About
AREEJ ASHHAB is a Palestinian research artist with a background in architecture. Her practice focuses on community practices and material ecologies, with the land at the centre of her work. She is the co-founder of Al-Block collective, 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. Ashhab has contributed to projects like Between Lime and Clay (with Raghad Saqfalhait, 2023-2024), The Absent Map (Riwaq Centre, 2021-2022), Wild Hedges (Al-Wah'at, 2023-present), and Jerusalem Show IX (Al-Ma'mal Foundation, 2018). She has also taught at institutions such as the Royal College of Art, London, and the Arab American University, Ramallah. Areej holds a masters degree from the Centre for Research Architecture (2022). Currently, she is participating in the 2025 Jan van Eyck Academie Residency as part of Al-Wah'at collective.
Photo by Georgia Mulholland, 2024