Tayseer Hamdan Ibrahim Al-Batniji

Личная информация

Страна местожительства: Palestine

Пол: Male

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Информация

Tayseer Hamdan Ibrahim Al-Batniji (December 14, 1966-) is a Palestinian visual artist born in Gaza City, Palestine . He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from An-Najah University in Nablus in 1992. He completed his studies at the University of Bourges in France , after which he obtained a DNSEP certificate in 1997. He remained moving between France and Palestine until 2006, the beginning of the siege on Gaza .

His artistic style

Al-Batniji blends two different cultures through his use of different media such as drawing , installation art , photography , video and performance art, expressing the events surrounding him through his works. In addition, he uses the approach approach as he works to transform and adapt the initial subject, turning it into a poetic and sometimes critical view of reality. His works focus on memory and place by focusing on the political, geographical and human reality and representing the individual and collective context. Movement and wandering constitute an effective part of his artistic production, so his works raise questions about the reality of alienation and movement. Al-Batniji has contributed to the Palestinian art scene since the early nineties, as he has participated in several individual and group exhibitions since 2002 in Europe and the world.

Solo exhibitions

Al-Batniji has participated in several solo exhibitions in various museums and institutions, including:

Exhibition at the Mac Val Museum in France 2021.
Exhibition at Aperture Foundation, New York 2018.
Arles France Photography Encounters 2016.
Exhibition at the Andre Malraux Centre for Contemporary Art in France 2016.
Le BF 15 Gallery Exhibition in Lyon , France 2012.
Exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva , Switzerland , 2007.
Exhibition at the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam 2004.

Group exhibitions

Tayseer also participated in many group exhibitions, including:

Exhibition at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris in 2019-2020.
Exhibition at the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Amban, Brussels 2018.
Exhibition at the Centre de la Continentale Mulhouse for Contemporary Art, France 2017.
Exhibition at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM in Spain 2016-2018.
Exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Centre , Paris 2014.
Exhibition at the V&A Museum London 2012.
Exhibition at the Villa Medici Museum, Rome 2012.
Exhibition at Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco , 2012.
Exhibition at the Arab World Institute, Paris 2009.
Exhibition at the Venice Biennale Institute in each of the years (2003, 2009, 2011).
Exhibition at Istanbul Biennial Institute 2011.

Достижения и награды

Awards

Batniji won the Abraj Group Art Prize in 2012, and an award supported by the Foundation Hermes through the Immersion Residency program in collaboration with the Arperture Foundation in 2017

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