Event Types: Workshops

“Superfine Arts”

The fourth edition of Spring Sessions is coming to an end! Join us for this year’s exhibition, which will run continuously for 48 hours from Thursday 29 June at 7 PM until Saturday 1 July 2017 at 7 PM. A series of talks, events and happenings will be announced soon.

This event is a culmination of the work produced during this year’s program, challenging notions of personal and collective desires and together exploring what is thinkable, permissible and doable.

Participating artists:
Adam Chad Brody, Ahmad Salameh, Ameer Masoud, Andre Mcheileh, Andrey Pavlov, Batool El Hennawy, Bayan Kiwan, Fadi Zumout, Hanna Al Taher, Husni Khalil, Magda Magdy, Mohammad Tayyeb, Mona Ali, Nour Mujahed, Reem Marji, Reham Sharbaji, Rula Al Tamimi, Sidy Benamar, Salim Salameh, Tala Abdulhadi, Tawfiq Dawi, Yasmeen Kanaan, and Yazan Ashqar.

Workshop conveners:
Batool El Hennawy and Karim-Yasin Goessinger (CILAS), Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett, Yvonne Buchheim, Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Gareth Evans, and Brian Conley.

Organised by:
Toleen Touq (co-director) Noura Al Khasawneh (co-director/curator), Yvonne Buchheim (co-curator) , Victoria Dabdoub (assistant curator/program manager) , Raed Ibrahim (mentor), Hussam Da’na (technical support).

Spring Sessions is generously supported by:
Patrons: Mohamed and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Haya Al Fayez, Yassin Talhouni, Zein Al Naqib, and Zina Jardaneh.

Sponsors: Al Jazy & Co Advocates & Legal Consultants, Goethe Institute, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, and the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate of Arts and Culture – Ossama Mashini Theater.

“About Archives In Jordan” Exhibition

The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts is delighted to invite you the opening of exhibition: “About Archives In Jordan” on Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at 6:30 pm

ith the participation of: Dana Abu Khalil, Yasmine Alnabulsi, Mo’awia Bajis, Hiba Farhat, Khaldoun Hijazin, Karina Rbeihat, Omnia Sabry, Sama Shahrouri, and Raya Shanawani; In conversation with artworks from the National Gallery’s collection, featuring artists: Ahmed Mustafa, Asaad Arabi, Ufemia Rizk, Suhail Bisharat, Shaker Hassan Al Said, Riham Ghassib, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Fouad Hattar, Mona Saudi, Nasma Nimry, Ali Jabri, Hani Alqam, Wijdan, Yasser Dweik and others.

This exhibition comes as the culmination of Hiwar workshop: “On Art Archives in Jordan” where the joined participants were invited to choose artworks from the permanent collection of the National Gallery, and take it as a starting point for investigating histories, lineages and narratives that emerge(d) within the art scene in Jordan. Through the process, participants have analyzed and responded to their selections using various artistic, critical, contextual, and archival materials.

Organized by: Ala Younis, Raed Ibrahim, and Khaldoun Hijazin.

ِِAt The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Building 2 – Ground Floor. The exhibition runs until Saturday, 21 September 2019.

OPEN CALL: Hiwar Workshop

“Hiwar Workshops” is an annual program by The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts that provides mentor-ship and a space for innovative cultural discussion and creative production for emerging artists in Jordan and the region. With a focus on the collection of artworks at the National Gallery, this year, art practitioners from all backgrounds and experiences are invited to join a 4-week program of readings, discussions, and technical experimentation, followed by an exhibition.

Selected participants will work closely with art mentors in a series of workshops that will allow them a space to realize their projects and share them with the general public. During the workshops participants will learn how to present, discuss and negotiate their field and leave with new ideas, skills and connections that will hopefully add to the breadth of their practices.

Artists Ala Younis, Raed Ibrahim and Khaldoun Hijazin will be facilitating the workshops and will work as mentors for a select group of emerging artists.
– The workshops will be in Arabic and English. Translation will be available during the workshops.
– The workshop is free of charge.

