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Riwaq + Al-Ma'mal
Gestures in Time is
a joint effort between Riwaq Biennale and The Jerusalem
Show. The exhibition is taking place between two urban stages,
Jerusalem and Ramallah, and four rural Palestinian villages: Ibwein,
Jamma'in, Hajjah and Dhahiriyyeh. The exhibition includes the production of
public art projects in four historic centers as well as site
specific work by local and international artists in the old city of
Jerusalem. The program also includes walks, tours, and performances in
various locations in Palestine, in addition to public talks and a seminar
on modernist architecture in the Arab world. The intervention seeks to
regain the possibilities offered by the gesture, as an intimate, social and
political phenomenon, reclaiming the polis as a theatrical stage of
individual engagement. It also envisages the gesture as a tool for
micro-resistance to reaffirm our understanding of, and existence in,
the present moment as an event. The project is generously funded by
the European Union, the Representative Office of the Federal Republic of
Germany Ramallah, the British Council, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
and Rana Sadik & Samer Younis.
A.M. Qattan
Foundation
The Young Artist of the Year 2012, The
Hassan Hourani Award, Exhibition in Ramallah and Gaza. The Award is a
biennial program that supports and promotes young Palestinian artists and
opens up new spaces and opportunities for these young artists at the
beginning of their careers. It has become the leading national
competition for young visual arts practitioners in historical Palestine and
its Diaspora. A panel of renowned and distinguished Palestinian and
international artists, curators, and professionals in the fields of culture
and the visual arts are invited to spend a week in Palestine to meet the
artists, view their artworks and make a choice for the First, Second and
Third Prize winners. The exhibition will be held at the A. M. Qattan
Foundation, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Idioms Film, The French-German
Cultural Center, Al-Mahatta Gallery, and Qattan Center for the Child in
Gaza.
International Academy of Art – Palestine
The international Academy of art Palestine will organize an
exhibition as part of an ongoing collaborative
project where designers, artists, and students both from the
International Academy of Art Palestine and Sandberg Institute work hand in
hand with craftsmen/women around the West Bank to produce prototypes for a
new collection that reflects upon the Palestinian daily life and the
relationship with objects used in the domestic context. Currently, the
project's working title is: Disarming Design from Palestine.
Al Hoash
A retrospective exhibition on Mustafa
Hallaj will be held at Al Hoash in Jerusalem. Hallaj is a late Palestinian
artist who took refuge in Syria with his family in 1948. His art included
paintings, graphics, murals, illustrations, cover designs and etchings and
was inspired by ancient Canaanite legends, folk tales, and Palestinian
cultural icons. He died in Dec. 2002 in Damascus, while trying to rescue
his works from a fire that destroyed his studio. The exhibition will
include a large and diverse compilation of his works and a film on his life
particularly produced for this exhibition.
Sakakini
Cultural Center
The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre is hosting
music bands on three different evenings of the opening week of Qalandiya
International. The concerts will be based on the participation of the
audience to reinterpret, reinvent or rewrite songs and compositions that
are popular, such as the Palestinian national anthem. The program is more
of an intervention as to make the production process transparent for
audiences, to include a cacophony of voices and make art and music sites
for play and interaction where the onlooker is implicated in the process of
production.
House of Culture And arts, Nazareth
Three events will be launched in Nazareth. The first is an
exhibition held at Mahmoud Darwish Cultural Center followed by a tour in
the old city of Nazareth. At the House of Culture and Arts the
annual Nazareth Artists exhibition will be opened. The final
exhibition to be inaugurated is the Video Dance and Text exhibition
organized by the Nazareth Festival for Modern Dance and held at Sudfa
Gallery and Restaurant to be followed by an evening of music and food.
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