Areej Ashhab (1995, Jerusalem) is a research-based artist and architect working between the Netherlands and Palestine. Her practice explores material heritage, more-than-human ecologies, and land politics through situated and embodied pedagogical approaches. Her work spans material experimentation, land practices, writing, and film, and often unfolds collectively through workshops, walks, and shared meals—moments she sees as sites of memory-making and knowledge exchange in contexts shaped by extraction, displacement, and enclosure. Areej co-founded Al-Block, a Jerusalem-based walking collective that maps lost rural paths and communal knowledge, and Al-Wah’at, a translocal collective cultivating practices of care and repair within ecologies often dismissed as ‘wastelands,’ countering colonial and anthropocentric narratives about arid lands and futures. Her recent collaborations include Between Lime and Clay with Raghad Saqfalhait, Wild Hedgeswith Al-Wah’at, and an artist book on the Tree of Heaven with Ailo Ribas.
