Curriculum Vitae
Ayman Alazraq
+47-93683962
Date & place of birth: 09.06.1979, Jerusalem Nationality: Palestinian/Norwegian
Address: Bjørndalsjordet 82, 1270
Education:
2009- 2011: Master’s degree, fine art, National Academy of the Art, Oslo
2006 – 2009: Bachelor’s degree in fine art, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway. 1998 – 2000: Diploma in TV Art, Palestine Technical College, Hebron.
Ongoing Projects:
Palestine-Norway Archive Collections (PalNor)
found an archive from the solidarity movement of Norway with the Palestinian
Curator:
2024
Curator – Film screening Akka On My Mind and panel discussion -Artist hours cinema
Kortfilmfestivalen Grimsted: Special Programs Protecting the Palestinian Narrative
2021
Curator – Kunstnere på Gazastripen artist from Gazastripe – Exhibition Fotogalleriet
Curator – Film screening Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory and panel discussion -Artist hours cinema
Curator – Film screening and panel discussion: Arna’s children – artist house and Masahat Open Spaces for Arab Culture in Exile
2010:
Curator –The wonder land Exhibition in Sagene culture house
Curator –Turn Loose the Swans- Al-Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine.
2009:
Curator- Med Håpet som våpen utstilling I Rådhuset-Oslo (With Hope as weapon exhibition in the city hall of Oslo).
Up coming
The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal Nitja senter for samtidskunst
The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal, UIO
Exhibitions/ film screening
2023-2024
The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal, 1982 Fotogalleriet (S)
The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal, 1982 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2022
Into my lungs -kunst hall Oslo With Collaboration med Kunstnernes hus kino
Into my lungs Studio Shirighor Bangladesh.(S)
The champions, Olso syndrom Open video XII- Kunst på Store Gilhus gård 2022- Gilhus gård (G)
2021
Gives-on-and-with: Decolonial Moves of the Transcultural OR GALLERY. Vancouver. Canada (G)
2020
You are going to miss me when I’m gone, projection on the Rådhuset. 21 October (S)
2019:
The champions, Open video X- Tent house, Oslo (G)
Wall one L’Intrus REDUX Westfälischer Kunstverein (G)
2018:
WALL ONE San Sebastián at Tabakalera Spain (G)
That was then.this is now. Temperory installation at Sogndal høygskole, the
project was chosen by KORO kunst I ofentlig rom (S)
State of Stateless- Join the Dots- connect the distances – Trieste- Italy
WALL ONE – Theaterhaus Jena –Germany (S)
Oslo syndrome and The passport Open Video VIII at Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo (G)
UTREISEFRIST and Return with authority help exhibition and Open Video IX at
galleri Dikemark- (G)
2017:
WALL ONE Podium Gallery (S)
Oslo Syndrom, Hvitsten Salong 2017 (G)
2016:
State of Stateless, Palestine – Contemporary Art from within and beyond the border Imago Mundi – Italy (G)
Oslo Syndrom, Open Video IV via Skogul Gondul, Papay Gyro NightsVIDEOTAGE, Hong Kong, china (G)
Return with authority help, Video Open, Atelier Nord ANX, Oslo (G)
2015:
Oslo Syndrom, Høstutstilling, Oslo (G)
Oslo Syndrom, ANX Atelier Nord, Norway (G)
Oslo Syndrom Open Video, Space 4235, Genova, Italia (G)
2014:
Solo Show and one week workshop for the visual Arts Department student at Dar Al- Kalima University College of Arts &Culture, Bethlehem, Palestine (S)
Utreisefrist, 1814 Revisited – The Past is Still Present, Akershus kunstsenter (G)
2013:
To No Where, NOPLACE gallery, Oslo, Norway. (S)
2012:
UNIDESCO project, La Pigna, Sanremo, Italy. (G)
UNIDESCO, Art at the Centre of a Responsible Transformation of Society 2012,
(G)
Let’s talk about football and women, UNIDEE-university of ideas- in progress, Italy. (G)
Back to the people (film), FRAC, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art, Italy. (G)
Why always me (sound piece) FRAC, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art, Italy.
(G)
2011:
The people want &The candle clock Performances, Performance festival in Kunstbanken, Hamar, Norway
I refuse to be your enemy, Oslo at Rådhusplassen & Bethlahem. (G)
UTREISEFRIST, Final show, National Academy of the Art, Oslo (stenersen
museum) (G)
You, From now on, are not yourself, Windows from Gaza for contemporary art.
Gaza,Palestine. (S)
Between the self and its true home, Performance, One Night only, Oslo (S)
She was capable of flying but did not, Podium gallery, Oslo. (S)
You, From now on, are not yourself, The Spring Exhibition 2011, Charlottenborg
Fonden,Copenhagen, Denmark. (G)
2010:
You, from now on, are not yourself, Barchalona in Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed) (S)
You, from now on, are not yourself, Gallery BOA, Oslo. (S)
The Passport, UNDO – REKORD på Rod Bianco / Vestfossen (G)
2009:
Sympathy for the devil- Museum of the Contemporary Art, Oslo (G)
Gaza airport in Sarai Kultur natt, – Oslo (S)
Gzaz airport, Final show, National Academy of the Art, Oslo (G)
The new trend of nostalgia, Final show, National Academy of the Art, Oslo
(stenersen museum) (G)
2008:
Gzaz airport, Open academy, National Academy of the Art, Oslo (G)
2007:
The Passport, video art, Cinema Museum, Turino, Italy. (G)
The Passport, video art, 21:24 Oslo, Norway. (G)
Panic attack, video installation, 2124 Oslo, Norway. (G)
2006:
Panic attack, video installation, Young Artist Award, Al-Qattan Foundation. (G)
Historical Mistakes, installation at the United Nations, NY. (G)
2005:
Historical Mistakes, installation at Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA). (G)
Everything is OK, video installation, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre (S)
2004:
Journey, photography, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah (G)
Art talk and presentations:
2024
PRIO’s INSPIRE project: the role of art, artists, and creative practice connected to conflict and war
Network for artistic film: professional deepening, inspiration, exchange of experience, discussions, and presentation of upcoming works from artists and filmmakers based in Norway.
