Greater than 160 artists have donated their work to a web based charity public sale, with 100% of proceeds going towards Médecins Sans Frontières (Docs With out Borders) to help humanitarian aid efforts within the Gaza Strip, the place the lion’s share of buildings and infrastructure have been broken or destroyed because the begin of the Israel-Hamas battle. The 100 Artists for Gaza sale, organised by the artists Mai-Thu Perret, Vidya Gastaldon, Sarah Benslimane and artwork specialist Anne Lamunière, will increase funds for the Geneva-based worldwide humanitarian medical organisation, which has a five-decade historical past of engaged on the bottom in Palestine.
Since Hamas’s assault on 7 October 2023, which killed greater than 1,200 Israelis and wherein greater than 250 individuals had been taken hostage, practically 70,000 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed in Gaza, lots of the victims ladies and youngsters, based on the native heath authority. In September, a United Nations fee of inquiry discovered Israel had dedicated genocide towards Palestinians in Gaza.
Lili Reynaud Dewar, Printemps, 2025 Courtesy the artist and Médecins Sans Frontières
Whereas the sale is titled “100 Artists for Gaza”, the sale really at the moment consists of works by 168 artists. The organisers initially aimed for 100 individuals, however the variety of artists who adopted by on contributing works exceeded their expectations. The work has been exhibited on the Médecins Sans Frontières headquarters in Geneva since 11 November.
“Persons are very enthusiastic. It is fairly shifting to see all of these items collectively, as a result of everybody has their very own manner of responding,” Perret says. “Some artists despatched in outdated works, some individuals responded immediately in relation to the problem.”
Kara Walker, Sunset, 2024 Courtesy the artist and Médecins Sans Frontières
Artists collaborating embody Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Doig and Olafur Eliasson. Lamunière says the fundraiser’s highlights for her embody a delicate spray paint on paper work by the French artist Isabelle Cornaro exhibiting a minimalist model of the Palestinian flag, and a print from the Mexican photographer Cristina Mittermeier. Artists of Palestinian descent collaborating within the sale embody Reema Nubani and Rosalind Nashashibi. Every work within the sale measures roughly 8in by 12in.
“The thought was that works might be shipped from all around the world for as little as attainable, and that each artist may specific themselves in that format, whether or not it was watercolour, collage or picture,” says Lamunière.
Set up view of the 100 Artists for Gaza exhibition at Médecins Sans Frontières headquarters in Geneva Picture by Médecins Sans Frontières Geneva
Whereas the web sale concludes in a dwell public sale on 2 December, potential bidders have registered from greater than 30 nations and have already raised practically SFr150,000 ($185,000). The organisers say they hope to double that determine within the ultimate tally. Through the Geneva public sale, pals of the organisers will host watch events for the sale all around the world, from a pub in Liverpool to a non-public dwelling in Beirut.
“It will likely be form of a world occasion, moderately than simply one thing taking place right here in Geneva,” Lamunière says. “Whether or not persons are going to be bidding or simply present their presence and help throughout the sale, I feel that is form of a magical factor.”
