Overview
Samar Martha is Co-founder and Director of ArtSchool Palestine and a freelance curator. Martha has worked with Visiting Arts, London, on a range of projects across the Middle East. She is also a Co-Founder of Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem. Martha has been writing, lecturing and curating exhibitions in the UK and abroad with a particular focus on Palestinian and Middle Eastern contemporary art practices, such as: This Day at the Tate Modern (2007), Still on Vacation at Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo (2007), In/Scene video art exhibition at Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem (2008), The Other Shadow of the City, an international art exhibition at Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem (2009), In/Progress at Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland (2010), Localities at the Rokensdile Museum, Denmark (2010) and Future - Movements Jerusalem at Liverpool Biennial (2010). Since 2005 she has co-curated the annual Palestine Film Festival at the Barbican Centre, London. Martha is currently curating the opening of the first contemporary art museum in Palestine ,the Riwayya Museum, which will open in December 2013 in Bethlehem City, Palestine.