Reem Alnatsheh

Artist Statement
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Reem Alnatsheh
Visual Artist's Biography

Reem Alnatsheh, (born 1993, Hebron, Palestine) is an artist based in Paris, France. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from An-Najah National University (2014-2018). Reem joined the consortium in 2024 and was awarded the Ismail Shamout Award by Dar Al Kalima University in 2019.

Reem has participated in contemporary art fairs, including the International Festival of Contemporary Art in Algeria and INT’L Art Fair in Egypt in 2022, and DAR Art Fair in Jordan in 2021. Her work has been featured in collective exhibitions such as “Unanchored, Unaccented, Unbounded” at AAE in Paris 2025, “Earth, Skin, & Stone” at Espace 49 in Paris 2025, “Regimbents” at Maison KaZ 21 in Tonnerre 2025, “Continuum” at Ramallah Municapility 2025,  “Fragments” at 011_Café in Paris 2025, “Resistances” at the Maison des Sciences Sociales et des Humanités in Dijon 2025, “Fragmentation” at Anima Gallery in Qatar, “Expectative d’avent” at L Galerie in Paris, and “Inherited Memories” at Canopy Gallery in Paris. She also exhibited in “Unstable Ground” at La Forge in Souillac in 2024, “RITUALS” as part of the Visions d’exil festival presented by the Atelier des Artistes en Exil at POUSH in Aubervilliers in 2023, “Telling Palestinian story” at Palestine Museum in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA in 2020, ‘where to?’ at Dar El Kalima for Art and Culture in Bethlehem 2019.

Her art has also been showcased in solo exhibitions like “Layers of Identity” at La Maison Bruneau in Paris (2023), “Histoires Premières” at the Bibliothèque de Najac (2022), and “Nos Nsais” at the Bab Al-Dier Gallery in Bethlehem (2020).

Reem has participated in several art residencies in France and Palestine, including La Maison Bruneau in Paris (2022-2024), Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2022), Hosh Qndah Compound residency by Ramallah Municipality (2021), and A.M Qattan Foundation’s visual arts studio residency (2020).

ARTISTIC APPROACH 

Reem Alnatsheh is interested in social geography, exploring the relationship between spaces and societies. Her drawing and painting practice reflects this central concern, continually invoking borders and the restrictions on movement and the human conditions shaped by these lived experiences.

Drawing from Palestinian folktales and mythologies, her work evokes themes of identity, belonging, and resistance. She explores questions of displacement and cultural memory by creating parallels between these stories and the contemporary realities of Palestinian life. 

Situated between figuration and abstraction, her work seeks spontaneity and the liberation of form. Influenced by naïve and primitive art, her use of distorted and fragmented elements expresses a vision of the world and its inhabitants: resilient yet adrift, they intertwine and dissolve into a constantly shifting flow.