Taysir Batniji

Born in Gaza in 1966, Taysir Batniji studied art at An-Najah University in Nablus, Palestine (1994), and at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, France (1997). Until 2006, he divided his time between France and Palestine, between two countries and two cultures, from which he developed a multimedia practice spanning drawing, installation, photography, video, and performance. Batniji’s work, often marked by impermanence and fragility, draws on his personal history as well as on current events and the broader course of history. His approach consistently distances, displaces, extends, conceptualizes, or simply plays with the initial subject, ultimately offering a poetic, and at times acerbic, perspective on reality. Recent monographic exhibitions include Les Rencontres d’Arles (2018), MAC VAL in Ivry-sur-Seine (2021), Mathaf in Doha (2022), and the Palazzina dei Giardini in Modena (2025–26).

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