“Syria Art Exhibition – Do Fish Get Ever Seasick?” is curated by Art Space DA:MDAA located in South Korea in partnership with SYRIA.ART.

Art Space DA:MDAA is devoted to representing cross-cultural arts and emerging artists worldwide.

Venue: Art Space DA:MDAA, 38-38 Gil, Dongkyo-ro, Yeonam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 03982
Dates: September 09 – October 14, 2017

We are proud to announce that “Syria Art Exhibition – Do Fish Get Ever Seasick?” is coming soon in Seoul, South Korea. The exhibition is curated by Art Space DA:MDAA in partnership with SYRIA.ART.

The exhibition hosts 5 Syrian artists:

Khaled Takreti
Nizar Ali Badr
Tania Al Kayyali
Noor Bahjat Almassri
Rashwan Abdelbaki 

Kremerata Baltica is a chamber orchestra consisting of young talented musicians from Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). It was founded by Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer in 1997. “I am not living in an ivory tower”, says Latvian master violinist. And so he does not have any fear of exploring new things. Particularly important to him, he emphasizes, is that behind the music there is a genuine statement.

The latest Kremerata Baltica project “Pictures from the East” is a joint venture with Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, which focuses on the dramatic situation in the Middle East and the current refugee problem. Nizar Ali Badr has been capturing the story of refugees from his country, using self-collected pebble-stones from his local beach. His art has become the inspiration for a unique film – the concept of Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, who asked Georgian animator Sandro Kancheli to bring the stone figures to life along with his music. The results are artful poetic animations that show yet nothing but oppression and violence, images of life and death in Syria.

CULTURE & POPULISM: “DO WE BELIEVE THAT ART CAN HELP TO COUNTER POPULISM AND SIMPLIFICATION?”

An event of the FLAX Open Academy for immigrant artists in Germany initiated by FLAX Foreign Local Artistic Xchange in cooperation with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Akademie der Künste Berlin, and with the participation of SYRIA.ART

Dates: 25 – 28 May 2017
Venue: Akademie der Künste Hanseatemweg 10, Berlin, Germany
Photo credit ©Jesco Denzel

Under the near total hegemony of the market and dominant political forces pandering to populism, the production, exhibition and mediation of culture has become increasingly depoliticized, with the “mainstream” widely ceding ground to the extreme right. Furthermore, political and cultural pluralism, once cornerstones of democratic modern and postmodern societies, are increasingly marginalized and denigrated. What is the role of art, cultural actors and institutions in blunting the nefarious impact and pervasive influence of populism? Can art constitute the ground for a counter-culture and the regeneration of democratic, egalitarian and plural social and political imaginaries?

Participants: Natasha Sadr-Haghighian, Inaya Fanis Hodeib, Adam Broomberg, Nasan Tur, Khaled Youssef, and others…

FLAX is a cultural network that promotes exchange, networking and cooperation for local and newly arrived cultural workers, artists and institutions inside Germany. In cooperation with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Akademie der Künste Berlin, FLAX invites newly arrived visual artists in Germany (in the past 5 years), to participate in a four-day workshop, designed as an Open Academy that will include lectures, panel discussions and workshops with established artists and experts from the art world.

Exhibition: Terre natale : ici, là-bas, quelque part ?
Dates: 14 – 20 June 2017
Venue: Mairie du 2e arrondissement, 8 rue de la Banque, 75002 Paris
Opening: Wednesday 14 June at 18:00
Free admission

The question of the home country and homeland, the place where one feels at home, has always been universal. It is even more topical for those people who are fleeing war zones, whose epicenter is the Middle-East, leaving their homes behind and hoping to find a new one in the host countries.

“Terre natale : ici, là-bas, quelque part ?” (Homeland: here, there, somewhere?) is an exhibition organized by four MBA students in Contemporary Art at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Art (IESA) in Paris, in partnership with SYRIA.ART association. The exhibition brings together refugee and exiled artists around the theme of the homeland by allowing them to share their experience.

Professional or non-professional artists, coming from different horizons, they testify through their works of their personal life trajectories and the destinies of their countries stuck in persistent turmoil. Among the works to be seen there are photographs of Nizar Ali Badr’s ephemeral sculptures, Souleymane Baldé’s embroidered canvases, Ali Darwish’s and Samer Tarabichi’s paintings and drawings, as well as Amir Elnour Adam’s documentary photographs.

Please join ArtisTree Gallery in welcoming these works of humanity and connection.

ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery Purple Crayon Productions
2095 Pomfret Road/PO Box 158,
South Pomfret, VT 05067, USA

Exhibition: May 26th – June 8th
Opening Reception: Friday, May 26th, 5:30-7:30pm

On the occasion of  “Nice Solidaire du Monde”  week and in collaboration with the Maison des Associations Garibaldi and the city of Nice, SYRIA.ART presents “L’Art en Mouvement” event featuring the work of Syrian videographers and photo artists.

Event: L’Art en Mouvement
Video Screening: 17/05/2017
Photo Exhibition: 13/05 – 20/05/2017
Venue: Maison des Associations Garibaldi
12ter Place Garibaldi
06300 Nice, France

L’Art en Mouvement

L’Art en Mouvement presents the remarkable work of Syrian videographers and photographers on May 17 at 7 pm at Maison des Associations in Nice, followed by a casual and convivial discussion around a shared glas. The City of Nice supports the event as part of its annual Nice Solidaire Du Monde campaign.

Works by renowned Syrian video artists and filmmakers

Waref Abu Quba, Ghaida Karmeh, Fadi Al Hamwi, Jalal Maghout, Manhal Issa, Julie Nakazi, Huda Takriti, Abdalla Al Omari and Sulafa Hijazi

are complemented by a photo exhibition with Nizar Ali Badr and Khaled Youssef.

Today, video as a medium has taken an important position within contemporary art.

In a world in motion, the perspectives and evolution of video art remain sensitive to technological and computing developments. Advances in these fields are renewing the possibilities of the medium as an innovative means for artistic expression and seemingly augurs a new language to express the world’s ills, convey a message or bring colors of hope.

The Syrian videographers, despite the war that ravages their country, remain connected, too, with the world. They follow the constant technological mutation of video art and its emerging forms of art, and participate in the renewal of both the language and the modes of production and diffusion of this discipline.

The aim of this screening is to present examples of Syrian artistic work in the field of short and animated films. All of the works concerned are of different forms and address diverse issues. Some focus on the disorder of the world, others are interested in the state of mind of the postmodern Man in the era of globalization, while another part revisits the classics of contemporary art by offering a new vision full of colors.