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/ Naoko TakaHashi / Tarek Al Ghoussein / Youmna Chlala & Jeanette Gaussi /
Our 2010 Wall Calendar is out! The 2010 wall Calendar features images of the Jerusalem Show 2009 event. Size 23 cm x 30 cm Price: 25 nis including postage Design: Palitra UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: Ezzdine Qalaq poster exhibition / Masarat Palestine Opening: Friday January 29 at 6pm at Al-Ma'mal


Preview our Blog! Current writer-in-residence Valerie Grove working hard : preview our blog http://almamal.blogspot.com/ coming up.... The Jerusalem Show 2010 ('Ala Abwab Al Janna) Opening Friday October 1, 2010 Further information will be posted soon


Youmna Chlala & Jeanette Gaussi HOME SWEET HOME We are delighted to host artists Youmna Chlala and Jeanette Gaussi currently participating in our artist-in-residence programme developing their project Home Sweet Home HOME SWEET HOME is a collaborative multi-city art project by Youmna Chlala and Jeannette Gaussi that was initiated in 2009 in the village of Shatana, Jordan. Our understanding of home developed simultaneously in Beirut and Kabul and these notions have shifted based on personal and politically temporal and disruptive movement. The project serves as an exploration of the spatial relationship between memory and imagination. Special Thanks to Goethe Institute, Ramallah for their sponsorship.


Naoko TakaHashi A Tale of Two States Opening Exhibition at Al-Ma'mal Thursday March 19th at 19:00 in the presence of the artist www.naokotakahashi.com The exhibition is in partnership with The British Council and Ford Foundation A Tale of Two States is an exhibition of the project produced during and through the artist-in-residence program at Al-Ma'mal Foundation in 2007. The title of the show borrows its name from the novel written in 1859 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens, of a story about two cities, Paris as the dangerous place and London as the (temporarily)safe spot, during the French revolution. This fictional novel shows social revolution and personal self-sacrifice, a conception of rebellion and human nature. The project focuses on 'real' and also power relationship within the society through social interaction. Although the project does not have direct relationship to the narrative in the novel itself, and it relates more to the problematic environment in Palestine, they speak about the two states, two authorities, one as 'repressed place' and the other as 'protected place'. - Naoko TakaHashi


