Akram Al Halabi

Syrian, born in 1981 in the Madjal-Shams area of the Golan Heights. He is currently based in Vienna. After receiving a specialist education in painting in Syria, he received an overseas scholarship through the Afro-Asian Institute and from 2007 to 2012 studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, during which time he also had experience as an exchange student at the Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University in Sweden. From 2015 he has been studying Digital Art Composing at the Film Academy Vienna. In 2006 he held the solo exhibition “Papette” at the Art Culture Centre in the Golan Heights and in 2016 another solo exhibition “HEY” at the Maison de la Culture et des Loisirs (MCL) in Metz in France. Aside from that, he has been involved in many international group exhibitions and has exhibited at film festivals. In 2010, in a soccer stadium in his hometown of Madjal-Shams in the Golan Heights, he formed 200 participants into the phrase "Love comes first" written in Arabic.

Cheek

[2015, 1’ 35”]

Visual text: “Mother Hair”, “Child Chin”, “I Have a Dream”, “Burns”, “Child Eyebrow”, “Bread and Blood”, “Stage”, “Akrab Massacre – I want to be alive”, “Larynx Voice” and “Radio Station”

[2011-2017]