Biography Taysir Batniji (Gaza, Palestine, 1966)
Taysir Batniji was born in Gaza, Palestine, in 1966. He studied fine arts at the An-Najah National University in Nablus (Palestine), continuing his studies in France, at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges (1995-1997), at the Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis (2000), and at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (2002-2003). In 2001-2002 he did a residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart for six months, in 2003 he spent a month at Joal-Fadiouth in Senegal, and in 2003 and 2004 he worked at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
He has staged exhibitions at various venues in Europe and beyond. He held a solo presentation in Centre Culturel Français, Gaza (Palestine) in 2004, and in 2002 he exhibited among others in Belgrade, in Berlin (K&S Gallery), and in Paris (La Galerie). His work was also presented at the Havana Biennial and the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Contemporary Arab Representations is a long-term project which includes meetings, publications, productions, and presentations of visuals, texts, and discourses by various authors in many different cultural venues and other places. The aim of the project is to stimulate locally based …Read more
TRANSIT, 6.18 min., EGYPT/PALESTINE, 2004 For the last few years, most especially since the second Intifada broke out in 2001, the Rafah border has been the only way for people from the Gaza Strip to leave or enter the region. …Read more
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