Jumana Manna is an American-born Palestinian artist based in Berlin and Norway. She is a graduate of CalArts (MA), the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (BA) and the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (BA). Jumana has exhibited internationally, and recent solo exhibitions include ‘Menace of Origins’ at the Sculpture Center in New York (2014); ‘Untitled’ at CRG Gallery in New York (2013); ‘The Goodness Regime’ at Kunsthall Oslo (2013) and ‘Gebrüder Israels Ausstellungsraum’ at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2013). Her work addresses the body, nationalism, history and the construction of community.
MJFs founding board meeting in Kvalnes, february 2016. Left to right: Gediminas Urbonas, A K Dolven, Yoshiaki Nishino, Katya García-Antón, Hilde Methi, Maaretta Jaukkuri, Thora Dolven Balke, Audhild Dahlström, Mari Jaukkuri, Cecilia Jaukkuri, Francis McKee
The vision of MJF would not be possible without the kind support of many artists including, Kari Cavén, Tony Cragg, Dorothy Cross, A K Dolven, Anne-Karin Furunes, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Cildo Meireles, Esko Männikkö, Bjørn Nørgaard, Markus Raetz, and Gediminas Urbonas.