Mohamed Abusal
Mohamed Abusal
Mohamed Abusal was born in 1976 in Gaza. His work as a visual artist is to highlight the reality of the daily life of Palestinians, while offering alternative and optimistic visions of a better future. Although a graduate in finance and management, he retrained as an artist in 2000 and attended many workshops and has undertaken much research to develop and refine his artistic skills. Since 2000, he has worked at a prolific rate producing daring and innovative work which has attracted great publicity and garnered much critical acclaim. Projects have included Metro in Gaza (2012) and Shambar (2013) –concepts comprising installations, designs and photographs– that deal with the reality in besieged Gaza and envisioning a brighter future –a future that is not only plausible but a fundamental human right.
In 2002, he participated in the creation of the artist collective Eltiqa, which was presented at the Documenta in Kassel in 2022. In 2005, he received the prestigious Charles Aspry Prize for Contemporary Art. He has a long experience of collaboration with the French art community. A former laureate of the Cité des Arts in Paris and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, he exhibited at the Institut du Monde Arabe in the exhibition "What Palestine brings to the world" in 2023. In 2021, he co-founded the Hawaf collective, which is developing a virtual museum for Gaza, the Sahab Museum. Mohamed Abusal is an Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residence at IREMAM - AMU & MUCEM.
He is one of the founder of Hawaf and Sahab Projects.
He participated into “A Place to Be” at Palais de Tokyo in 2024.