TOPIC:
In this year’s program, with an emphasis on the permanent collection of the National Gallery, participating artists are invited to choose an artwork that has been produced in Jordan. Their chosen artwork will be taken as a starting point for investigating histories, lineages and tropes that emerge(d) within the art scene in Jordan. Ways into researching these works are supported by the workshop mentor-ship, as well as reading materials, discussions, and studio work. Through the process, participants analyze and respond to their selections using various critical, contextual, and archival materials.

The program culminates in a final exhibition at the National Gallery that presents the participants studies, writings and archival findings juxtaposed with the original work they chose to study, as well as the artwork they develop in response.

SELECTED PARTICIPANTS:
Art practitioners from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.
Applications should be emailed to hiwarartclub@gmail.com with the title: “On Art Archives in Jordan”, including the following requirements:
– Name and contact information.
– Short bio.
– Short text explaining your possible approach to the topic.
– Portfolio of 5 to 10 works on PDF format and should include work titles, dates and media.

Selected participants will be informed via email by July 8, 2019

“Photography and Space” Workshop

Open Call
Practical-theoretical workshop in
PHOTOGRAPHY AND SPACE
Rocio Villalonga, Spain

Darat Al Tasweer
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Cervantes Institute in Amman
As part of The Image Festival Amman #8
Announces an open call for a photography workshop
Photography and Space
with Rocio Villalonga, Spain

Subject:
The workshop discusses photographic techniques in various formats, materials and strategies of its expansion in the space.
From photographic space to photography in space:
– Mural photography.
– The overlay.
– Installation.

The techniques that will be discussed:
1. Cyanotype: is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
2. Photographic transfers.

Participants: Anyone interested in art and photography.

Dates: The workshop is held over three days as follows:
Saturday 20/4/2019 from 10 am to 3 pm.
Sunday 21/4/2019 from 10 am to 3 pm.
Monday 22/4/2019 from 10 am to 3 pm.

An exhibition of the workshop results will be held on Tuesday 23/4/2019.

– Deadline for submission 17 April.
– Participants are required to attend all workshops.
– A professional committee will choose the accepted participants, and preference will be given to those who take precedence in the submission.
– The workshop will be accompanied by Arabic translators.
– The workshop is free and will be held at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts.

To apply, please fill in the “Application Form” your name, age, email, phone number and a brief why you are interested in participating, in Arabic or English, before the deadline.
Application Form: https://forms.gle/jbsyfDVZjjsJjr3b9
Rocio Villalonga- Spain. Has a PHD of Fine Arts. She is a visual artist, independent curator, professor at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche and a researcher at the Laboratory of Artistic and Intermediate Practices. Her artistic activity analyzes the construction of identities, the public and the private, the social, the political, the mass media and the environment. Based on multidisciplinary conceptual practices in the field of installations, photography, and video. She has exhibited in galleries and museums on several continents, and her work is presented in collections of museums and international institutions. Her work is disseminated in publications, courses, congresses, exhibitions and translated into different languages.

“Geometrical Structures & their Application in Visual Arts” Worksohp

We invite you in the next meeting of Hiwar Art Club to participate in the open workshop on geometrical structures and their application in visual arts. The workshop will be conducted by our guest designer and artist Moh’d Musa. This activity comes as part of our February program: “Geometry in Visual Arts”.

Note: For those who wish to participate in the workshop please bring the following: pencil compass, a pencil and a ruler.
The club will provide the rest of tools and materials necessary.

Join our activity at 6 pm on Saturday 23/2/2019 at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Building # 2.

“Social Networks And Activism As A Form Of Art” Intervention

Hiwar Art Club participants will be getting outside the traditional discussion group setting and performing a creative activity outside the gallery space.
The activity will be in the form of a public intervention which falls under the November month theme: “Social Networks and Activism as a Form of Art”. Our meetup will consist of a introduction for the activity, following a short brainstorm for any additional thoughts and finally the actual intervention.

The upcoming activity will also include an intervention which will take place throughout the week, and its outcomes will be shared individually via social media networks.