The Jerusalem Show October 11- 21, 2009 the Jerusalem syndrome curated by Nina Montmann and Jack Persekian The title of this years' Jerusalem Show, Jerusalem Syndrome, serves as a metaphor for approaching the many facettes of a contested city divided by occupation and ethnic-religious segregation. Opening on Sunday, October 11^th, 2009 Performance: Phil Collins, Al-Ma'mal Foundation, New Gate, Jerusalem, at 5pm Tour: starts from Al-Ma'mal Foundation at 6 pm Reception: Austrian Hospice, Old City of Jerusalem, at 9 pm contact us for a full programme calendar Supported by: Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family, Consulate General of Belgium in Jerusalem and The Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC), Bohen Foundation, British Council, Consulat G�n�ral de France � J�rusalem, Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Ford Foundation, Goethe Institute - Ramallah, Palestinian Investment Fund, Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Jerusalem Unit, Sociedad Estatal para la Accion Cultural Exterior (Seacex), Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) - Jerusalem, The Representative Office of Canada to the PA Exhibition curated by Nina M�ntmann and Jack Persekian Artists</FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Jumana Emil Abboud, Nevin Aladag, Ayreen Anastas + Rene Gabri, Samira Badran, Taysir Batniji, Nathan Coley, Collaboration Around Micro Politics Mumbai (CAMP), Phil Collins, Kajsa Dahlberg, Andrea Faciu, Issa Freij, Raouf Haj-Yahia, Sandi Hilal + Alessandro Petti + Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mahmoud Hojeij, Khaled Hourani, Maider Lopez, Ken Lum, Sliman Mansour, Olaf Nicolai, Ria Pacqu�e, Wael Shawky, Ala� Younis Performance <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Tarek Atoui, Phil Collins, Dora Garcia, Suheir Hammad <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> Sound Project <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">curated by Federica Bueti in collaboration with RAM, Radio Arte Mobile, Rome (Italy) <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Artists</FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Elisabetta Benassi, Riccardo Benassi, Alvin Curran, Etienne Chambaud, Liam Gillick, Christina Kubisch, Brandon La Belle, Tris Vonna Michell, Carsten Nicolai, Cesare Pietroiusti, Vettor Pisani, Annie Ratti, Michael J. Schumacher, Valerio Tricoli, Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone, Achim Wollscheid How I Have Missed You� Film Program I co-presented with ArteEast, curated by Rasha Salti Films by Maher Abi Samra, Ghassan Salhab, Mohamed Soueid and Akram Zaatari We Are Never Heroes Film Program II curated by Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili Films by Johan Grimonprez, Ann Marie Jacir, Mustafa Abu-Ali, Jean-Luc Godard, Elia Suleiman Walks & Tours in Jerusalem organized by the Center for Jerusalem Studies � Al Quds University Collaborating institutions A.M. Qattan Foundation, Anadiel Gallery, ArteEast, Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family, Center for Jerusalem Studies - Al Quds University, College des Freres, International Academy of Art Palestine, Palestine Development and Investment Limited (PADICO), RAM - Radio Arte Mobile, Rome, Riwaq Biennale, Shabaka - Network of Arab Cineclubs, Spafford Children�s Center, The Jerusalem Hotel, The Tile Factory, The Swedish Christian Study Center, Venice c/o Palestine, Versavee Caf� - Jerusalem The Jerusalem Show: The Jerusalem Show is an annual art exhibition presenting works of Palestinian and international artists held in the Old City of Jerusalem for a period of ten days. The Show highlights works that reflect the importance of the city of Jerusalem as an artistic, cultural, political, and social city. A pilot Jerusalem Show (edition 0), was undertaken successfully in October 2007 and a subsequent edition 0.1 took place from July 9-19, 2008 under the theme of 'Walks in the City'. The Show includes a program of events that is comprised of guided tours, film screenings, artist talks, workshops, and performances that all take place in different venues throughout the Old City.


Al-Ma'mal Summer May 15 - July 15, 2010 Martin Lebioda, Al-Ma'mal's current artist-in-residence. My work concentrates on a single human moment that I look for in the streets of large cities - I try to show on what we usually might only passingly be familiar with. I am focusing on the collective and individual staging of acts of remembrance. Diary workshop: in cooperation with Spafford Center. "In the workshop "Diary" I try to encourage students to adopt a way of conveying a conglomerate of emotions that others can follow and relate -in the form of photo-essay in their own visual language." - Lebioda With the support of Goethe Institute, Ramallah. www.martinlebioda.de


