Osama Issa Yahi Zatar, born in 1980 in Palestine, studied from 1996 to 1997 carpentry, architectural drawing and in 2005 stone sculpting with Paul Taylor. In 2008, he started studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, lectured by professor Heimo Zobernig. An overview of his previous expositions: Offering reconciliation, a travelling exhibition organized by the Israeli-Palestinian Forum of Bereaved Families for Peace (2006-2007), What you think you see in collaboration with Active Stills (2008-2009), Overlapping Voices, Israeli and Palestinian artists at the Essl Museum in Vienna (2008), Permanent Breakfast, outdoor sculptures and installations in collaboration with the Ritesinstitute (2009), a trial-students' exhibition of Heimo Zobering's class at the Gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forums in Prague (2009). In 2010, he organised Mortgage, a solo exhibition at the VIDC in Vienna in the context of the Perspective Beyond War And Crisis Conference. In 2011, he presented Travel-light at Mayerhof and Burka, a group exposition at the Osztrák Kulturális Fórum in Budapest. In 2012, he showed Verbrecher und Dekorateure in the Gabriele Senn gallery. In the theatrical season 2014-2015 he was part of Niemandsland, the second play of Yael Ronen at the Schauspielhaus Graz.
