All Eyes On Palestine

The exhibition addresses the resilience of Palestinian art in the face of the ongoing violence that Palestine and its people endure, and at the same time, the invaluable role of art in preserving the cultural identity of the Palestinian land and its people, in response to the Genocide.

The exhibition addresses the resilience of Palestinian art in the face of the ongoing violence that Palestine and its people endure, and at the same time, the invaluable role of art in preserving the cultural identity of the Palestinian land and its people, in response to the Genocide.

The exhibition will open in Athens in the November of 2025, under the auspices of meta – the Center for Post-Capitalist Culture.


  • Mission statement
  • About Us
  • artists and artwork
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In the midst of a humanitarian emergency, in this era where genocide seems to go unchecked, art cannot remain silent.

This is why the exhibition All Eyes on Palestine is urgent and necessary. The generation of artists born between the two Intifadas expresses an artistic quality that needs to be recognized and named.

Contemporary Palestinian art exists—even if often confined to the diaspora. A colonial attitude, in many forms, censors its existence, naming the countries where the artists were born while erasing their origins, or simply silencing their voices, as recently happened at the Whitney Museum.

The exhibition will be hosted in Athens, in the historical center of the city, where since the 6th century BC, the soul of encounter, commerce, and exchange—the agora—has lived. The space is a restored neoclassical building, generously offered by its owners for this purpose.

The three curators—Elettra Stamboulis (curator and writer), Danae Stratou (artist), and Doris Hakim (Greek-Palestinian artist)—have selected 15 artists whose clear-sighted and poetic perspectives of the Palestinian reality are expressed through diverse visual media, ranging from comics and painting to installation and performance.

The working team, promoted by mέta (The Centre for Post Capitalist Civilisation), is a cultural institution whose advisory board includes figures such as Noam Chomsky, Shirin Neshat, Brian Eno, and Yanis Varoufakis, is made up of professionals who have mobilized out of passion for this cause.

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mέta – the Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilistation, is a cultural and research organisation connected to the political
movements Mera25 and Diem 25. mέta works to break with a dystopic present to imagine the world anew – to grasp our present historical moment so as to help radical progressive movements find a path from the emergent dismal postcapitalism to one worth fighting, and living, for. Culture forms one of mέta’s main priorities — since it is through art and research, argument, and poetry, that mέta works to break with a dystopic present and imagine the world
anew. Art is a trauma, crisis, anger, agony.

In art, the whole of society is embraced and encapsulated — along, of course, with its various barbarisms. Art is political by definition, as it implicitly and explicitly addresses the freedom of the individual and of the collective to express themselves and to take action.

It affects both those who produce it and those who contemplate it.
And, crucially, it has the capacity to make us think and imagine. Art can effect change — if not the world as a whole, then at least people’s perceptions and dispositions. It can criticize and challenge. Art can affect people; it can make us see reality with fresh eyes and reveal hidden perspectives. It has the power to disclose issues to us that are
kept secret or are distorted due to economic and political interests.

Elettra Stamboulis is an independent curator, comics writer and head mistress based in Ravenna., Italy. She was born in Bologna by Greek parents in exile during the Regime of Colonels in Greece.  

She has a degree in Classical Philology cum laude at Università di Roma – La Sapienza. 

She started as Art curator her activity in 1997, after a 2 year special course in Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage,  focusing on young artists and with a special attention to artists at risk or artists committed to Human rights. 

She presented in 2002 Joe Sacco’s work in Italy and curated the first and one of the few exhibitions of Marjane Satrapi in 2003. She was the artistic director of Komikazen Festival (from 2005 to 2015) who was an avant-garde festival dedicated to reality based comics that hosted and presented authors from all over the world with a peculiar gaze to less promoted territories and stories. She was part of the collective of the magazine G.I.U.D.A. Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawing Art. 

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Danae Stratou is a Greek artist known for her large-scale installations and audiovisual works. She studied Fine Arts at Central St. Martins (1983–1988) and later taught at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2007–2013).

Her practice employs digital technology, video, photography, and natural materials to explore themes like climate change, migration, urbanization, and socio-political tensions through a minimalist, geometric aesthetic.

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Doris Hakim is a Palestinian Greek visual artist and a filmmaker. Her background played a significant role in her artistic quest. In her studies, she focused on the Arab Art scene, with a strong feminist vision. Since 2020 she is doing workshops at the University of Seville at the Master’s program about Performance Art.

In 2021, she gave a lecture at the summer course “Visual Arts in the Arab World” at the International University of Andalusia and in 2024 gave a lecture about Art and Politics at the University Paris 8. She also organizes the Palestinian Film festival for mέta (Centre for Post Capitalist Civilisation) since 2021.

