Events/2011

December 12, 2011

The exhibition displays artworks for the group of young artists who won sponsorship from local cultural institutes in 2010. The exhibited artworks allow students to explore a variety of concepts and mediums used in contemporary art, and assess the contribution of such mechanisms to understand and formulate ‘meaning’. The exhibition is a mean to...

13:30
Birzeit University
December 10, 2011

In collaboration with ArtTerritories & A Prior art magazine A workshop was held on aamily archives. Browsing through family and other non-professional photographs, participating artists collaboratively create a photo text piece based on their selection of photographs. The piece was published in the spring issue of A Prior Magazine.

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12:00
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center.
December 10, 2011

A lecture by Marc Mercier given during The Second /si:n/ Festival of Video Art & Performance

The second /si:n/ festival of video art & performance launches with a rich and diverse spectrum of video art & performance works by dozens of international, Arab and Palestinian artists. In addition to screenings...

12:00
Birzeit University Museum
November 12, 2011

The Cities Exhibition, is a venue for artists to explore the rich history of Palestinian cities. The attempt enables artists to contemplate about occurring changes resulting from social, economic and spatial practices, and their implications on contemporary society.   

The Third Annual Cities Exhibition takes Nablus as its site of...

12:00
The City of Nablus; several locations
July 25, 2011

The 3DVM is a three-dimensional virtual space that presents a virtual interactive version of the gallery space at the Birzeit University Museum. The 3DVM aims to provide an experimental interactive space for exhibitions as it allows users to visit the exhibitions electronically, navigate the space online and discuss the...

14:45
The Virtual Gallery Website
June 6, 2011

The Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University presents the collection of lithographs by Syrian artist Marwan Kassab Bashi. The collection was generously donated by the artist to Birzeit University Museum in 1998 as a gesture of support and appreciation for the Palestinian people. His collection significantly contributed to the...

10:00
BZU Museum
March 21, 2011

Planning the Common is the first student seminar on rethinking the use of the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Abu Dees. The idea of the project is to engage students in a discussion pertaining to an imagined reuse of the empty building as a new common and public dominion.

The project’s few crucial questions...

12:00
Birzeit University Museum