despite the growing economy we have short arms and demand the forest back” and “Butch Don’t Cry” are the names of Barlinn Korvald’s latest exhibitions.
Christopher Nielsen
Christopher Nielsen (born 20 April 1963 in Oslo) is a Norwegian comics artist. He is especially known for his subcultural depictions. Nielsen got his first comics printed in 1980 after entering a competition in the Norwegian anarchist magazine, Gateavisa. Only three years later he got his first album published.
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Marie Payan
Marie Payan (b.1993, Montpellier (FR)) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer and workshop facilitator based in Oslo, Norway. She also runs oonda space and is the co-founder of JAM Collective & Oslo Zine Fest.
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Espen Friberg
Espen Friberg is known as an artist, designer, illustrator, cartoon creator and musician, and has received numerous awards and stipends for his work. In addition to his visual practice he has built a sound studio consisting of complex synthesizer systems and a variety of obscure electronical instruments and effect processors. He is a central person in experimental and
electronic music in Norway.
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Walaa Shublaq
Walaa Shublaq (architecture, visual artist): a 28-year multi-passionate individual seeking authenticity in her practice between art and architecture, born in 1996 in Gaza City, where she creates impactful work. Her artistic practice explores human dimensions through historical narratives, merging them with contemporary experiences to celebrate heritage and enhance authenticity. As a self-taught artist, Walaa has mastered sketching, watercolour painting, and conceptual art over the past 7 years and has led numerous workshops to share her expertise. Her work has been prominently featured in various exhibitions, including:
– ‘I Will Write OurWill above the Clouds’ in Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona (2024).
– ‘Augen aus Gaza’ in Göttingen and Berlin (2024).
– ‘Our heritage our identity’ and ‘Focal Point’ in Gaza (2022).
– ‘Waslah exhibition’ in Gaza (2021).
– ‘Ten years of sketching’ at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah (2018)
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Bendik Kaltenborn
Bendik Kaltenborn (born 1 September 1980 in Oslo) is an award-winning Norwegian illustrator, painter, cartoonist and animator. He is particularly known for his work as an illustrator and music video animator for the electronic artist Todd Terje, as well as as an illustrator for The New Yorker.
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Martin Lundell
Martin Lundell (b. 1979) is professor and head of Graphic design and Illustration at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). He is an award winning graphic designer, working mainly with books. He has recently presented and published The Molt of the Book together with Theodor Barth, a research project exploring the role of the book in Oslo’s Public Library. He is currently working on a research project together with Merete Røstad investigating possibilities in artistic research publications and publishing. Lundell has been central in establishing a publishing workshop at KHiO. He holds an MA from Konstfack in Stockholm.
Marianne Røthe Arnesen
Marianne Røthe Arnesen (b. 1986) is a painter and illustrator based in Hvitsten, Norway. She is also 1/2 of EF+MRA, a collaborative drawing practice with Espen Friberg.
Anders Kvammen
Anders Nordmo Kvammen (1985) is a cartoonist and illustrator. His debut was the comic book Ungdomskolen . An autobiographical work and a childhood story about a turbulent youth. Kvammen often dramatizes personal stories that evoke emotions that are universally recognizable. Kvammen is a storyteller of the rare and he conveys characters and captures the spirit of the times in a very unique way. His drawing style is detailed, at the same time as he simplifies the line with strong black and white contrasts. Anders Kvammen has a background from Einar Granum Art School.
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Erlend Peder Kvam
An artist and illustrator living in Oslo who likes to draw, but also likes to take photos and make sculptures.
He likes to make exhibitions and publications, and also likes to collaborate on commissions.
Born in 1994. He also co-runs the publishing project Foot Books.
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Nicolas Vittori
Nicolas Vittori (b. 1993) is an illustrator and motion designer living and working in Oslo. His visual practice expands towards the research around mark-making processes and the research of non-figuration as a tool and mode of representation to reveal a more personal approach and reading of narratives. He is currently developing investigative projects centred around publications.
Contact: +47 906 20 066
nicolasvittori.com
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Annika Linn Verdal Homme
Annika Linn Verdal Homme (f. 1997) from Kristiansand is an artist, graphic designer and musician who studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Annika lives and works in Oslo, where she’s also a part of the riso print collective “Blekkspruten”.
