Areej Ashhab

Areej Ashhab is an artist, researcher, and architect based in both Jerusalem and Amsterdam. Working across installation, moving image, writing, and performance, her practice attends to land, material knowledge, and collective forms of learning in contexts shaped by structural enclosure and dispossession. Her work often develops through long-term collaborations, including with Al-Wah’at collective, Al-Block initiative in Jerusalem, and artist Raghad Saqfalhait. Within these collaborations, she develops experimental field methods that combine counter-mapping and hands-on material experimentation through workshops, walks, and shared meals. Areej is the coauthor of the artist book The Fast-Growing Stinking Escaped Waste-Loving Wall-Breaching Self-Cloning Other-Than-Natural No-Man’s Tree (Sharjah Art Foundation, 2024), and her writing has been featured in e-flux Architecture, The Funambulist Magazine, and The Avery Review. (updated 10/2026)