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Darat Al Funun (The Khalid Shoman Foundation)

Curatorial Ethos

The foundation operates as a multidisciplinary cultural hub dedicated to preserving and promoting contemporary and historical artistic production across the Arab world. Its programme emphasizes institutional support for artists through residencies and fellowships, while simultaneously building archival resources and publishing scholarly research to contextualize regional creative practices.

Darat al Funun is a non-profit cultural institute and museum located in Jabal al Weibdeh, Amman, Jordan, established in 1997. Operating as a home for the arts and artists from the Arab world, the institution presents current programs, hosts artist residencies, and maintains a dedicated library and research archive. The foundation also supports creative practice through fellowships and publishes scholarly materials alongside its exhibition calendar.

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Artists & People

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Artists

Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.

Akka Hamdan

Akka Hamdan

Oraib Toukan

Oraib Toukan

Akram Zaatari

Akram Zaatari

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Fahrelnissa Zeid

Suha Shoman

Suha Shoman

Vera Tamari

Vera Tamari

Moataz Nasr

Moataz Nasr

Marwan

Marwan

Ahmad Nawash

Ahmad Nawash

Mahmoud Taha

Mahmoud Taha

Farid Belkahia

Farid Belkahia

Rafa Nasiri

Rafa Nasiri

Shaker Hassan al Said

Shaker Hassan al Said

Laila Shawa

Laila Shawa

Duaa Abu Sada

Duaa Abu Sada

Jad Dahshan

Jad Dahshan

Marah Farhat

Marah Farhat

Mayar Kabajah

Mayar Kabajah

Nasser AbuDalbouh

Nasser AbuDalbouh

Obayda Dahly

Obayda Dahly

Waleed Mustafa

Waleed Mustafa

Adnan Yahya

Adnan Yahya

Bady Dalloul

Bady Dalloul

Elias Kurdy

Elias Kurdy

Elo Vega

Elo Vega

Rogelio López Cuenca

Rogelio López Cuenca

Hazem Harb

Hazem Harb

Hazem Harb was born in Gaza, studied at the European Institute of Design in Rome where he received his MFA, and has lived and worked in the UAE for many years. His practice begins in the archive — photographs, negatives, maps, ephemera collected from the fringes of official history — and proceeds through collage assembled with geometric precision. The methodology is borrowed from early twentieth-century collagists who used the technique to make sense of catastrophe; Harb uses it for the same reason, working with material from a place that has been carved up and redrawn many times and whose story cannot be separated from the global forces that produced it. His work is held in the British Museum, the Centre Pompidou and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has participated in Global(e) Resistance at the Centre Pompidou, Observers of Change at the Etihad Museum in collaboration with the Barjeel Art Foundation, and Proximities at the Seoul Museum of Art.

Jayce Salloum

Jayce Salloum

Lobna Al Sana

Lobna Al Sana

Mahmoud Alhaj

Mahmoud Alhaj

Mahmoud Massad

Mahmoud Massad

Nadine Fattaleh

Nadine Fattaleh

Nathalie Frankowski

Nathalie Frankowski

Cruz Garcia

Cruz Garcia

WAI Architecture Think Tank

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Paloma Polo

Paloma Polo

Public Works Studio

Public Works Studio

Rachid Koraïchi

Rachid Koraïchi

Raed Ibrahim

Raed Ibrahim

Salama Younis

Salama Younis

Yura Collective

Yura Collective

Wesam Al Asali

Wesam Al Asali

Abdul Hay Mosallam

Abdul Hay Mosallam

Yara Sharif

Yara Sharif

Nasser Golzari

Nasser Golzari

Architects for Gaza

Architects for Gaza

Zara Julius

Zara Julius

Raeda Saadeh

Raeda Saadeh

Basil Al Maqousi

Basil Al Maqousi

Raed Issa

Raed Issa

Majed Shala

Majed Shala

Sohail Salem

Sohail Salem

Joe Namy

Joe Namy

Areej Kaoud

Areej Kaoud

Joyce Joumaa

Joyce Joumaa

Marah Ghanaiem

Marah Ghanaiem

Hadeel Alkuttob

Hadeel Alkuttob

Shereen Quttaineh

Shereen Quttaineh

Shiraz Khattab

Shiraz Khattab

Rushdi al-Imam al-Husseini

Rushdi al-Imam al-Husseini

Abdul Qadir Al Rassam

Abdul Qadir Al Rassam

Zulfa al-Saadi

Zulfa al-Saadi

Yousef al-Zughbi

Yousef al-Zughbi

Jamal Badran

Jamal Badran

Sophie Halaby

Sophie Halaby

Khalil Halaby

Khalil Halaby

Nijmeh Kharoufeh

Nijmeh Kharoufeh

David Ohanessian

David Ohanessian

Nicola Saig

Nicola Saig

Fathi Safwat

Fathi Safwat

Jawad Salim

Jawad Salim

Lorna Salim

Lorna Salim

Mary Salman

Mary Salman

Jamila Salman

Jamila Salman

Ahmad Freihat

Ahmad Freihat

Ashwaq Merei'

Ashwaq Merei'

Bushra Barghouthi

Bushra Barghouthi

Shahd Haitham

Shahd Haitham

Sadiq Al-Hirasi

Sadiq Al-Hirasi

Omar Ahmad Al-Abed

Omar Ahmad Al-Abed

Mohammad Zaitoun

Mohammad Zaitoun

Hadeel Al-Kuttob

Hadeel Al-Kuttob

Waed Qatawneh

Waed Qatawneh

Yafa Darweesh

Yafa Darweesh

Samira Badran

Samira Badran

Jumana Emil Abboud

Jumana Emil Abboud

Rula Halawani

Rula Halawani

Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum

Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir

Khaled Hourani

Khaled Hourani

Ismail Shammout

Ismail Shammout

Wael Shawky

Wael Shawky

Ammar Khammash

Ammar Khammash

Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad

Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad

Fadhel al Jaziri

Fadhel al Jaziri

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed

Rawia Alhaj

Rawia Alhaj

Anas Saeed

Anas Saeed

Phil Cox

Phil Cox

Mais Fareed

Mais Fareed

IWLab

IWLab

Abeer Aref

Abeer Aref

Abdullah Tabaza

Abdullah Tabaza

Ashwaq Maree

Ashwaq Maree

Awad Hamad

Awad Hamad

Bissan Zayyad

Bissan Zayyad

Delal Alsoub

Delal Alsoub

Farah Al Maaita

Farah Al Maaita

Ghayda Abduljalil

Ghayda Abduljalil

Hashem Al-Souob

Hashem Al-Souob

Mayar Alamleh

Mayar Alamleh

Nada Bashtawi

Nada Bashtawi

Raghad Resres

Raghad Resres

Rania Lardjane

Rania Lardjane

Sadiq Al-Harasi

Sadiq Al-Harasi

Mohammad Rafi'

Mohammad Rafi'

Mohammad al-Asad

Mohammad al-Asad

Salim Moqbel Dahabreh

Salim Moqbel Dahabreh

Curators & programme

Curatorial team and exhibition programming.