The Jerusalem Show IV – 2010 The Jerusalem Show IV (2010) was proudly implemented in partnership with The Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash Exhaustion The Jerusalem Show (‘Ala Abwab Al Janna) is a novel and socially significant visual art event that is headed and organized by Al-Mamal Foundation for Contemporary Art and this year [...]

Survival of the Fittest Curatorial Statement – Jack Persekian It takes an out-and-out crowd like this one to march for Jerusalem, and go on and on and on, year after year, here and elsewhere in the world, on Jerusalem Day (the last Friday of Ramadan), on Land Day (March 30th), on Palestine day (29th of [...]

Our main partner for the Jerusalem Show IV (2010) was The Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash Collaborating Institutions Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family Educational Bookshop French Cultural Center Gallery Anadiel International Academy of Art Palestine Jerusalem Hotel Nicola Zaphiriades Palestine Development and Investment Limited (PADICO) Radio Amwaj Sabreen Association for Artistic Development Spafford [...]

The Jerusalem Show Team Al-Ma’mal Foundation  Jack Persekian, Curator  Jumana Emil Abboud, Co-Curator, General Coordinator  Khadijeh Kanambo, Artists’ Coordinator  Lara Khalidi,Yazan Khalili, Curator film programme  Hay Daw, Administrative Manager  Reema Abu Gharbieh, Assistant  Francis Tams, Financial Manager  Lena Sobeh,Graphic Designer  Issa Freij, Director of photography  Rual Halawani, Photography  Ibrahim Antar, Technical Support  Waleed Ghosheh, Technical [...]

The three films that we present at Al Ma’mal in response to and in discussion with the theme of this year’s Jerusalem Show Exhaustion is only the beginning of an exploration that we intend to address in the coming months. All three films discuss exhausted national identities through physical exertion. It seems sports is a [...]

Uriel Barthélémi Exhaustion – triptych, 2010 (performance) Mounib Al Masri House French Cultural Center Jericho   Vlatka Horvat Once  Over, 2010 (performance) Versave Cafe The Austrian Hospice International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah   Michael Rakowitz The Breakup, 2010 (performance, flyers, radio broadcast)  The Swedish Christian Study Center Radio Amwaj   Please see individual artist [...]

Anonymous Direct Negotiations, 2007 (video) Gallery Anadiel

On the Earth, 2005 (video, 13min) The Round Eyes, 2006 (video, 6min) Nicola Zaphiriades  Ariane Michel lives in Paris where she was born in 1973, and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris). Her work has been shown in the contemporary art field (FRAC in Reims, MoMA, New York) as well as [...]

The Rider (painting) Al-Ma’mal Foundation  All works deal with the donkey rider. He is the awaited redeemer coming or returning to us, old, weary, burdened with our sins and our moans. Suddenly, he and we discover that he has been put in a dilemma that he cannot face. He is no more than a redeemer [...]

Suspended, 2007 (video 7min) Spafford Children’s Center  Born in Tehran, Iran, Bahar Behbahani is an Iranian artist who lives and works in New York and Tehran. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Painting in Tehran. Before graduating high school, she had witnessed a revolution, an eight-year war, and her country in the midst of [...]