Al-Hawajri

Mohammed
Al-Hawajri

Art is my lungs to breathe freedom

Artist Mohammed Al-Hawajri

Mohammad Al-Hawajri, was born at the Bureij Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip in 1976. In 2002 Al-Hawajri founded the Eltiqa’Group for Contemporary Art in the Gaza Strip. Between 2008 and 2009 he received a grant that allowed him to reside at the Cité Internationale in Paris. Al-Hawajri participated three times (in1999, 2000 and 2001) in the Summer Academy which was supervised by Marwan Kassab Bash...

Artist Profile

My Painting

What I Painted

ugly - beautiful

Guernica - Gaza 2010-2013

Maryam

Artist Statement

The conditions in which I live are very inspiring to turn into contemporary works

The humanitarian situation remains dire,(what is the meaning g of dire? as evidenced by high rates of unemployment, poverty and food insecurity, while sporadic outbreaks of violence are threatening to...

Articles

Sharjah Biennial 16

Mohammed Al Hawajri, Dina Mattar and family with Ala Younis

The Documenta, Indonesia, and the Problem of Closed Universes

In June 2022, the international art exhibition, Documenta, opened to visitors in Kassel, G...

Documenta 15

In the context of documenta fifteen, The Question of Funding is creating a communal econom...

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Art does not solve all problems, but it is a good start to live a different moment

Mohammed Al-Hawajri