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Rim Albahrani
- In Her Words
The Work of Rim Albahrani
A short film capturing Rim’s artistic journey — from concept sketches to curated exhibitions. Discover her process, inspirations, and the stories behind her work.
"I do not make homes to define identity — I build to question what it means to belong."
About Rim
Rim Albahrani (b. 1995, Amman, Jordan) is a Swedish-Iraqi interdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher based in New York. Her practice examines themes of diaspora, identity, and memory, informed by a life shaped by cultural and geographical transitions across Yemen, Sweden, Qatar, and the United Kingdom.
Through painting, sculpture, and silkscreen prints, she explores the psychological and spatial dimensions of displacement, using recurring motifs such as houses and abstract architectural forms to symbolize longing, memory, and the evolving concept of home. Drawing on critical theory and narratives of representation, Rim imagines spaces that reflect the tension between nostalgia and the impermanence of diasporic existence. Her work seeks to engage with the universal experience of belonging while questioning the constructs of identity and home in an increasingly interconnected world.
Rim holds a BA and MA in History of Art from the University of York, where she specialized in identity, representation, and critical theory in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on the visual cultures of the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Rim worked as a researcher and curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, where she co-curated the permanent collection display and the exhibition De/Constructed Meanings. Her curatorial and academic work centers on sociopolitical methodologies and non-Western art histories.
Through both research and creative practice, Rim continues to explore what it means to belong in a world shaped by migration, memory, and shifting cultural geographies.
- Previous
- Solo Exhibition – Folkartspace
- Manama, Bahrain
May 2025
- No Man's Land
- Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
February 2025
- Art Cairo
- Salam Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
February 2025
- Women in War
- CAP Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait
September 2024
- Urban Perspectives
- Al Markhiya Gallery, Katara Art Center, Doha
April – June 2024
Group exhibition with Mubarak Al-Thani. A reflection on spatial belonging and imagined cities from above and within.
- Elusive Dreams of Belonging
- Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
April – May 2023
- Education Above All
- Alhosh Gallery & United Nations, Doha, Qatar
November – December 2022
- Exhibition (QODE Art Space)
- Amman, Jordan
August 2022
- A|R Black & White
- Baghdad, Iraq
June 2022
- Berytus… A Glorified City
- Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
May 2022
- Art Show
- Zeitgeist Gallery, Uppsala, Sweden
April 2022
- JADEED: Contemporary Art from the Region [Auction/Exhibition]
- Albahie, Doha, Qatar
March, 2022
- Customize
- M7, Doha, Qatar
March 2022
- Artist Donors
- Institute for Palestinian Studies, Beirut, Lebanon
March 2022
- Qatar Fine Art Exhibition
- Qatar Fine Art Association, Doha, Qatar
February 2022
- ARTBOX
- Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
December 2021
- The Twelve
- Eiwan Gallery, Doha, Qatar
November 2021
- Exhibition
- Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
November 2021
- Regeneration
- Art on 56th, Beirut, Lebanon
September 2021
- Alhosh Gallery x Tarteeb
- Doha, Qatar
September 2021
- Process Part 4
- Al Markhiya Gallery, Doha, Qatar
March 2021
Exhibitions
- Current
- Built Elsewhere
Folkartspace, Manama, Bahrain
May 2025
- Textures of Expressions
Art District Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
June 2025
- More Coming Soon....
Hyperion-X12
2021
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