Fragments from our Beautiful Future | The Bumiller Collection Museum | Berlin
2017 Fragments from our Beautiful Future Fragments from our Beautiful Future from Steve Sabella on Vimeo. Catalogue on Kerber Verlag
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BLOCKS | Museo Riso | Albergo Delle Povere | Palermo (Italian)
2021 BLOCKS, the collective curated by Daniela Brignone (art historian) and Daniela Brignone (historian) traces a path that touches stories and consciences all over the world through 54 works by...
القصة الفلسطينية - كان ياما كان | The Palestinian Story | Kan Yama Kan | The Palestinian Museum (video in Arabic)
2018 استكشاف الأعمال الفنية عن قرب: القصة الفلسطينية - كان ياما كان عكس أعمال ستيف سابيلا تجربته في مواجهة الاحتلال، وسعيه الدائم نحو التحرر. خلال اللقاء، سيُقدم الفنان عمله التركيبي...
VIEW FROM INSIDE | Curated by Karin Adrian Von Roques | FotoFest Biennial | Houston
2014 VIEW FROM INSIDE features artists living and working in Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen. Seventeen artists...
German Cool | Salsali Private Museum | Dubai
2015 At 11:00 am on the 11.11.1918, Germany admitted defeat in the First World War and signed an armistice. A new democracy born out of violent revolution. Political, social and...
Intimate Terrains | The Palestinian Museum | Curated by Tina Sherwell
2019 "One of the largest exhibitions of its kind held in Palestine in recent years, it features works by artists representing generations of classical and contemporary Palestinian schools of art....
Neighbours in Dialogue | Curated by Beral Madra (Istanbul) for Ars Aevi Museum Collection in Sarajevo
2007 Contemporary Art Exhibition entitled “Neighbours in Dialogue” presents the works of artists from South Caucasus and Middle East. “Neighbours in Dialogue” is realised under the patronage of Istanbul MetropolitanMunicipality and...
Fragments From Our Beautiful Future | Jill Bumiller | The Bumiller Collection Museum | Kerber Verlag
2017 In 2016, the University Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin launched the Contemporary Interventions in The Bumiller Collection exhibition series in collaboration with Taswir Projects, showcasing the Syrian artist...
Collecting Notes to and For the Future | Nat Muller | Kerber Verlag
2017 Brittle shards of wall enshrined in vitrines mix with a colorful, contemporary take on Arabic illuminated manuscripts. There are timeworn chess pieces and mirrors too. Time seems to ping-pong between...
From the Prolegomenon of Steve Sabella: Photography 1997 – 2014 | Hubertus Von Amelunxen | Kerber Verlag
2017 If we understand irony as a riposte or a horror on the part of a counterpart, a negation embracing the exist- ing and employing the affirmation of the existing,...
An Aesthetics oF Dis/Placement: Steve Sabella’s 38 days oF Re-Collection | Ella Shohat | Kerber Verlag
2017 Steve Sabella’s 38 Days of Re-Collection (2014) suggestively conveys the thrust of the idea of displacement. As metonym, “displacement” signifies the actual movement from place to place, and as...
Beyond Finitude: Steve Sabella’s 38 days of Re-Collection | T.J. demos | Kerber Verlag
2017 How does one materialize the grief of geopolitical dislocation and historical injustice—in this case, that of the occupation of Palestine—into a mode of sensibility, one that isn’t captured by...
Fragments From our BeautiFul Future | Almút sh. Bruckstein | Kerber Verlag
2017 "Sabella’s archaeological-seeming fragments, peeled from the Old City walls of his native Jerusalem with a surgeon‘s care and precision, reach deeper into layers of time and memory. He then...
Palestine | I am the Land and the Land is You | Venetia Porter | The British Museum
2021 "Printed onto a piece of yellow limestone from Jerusalem is an old black and white family photograph of two children playing with a horse in an area close to...
France 24 - Steve Sabella - 1st Biennial of Arab Photography | France 24 English
The Biennial exhibition of photography in the contemporary Arab world is a joint initiative of the Institut du Monde Arabe (the Arab World Institute) and the Maison Européenne de la...
Recreational Purpose: Bahrain Revisited | Sulaf Zakharia | Bahrain National Museum
2014 Steve Sabella’s photomontage features the same cityscape of which Abdul-Jawqad’s building is a part, also at a distance, repeated with its reflection. Standing alongside a similarly sleek work of...