Annika Linn Verdal Homme (b. 1997) is a Norwegian musician, illustrator, and graphic designer. She is originally from Kristiansand, but lives and works in Oslo. Homme was educated at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo and is active in the creative collective Blekkspruten, which focuses on risograph prints.
As an illustrator and author, she has published the graphic novel Image of a Burning Tesla in collaboration with Fanny Vaager, as well as the illustrated picture book Gigabror, released in 2024. Her art and design work is known for combining a distinctive visual style with themes that challenge conventional perspectives.
Social media / instagram: @annnikalinnn
Herman Breda Enkerud
Herman Breda Enkerud (b. 1993) is a visual artist and illustrator based in Oslo. He holds a master’s degree in graphic design and illustration from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo. Enkerud works with comics, painting, and sculpture.
He has exhibited work at venues such as Tegnerforbundet (Oslo), Kunstverein Leipzig (Germany), and Studio 17(Stavanger). He has also exhibited at Paviljongen in Hvervenbukta in Oslo together with Christa Barlinn Korvald.
In 2023, Breda published the comic You Have No Power in This Situation with Foot Books. The work was also shown in the exhibition Tegnerforbundets utvalgte 2023 at Tegnerforbundet.
Link work: https://hherman.no/
Herr Kunstmaler / Amir Asgharnejad
Amir Asgharnejad (b. 1985, Iran) lives in Hønefoss and holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In recent years, he has presented solo exhibitions at venues including BO (Oslo), Agder Art Centre (Kristiansand), and Arteriet (Kristiansand). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at spaces such as BOA (Oslo), in connection with his nomination for the 2022 Sparebanken Sør Art Prize, and shown work at the Autumn Exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus twice(Oslo)
Kontakt: amirspillerfele@gmail.com
Bayan Abu Nahla
Bayan is a visual artist from Gaza born in 2001, comes from a refugee family that originated in the village of Yibna in the district of Ramleh. Passionate about paper drawing, manual techniques, comics, and digital art, she has been practicing art since childhood. She employs it as a tool to document her experiences and as a means of self-exploration. Most of her works address issues related to humanity, particularly how individuals are affected by their environment and the emotions tied to ongoing crises. Bayan Abu Nahla describes her art as an expression of sadness and the negativity resulting from war. Growing up in the Yibna refugee camp in Rafah, she was deeply impacted by the wars she witnessed during her childhood, especially in 2008, 2014, and 2021. She began her artistic career in 2019. In 2023, she organized her first solo exhibition in Bethlehem, but tragically lost some of her artwork due to the current war, along with her memories and childhood album.
“I am a visual artist, born in 2001 in Gaza, Palestine. I grew up in Rafah and spent my youth in Gaza City, where I began practicing art from a very young age. I studied Graphic Design at the Gaza Training Centre (GTC), and for me, art has always been a way to process, survive, and tell stories. After losing everything I owned during this genocide, I was forced to leave Gaza. Since then, my work has focused on documenting personal and collective memory especially the daily life, emotional weight, and psychological impact of crisis on individuals. I primarily use watercolor and mixed media on paper, often creating visual diaries, posters, and short comics. Through these mediums, I explore how environment, conflict, and emotion intertwine in the lives of Gazans. My art is both a personal reflection and an attempt to archive the resilience and complexity of life under siege”.
Instagram: bayan_abu_nahla
Whatsapp: +33 7 73 66 70 41
Mail: abunahlabayan@gmail.com
Ahmed Muhanna
About the artwork in the exhibition: “The picture does not belong to any specific person. It is a symbolic image that reflects the sense of loss and sorrow experienced by our children in the shadow of the ongoing war."
“I am the visual artist Ahmed Mahna, specializing in psychological and emotional therapy through art. I work with children in the field of visual arts and through psychological and emotional therapy through visual arts. We need your help to provide the necessary tools to work with children who suffer from fear and severe stress. I am born in 1984 in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, and currently still in Gaza. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Al-Aqsa University. Trained further in drawing, painting, and animation, and participated in an art residency at Eltiqa for Contemporary Art in 2021”.
