Areej Ashhab is an artist and researcher working between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice explores material heritage loss, more-than-human ecologies, and land politics through situated and embodied pedagogical approaches. She is co-founder of Al-Block, documenting lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking, and Al-Wah’at, a translocal collective countering anthropocentric and colonial narratives around arid lands and futures.
Areej's work spans material experimentation, land practices, writing, and film, and often unfolds collectively through workshops, walks, and shared meals—moments she sees as sites of memory-making and knowledge exchange. She has exhibited and presented at venues including de Appel (Amsterdam), Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), Wonder Cabinet (Bethlehem), and Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris). She has also taught at institutions such as the Royal College of Art, London, and the Arab American University, Ramallah, and has lectured widely at international universities and conferences.
Areej holds an MA from the Centre for Research Architecture (2022) and is a 2025 resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie with Al-Wah’at. Her writings appear in The Funambulist Magazine, Avery Review (Al-Wah’at), Border Environments (Centre for Research Architecture), and are forthcoming in e-flux Architecture and Living Continuity (Sharjah Architecture Triennial, with Al-Wah’at).
