Saja Amro

CV


Professional Experience

  • Tutor — Academy of Architecture, NL (March 2025–ongoing)
  • Tutor — Architecture Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL (October 2022–ongoing)
  • Founding Member — Spatial Justice for Palestine Network (February 2024–ongoing)
  • Co-Founder — Mapping Solidarity for Palestine (2025–ongoing)
  • Co-Founder — Common Ground, collaborative artistic, gastronomic & spatial project (September 2020–ongoing)
  • Co-Founder — Remove the Dot, curriculum building (ongoing)
  • Architect / Exhibit Developer — Science Studio, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Palestine (2016–2020)
  • Exhibit Developer / Resident — Exploratorium: Museum of Science, Technology & Arts, San Francisco, USA (2016–2017)

Education

  • Master of Arts in Design (Disarming Design) — Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL (2020–2022)
  • Bachelor of Architectural Engineering — Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine (2010–2015)

On View & Upcoming

  • Architecture of Suspended Time — International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Rotterdam, NL (19 September–29 November 2026)
  • Dreams of Films, Films of Dreams — exhibition scenography, Van Eesteren Museum, NL (2026)
  • Proposals for the Museum Collection 2026 — Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (28 November 2026–April 2027)

Exhibitions & Installations

  • Flour Must Be Cheap — spatial installation, W139, BAK Basecamp, NL (2026)
  • Mapping Solidarity for Palestine — mapping installation and assembly, A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam, NL (4 September–4 October 2026)
  • The Long Songs — with Tewa Barnosa — collaborative sonic and multimedia performance and workshop on Al Raha, feminist oral traditions, flour, and memory; See Djerba Festival, Tunisia (14–17 August 2026)
  • Firearms Prohibited — installation, Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL (26–29 March 2026)
  • Edible Memories — participatory installation & cooking workshop, Notte Verde Festival, Casa delle AgricUlture, Castiglione, IT (August 2025)
  • Remove the Dot — solo exhibition, part of Love, Labour, Liberate series, Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam, NL (December 2024–April 2025)
  • Sitting with Bitterness — spatial installation & performance, Read the Room Festival, Kaai Theatre, Brussels, BE (October 2024)
  • Coffee Table: Ceremonies of Hospitality — spatial installation & food performance, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL (2024)
  • 30 Walls — digital 3D spatial illustrations and installation, Disarming Design Graduation Exhibition, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL (2022)
  • Spells and Mantras from the Displaced — spatial installation, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL (2021)
  • Disclosing Discomforts — scenography, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL (2021)

Performance, Workshop & Hosting

  • Architectures of Suspended Time (expanded) — workshop, Information Design Master's program, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL (1–2 October 2026)
  • The Classroom Is Burning — course designed and taught — an exploration of the classroom as a spatial and power structure, Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, and a self-initiated online course, NL (January 2026)
  • Mujaawara: Neighboring Session — hosting scholar Munir Fasheh, BAK, Utrecht, NL (14 December 2025)
  • Architectures of Suspended Time — participatory mapping workshop, commissioned by Spatial Justice for Palestine Network, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL (24 October 2025)
  • Mapping Solidarity — ongoing participatory mapping, assemblies and artistic research; initiated following a commission by Platform BK; W139, Perdu, Pakhuis de Zwijger & GRONd, Amsterdam, NL (June 2025–ongoing)
  • Activation for Al-Yawm Furak exhibition — performance, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL (10 April 2025)
  • Labour of Love — ongoing artistic research project using collective cooking, food performance, and participatory installation as methods to examine labor, care, mourning, and political imagination. Iterations developed and presented at W139 & Hosts & BAK Basecamp (2023); KASK Curatorial Program, Ghent, BE (June 2024); and Notte Verde Festival, Casa delle AgricUlture, Castiglione, IT (August 2024)
  • Remove the Dot — workshop, New Radicalism Festival, Rotterdam, NL (October 2024)
  • Architecture and Spatial Justice in Palestine — speaker, IABR & Independent School for the City, Rotterdam, NL (November 2024)
  • The Laboratory for Planetary Arts Residency — co-lead, Villa Pianciani, Spoleto, IT (October 2024)
  • Toot Tire — mapping performance, Tire Commune, The After School Residency, Turkey (2024)
  • Student Assembly? — spatial mapping performance, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL (2022)
  • Redesigning the Classroom — workshop, Framer Framed & De Krijtmolen, Amsterdam, NL (2022)

Publications & Talks

  • In and About Palestine: Architecture of Control, Destruction, and Resistance — academic paper discussion, part of panel, BRISMES conference, SOAS, London, UK (23 June 2026)
  • The Arming Act, Reflections on Cultures of Popular Education — thesis, published in Durable Discussions Book (2022)

Grants

  • Mondriaan Fund, Artist Start Grant — recipient (November 2024)

Fellowships

  • The After School Fellowship — Center for Arts, Design & Social Research, İzmir & Nairobi (2023)

Residencies

  • BAK Basecamp — invited by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Utrecht, NL (September 2025–ongoing)
  • Molenwijk Community Center Residency — invited by Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL (June–July 2025)
  • Parasiting: Remove the Dot — W139, Amsterdam, NL (March 2025)
  • UNIDEE Residency Program — Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT (June–July 2024)
  • NWNM Residency — Gouvernement, Ghent, BE (May 2024)

Collections

  • Rola & Ron Nassar Private Collection — Firearms Prohibited (2026)