Diana Al-Halabi
Biography:
Born in Lebanon; 1990, Diana Al-Halabi is now a Rotterdam-based Artist. She pursues an interdisciplinary practice, with a focus on moving image, text, and painting. Her autoethnographic research-based projects are at the core of her practice.
Departing from the personal to the political, her recent project "On Scales of Violence: How to Measure A Dictator?" explored the expansive body of the dictator and its effect on the Patriarch. Through an intersectional feminist lens, Al-Halabi explores notions such as the political gaze, cognitive anthropometry, disableism, and freedom of movement.
Al- Halabi Holds an MA in fine arts from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and has completed a one-year fellowship at Ashkal Alwan's Homework space program in Beirut.
Selected Exhibitions
Piet Zwart Institute Graduation show at Het Archief Rotterdam | July 2021
Print & Play in collaboration with Boijmans Museum, online | May 2021
ArteEast online exhibition | February 2021
Galerie De Jaloezie - FilmHuiskamer, Rotterdam | December 2020
Growing space solo exhibition, Rotterdam | October 2020
Open Studios Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam | February 2020
Open Studios Ashkal Alwan- Beirut | July 2018
Sursock Museum Salon D’Automne- Beirut | November 2016
Performances:
"The Last Supper or a Class In History" Performance at IDFA FILM FESTIVAL | November 2021
"Holding Palestine" 7 days performance at PZI | June 2021
Screenings/ Festivals:
Cairo Video Festival, Aspect Ratio | October 2021
Shasha Movies: Women's Revolt program - Aspect Ratio film | May 2021
Education
Masters in Fine Arts at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 2021
Fellow resident at Ashkal Alwan Homework Space Program, Beirut, Lebanon | 2018
Bachelor in Interior Architecture at The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon | 2011
Scholarships/Grants
Van Beek - Donner Stichting | 2020
Schuurman Schimmel - Van Ouderen Stichting | 2020
Bekker -la Bastide -Fonds | 2020
Al Mawred (Culture resource) | 2020
Sultan Al Qassimi (Barjeel Art Foundation) | 2019-2020
Holland Scholarship | 2019
Philipe Jabre Scholarship | 2019
APEAL scholarship | 2019
Ashkal Alwan support grant | 2019
(A very sincere appreciation to all the foundations above that supported my studies, and very warm gratitude to the individuals who privately helped finance my masters in the Netherlands)
Press/Interviews/Articles