Abeer Seikaly is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist, architect, designer and cultural producer. Her practice is grounded in ‘acts of memory’: journaling, documenting, archiving and collecting. She weaves ‘narrative threads’ from these memories.
Abeer draws inspiration from traditional knowledge in the Arab homeland. She views her practice as a ‘social technology’ for cultural empowerment. She centers indigenous Bedouin practices to recover the intimacy of handmaking. She travels to Jordan’s Badia (desert), where she engages in Bedouin women’s craftsmanship of textile weaving and tent making.
Abeer co-founded and co-directed Amman Design Week (ADW), a biennial initiative in Jordan that promotes local and regional design. She established ālmamar, a cultural experience and residency program in Amman, Jordan.
Her works have been exhibited at many institutions: Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice (2025); Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi (2025); Vitra Design Museum, Basel (2024); Qatar Museums, Doha (2024); Science Museum, Hong Kong (2023); Science Museum, London (2022); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2022); The Miyake Issey Foundation, Tokyo (2021); Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (2020); MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2018); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2016).
Her works can also be found in the collections of Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan and Barjeel Art Foundation.