As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present six poems by Palestinian artist Jehad Jarbou (in Arabic).

Sky and Fingers
When you begin to wrap a piece of thread around your fingers,
It reveals the direction of the wind.
Where are you?
Words begin to soar with the breeze, rising into the sky.
You speak to those who cannot hear,
Who cannot read,
Who cannot see.
You are speaking to yourself.
You start scattering words among the clouds:
To my father,
To my brother Hassan,
To all the friends in heaven.
And we are still suspended between sky and earth.
The sound of the airplane still terrifies me.
I’m still disturbed by the war.
I’m still afraid.
Eight months have passed,
And I still haven’t found myself.

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Jehad Jarbou (b. in 1999, Gaza, Displaced in Khan Younis)
Jehad Jarbou is a visual artist. her practice explores the borders related to Gaza as a "prison within a prison.” She is interested in evoking and narrating concepts related to identity, borders, memory, ten miles, and structures through her art. Jihad uses contemporary art as a tool to address these themes, including video art, conceptual photography, and written reflections.

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.