Ahmed Muhanna´s work is exhibited in group shows at Al-Aqsa University (2002, 2004, 2006), the “Palestine Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” “Homeland Love” at Arts and Crafts Village (2017), and “Here is Palestine” at Dar Al-Ghoussein in Gaza (2020). Due to lack of materials during war, Muhanna began painting directly on cardboard aid boxes. The printed text “not for sale or exchange” on these boxes added symbolic weight to his works. His imagery often depicts daily life under siege: children carrying water, wounded kids, and moments of extreme danger. Beyond his own art, he works as an art therapist for war-traumatized children, helping them express trauma and find healing through creativity. He runs art therapy sessions in refugee camps and temporary shelters multiple times per week. Launched a fundraiser aiming to raise money for art supplies for children. His sessions help reduce anxiety and provide emotional relief.
Social media / instagram: ahmedmuhanna84
Whatsapp: 00972599629935
Sohail Salem
Sohail Salem Born in Gaza in 1974, Sohail Salem is a visual artist based in Gaza. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Al-Aqsa University↗ in 1999, where he later taught art for a year. He is a co-founder of the Eltiqa’ Group for Contemporary Arts. Sohail has participated in various residency programs, including the Summer Art Academy at Darat Al Funun, Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman, under the supervision of the late artist Marwan Qassab Bachi in 2001 and 2003. He also completed residencies at Arts Place de l'Ile in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2005, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, in 2010. Suhail’s artistic practice encompasses design, installation art, sculpture, photography, and graphic design, with a focus on capturing nature and human activities.
Despite losing large number of artworks, and still through the many stages of displacement he experienced during the war on Gaza, Sohail Salem continues to assert his presence through his drawings, crafted with fine, sharp lines on whatever sketchbook or school notebook paper he can find. These scenes impose themselves on him, compelling him to document them with all the pain and harshness often visible on the faces of his subjects. Yet, these works are not without signs of hope and life.
LINKS: Website: www.palart.ps
www.eltiqa.com
CONTACT: sohail.salem@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sohail.salem.3
Shereen Abedalkareem
Words about the artwork:
“Let me seek refuge with my homeland, it is not enough for me to survive without it!
I want to carry my home, my grandfather’s house, the mosque that my grandfather loves, my friend’s house, my university, my workplace, the cafe where my friends and I gather, the bakery in my neighborhood, my neighbors’ homes, and the hospital where I was born !…
I want to carry my dreams, my memories, my childhood, my prayers, my days, my present, my past and my future..
I want to carry Gaza but my bag isn’t enough!”
About the artist:
Holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture Engineering and Diploma of Higher Education
in Graphic Design.
Shereen’s practice combines architecture and visual arts to explore societal issues through spatial representation. Using mediums such as painting, sculpture, installation, and virtual reality, I create immersive conceptual spaces that connect material, memory, and media. Focusing on the interplay between reality and artistic interpretation, I reconstruct events and imagined spaces rooted in real memories, offering fresh perspectives on identity, place, and human experience. My work seeks to provoke thought and dialogue by pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms.
CONTACT: Whatsapp: 972595800697
Insta: @SHEREEN_ABEDALKAREEM
Mail: shereenabed1996@gamil.com
https://www.behance.net/Shereen_abed
Marie Buskov
Marie Buskov lives and works in Oslo and was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. She works with sculpture and paintings using various materials – from watercolour and tempera to stoneware, glass, bronze, and aluminum. Buskov has held several solo exhibitions, and has also completed several public art projects, the most extensive so far being Sola Church in 2020. Her works can be found in collections such as the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Lillehammer Art Museum, and the Oslo Municipality Art Collection. In 2024, she created the artwork for the Nobel Peace Prize diploma.
"Never has an A3 sheet of paper felt more important than for Posters for Palestine, and I am so humble and honoured to contribute to this project: A visual appeal for solidarity with the Palestinian people and for lasting peace in Palestine."
Kontakt: mariebuskov@gmail.com
Link work: https://galleririis.com/artists/123
Amal al-Nakhala
Words about the artwork:
This is inspired by one of the nightmare I was in,In the same day of that nightmare, I heard in the news that the Israeli army is in my neighborhood, burning loads of house of people inside of them, so when I slept, the dream that I had was somewhat between what’s real and what’s not, I was in the balcony of my house, fire was surrounding eating every living creature, I was actually feeling the heat on my face and skin; I tried to extinguish the fire with a small gallon of water, but I couldn’t, the more i throw water and the fire the more the flames rises back, my skin and my body felt way too slippery, felt though as if my skin was melting.