Many of her projects are elaborated in public spaces, which also involves the audience.  Her art is her political voice, touching themes such as of human rights, religious and political abuse, gender abuse, criticizing the social injustice especially in the Middle East. 

She had 4 individual exhibitions many performances and over 30 collective exhibitions in many countries. 

This exhibition is dedicated to raising awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Through the work of many Palestinian artists, we aim to create a powerful space for expression and solidarity, where art becomes a vehicle for resistance. This is why the exhibition All Eyes on Palestine is urgent and necessary.

All Eyes on Palestine is scheduled to launch in November 2025 in Athens, and later travel across Europe. Your donation will help us cover the production and transportation costs of the exhibition.

Mission statement

n the midst of a humanitarian emergency, in this era where genocide seems to go unchecked, art cannot remain silent.

This is why the exhibition All Eyes on Palestine is urgent and necessary. The generation of artists born between the two Intifadas expresses an artistic quality that needs to be recognized and named.

Contemporary Palestinian art exists—even if often confined to the diaspora. A colonial attitude, in many forms, censors its existence, naming the countries where the artists were born while erasing their origins, or simply silencing their voices, as recently happened at the Whitney Museum.

Read More

About Us

mέta – the Centre for Post-Capitalist Civilistation, is a cultural and research organisation connected to the political
movements Mera25 and Diem 25. mέta works to break with a dystopic present to imagine the world anew – to grasp our present historical moment so as to help radical progressive movements find a path from the emergent dismal postcapitalism to one worth fighting, and living, for. Culture forms one of mέta’s main priorities — since it is through art and research, argument, and poetry, that mέta works to break with a dystopic present and imagine the world
anew. Art is a trauma, crisis, anger, agony.

In art, the whole of society is embraced and encapsulated — along, of course, with its various barbarisms. Art is political by definition, as it implicitly and explicitly addresses the freedom of the individual and of the collective to express themselves and to take action.

It affects both those who produce it and those who contemplate it.
And, crucially, it has the capacity to make us think and imagine. Art can effect change — if not the world as a whole, then at least people’s perceptions and dispositions. It can criticize and challenge. Art can affect people; it can make us see reality with fresh eyes and reveal hidden perspectives. It has the power to disclose issues to us that are
kept secret or are distorted due to economic and political interests.

Elettra Stamboulis is an independent curator, comics writer and head mistress based in Ravenna., Italy. She was born in Bologna by Greek parents in exile during the Regime of Colonels in Greece.  

She has a degree in Classical Philology cum laude at Università di Roma – La Sapienza. 

She started as Art curator her activity in 1997, after a 2 year special course in Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage,  focusing on young artists and with a special attention to artists at risk or artists committed to Human rights. 

She presented in 2002 Joe Sacco’s work in Italy and curated the first and one of the few exhibitions of Marjane Satrapi in 2003. She was the artistic director of Komikazen Festival (from 2005 to 2015) who was an avant-garde festival dedicated to reality based comics that hosted and presented authors from all over the world with a peculiar gaze to less promoted territories and stories. She was part of the collective of the magazine G.I.U.D.A. Geographical Institute of Unconventional Drawing Art. 

Read More

Danae Stratou is a Greek artist known for her large-scale installations and audiovisual works. She studied Fine Arts at Central St. Martins (1983–1988) and later taught at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2007–2013).

Her practice employs digital technology, video, photography, and natural materials to explore themes like climate change, migration, urbanization, and socio-political tensions through a minimalist, geometric aesthetic.

Read More

Doris Hakim is a Palestinian Greek visual artist and a filmmaker. Her background played a significant role in her artistic quest. In her studies, she focused on the Arab Art scene, with a strong feminist vision. Since 2020 she is doing workshops at the University of Seville at the Master’s program about Performance Art.

In 2021, she gave a lecture at the summer course “Visual Arts in the Arab World” at the International University of Andalusia and in 2024 gave a lecture about Art and Politics at the University Paris 8. She also organizes the Palestinian Film festival for mέta (Centre for Post Capitalist Civilisation) since 2021.

Many of her projects are elaborated in public spaces, which also involves the audience.  Her art is her political voice, touching themes such as of human rights, religious and political abuse, gender abuse, criticizing the social injustice especially in the Middle East. 

She had 4 individual exhibitions many performances and over 30 collective exhibitions in many countries. 

Support This Exhibition

This exhibition is dedicated to raising awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Through the work of many Palestinian artists, we aim to create a powerful space for expression and solidarity, where art becomes a vehicle for resistance. This is why the exhibition All Eyes on Palestine is urgent and necessary.

All Eyes on Palestine is scheduled to launch in November 2025 in Athens, and later travel across Europe. Your donation will help us cover the production and transportation costs of the exhibition.

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