Born 1983 in Libya to Syrian parents

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2005/2008

Painting and sculpture, Private Institute of Fine Arts at Adham Ismail and Walid Ezzat, Damascus, Syria

2007/2012  

The Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Damascus, Syria

2014/2017

The Academy of Fine Arts, Art sculpture, Graduated in Prof. Gregor Schneider’s class at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany

Price

2017

DAAD- for outstanding achievements of foreign students, The Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany

Selected solo exhibitions

2019  

The Math Book, Performance/ Installation, Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland

2017

The Math Book, Performance/ Installation, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2015

Despoten der Gegenwart, Einstein Kultur, Munich, Germany

2014

Fegefeuer, Installation, Inside a bombed house, Kafarnubel, Syria (A liberated part)

Selected group exhibitions

2019

CAA Berlin, A Journey of Belonging 2, Bikini Berlin, Germany

2018

While you were Sleeping, London

Kunst ist ein Ernstes Spiel, Altes Gefängnis in Freising, Munich, Germany

Kiling my Softy, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany

2017

CAA Berlin, A Journey of Belonging, Bikini Berlin, Germany

Debütantenausstellung, Lothringer13 Halle, Institution for international contemporary art, Munich, Germany

DISPLA(Y)CED, Dresden, Germany

Moseik Syrian, Gut Altenkamp Museum, Papenburg, Germany

2016

Clearly Ambiguous, SMAC Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Transfer > Syrien, European House of Art, Schafhof, Bavaria, Germany

2015

Syria off frame, Imago Mundi, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

2014

Turmoil X4, The Mojo Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2011

French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria

2010

Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

2009

Institute of Fine Arts Walid Ezzat, Damascus, Syria

Scholarship

2019

Laboratory of Arts, Syrian Artists Support Program – 6th Edition, Ettijahat independent culture

2018

Gothe Institute, Damascus in exile, Residency program for Syrian artists inside the EXIL, Tokyo, Japan

2017

The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Afac

2015

Laboratory Art, Syrian Artists Support Program, Second Edition 2015, Ettijahat independent culture (in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut)

2016

European House of Art, Upper Bavaria, Schafhof Artist in Residency

2012

Scholarship program for writers and artists, HeinrichBöll Foundation, Germany

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