Areej Ashhab is an artist, researcher, and architect whose practice attends to land, material knowledge, and collective learning in contexts shaped by colonial violence and systemic erasure. Working across installation, moving image, writing, and performance, she approaches earth materials such as lime, soil, cactus, and rain as carriers of memory when intergenerational transmission is disrupted. Through long-term work with Al-Wah'at and Al-Block collectives, as well as with collaborator Raghad Saqfalhait, she develops localized methods of counter-mapping and material testing through workshops, walks and shared meals.
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). Her work has been exhibited at W139 (Amsterdam), tranzit.sk (Bratislava) and Wonder Cabinet (Bethlehem). 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).
