Areej Ashhab is an artist and spatial researcher whose practice engages ancestral knowledge, material ecologies, and land politics. She is co-founder of Al-Wah’at, a translocal collective countering colonial narratives around arid lands and futures, and Al-Block, documenting lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking. Spanning material experimentation, land-based practices, film, and writing, Ashhab’s work employs situated, embodied pedagogical approaches—such as workshops, walks, and songs—as sites for memory-making and knowledge exchange. Her work has been exhibited at W139 (Amsterdam), tranzit.sk (Bratislava) and Wonder Cabinet (Bethlehem).
Areej holds an MA from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths (2022) and was a 2025 participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy (with Al-Wah'at). Currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, she has previously taught at the Royal College of Art (London) and the Arab American University (Ramallah). She is the co-author of the artist book The Fast-Growing Stinking Escaped Waste-Loving Wall-Breaching Self-Cloning Other-Than-Natural No-Man's Tree, and her writing is featured in e-flux Architecture, The Funambulist Magazine, and Avery Review (Al-Wah’at).
