Osama Zatar

"I was born in 1980 in occupied Palestine. Borders, checkpoints and the feeling of being caged has been a constant experience throughout my life and naturally became a main subject of my artistic work.
My personal struggle against borders increased in the past years. My marriage to an Israeli woman emphasized how separated and segregated Palestinians and Israelis are from each other. My personal fight to break those borders and my struggle to leave Palestine has driven me to concentrate on my artistic work, as a tool of communication with my surrounding, to speak out against these forces." (Osama Zatar)

Osama Zatar was born in Ramallah, Palestine, studied carpentry and architectural drawing in Jerusalem, stone sculpting with Paul Taylor and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Heimo Zobernig.
Besides creating intense self-reflective often life sized sculpting work, Zatar is also actively involved in various projects, that support refugees and immigrants and concentrate on intercultural discourse: