Hiba Alakkad is an artist born in Damascus, Syria1 in 981. Since 2013 she has been working and living in Sweden. From a very young age Alakkad has been trained as a painter by professional artists in Syria. She received her BFA from Damascus University, Department of Painting in 2009. She won the youth award at the Youth Artists Contest sponsored by Petro Canada, in Syria. Alakkad has been participating in collective exhibitions and art fairs in Damascus since 2004, as well as showing her work in Beirut, Dubai, Cairo, Amman, London, Venice, Washington and within Sweden. She has had several solo exhibitions, in Damascus, Beirut and across Sweden. She has also participated in art residencies in Lebanon and Jordan. Since 2017 she has participated in 7 two-person exhibitions with the Swedish artist Eva Olsson in Sweden as part of an ongoing a collaborative project. A collection of her art works has been sold to specialist collectors around the world, and to museums such as The Modern Art Museum, Damascus, Sjovde Museum and Exjo Museum, Sweden. Currently she is working as an art educator and workshop leader in Sweden.
About the work: Hiba Alakkads usually works with textile, metals, wood and paper in her paintings, sculptors and installations to create a scene of collage. “For me, the greatest interest that I have experienced in my entire life is creating and developing my artistic expression and my technique. I create my artwork from my memory, therefore my works have appeared very much as a diary. My art shows more of my deep personal images and experiences, but at the same time it reflects the image of being a woman in general.”
works in the exhibition
“Untitled 1-8” (2023)
- installation of 7 painting and mixed media works on paper and 1 sculpture textile & wire
- dimensions sculpture: (50 x 25 x 25 cm approx.)
- dimensions paintings and mixed media works: (variable)
- venue: GALLERI MONITOR
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