'In the Line of Fire. Miracles amidst Ruins': Gaza Biennale opens in Greece

By&nbspEuronews

Published on 21/09/2025 - 13:54 GMT+2

The Gaza Biennial is fundamentally a level for guidance and world solidarity, illuminating nan modern creation segment successful Gaza.

The Greek Pavilion of nan Biennale is called "In nan Zone of Fire. Miracles successful nan Ruins" and is now connected astatine nan Hill Art Project successful Kipseli, a bluish suburb successful Athens.

It features 30 artists from nan firing area who are exhibiting successful Greece for nan first time, reminding nan world that civilization is nan past statement of defence for nan Palestinian people.

The Biennale is being held successful 14 cities astir nan world (including New York, London, Berlin, Berlin, Copenhagen and Valencia), and is nan first awesome showcase of nan activity of young Palestinian artists.

The Greek Pavilion has selected characteristic useful that harvester artistic excellence, a pioneering creator and governmental stance to thief substance nan statement connected nan trouble of creator accumulation successful Gaza today, arsenic good arsenic to rally nan creator organization successful favour of justice.

Contemporary Palestinian creation struggles for taste endurance and emerges arsenic a unit of resistance, combining contented and invention nether nan astir unimaginable circumstances. Through painting, sculpture, photography and video art, Gazan artists toggle shape symptom into poetry, trauma into representation and nonaccomplishment into a limb of truth.

The artists participating successful nan accumulation are: Ahmed Adnan, Ahmad Aladawi, Ahmad Muhanna, Alaa Abu Saif, Alaà Al Shawa, Ashraf Sahwiel, Aya Juha, Bassel Aklouk, Diana Alhosary, Emad Badwan, Fadel Tafesh, Hala Eid Alnaji, Jehad Jarbou, Ghanem Al Den, Ibrahim Al Sultan, Khaled Hussein, Lamis Dajani Shawwa, Liza Madi, Maisara Baroud, Mary Ann Jaraisy, Maysa Yousef, Motaz Naim, Osama Naqqa Hussein, Rasha Alrayes, Ruba Mahmoud Hassan, Ola Al Sharif, Sohail Salem, Yasmeen Al Daya, Yahya Alsholy, Yara Zuhod.

The accumulation is curated by Faye Tzanetoulakou and Dimitris Sarafianos. The statement of nan Biennale is supported by nan group of artists and curators from Gaza and nan Forbidden Museum of Al Risan Hill, Palestine.

In a statement, nan organisers said nan artworks presented are made by artists who've witnessed nan worst horrors of humankind.

"Defying each challenges, artists person been working, confronting unimaginable difficulties and creating useful that punctual america that creation is basal to life and to our endurance arsenic a species."

As portion of nan exhibition, location will beryllium various talks by participating artists from Gaza and a nexus to nan forthcoming opening of nan Turkish Pavilion of nan Gaza Biennale, portion of nan Istanbul International Biennale.

Sohail Salem's "Diary successful nan Time of Genocide" will besides beryllium presented, courtesy of nan English Pavilion of nan Gaza Biennial.

"The Gaza Biennial: In nan Zone of Fire. Miracles successful nan Ruins"

The Greek pavilion accumulation runs until 4 November, 2025.