As part of the GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION we present Hala Eid Alnaji's "Return" (in English and Arabic). In this powerful recording, the artist recounts her family’s history of displacement tracing back the thread of loss from her exile through Gaza and to the Nakba."Return" is part of the installation "Nazeh’s Lexicon: The Language of Displacement".
Hala Eid Alnaji (b. in 1988 in Gaza, Displaced outside Gaza) is an architect, an artist, and a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster in London. She holds a master’s degree in architecture and two years of advanced research in decolonizing architecture from the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm. Hala concluded her curatorial studies at the Curator Lab of Konstfack University-Stockholm. As a curator, Hala spearheaded the curation of the Decolonizing Arts and Counter-speculations exhibition, which took place in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, she serves as a member of the Jurors Committee for the Palestinian Cultural Fund Grants, organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in Ramallah, Palestine. Hala’s professional experience extends across various NGOs and higher education institutions worldwide. She has worked as a researcher with Fargfabriken in Stockholm, as a visiting researcher at the University of Palestine in Gaza, and as a lecturer at the University of Brighton, in the United Kingdom. As a dedicated researcher, Hala has presented and published numerous articles and research papers at conferences throughout Europe and the Middle East. Her first book, "Scatterers in the Shadow", was published in 2022.
GAZA BIENNALE BERLIN PAVILLION, November 21 to December 21, 2025
Exhibitions: Flutgraben, Khan Aljanub, AGIT, MBC
Public programs: Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28
The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.
Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.
Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.
With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.
The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.
