Steve Sabella
Steve Sabella is an established artist and author who has developed a distinct style of art that has earned him numerous awards and accolades. Born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and based in Berlin since 2010, Sabella's work is a powerful expression of his life and experiences. Widely recognized for his bold artwork, he is able to explore themes of identity and displacement, exile, the effects of colonization, liberation, and the human condition in a powerful way, celebrating the resilience of the human spirit.
Sabella is the author of the award-winning memoir The Parachute Paradox, first published by Kerber Verlag in 2016, tackling the colonization of the imagination. Sabella is also the author of The Artist's Curse - On Being an Artist Navigating The Art World and The Art Market (2023).
In 2023, as part of their 25th-anniversary celebration, Smart Mercedes published a creative book called Always Unconventional, featuring Sabella and a commissioned essay on art as a powerful tool for liberation. In 2008, Sabella received the Ellen Auerbach Award by nomination from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, leading to a monograph study covering twenty years of his art published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2014) with texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen, president of the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and a foreword by artist and art historian Kamal Boullata who described Sabella's work as a dream to discover.
