The Open Studio will mark the culmination of the Darat al Funun 2025 Summer Academy, held under the title Rehearsing Realities. It will offer a glimpse into the questions, processes, and gestures that have emerged throughout the program.

Participants have been working under the primary mentorship of artist Raeda Saadeh and have taken part in workshops and studio sessions with Raed Ibrahim, Nadia Bseiso, Khaldoun Hijazin, Sanabel al Far, and Basel Naouri.

Throughout the program, they have been exploring the political, social, and material specificities of the site, its histories, frictions, and rhythms, as a ground for testing relationships between bodies, places, socio-political paradigms, and collective imaginations. The Open Studio will present fragments from these evolving explorations, many of which will take the shape of site specific interventions across Darat al Funun.

Participants: Abeer Aref, Abdullah Tabaza, Ashwaq Maree, Awad Hamad, Bissan Zayyad, Delal Alsoub, Farah Al Maaita, Ghayda Abduljalil, Hashem Al-Souob, Mayar Alamleh, Nada Bashtawi, Raghad Resres, Rania Lardjane, Sadiq Al-Harasi.