Jawad Al Malhi
Jawad al Malhi lives and works in East Jerusalem. He received his MA in Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art, UK.
His work over the years has focused on exploring communities, and their relationship to their environments, local knowledges and their everyday practices of life through painting, video, installation, sculpture and photography. His most recent works are based on close observation of the dynamics of crowds in public space, with particular focus on the moments after events and time of waiting, which contours body gestures and group formations. His work often explores relationship between still and moving image with choreography of different mediums which aim to expose and bring to the foreground a variety of viewpoints and which challenge the position of audiences.
Selected group exhibitions include In the Middle of the Middle (curated by Catherine David at Sfeir-Semier Gallery, Beirut, 2008) No Man’s Land? (Gemak, The Hague 2008), Provisions for the Future, Sharjah Biennal 09, Palestine c/o Venice (curated by Salwa Mikdadi, Venice Biennale, 2009), Ground Floor America (curated by WHW at Den Frie in Copenhagen 2010). Helenski Photography Bienele, Ecological Fallacy/Objects on Oil, ( curated by Basak Senova, 2014), Worldly House, Tribute to Donna Haraway, Documenta 13 (2012). Jerusalem Show, al Mamal Art Foundation (2016), Measures of Uncertainty (Art Dubai, 2016), NSK Pavilion, (Charles Esche and Zdenka Badovinac Venice Biennele 2017). Sub-Contracted Nations (Yazid Anani A.M Qattan Foundation 2018). Intimate Terrains (Tina Sherwell, Palestinian Museum 2019) Climbing The Tide (Basak Senova, Kamal Lazzar Foundation, Tunis 2019). Weed Control, ((Yazid Anani A.M Qattan Foundation 2020). Global Resistance, (The Pompidou Centre, 2020).
Recent solo exhibition include, Is There a Place for Me Here?/Is There Any Room at the Inn? (Walled Off Hotel, 2017). House No. 197, (ERG, Brussels 2017) Measures of Uncertainty, (Al Mamal Art Foundation 2014). Al Malhi was shortlisted for the Frieze Foundation Cartier Award, and has been nominated for Prix Pictet. He was artist in resident at Delfina Foundation with Solo Show of New Works 2010 and Artist in Resident a Mamaus Ecole Lisbon. He was also awarded the Accented Residency at the Townhouse Gallery Cairo (2011), and at IASPIS, Stockholm, (2017). His works are held in private and public collections in Europe and the Middle East, including The British Museum, The Imperial War Museum, London, UK, The Pompidou Centre, France, The Kamal Lazzar Foundation, Tunis, The Barjeel Art Foundation, UAE. Since 2000 he has worked on various education projects in Jerusalem and West Bank and in Europe, with children, youth and teachers.
