Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country presents the exhibition Rosalind Nashashibi. Get Me A Stone [A1 Gallery, until 1 November 2026], a solo exhibition by Rosalind Nashashibi (London, 1973) featuring a series of paintings produced between 2021 and 2026, as well as the film Occupation of The Inner Life (2026). The works brought together in the exhibition reflect an emotional and political engagement with the current situation in the Gaza Strip. With a Palestinian father, Nashashibi has dedicated several works to this connection with a territory that has been subjected to various forms of violence throughout its history. The exhibition has been curated by Beatriz Herráez, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, and Catalina Lozano, the museum’s chief curator. Artium Museoa has also published an issue in its #Hitzak series to accompany the exhibition featuring texts by the curators and the artist Elena Narbutaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania, 1984). To mark the opening, the museum is hosting a public discussion between the artist and the Gazan poet and curator Mahmoud Alshaer at 6 pm today. Admission is free until full capacity is reached.

Get Me A Stone features a series of paintings produced between 2021 and 2026 by Rosalind Nashashibi. Both the space they refer to and the time frame reflect an emotional and political engagement with the current situation in the Gaza Strip. With a Palestinian father, Nashashibi has dedicated several works to this diasporic connection with a territory that has suffered various forms of violence throughout its history, with particular intensity since the Nakba began in 1948.

Although it is evident in Nashashibi’s work that her two main media, film and painting, permeate each other, in the case of the aforementioned works there is something that painting can bring forth with particular force, counteracting the brutality of the images we have witnessed in the last two and a half years, without turning its back on the necessary acknowledgment of that violence. A space emerges in the pictorial act that goes beyond representation, where the symbolic appears as a way of transcending the illustrative, while also activating the affective as a means to situate oneself. For Nashashibi, the history of painting provides a constant reflection on composition in relation to the historical moments in which certain works emerge. But painting may also be a way of relating to what endures in the distance, a way of working on the distance imposed by exile.

The stones alluded to in the title are symbols of resistance. Various paintings depict hands holding stones as an initial gesture in response to subjugation. Stones, the mineral element, construct an architecture in which life unfolds, although they also provide a space to rebel against the oppression of occupation.

History and memory interweave certain materialities in Nashashibi’s work, the everyday constructing ghostly moments in memory that reaffirm an idea of continuity, of a temporality that resists determinism, essential for affirming a future. The beds, the clothes, the acronym UNRWA constitute a distant and continuous landscape made of diffuse textures.

Get Me A Stone also presents the film Occupation of The Inner Life (2026), which links the actual labour of painting – the production process and on display – with family situations, indicating the affections that ultimately underlie artistic endeavours and political commitments.

In 2021, Rosalind Nashashibi exhibited two works from her filmography at Artium Museoa as part of its Z Gallery programme as well as the painting A Wider Kind of Love, which was produced during her residency at the museum in preparation for the exhibition. The painting was added to the museum’s permanent collection in 2023. Nashashibi is also represented in the collection by the recently acquired film Electrical Gaza (2015). Both works can currently be seen in the museum’s A2 Gallery as part of the group exhibition Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Looks.

Artium Museoa has published a new edition of its #Hitzak series, issue number 30, focusing on the work of Rosalind Nashashibi to accompany the Get Me A Stone exhibition. Alongside contributions from the curators, it includes a text by the artist Elena Narbutaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania, 1984) and reprints another of her pieces, originally published in November 2025 in issue 1 of draught, the Royal College of Art’s digital magazine.

As part of the exhibition’s opening, the museum is hosting a conversation today at 6 pm between Rosalind Nashashibi and Mahmoud Alshaer, a Gazan editor, curator and poet. The conversation forms part of the programme for the AMA Study Centre’s fifth seminar, which is hosting a workshop this morning entitled Un límite a la fuerza [A Limit to Force] led by the philosopher Amador Fernández-Savater (Madrid, 1974).