Majdal Nateel

Majdal Nateel (; born 1987) is a Palestinian visual artist and researcher. Her installations and paintings explore themes of war, siege, memory, and amputation, drawing on her experience of life in the Gaza Strip. She left Gaza in 2022 and lives in Sweden.

Early life and education Nateel was born in 1987 in Saudi Arabia to a Palestinian refugee family and grew up in Gaza.

Career Nateel had her first exhibition at the Shababeek for Contemporary Art space in Gaza. She was shortlisted again in 2016 with The Dream Is Possible, a work on the concept of return, exhibited at Dar al Sa'a in Ramallah. The artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke described these paintings as "a profound visual translation of loss and trauma". Works from Studying the Voids of Amputation were shown at the Clandestino festival in Gothenburg in 2024, and one of her paintings appears on the cover of Johannes Anyuru's book Faktan; her family home in northern Gaza, where several of her works were stored, was destroyed during the Gaza war. Her work was shown in On Borrowed Time in Gaza: Art in Confinement at the Monica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver (2021), in the Amos Trust project On Location (2021), In 2026 she exhibited together with Salman Nawati in Sweden. In April 2026 she took part in Spotlight Gaza at the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm, organised with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) and Swedish PEN.