Rasha Salti

Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer, and curator of art and film, living in Marseille. She co-curated several film programmes, including Saving Bruce Lee: African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy (2018) with Koyo Kouoh at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Salti has also co-curated with Kristine Khouri the documentary and archival exhibition Past Disquiet at the MACBA in Barcelona (2015), at the HKW in Berlin (2016), the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende in Santiago de Chile (2018), the Sursock Museum in Beirut (2018), the Zeitz MoCAA in Cape Town (2023), and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2024). In 2022, Salti was one of the co-curators of the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg and part of the 12th Berlin Biennial curatorial team.

Past Disquiet is an archival and documentary exhibition that revisits the intersecting histories and universes of militant, artistic, and museological practices connected to international anti-imperialist solidarity movements from the 1960s to 1980s. It tracks one-thousand and one stories of artists and militants, visionaries, and dreamers who organised exhibitions, intervened in public spaces, and created a very particular form of museum to incarnate the causes they were fighting for: museums of solidarity, without walls, and more often than not, museums that were in exile. It stitches together transnational histories bound by solidarity, whose connections had been lost. Beginning from research into and around the story of the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, which was on view in Beirut in the spring of 1978, Past Disquiet travels the world, to Paris, Rome, Rabat, Baghdad, Tokyo, Venice, Santiago, Managua, and Cape Town, back and forth.

Black and white photograph of MoCA - a large, modernist building with geometric shapes and long windows, surrounded by stairs and grassy landscaping.

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Abstract artwork depicting a cityscape with construction cranes and silhouettes of people walking in the foreground.

Art & Solidarity: No Feeling Is Final. Symposium

21–22 September 2024

National Gallery Prague & Lidice Gallery

An international two-day symposium that explores the complex histories of solidarity art collections during the Cold War and their relevance today.