Tarek Al Ghoussein Tarek Al Ghoussein - In Absentia September 3 - 24, 2009 An exhibition of photographs that explore an identity shaped by inaccessibility and loss Opening: Thursday September 3rd, 6pm - 9pm at Al-Ma'mal, New Gate, Old City, Jerusalem in cooperation with The Third Line, Dubai http://www.thethirdline.com sponsored by Ford Foundation and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE http://www.sharjahart.org Above image: Untitled 2 (Self Portrait Series), 2002. Courtesy of the Artist and The Third Line About Tarek Al-Ghoussein A Palestinian - Kuwaiti photographer based in the UAE, much of Tarek Al-Ghoussein's work exposes an identity shaped by a context of inaccessibility and loss, his fabricated landscapes providing a foil for the experience of exile. In many of his works the artist is dwarfed by a vast desert landscape, reconstructing allegories for the obstacles, barricades and walls erected in the Occupied Territories. Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait in 1962. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Photography from New York University in 1985 and four years later a Master of Arts-Photography from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He has exhibited extensively in Germany, France, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, the United States and across the UAE. Al-Ghoussein participated in the first ever UAE Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, as well as in Dubai Next at the Vitra Design Museum in 2008 and in the 2003 and 2005 editions of the Sharjah Biennial. Al-Ghoussein�s work has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, the Royal Photography Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark and the Sharjah Biennale Collection, UAE among many others. Al-Ghoussein lives in Sharjah, and is an Associate Professor of photography at the School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). His work is represented by The Third Line in Dubai. <P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: kashida; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; TEXT-KASHIDA: 0%"> Artist Statement In the last ten years while living in the United Arab Emirates I have witnessed tremendous change that has challenged my understanding of what is meant by the term identity. Since 2003 I have explored various aspects of identity through my work, and the rapid transformation of the UAE has been a catalyst and starting point for an investigation into issues related to my own personal relation to land and place. The anonymity of the desert has offered the perfect stage for the investigation. The Self Portrait series represents a commentary on contemporary Western media representations of the Palestinian as terrorist. This project started as a result of my growing frustration with the way in which the Palestinians and other Arabs were being (mis)represented in Western Media. The Untitled A and B series are both concerned with barriers, land, longing and, ultimately, belonging. During the process leading to these images, it became increasingly clear to me how barriers, land, longing, and �identity� inform, shape and define each other. As I attempt to come to terms with the issues related to my personal experience as a Palestinian-Kuwaiti that has never lived within the borders of Palestine, it has become apparent that this current body of work seeks to transcend the obvious reference to the unethical defense barrier being constructed in Palestine. The walls and mounds that appear throughout the images also speak of my own individual struggles irrespective of the conventional notions of national identity. The C Series is an extension of the same themes, however this series departs from these defining/confining concepts and instead focuses on visualized ideas of transience. Although I did not set out to investigate the notion of transience, my work has developed from a process of exploring ideas related to land and place. While unexpected, the strong emphasis on longing led to a consideration of changing landscapes and ephemeral moments that are fixed in time rather than located in a specific place. The D Series continues the exploration by examining the relationship between the subject and space, particularly the relationship between the solitary figure and the temporary boundaries that define a place. The series has allowed me to explore how the individual both affects and is affected by space. *Tarek Al-Ghoussein*


The Jerusalem Show, 2009 October 11- 21, 2009 the Jerusalem syndrome curated by Nina Moentmann and Jack Persekian The title of this years' Jerusalem Show, Jerusalem Syndrome, serves as a metaphor for approaching the many facettes of a contested city divided by occupation and ethnic-religious segregation. Opening on Sunday, October 11^th, 2009 Performance: Phil Collins, Al-Ma'mal Foundation, New Gate, Jerusalem, at 5pm Tour: starts from Al-Ma'mal Foundation at 6 pm Reception: Austrian Hospice, Old City of Jerusalem, at 9 pm Venues: Al-Ma'mal Foundation, Nicola Zaphiriades' shop, Gallery Anadiel, Versave Cafe, New Imperial Hotel, Swedish Christian Study Center, Austrian Hospice, Spafford Center, Padico, Jerusalem Hotel, Birzeit. Open Daily from 6-9pm. Please contact us for a full programme calendar. Thank you to our sponsors: Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family, Consulate General of Belgium in Jerusalem and The Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC), Bohen Foundation, British Council, Consulat General de France Jerusalem, Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Ford Foundation, Goethe Institute - Ramallah, Palestinian Investment Fund, Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Jerusalem Unit, Sociedad Estatal para la Accion Cultural Exterior (Seacex), Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) - Jerusalem, The Representative Office of Canada to the PA Exhibition curated by Nina Moentmann and Jack Persekian Artists: Jumana Emil Abboud, Nevin Aladag, Ayreen Anastas + Rene Gabri, Samira Badran, Taysir Batniji, Nathan Coley, Collaboration Around Micro Politics Mumbai (CAMP), Phil Collins, Kajsa Dahlberg, Andrea Faciu, Issa Freij, Raouf Haj-Yahia, Sandi Hilal + Alessandro Petti + Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mahmoud Hojeij, Khaled Hourani, Maider Lopez, Ken Lum, Sliman Mansour, Olaf Nicolai, Ria Pacquee, Wael Shawky, Ala Younis Performance: Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Tarek Atoui, Phil Collins, Dora Garcia, Suheir Hammad Sound Project curated by Federica Bueti in collaboration with RAM, Radio Arte Mobile, Rome (Italy) Artists: Elisabetta Benassi, Riccardo Benassi, Alvin Curran, Etienne Chambaud, Liam Gillick, Christina Kubisch, Brandon La Belle, Tris Vonna Michell, Carsten Nicolai, Cesare Pietroiusti, Vettor Pisani, Annie Ratti, Michael J. Schumacher, Valerio Tricoli, Stephen Vitiello, Luca Vitone, Achim Wollscheid How I Have Missed You Film Program I co-presented with ArteEast, curated by Rasha Salti Films by Maher Abi Samra, Ghassan Salhab, Mohamed Soueid and Akram Zaatari We Are Never Heroes Film Program II curated by Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili Films by Johan Grimonprez, Annemarie Jacir, Mustafa Abu Ali, JeanLuc Godard, Elia Suleiman Walks & Tours in Jerusalem organized by the Center for Jerusalem Studies Al Quds University Collaborating institutions A.M. Qattan Foundation, Anadiel Gallery, ArteEast, Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family, Center for Jerusalem Studies - Al Quds University, College des Freres, International Academy of Art Palestine, Palestine Development and Investment Limited (PADICO), RAM - Radio Arte Mobile, Rome, Riwaq Biennale, Shabaka - Network of Arab Cineclubs, Spafford Children�s Center, The Jerusalem Hotel, The Tile Factory, The Swedish Christian Study Center, Venice c/o Palestine, Versavee Cafe, Jerusalem


