BIO

Nabil Abu Ghunaimah

A Palestinian visual artist, born in Gaza in 1984. His artistic practice was profoundly shaped by the harsh living conditions within a politically besieged environment, where even his movements became acts laden with symbolic meaning. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from Al-Aqsa University in 2008. After working as an art teacher, he fully committed himself, since 2014, to an independent artistic career encompassing fine arts, children’s book illustration, and animation production. He also founded a collaborative animation collective with emerging artists.

His artistic trajectory branches into two intertwined paths:

• An ongoing aesthetic exploration aimed at developing a distinctive style based on deconstructing and re‑shaping forms into an expressive flexibility that responds to emotional and mnemonic tensions.

• A visual and intellectual development that reconsiders major themes—freedom, identity, dispossession, and collective memory—through Palestinian popular symbols and myths, bridging reality and imagination.

His work is influenced by contemporary expressionism, particularly the approaches of Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer, who delve into intersections of history, myth, and memory via bodily, emotionally charged undertones. In his context, myth is more than mere narrative; it is employed as a tool of resistance against marginalization and as a means to expand spatial and temporal awareness—transforming the contemporary Palestinian experience into an open symbolic language for universal interpretation.

Nabil utilizes a wide array of media, including acrylic, oil, ink, collage, and digital techniques, sometimes incorporating non‑traditional materials to enhance symbolic and emotional expressivity. He integrates digital drawing tools to build composite, multilayered scenes, especially in animation and illustrative projects. Refusing to be bound by a single technique, he selects the medium that best serves the idea, maintaining his artistic form in a constant state of becoming and expressive tension.

In the realm of animation, he adopts hybrid styles that combine visual simplicity with symbolic tension to deliver short, intense stories imbued with profound humanity.