Zeitraum: Oktober – November 2019
Unterstützt von: STAL Gallery & Deutsch-Omanische Gesellschaft
Riham Noor Al-Zadjali lebt und arbeitet in Muskat, Oman. Mit ihren Kunstwerken versucht Riham eine neutrale Ebene zu schaffen, sei es um aktuelle Probleme der Welt oder aktuelle, kollektive Auseinandersetzungen zu thematisieren oder sich mit einer bestimmten Art von Mentalität, die für eine bestimmte Kultur spezifisch ist, zu beschäftigen. Sie experimentiert dabei mit verschiedenen Medien wie Fotografie, digitale Medien oder Malerei.
Riham war Mitbegründerin der Initiative Art With Refugees, einer Wanderausstellung mit Kunstwerken von Geflüchteten und Künstlern aus aller Welt, die sich für bessere Lebensbedingungen von Flüchtlingen, insbesondere in Griechenland, einsetzt. DieWanderausstellung war bereits zu sehen in: Piräus, Griechenland, Spanien, The Grand Hyatt Hotel Muscat, Oman, Das Kindermuseum von Wilmington, North Carolina, The Human (Art) istic Festival in Brüssel, Belgien und auf dem Funun-Festival in Bremen im Rahmen des Vortrags über das Flüchtlingsdorf für Freiheit, auch bekannt als Solidarity Fields.
Ausbildung:
Art History at the American University of Paris and Fine Arts at the Paris American Academy.
Lived in London and Paris before moving back to Muscat, Oman.
Ausstellungen:
•Art exhibition at the Paris American Academy as a student. (1999-2001)
•The Omani Fine Art Society 9th annual woman’s art exhibition. (2005)
•The Omani Fine Art Society 9th annual art exhibition “Evolution Art”. (2005)
•The Omani Fine Art Society art festival “Qaboos patron of peace & Oman land of civilization”. (2010)
•The second Majan fine art exhibition at Oman Cultural Club. (2013)
•The launch of “Oman Art” exhibition at the Oman Exhibition Center. (2013)
•The armed forces day “Art on Aircrafts” exhibition at the Royal Air Force of Oman Airbase. (2013)
•Stal Gallery Emerging Artists Competition (2015)
•Art With Refugees fundraiser at the Grand Hyatt, Muscat (2017)
•Oman Affordable Art Fair at Bait Albaranda Museum (2017)
•Disfiguration exhibition at Stal gallery (2018)
Delegation:
British Council Oman delegate to the Conversion Art Festival in London (2018)
Freiwilligendienst:
•Volunteered at Bwejuu Charity School in Zanzibar as an Art and Arabic teacher for 1st and 10th grade of orphan and underprivileged students (2015)
•Volunteered in the refugee squats of Athens for 2 months as an art teacher for kids and translator among other things (2016)
•Volunteered as an art assistant to the blind and disabled at the empowering disability identity three day workshop (2017)
•Volunteered for an art workshop at Muscat College under The Omani Academy for special skills, teaching people with Down syndrome and people of all kinds of intellectual disabilities, training them to have professional skills and spread awareness on their need for social integration (2019)
•Volunteered to teach painting at another art workshop for the Omani Academy for special skills, again to empower people with all kinds of mental disabilities by training them to have professional skills and spread awareness on their need for social integration (2019)
Eigene Projekte:
•Organized the “Oman 1971” exhibition photographer Bruno Barbey for the Sultanate’s 40th renaissance anniversary, in collaboration with The Empty Quarter gallery in Dubai. (2011)
•Collaborated with Tamrah fine dates and chocolatier to design limited edition Ramadan boxes as well as other boxes (2013)
•Artworks that promote environmental awareness, recycling, community activism, and tolerance for a private school that promotes all the above (2014)
