The Danish Pavilion exists as part of the collective project the Gaza Biennale that since its foundation in 2024 has emerged into a global art exhibition. Initiated by the Al Risan Art Museum (The Forbidden Museum) and organized by Palestine-based artists Tasneem Shatat, Fidaa Ataya, and Andreas Ibrahim, the Gaza Biennale inverts the classic biennale format. Instead of gathering national pavilions in a single exclusive location, the project features exhibitions of Palestinian artists in self-initiated national pavilions around the world.

The Danish Pavilion opens a group exhibition with artists Ghanem Al-Din, Jehad Jarbou, Yasmeen Al Daya, and Aya Jouha; four Palestinian artists whose works oscillate between painting, sculpture, photography, and text-based works that explore the relationship between political rhetoric and lived reality.

Due to the enforced and unrelenting restrictions on the movement of people and materials in Palestine, the Danish Pavilion implements a hybrid exhibition model: a sculpture work is reconstructed locally, through close collaboration between two artists—one situated here, the other in Gaza—a photo series and a written work are printed in Copenhagen, and one artist’s studio is presented through a video installation, bringing her atelier of paintings from Gaza to Copenhagen.

Arising from inhumane conditions beyond understanding, the Danish Pavilion is the result of the resilience of a group of artists and a people. It is the result of a collective spanning the globe, mobilizing a new network of art workers to assist the resistance of the people of Palestine Their works have all been developed throughout the ongoing genocide, from different locations in Gaza, and are now exhibited collectively in All all all.

The Danish Pavilion is generously supported by Fake Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond, Statens Kunstfond, Rådet for Visuel Kunst, and 5. Majfonden. Artists who have vitally contributed to realizing the hybrid exhibition format are Banaan Al-Nasser, Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo, Stine Deja, and Wilfred Wagner, as well as office for graphic design, Alexis Mar

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