\| 30-10-2008 To 15-11-2008 Walks in the City An art exhibition featuring art works of youth who participated in art workshops conducted by Al-Ma'mal, in cooperation with Burj Al-Laqlaq Community Centre and Relief International. With Jawad Al-Malhi, Mario Rizzi and Jumana Emil Abboud. Opening: Thursday, October 30th, at 18:00, at Al-Ma'mal, New Gate. Exhibition runs until Saturday, November 15th. Open Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 16:00 and Saturday from 9:00 to 13:00; Sunday closed. This project is made possible thanks to the generous grant from the Pontifical Mission and the Society for Austro-Arab Relations. Image: Angela Ford The works exhibited at Al-Ma'mal are results from youth art workshops. Two of these workshops, a photography workshop with Jawad Al-Malhi, as well as a painting workshop with Jumana E. Abboud, were implemented in the framework of The Jerusalem Show, 2008, edition 0.1, which was held under the theme of 'Walks in the City'. The three videos featured were produced by groups of youth in a workshop with Mario Rizzi in 2006 who produced projects under the theme of the city of Jerusalem. The workshops were conducted in cooperation with Burj Al-Laqlaq Community Center, Jerusalem, and Relief International.


\| 11-12-2009 To 10-01-2010 Never Part Masarat Palestine Curator: Jack Persekian Opening: Friday December 11, 2009 18:00 at Al Ma'mal Foundation


\| 03-05-2010 To 27-05-2010 Ode to Beirut & Sarhat Falastiniyya al-Ma'mal is honoured to be a 2010 Palestine Festival of Literature partner The Palestine Festival of Literature & al-Ma'mal Foundation in cooperation with Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre present Ode To Beirut III artworks by Rachid Koraichi opening Tuesday May 4 at 6:00pm followed by: Sarhat Falastiniyyah a staged reading from Raja Shehadeh;s Palestinian Walks presented by the New Hakawati Theatre Company (reading will be in Arabic) All are welcome! ‏Exhibition: Ode to Beirut   Curated by Misbah Deeb    Ode to Beirut was inspired by Mahmoud Darwish's poem of the same name, written during the Israeli invasion and siege of Beirut and published in 1984 in the collection Praising the High Shadow. Kora�chi and Darwish donated the paintings, Ode to Beirut, to the permanent art collection of the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah  . Three different arts organizations, the Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah, al-Ma'mal Foundation in Jerusalem and Dar Annadwa in Bethlehem are simultaneously exhibiting Ode to Beirut as part of PalFest 2010 Rachid Koraichi graduated from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Algeria, and three other art institutes in France. His works have been exhibited since 1970 in various museums and galleries around the world. Some of his artworks are part of the collection of prominent art institutions in the world such as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cairo, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, the Miami Art Museum and the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, New York.


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