About the artist:
“Hello, I’m Amal, born in Gaza in 1999, and currently based in Cairo. I've been practicing art for many years, with my journey beginning from a deep desire to understand myself—what was truly going on in my mind and within me, then trying to explore the worlds within myself too, thus Art became a way to express that inner exploration. My style and ideas have always been deeply personal, focusing on raw emotions, ranging from self-doubt to guilt. While my work wasn’t initially political, the war in Gaza last October profoundly affected me. It led me to create an artistic diary that blends my writings with pieces I made during that intense period, capturing my experiences. Now, as I find myself in Cairo, my art has evolved with a new identity. It’s filled with symbolism and explores a variety of themes, with surrealism becoming a central element that feels like the perfect medium to express my vision”.
Graduate in English Literature, co-founder of Theatre Days production's Hub for youth,
participant in Novel Gaza Book - Tamer institute and trainer in the Art of comics and drawing. Trainer in Animation Workshop. Curator for an exhibit in partnership with Hat Langes Netherlands - 2023
Trainer in Comics workshop - Nawa’a institute - 2023
Contact:
Instagram: amalnakhalaa
Whatsapp: +972 56-756-2594
Email: naamal819@gmail.com
Maisara Baroud
The selected artwork in the exhibition is from the series: (I am still alive)
Maisara Baroud is a visual artist who was born in Gaza in 1976. He has worked as a university lecturer at the College of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Baroud earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Al-Najah National University in Nablus (1998) and a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo (2011).
Baroud has participated in numerous local and international group exhibitions in Palestine, France, the United States, Japan, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Qatar, Cairo, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, Kuwait, India, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Spain, and Brazil.
He has also held Seven solo exhibitions in Ramallah, Gaza, Lebanon, Bethlehem, Cairo and Algeria. Baroud’s art practice is characterized by a black-and-white dichotomy. Employing unique techniques, he endeavors to capture the essence of suffering through a human lens in his artworks. It serves as an aesthetic expression depicting the universal struggles faced by people globally, with a particular focus on Palestinian suffering. His works delve into themes such as wars, immigration, political prisoners, and illegal detention.
Baroud’s artworks are infused with emotions ranging from grief, sadness, and violence to notions of peace, hope, and freedom. They strive to portray a life intertwined with constant cycles of both death and survival.
Social media / instagram: maisarart
maisarart@gmail.com
Espen Dietrichson
Espen Dietrichson lives and works in Oslo. He was educated at Oslo Tegne- og maleskole and the Academy of Fine Art in Oslo, and works with collage/silkscreen, ink wash drawings, painting, and sculpture. He has held solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Dietrichson has also completed several public art commissions, including works for Våler and Porsgrunn churches. His works can be found in collections such as Sørlandets kunstmuseum, Haugar kunstmuseum and British Museum in London.
"I think it's meaningful to be part of this project because it's important that artists use their voices to support the most important cause of our time."
Link work: https://www.espendietrichson.com/
Ahmad Al-Adawi
Words about the artwork: : “I protect my family with whatever I have against a terrifying, merciless machine of destruction. The umbrella symbolizes my desperate attempts, which I know are futile, yet they give me the illusion of protection—a moment that might be the last to hold them close. A deeply philosophical piece drenched in despair and misery, it portrays the human struggle against forces beyond one’s control and reveals the fragility of hope amidst devastation”.
About the artist:
Ahmad Adawy, a visual artist and digital painter from Gaza, Palestine. He is the Co-Founder @cubioneers . He makes Illustrations, Animations 2D, and digital art products:
“I grew up in refugee camps and have been deeply influenced since my childhood by the daily events and the Palestinian popular struggle. My works combine cartoon art with concept art, through which I aim to express the suffering of my people and our hope for resilience and the future.
Throughout my artistic journey, I have tried to blend contemporary art styles with my own approach to cartoons and illustrative art, drawing inspiration from everyday life and the harsh conditions we live in Gaza. I create art for children and youth, to spread joy and hope, as well as to document moments of pain and resistance. For me, art is a means of expression, a way to connect with the world, and a way to leave an impact that can inspire others to hold on to hope despite all circumstances”.
Contact: Instagram: adawyahmad
Whatsapp: +972 56-755-1326
Instagram: adawyahmad
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