ruba salameh (ربی سلامة)

Ruba Salameh is a visual artist born in Nazareth / Palestine.  She obtained both B.A (2006-10) and M.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2012-2014). Her work varies from Painting to Video, photography, and Installations. Through her work, she questions notions of land, geographies, displacement. She worked as a lecturer in the History of Art painting and practical classical painting at the Arab College in Haifa and conducted a short-term workshop at Bezalel academy. Together with curator Fadwa Naamna she has worked on a research film about the Palestinian cultural scene that appeared in Haifa in the years (2018-19), its complex relation to self-organization/autonomy and how it is operating within the constantly changing environment. Ruba is currently focusing on painting and has a solo exhibition, “Tensegrity” at Zawyeh Gallery in Dubai. She is presently in residency in Berlin at BLO ateliers within the program HIER & JETZT: Connections.