Portfolio - Muath Isied

Who am i.

I'm a Palestinian Jordanian seasoned artist and practitioner of experiential learning, a dynamic culture & programme manager, curator, producer, photographer. My journey spans Switzerland, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, where my focus lies in collaboratively addressing societal issues through art in public spheres.

Currently, I'm residing in Basel City, working in Zurich with DROSOS Foundation as a programme manager, overseeing trans-formative cultural and social initiatives in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan.

My curatorial life is paved with collaboration, connecting diverse cultural entities, artists, and communities to execute a variety of captivating projects.

Outer Realms

Here is a compilation of selected projects that I have curated and produced in recent years. These ventures, realized through collaboration with artists from various corners, have involved partnerships with organizations and co-producers spanning the world. Executed in public spaces, these interventions have been a focal point of diverse initiatives, including the Baladk Street Arts Project—an flagship initiative organized under the auspices of Al Balad Theater in Amman. Additionally, they encompass The World Reversed, an art-centric public intervention project orchestrated by Riwaq Palestine, among other notable endeavors.

Millo - 2022

On the edges of Jerusalem - 2022

Water reservoirs require higher grounds, one close to Jerusalem had also limitations.

Seth - 2022

Imagine there are no walls.

Near a shrine in Al-Jib, a child sits on top of the stonewall of a collapsed elevation of a teared down attic of a historic building.

Alexander Isakov - 2021

A fountain of your choice

Amman's Hashmi district public intervention tries to resemble an abstract composition that hints a fountain and plays with the building’s simple architecture.

Vertigo - 2019

Tribute to Farmers

A public intervention celebrating farmers from Colombia all the way to Jordan. the artwork stands as a protest to governments whom always neglect and disparage the profession.

Miramar - 2019

Smooth architecture requires public status?

A mural by the Iraqi artist Miramar ortrait and celebrates the late Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, while Mrs. Hadid’s architecture style rotates around smooth edges, one cannot find such unique sustainable Eco-friendly urban architecture within a boxed shaped city.

Mehrdad Zaeri & Christina Laube - 2019

Imagine

A young woman in a simple dress, she stands firm, her eyes are closed. A flock of birds circles overhead. Unlike the figure of the young woman, the birds do not cast a shadow.

Krash Kid - 2021

Greener, happier people

This mural by the German artist Casper David aka Krashkid protests and animates the impact of public togetherness and the need of more green spaces among the public madness. When cities offer its residents green spaces in which they can come together.

Krashkid - 2022

Break the walls of Qalandiya - 2022

On the walls of an under renovation historic village in Qalandiya, artist Krashkid (Caspar) executes a public intervention using his distinctive style of graphic characters with exaggerated proportions to protest the movements and the nearby checkpoint. Expressing the breaking of barriers and the Aparheid wall surrounding Qalandiya that separates it from the rest of the other villages and towns.

HOMBRE SUK - 2018

BALIM

Why not have something that styles between comics, classic b-boy characters and realism, figurative and cool firmly looking artwork of a woman in a patriarchal society in Amman?

Yazan Halwani - 2016

A Mannequin and a folklore dress

It is meant as an interpretation of the Jordanian, Palestinian and Circassian mixture of cultures with strokes that uses calligraphy & Arabic writing.

SETH - 2021

Three Cages

SETH - 2022

Re-imagine life

Just when you enter the historic village of Qalandiya, you get a glimpse of the lost history and of the people who once lived in these barrel shaped houses.

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Bruno Fredal - 2019

La femme du bus

The work represents a proud and independent Jordanian woman making her way freely through public transport. The goal of the intervention is to raise awareness among the urban population of harassment in public transport, while promoting women’s access to public transport as an essential means of exclusivity. This lack of safe public transportation is a major issue in Jordan, where the rate of working women has not exceeded 18% for the past decade due to not safe public environment.

Yazan Halawani - 2020

Plastic Kingdom

Despite the beauty of the Kingdom of Jordan, walking its streets can be a journey filled with all kinds of trash. as a curator in the city of Amman, my eyes cannot turn away from the abundant shiny plastic bags, glass bottles, soda cans, candy bar wrappers. Yazan drew this public intervention as a protest.

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Dina Saadi- 2018

Reflection

Dina believes that our true ‘reflection’ is not the image we see when we look in a mirror; it is the reflection of our souls, thoughts and values.

Jumu Monster - 2021

You're Strong

This colorful mural shows life through a water vase and palm trees in the background, shown with a strong woman that is holding the vase.

Don Mateo - 2019

Inclusion

Mateo brought his unique line art style all the way from Lyon to Hashmi Al Shamali. He believes that the understanding of his work must be universal, encourage reflection, but to also leave room for interpretation and one’s imagination. So for his wall, he created a portrait of a little girl that he had met the previous year, who had just arrived in France with both her mother and brother.

Dhad Family - 2016

Hamsa

Prior at the time of planning and searching for regional artists, I was astonished to know that in Saudi Arabia there’s a growing graffiti scene despite the conservative country, so once I had the chance I hosted the Saudi graffiti artists at Dhad Store.

SETH- 2021

You're Strong

One of the most picturesque, most peaceful artist brings up the topic of the right to play for children, painting a child forming a tower on a building full of children in Amman.

Lucie Legrand - 2018

Samira

For Legrand, having this big mural right across housing buildings is "extremely important". "It really brings colours and joy to a neighbourhood that seems a bit left out in terms of infrastructure and outdoor decoration and I think it will startle and rejoice more than one passerby," she concluded.

Suhaib Attar - 2020

A tribute to a teacher

After a public story competition, Suhaib Attar painted the portrait of the late mentor and educational activist Nemat Saleh Bseiso Al Mufti in Amman.

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