Razan Sabbagh

Razan Sabbagh (*Damascus, Syria, 1988) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University with honor in 2011. She has established her own design studio in 2010 and published two illustrated books. The past years she has been working on a collection called „the journey“ that focuses on her and other Syrian’s lives and how it has changed. Since 2013 Razan Sabbagh lives and works in Hamburg.

Razan Sabbagh, Holding the Memory

Group Exhibitions

2021 VON, BIS, AUS, Saarbrücken
RENDEZ-VOUS, DFG, Saarbrücken
GEHEN_BLEIBEN, HBK, by Prof. Eric Lanz and Prof. Mattias Winzen
VON WANN, BIS WANN?, Saarbrücken
2020 STATE OF ART, galerie postel
ABSENCE, Berlin
2019 IN BETWEEN, Galerie Postel, Hamburg
2018 Where ART you from, Baku Gallery, Berlin
2017 Where ART you from?, Baku Galerie, Berlin
Fliegender Teppich, Cologne
Millerntorgalerie, Maastricht
Im Ausland Mom Art Space, Hamburg
250 Jahre HFBK, Hamburg
Utopia,  Millerntorgalerie, Hamburg
Meet the Syrians, Amsterdam
2016 Kampnagel, Hamburg
Kulturbunker Gallery, Cologne
Bürgerzentrum, Cologne
Alte Feuerwache, Cologne
2014 Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg
2013 Sarjah Art Museum, Sharjah
Kreativzentrum, Jubail
2010 National Museum of Damascus
2009 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Damascus
Haddath Campus, Beiruth
Blutspendezentrum, Damascus
2008 Holländisches Kulturzentrum, Damaskus (supp. by ‘Tu De Fyter’)

Performances

2021 FUTURADIO, Hamburg
Behind the walls, Von_Bis_, Saarbrücken,
2020 SMALL TALK, UDK Rundgang, Coculture, Berlin
Space, Mauerpfeife, Saarbrücken
30×30, Public space, Berlin
1 min between 2 stations, Public space, Berlin
2019 Baynatna, Dead-Line, Berlin
‘I’ performance, Bremen
2018 Gefangene des Schneckenhauses, Thalia Theater, Hamburg
Entrance, Thalia Theater, Hamburg
FUTURADIO, MuT Theater, Hamburg
2017 Ritual Circle, Kleiner Michel, Hamburg
What if, Fusion Festival, Hamburg
Kunsthaus, Cologne
Kampnagel, Hamburg
2016 Ingensteds, Oslo
Kulturelles Stadtteilzentrum, Hamburg
2015 live Zeichnung, Universität Hamburg
2014 live Zeichnung, Metropolis Kino, Hamburg

Workshops

2013 Contemporary Islamic Art mit Babak Kazimi an der Sharjah University, Sharjah
2012 Jameel prize workshop des National Museum in Damascus und der V&A ´ ´ London
2009 ECOME’ cultural exchanges in the mediterranean, Beirut
2008 Acrylics paintings with Dutch artists, NIASD ( Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies), Damascus

Sammlungen

Contemporary Islamic Art Museum, Sharjah