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Madafeh - Meet Berlin, Germany-based Palestinian Artist Steve Sabella

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The program begins at 12 Noon US EDT; 6:00 PM Palestine Time.

Please join us for a conversation with Steve Sabella.

Steve Sabella

Steve Sabella

Steve Sabella, a renowned artist and author based in Berlin, has received numerous awards and accolades for his distinct artistic style. His work has been exhibited globally in galleries, museums, and publications.

In his award-winning memoir, The Parachute Paradox, published by Kerber Verlag in Berlin in 2016, Sabella tackles the colonization of the imagination, winning two awards for best memoir.

Sabella earned a Chevening Scholarship in 2008 and completed a master’s in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster in London, receiving a Caparo Award of Distinction.

He later obtained a second master’s in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London.

Sabella's art is in the British Museum collection in London. MATHAF, The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, where he was one of the 23 artists commissioned for its inauguration in 2010. The Arab World Institute in Paris has twenty artworks in its permanent collection. Bahrain National Museum upon a commission to interpret the country visually. Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo, Claude & France Lemand, Dalloul Art Foundation, Salsali Private Museum in Dubai, Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, and the Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait, among other prominent private collections.

Sabella was awarded the Ellen Auerbach Award by nomination from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, leading to a study covering twenty years of his art co-published with Hatje Cantz. The book includes texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen, president of the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and a foreword by artist and art historian Kamal Boullata who described Sabella’s work as a dream to discover.