Akram Al Halabi
Artist
Akram Al Halabi was born in Majdal-Shams (Golan Heights) in 1981. From 1997 until 2000, he studied drawing and painting at Bait Al Fan, supervised by the artist Wael Tarabeh. In 2003, he participated in the summer academy of Darat Al Funun, supervised by Professor Marwan Kassab Bashi, in Amman, Jordan. After studying at the Faculty of Fine Art Damascus, Syria, he finished his BA of Fine Art in 2005. Through the One World Scholarship of the Afro-Asian Institute, he came to attend the Academy of Fine Art of Vienna in 2007, finishing his studies with distinction in 2012 with the class of Professor Erwin Bohatsch. During this period, he also was an exchange student at the Academy of Fine Art Umea, Sweden. Since 2015, he is a MA student at the Film Academy / Digital Art Compositing, Vienna.
He is working and living in Vienna, Austria.
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Akram Al Halabi
Artist
Akram Al Halabi was born in Majdal-Shams (Golan Heights) in 1981. From 1997 until 2000, he studied drawing and painting at Bait Al Fan, supervised by the artist Wael Tarabeh. In 2003, he participated in the summer academy of Darat Al Funun, supervised by Professor Marwan Kassab Bashi, in Amman, Jordan. After studying at the Faculty of Fine Art Damascus, Syria, he finished his BA of Fine Art in 2005. Through the One World Scholarship of the Afro-Asian Institute, he came to attend the Academy of Fine Art of Vienna in 2007, finishing his studies with distinction in 2012 with the class of Professor Erwin Bohatsch. During this period, he also was an exchange student at the Academy of Fine Art Umea, Sweden. Since 2015, he is a MA student at the Film Academy / Digital Art Compositing, Vienna.
He is working and living in Vienna, Austria.
[via Saatchiart]
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John Bock: PARA-SCHIZO, ensnarledOct 26 – Dec 13, 2023After a five-year hiatus, German artist John Bock is returning to New York to inaugurate his eleventh exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery with a “lecture” (performance) on the night of the opening. Bock’s universe is a bold, even daring synthesis of different genres including sculpture, performance, and film. In it, material objects, language, and the human body are given equal value; their interactions are powered by the logic of the collage principle, the combination of disparate entities to create a new thing. (more…)
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Jean Sabrier, Ce qu’on ne voit pasApr 7, 2023 – Apr 28, 2024Jean Sabrier (1951 Cestas – 2020 Bordeaux) was a self-taught and multifaceted artist; for five decades, he developed a protean body of work that stands at the crossroads of art history. His poetic and subtle pieces blend rigour with humour, creating sensory experiences that both enchant and unsettle the viewer. (more…)
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MeltwaterAug 17 – Nov 30, 2023Each spring, icebergs calved from the west coast of Greenland make their way into the Labrador Sea, floating through ‘Iceberg Alley’ and eventually past the coast of Fogo Island where they drift into warmer waters as they slowly melt. (more…)
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Alice Rekab / MehrfamilienhausFeb 16 – May 14, 2023Museum Villa Stuck presents Alice Rekab’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Rekab explores cultural and personal narratives – stories that are told about us and by us. (more…)
