Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli was born in 1970 in Palestine, where she lives and works. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home. It deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics.

Solo exhibitions
2013 Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (ES); Jeu de Paume, Paris; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (PT). 2010 Ahlam Shibli: Trauma, Château de Sédières, Clergoux (FR). Ahlam Shibli: Why did you leave the forest empty!, Darat al Funun—The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman. 2009 Ahlam Shibli: Wydomowienie, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

Group exhibitions
2015 la terre nous est etroite, regards croisés sur la palestine, Le 19 CRAC, Montbéliard (FR). Formes biographiques, Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR). Uncovering History, Camera Austria, Graz (AT). 2014 Progress and Hygiene, Zach?ta, Warsaw. Outside the Archive, Qalandiya International II: Archives, Lived and Shared, Society of Ramallah Federation Palestine, Ramallah. We are Living on a Star, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (NO). 2013 Three True Stories, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena (IT).

Publications
Ulrich Loock (ed.), Ahlam Shibli: Dependence, Ediciones Originales, Barcelona 2013.
Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home, exh. cat. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Jeu de Paume, Paris, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013.
Ahlam Shibli: Go there, Eat the mountain, Write the past, exh. cat. Darat al Funun—The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman 2011.
Ahlam Shibli: Trauma, exh. cat. Peuple et Culture Corrèze, Tulle 2010.
Adam Szymczyk (ed.), Ahlam Shibli: Trackers, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Basel, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2007.

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