Anisa Ashkar
Anisa Ashkar, b. 1979, is an interdisciplinary artist engaged in issues relating to identity, social critique, and gender. Through painting, photography, performance and installation, she creates a fantastic, dream-like world, directly connected to changes in the socio-political atmosphere, that serve as an opportunity to initiate discussions about society and culture.
Dana Awartani
The works of Saudi-Palestinian artist Dana Awartani are acts of continual revival, performances of contemporisation. Intricate manuscript illumination, parquetry, ceramics, and embroidery, on first encounter, to be finely wrought examples of traditional Islamic art forms.
Elias Wakeem
Elias Wakeem (b. 1991), also known as Madame Tayoush, is a queer Palestinian visual and performance artist currently based in Haifa.
Ra’fat Ḥattab
Ra'fat Ḥattab (b. 1981) is a Palestinian performance and video artist from Jaffa. Raafat Hattab makes performative and video works using language and music to explore issues of identity and belonging. His practice layers iconographies of East and West and through double meaning, collapses the two spheres. Hattab weaves emblems of folklore and tradition into an imagined community, deviating from clear-cut geographical borders.
Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Tarek Al-Ghoussein (b. 1962) is a Kuwaiti visual artist of Palestinian origin, best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture and performance art. He moves between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.