RUBA SALAMEH

1985, Visual artist born in Nazareth / Palestine. She obtained both B.A (2006-10) and M.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2012-2014). Her work varies from Painting to Video, photography and Installations. Through her work she questions notions of land, geographies, displacement. She worked as a lecturer in the History of Art painting and practical classical painting at the Arab College in Haifa and conducted short term workshops at Bezalel academy. Together with curator Fadwa Naamna she has worked on a research film about the Palestinian cultural scene that appeared in Haifa in the years 2017-2019, its complex relation to self-organization / autonomy and how it is operating within the constantly changing environment. Ruba currently is focusing on painting and has a solo exhibition "Tensegrity" at Zawyeh Gallery in Dubai. She is presently in residency in Berlin, at BLO ateliers within the program HIER & JETZT: Connections 2020.