khio_students4palestine talk about the project around the exhibition “The Lost Tapes of A Peoples’ Tribunal, 1982
Artist presentation with Shareef Sarhan, photographer and founder of Shababeek Contemporary in Gaza
Workshops and Courses:
2021:
3D printing and scanning- Fab-lab Kiel-Germany, via Østlandsutstillingen
2007:
I See you, The language of the art and Intercultural dialogue. A co-operation on the theme of intercultural dialogue between arts schools and foundation across Europe. Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany.
HYPERLINK “http://www.elia-artschools.org/activities/film.xml”http://www.eliaartschools.org/activities/film.xml
2004:
Script Writing Course, Media Institute, Birzeit University, Ramallah.
2003:
Non-linear editing course, Modern Media Institue, Al Quds University.
2001-2002:
- Special TV Training, Media Institute, Birzeit University, Ramallah.
Art Residency:
2022:
Repression – Expression // Violence – Creative Resistance
With PRIO (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
October-November 2019- Praksis, carrying history, Oslo
June-October 2012- Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, UNIDEE -University of Ideas- Biella, Italy.
Film Productions
2015:
Return with authority help, short film (4:30min).
2014:
Director, Oslo Syndrome, short film (6min).
2012:
Editor, director & Cameraman, Back to the people (documentary, 35min), Italy
2005:
Editor & Cameraman, Once Upon A Time (documentary, 65 min, directed by Emad Ahmad), Idioms Film, Ramallah
Director, Kulud resist, documentary 25min Al-Istiqlal TV
2004:
Still Photographer, Fix (drama, 8 min, directed by Mohanad Yaqoubi), Modern Media Institute, Ramallah.
Actor, Booba (drama, 15 min, directed by Emad Ahmad), Modern Media Institute, Ramallah.
Cameraman, Carnaval (documentary, 26 min, directed by Mohanad Yaqoubi), Idioms Film, Ramallah.
Cameraman, Welcome to Qalqilia (documentary, 24 min, directed by Emad Ahmad), Idioms Film, Ramallah.
Cameraman, Zeina (documentary, 10 min, directed by Sami Said), Idioms Film, Ramallah.
2002
Cameraman, Al-khiar Al-mur (documentary, 50 min, directed by Mazen Saadi), IDFA.
Film Festivals
2014:
Oslo syndrome (project suspended time); Dubai International Film Festival (“DIFF”), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Oslo syndrome (project suspended time); 8th Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, Boston, USA
Oslo syndrome (project suspended time); Eye on Palestine, Arts and Film Festival, KVS_Bol | Brussels; Belgium
Oslo syndrome (project suspended time); Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah
2010:
The Passport, CologneOFF VI – 6th Cologne International Videoart Festival
2004 :
Fix me and Booba, Ramallah Film Festival
Awards 2009:
Blix prisen 2009 for Gaza airport project
Articles:
Hearing the unheard , Kunstkritikk 2024, https://kunstkritikk.com/hearing-the-unheard
Umistelige vitnesbyrd, KUNSTAVISEN 2024 https://kunstavisen.no/tag/ayman-alazraq
Sannheten må bare åpne øynene våre MUSEUM 2024, https://tidsskriftetmuseum.no/sannheten-ma-bare-apne-oynene-vare/
Kunstkritikk editor-in-chief, Mariann Enge, recommends two ongoing exhibitions : https://kunstkritikk.com/24-december-5/
Kunsten å ikke glemme : https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2024-01-05/kunsten-a-ikke-glemme
Det som slo meg var stillheten, Kunstkritikk, 2021: https://kunstkritikk.no/det-som-slo-meg-var
Kunstneren Ayman alAzraq åpner hjerter med stein, UTROP, 2021: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/visual-art-cv
Kunstnere viste stort klimakunstverk på Rådhusveggen, vårt oslo, 2020, https://vartoslo.no/ayman-alazraq-emanuel-svedin-fns-baerekraftsmal/kunstnere-viste-stort-klimakunstverk-pa-radhusveggen/265428
Kunst om bærekraftsmålene for å vekke klimaengasjement, FORUM, 2020, https://www.forumfor.no/nyheter/2020/kunst-for-å-få-vekke-klimaengasjement
Møte med veggen, KORO, 2019, https://koro.no/mote-med-veggen/
Work Experience:
2020- Now: prosjektleder Leo film klubb og Programmedarbeider Kino Kunstnernes hus
2021-2022- Debattansvarlig Filmfestivalen Arabiske filmdage
2013- Now owner and director Idioms Alazraq, Oslo, Norway
June 2011_June2013: Director at IDIOMS FILM-Ramallah, Palestine
Jan2007 – May 2011: Video Documentation-National Academy of the Art, Oslo-
Sept2007 – June2008: Video assistance, National Academy of the Art, Oslo-KHIO.
Jan2004 – June2006: Art Director, Idioms Film, Ramallah, Palestine.
Jan2001 – Dec2002: Editor, ANN Channel, Ramallah, Palestine.
Oct 2000 – June 2006: Editor, Al-Istiqlal TV, Ramallah, Palestine.
