Curated by Nina Möntmann and Jack Persekian
Partners and venues:
- Al Khalifa Restaurant
- Al Tannour Bakery
- A.M. Qattan Foundation
- Austrian Hospice
- Centre for Jerusalem Studies –Al Quds University
- Collège des Frères
- Gallery Anadiel
- International Academy of Art Palestine
- Jerusalem Hotel
- The New Imperial Hotel
- Nicola Zaphiriades
- Palestine c/o Venice
- PADICO
- Popular Pharmacy
- Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation and the 3rd Riwaq Biennale
- Shabaka Network of Arab Cineclubs
- Spafford Children’s Centre
- Swedish Christian Study Centre
- Versavee Café
The Jerusalem Syndrome – the psychotic, delusional phenomenon that is reputed to affect around a hundred pilgrims and visitors to the ‘holy city’every year – was adopted as a metaphor and curatorial thematic of the third Jerusalem Show. Jerusalem is imbued with the historical associations that have been invested in it and which have shaped it, where every stone is alleged to have spiritual meaning to the different faiths. It can be an overwhelming and trance-inducing experience for the travellers and pilgrims, with their already heightened sense of spiritual/religious awareness, who come in their thousands to visit its many iconic places of significance. In the year Jerusalem was the designated Arab Capital of Culture, the artists in the third Jerusalem Show turned their attention to contemporary aspects of the city: the surveillance and control, the divisions, the city as the focal point of imposed monolithic ideologies, activating their perceptions in their own interpretive ‘syndromes’, from poetic or performative to fictional and documentary ones.
Jshow III Artists
- Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
- Nevin Aladag
- Mustafa Abu Ali
- Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
- Tarek Atoui
- Samira Badran
- Taysir Batniji
- Federica Bueti with RAM (Radio Arte Mobile)
- CAMP Studio (Mumbai)
- Nathan Coley
- Phil Collins
- Kajsa Dahlberg
- Jumana Emil Abboud
- Andrea Faciu
- Issa Freij
- Dora Garcia
- Ra’ouf Haj Yihya
- Suheir Hammad
- Mahmoud Hojeij
- Khaled Hourani
- Maider López
- Ken Lum
- Sliman Mansour
- Olaf Nicolai
- Ria Pacquée
- Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal
- Wael Shawky
- Ala’ Younis
** Film programmes curated by Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili, and Rasha Salti (co-presented with ArteEast)