1979 / Gallery 79
A permanent place for art.
Discover the gallery that connected exhibitions, education and collective cultural work.
Palestinian Artist
1948–2003
Issam Bader — The Artist’s Archive
An artist, a ceramicist, and a builder of Palestinian cultural life.
The artist & his history
A life in Palestinian art.
From Hebron to Baghdad and Tbilisi; from the studio to the gallery and the printed page. Explore Issam Bader through his works, documentary records and place in Palestinian art history.
Selected works
Colour, line, place.
Record & legacy
An interconnected history.
Follow the chronology into exhibitions, publications and the records that support them.
Journal
Why this history matters.
Building an Art Movement: The Work beyond the Studio
How exhibiting, organizing and publishing become part of an artistic contribution.
Gallery 79: A Gallery and Its Public
A permanent space, an educational ambition and the interruption of closure.
Ceramics and Everyday Life
Looking at clay, colour, line and the physical encounter with a work.
Public Art and the Life of a Place
Murals, civic settings and the documentary life of an architectural work.