Inas Halabi (b.1988, Palestine) is an Artist/Filmmaker. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Luleå Biennial (2024), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (2023), de Appel Amsterdam (solo 2023), Showroom London (solo 2022), Europalia Festival, Brussels (2021), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2020); and Film at Lincoln Center, USA (2020). Her recent work has been supported by Amarte, Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK), Mondriaan Fund, and Sharjah Art Foundation. She lives and works between Palestine and the Netherlands.
EDUCATION
2012-2014
Masters of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
July 2024
To A Returning Cloud, solo show; curated by Gabrielle Domb, Brookline Arts Centre, USA
July 2024
36th Galway Film Fleadh, (Irish Premiere) ‘We No Longer Prefer Mountains’
March 2024
The Centre Does Not Hold, solo show; curated by Jess Clifford, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, NZ
March 2024
Luleå Biennial: On the threshold of 1:1, group show; curated by Aude Christel Mgba and Bruno Alves de Almeida, Sweden
Feb 2024
…that creeps from the earth, group show; curated by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Athens, Greece
Jan 2024
Reel Palestine Film Festival, Dubai, UAE
Dec 2023
Sharjah Film Platform 6, Sharjah, UAE
Sept 2023
Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
May 2023
A Return of the Sun (group show) at Beirut Art Centre, Beirut
April 2023
Hot Docs Film Festival (world premiere) ‘We No Longer Prefer Mountains’ at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto
March 2023
After the Last Sky (solo show), de Appel, Amsterdam
Oct 2022
We No Longer Prefer Mountains (solo show), the Showroom, London
Oct 2021
Trains & Tracks, Europalia Arts Festival, Brussels, Belgium
July 2021
The Garden: Cinematics of the Soil (group show) at Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin
Nov 2020
Art of the Real, online cinema program (organized by Dennis Lim and Rachael Rakes, with program advisor Almudena Escobar Lopez), Film at Lincoln Center, USA
Sept 2020
Municipal Art Acquisitions (group show; curated by Fadwa Naamna and Britte Sloothaak), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jan 2020
WET LOUNGE #4, (screening program organised by WET collective), TENT, Rotterdam
Nov 2019
VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet, (group show; curated by Leonardo Bigazzi), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Nov 2019
We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (screening and artist talk), Mosaic Rooms, London
July 2019
How to Reappear, (publication group show); curated by Ala’ Younis and Maha Ma’amoun),Beirut Art Center, Beirut
May 2019
Contested Grounds – Contested Colors, Films, Installations and a Book (group show), Silent Green Betonhalle, Berlin
May 2019
Once a Closely Guarded Secret (group show; curated by Martin Herbert), De Ateliers, Amsterdam
Sept 2018
Letters to Fritz and Paul (solo show; curated by Emma Chubb), Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, United States
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AWARDS/ GRANTS
2024
Development Grant (Visual Arts), Amarte Foundation, NL
2022-2026
Established Artist Grant (Visual Arts), Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2022
Production Grant (Visual Arts), Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
2020
3Package Deal Grant, AFK (Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst), NL
2020-2022
Consortium Commission Production Grant, MOPHRADAT, Belgium
2017
Production Grant (Visual Arts), Arab Funds for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Lebanon
2016
Production Grant, MOPHRADAT, Belgium
2016
Young Artist of the Year Award (First Prize), the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Palestine