The Ruttenberg Contemporary Photography Series
Al-Sharif’s newest work, Capital—comprising a two-channel video and a series of banners depicting architectural renderings of proposed urban spaces— (…) hint at the limits of free speech and reveal how the legacies of fascism live on in the present.

Online screening of the artist’s first feature film, with a special introduction
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

“An evening that takes us from Beirut, Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Gaza and Jerusalem to Spitsbergen, Iceland, Brittany and the Mojave Desert. Featuring films by artists who look at landscapes from the perspective of recollection and exile, such as Basma Alsharif’s experimental film Ouroboros (2017) and Mira Adoumier’s visual essay Errans (2019)”
The evening is curated by Nat Muller, guest curator of the exhibition “Trembling Landscapes: Between Reality & Fiction”. With an introduction by Lara Khaldi. Followed by a Q&A with Basma Alsharif.

A month of free films (by Palestinian women) for a free Palestine, with woks by Jumana Manna, Basma Alsharif, Rosalind Nashashibi, Razan AlSalah, Mahasen Nasser-Eldin, Larissa Sansour, Emily Jacir, Mona Benyamin, Lokman Slim/Monika Borgmann, Pary El-Qalqili, Layaly Badr, Shuruq Harb, Mai Masri & more tbc!

Screenings from 6 to 11pm on site and online (via the gallery’s YouTube account)
With: Wang Shui, Himali Singh Soin, Tania Ximena, Garush Melkonyan, Luiz Roque, Basma Alsharif, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Yang Fudong, Kandis Williams, Karrabing Film Collective, Laura Huertas Millán, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Fernando Ocaña
Curated by: Samantha Ozer

The exhibition presents a selection of 60 films bringing into perspective generations, origins, geographies, histories in extremely varied narrative forms. This exhibition, a cartography of time, questions our contemporary world. It is deployed in five successive chapters – five stages – which expose and decline forms of resistance, of “disquiet”.

Screening of Basma Alsharif’s film in the framework of the Queer Festival for Palestine.
Complete program: CONGRESS OF IDLING PERSONS, Bassem Saad, 2021, 36 min; THE WHITE ELEPHANT, Shuruq Harb, 2018, 12 min and O, PERSECUTED, Basma Alsharif, 2014, 11 min

The group exhibition Back of My Hand is based on the way in which different artists work the poetic and political potential of hand, and its relationship with certain dynamics involved in the (in)visibility of images. In this sense, this exhibition presents a series of works in which the hand appears as a mechanism of action, revelation or performativity, aiming to question certain structures of knowledge and historical narrative, and to reflect about a tensioned space between what the image makes visible, and what exists in it in resistance and unintelligibility.
Curated by Sara Castelo Branco