Saba Innab
Saba Innab is an architect and artist based between Beirut and Amman. Innab’s multidisciplinary practice is cultivated in relation to land imaginaries, modes of building dwelling and time in refugeehood and displacement in the context of settler-colonial occupation and capital extraction. Innab’s work spans across writing, research, drawing, mapping, model-making, spatial interventions and teaching.
She acquired a Bachelor degree of architectural Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (2004). Innab’s architectural practice includes working on the reconstruction of Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee Camp in the North of Lebanon. She has received the visiting research fellowship from Studio X Amman and Columbia GSAPP in 2014. In 2019, Innab co-founded OPPA, a research and architecture collective. In 2021 OPPA launched the first season of ts.ts.tst, a podcast experiment, and published their first publication The Poisonous Eye.
Her exhibitions include: Transition Exhibition, Brücke Museum/ kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, 2021; 57th edition of Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 2018; Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, 2017; Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, 2016, and her solo exhibitions include: Tread Lightly-Leave No Trace, daadgalerie, Berlin, 2023; Station Point, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, 2019; Al Rahhalah, Marfa’, Beirut, 2016; No-Sheep’s Land, Darat al Funun, Amman, 2011. Innab was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow for 2020–2021.
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