Khalil RABAH

Born 1961 in Jerusalem
Based in Ramallah, Palestine

Khalil Rabah is a visual artist and the artistic director of Riwaq Biennale (2005-, Ramallah, Palestine). With a background in and conceptual framework founded on art and architecture, Rabah’s works investigates politics of structures, spaces and spatial arrangements. Rabah’s works include the United States of Palestine Things (2007-2011) and the ongoing projects “The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind” (2003), and Art Exhibition (2010) and most recently Scale Models Area C. His books include 50320 Names, Volume and the 3rd Riwaq Biennale, A Biennale. Rabah has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. His recent solo exhibitions include Art Exhibition, Ready made representations (Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, 2012), Review (Beirut Art Center, Beirut, 2012), Pages 7, 8, 9 (e-flux, New York, 2013) and Scale Models (Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2015) as well as several biennials, including the Sao Paulo, Sydney, Gwangju, Istanbul, Liverpool, Sharjah, Kochi Muziris, Thessaloniki and Venice Biennials.