Born in Damascus in 1980, Tammam Azzam is a contemporary Syrian artist currently living and working in Germany. Over the years Azzam’s practice has encompassed painting, paper collage and digital works all of which grapple with the conflict of his homeland.
He is recognized for his work depicting the dilapidated buildings of his native Syria, providing insight into the sheer extent of ruin and destruction on the ground and the importance of rebuilding from destruction. Being on the edge to abstraction, his works emphasise an emotional access to the depicted rather than a descriptive one.
He furthered his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus. Azzam has since participated in international exhibitions such as the Middle East Institute in Washington (2021), the Rudolf Stolz Museum in South Tirol (2020), FUU-Street Art Festival, Sarajevo and Vancouver and Alexandria Biennales. More recently, he has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin in 2021; Haines Gallery, San Francisco in 2019; Ayyam Gallery in Dubai, The Armory Show in New York and Columbia University among others.
He gained international attention for his work in which Gustav Klimt’s iconic ‘The Kiss’ was overlaid onto a crumbling building.
Courtesy of Galerie Kornfeld and the artist.
