The Gaza Biennale is initiated by a group of Palestinian artists living in Palestine. Conceived as an inverted biennale, the project features presentations by Palestinian artists which are exhibited in national pavilions around the world. All all all will now open its doors for the Danish Pavilion, featuring four Palestinian artists whose practices oscillate between painting, sculpture, photography, text-based work, and socially engaged projects that address audiences directly.

Photographer and video artist Jehad Jarbou interrogates identity, border imaginaries, and the mnemonic architectures of place. Yasmeen Al Daya’s sculptural practice delves into themes of womanhood, psychological captivity, and the complexity of interiority. Ghanem Al-Din constructs installations from letters, notes, and poetic ephemera that expose the dissonance between political abstraction and the lived refugee experience. The paintings of Aya Jouha ruminate on how the individual experience is mirrored in the collective struggle.

Due to the enforced and unrelenting restrictions on the movement of people and materials, the Danish Pavilion will adopt a hybrid exhibition model: works are reconstructed locally from detailed artist instructions, with Al-Din’s postcards and Jarbou’s photographic series printed in Copenhagen while a sculptural work of Al Daya is reconstructed by Danish-Chilean artist Sidsel Ana Welden Gajardo. Jouha’s paintings are presented through a three-channel video installation that brings her practice and studio environment from Gaza to Copenhagen, offering a way to exhibit her work when neither artworks nor materials can move in or out of Gaza.