Exhibition from Gaza City art collective opens at IMMA

A new exhibition showcasing works by Palestinian art collective Eltiqa has been unveiled today in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

Titled Eltiqa: How to Work Together, the display showcases work by six Gaza City artists curated by the Question of Funding. It is a collaboration with Art Jameel and tours to IMMA from Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Eltiqa, which is the Arabic word for 'encounter,' have been operating as an art collective in Gaza for 20 years.

The Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, visited IMMA today for a preview of the exhibit. She shared a statement about the presentation.

"I am grateful to IMMA for hosting and facilitating the Eltiqa Collective’s presentation of Palestinian artists from Gaza and their artistic practices at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

"It is wonderful to see 60 works by six Palestinian artists who have managed to sustain this collective despite extraordinary and unimaginable circumstances in Gaza. I hope this exhibition will amplify their voices and convey a powerful message of resilience and hope."

The exhibit features works by Eltiqa artists such as Mohammad Al-Hawajri, Raed Issa, Dina Matar’s, Mohamed Abusal, Abdel Raouf Al-Ajouri, and Sohail Salem.

The display features over 60 artworks, which were created between 2002 and 2025. The pieces range from small notebook sketches, to drawings created on unconventional materials, to large scale paintings and photogrpahs.

The collection explores Palestinian life and community over years of oppression. It features an extensive timeline, spanning from 1948 to 2026. This covers major historical events in Palestine as well as important moments in the lives of Eltiqa members and the Eltiqa gallery in Gaza. The timeline is illustrated with a mixture of archival images and anecdotes that showcase various oral histories.

The Question of Funding gave an insight into the exhibit.

"As the genocide unfolds before our eyes, and Gaza and its people are being systematically destroyed, this exhibition tells the story of a community that has managed to overcome years of oppression.

"The artworks on view arrived at this exhibition from different places and times. Some works were hand-carried out of Gaza with members of the collective who were able to leave during different phases of the genocide, some in late 2023, and others in late 2025.

"Other artworks were smuggled out of Gaza in various ways as an act of preservation. This gathering of works points to a network of solidarity against dispersal and erasure."

From October 29, an outdoor film programme titled Is Everything and Everyone all the Time curated by the Question of Funding will be shown on Living Canvas at the IMMA and will run parallel to the art exhibition.

The programme brings together three films; Basma Alsharif’s We Began By Measuring Distance (2009), Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza(2015), and Oraib Toukan’s When Things Occur (2016), which focus on the impossibility of representing Gaza.

The Question of Funding is a collective of artists and cultural producers from Palestine and around the world. The organisation researches the economic structures of art and aims to produce new economic models for cultural production.

Eltiqa: How to Work Together? opens to the public tomorrow and runs until February 9, 2027. Admission to the exhibit is free.