podium

Saturday–Sunday 13:00–17:00

during exhibitions

For You 2 presents works of 7 Palestinian artists from Gaza. For You 2 extends the Artist2Artist initiative of Ayman Al-Azraq, Liam Alzafari and Shareef Sarhan, cofounder of Gaza City’s Shababeek Art Center. Artist2Artist is a response to the need for artistic organisation after the war on Gaza in 2023 - it was established in 2024, building on Al-Azraq and Sarhan’s collaboration since 2021.

For You 2 is not a typical exhibition. It responds to the rapid changes that have shaped the years 2025 and 2026. During this time, the destruction of Gaza’s cultural spaces has increased. Archives, studios, and art schools have been deliberately targeted and erased. Solidarity movements across borders have faced new restrictions. Showing art from Gaza in Europe now brings risks of censorship, loss of funding, and accusations of bias. The seven artists in For You are not observers. They offer direct accounts of survival and resistance under ongoing violence and blockade.

The title For You 2 asks who this work is for, and the question is urgent. Solidarity must be real and involve risk and responsibility. Preserving artistic life is an act of resistance. This exhibition records the present and insists that witnessing and remembering are ways to resist efforts to erase these stories.