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As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Aya Juha's "Testimony" (in Arabic and English). In this recording the artist recounts the way Israeli's tanks surrounded their home and fired shells at their house, and some of her relatives were martyred.
Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza)
Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering of Palestinians subjected to imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom. How does the experience of an individual reflect and connect to the collective struggle? What does it mean to claim ownership of a body when Palestinians are subjected to what amounts to out-of-body, inhumane treatment? In this context, the body exists in fragments. Do we assume it to be whole if we are not free? Juha sets out to document a body in fragments. By symbolizing pain and unbelievable hardships, she evokes a collective sense of belonging and purpose. Individual lives, fragmented from each other, become a collective experience.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza)
Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering of Palestinians subjected to imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom. How does the experience of an individual reflect and connect to the collective struggle? What does it mean to claim ownership of a body when Palestinians are subjected to what amounts to out-of-body, inhumane treatment? In this context, the body exists in fragments. Do we assume it to be whole if we are not free? Juha sets out to document a body in fragments. By symbolizing pain and unbelievable hardships, she evokes a collective sense of belonging and purpose. Individual lives, fragmented from each other, become a collective experience.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
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By firefly frequenciesAs part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Aya Juha's "Testimony" (in Arabic and English). In this recording the artist recounts the way Israeli's tanks surrounded their home and fired shells at their house, and some of her relatives were martyred.
Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza)
Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering of Palestinians subjected to imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom. How does the experience of an individual reflect and connect to the collective struggle? What does it mean to claim ownership of a body when Palestinians are subjected to what amounts to out-of-body, inhumane treatment? In this context, the body exists in fragments. Do we assume it to be whole if we are not free? Juha sets out to document a body in fragments. By symbolizing pain and unbelievable hardships, she evokes a collective sense of belonging and purpose. Individual lives, fragmented from each other, become a collective experience.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
Aya Juha (b. in 1991, Gaza, displaced in North Gaza)
Aya Juha’s work has long sought to find some meaning from the relentless suffering of Palestinians subjected to imprisonment, torture, and martyrdom. How does the experience of an individual reflect and connect to the collective struggle? What does it mean to claim ownership of a body when Palestinians are subjected to what amounts to out-of-body, inhumane treatment? In this context, the body exists in fragments. Do we assume it to be whole if we are not free? Juha sets out to document a body in fragments. By symbolizing pain and unbelievable hardships, she evokes a collective sense of belonging and purpose. Individual lives, fragmented from each other, become a collective experience.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.