Wassem Alahmad

b. 1986 in Qamishli, Syria

Lives and works in Celle, Germany

Wassem Alahmad is a visual artist who uses painting as his central medium to create dense, vibrant pictorial spaces in which perception, memory, and inner states flow into one another.

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2025 | Swing, FREIRAUM, Celle
2023 | Emotions, but Too Late, Wandliebe Tapetenmuseum, Celle
2022 | Outside the Circles, Wandliebe Tapetenmuseum, Celle
2020 | Third Lung, Wandliebe Tapetenmuseum, Celle
2018 | Galerie am Kleinen Plan, Celle
2016 | The Holiest Moment of Death, Wandliebe Tapetenmuseum, Celle
2016 | Kamishli, Syria
2015 | Kamishli, Syria
2010 | Latakia, Syria

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2025 | Connections, FREIRAUM, Celle
2025 | MGH, Celle
2018 | MGH, Celle
2017 | Autonomous Region Kurdistan, Iraq
2015 | Diyarbakir, Turkey
2015 | Kamishli, Syria
2014 | Kamishli, Syria
2013 | Kamishli, Syria
2012 | Kamishli, Syria
2009 | Latakia, Syria

Memberships

Member of the German Association of Visual Artists (BBK), Celle district group.

Collections

His works are held in private collections in Germany, Syria, and Iraq.

Press (Selected)

2025 | Cellesche Zeitung, "Swing – Between Two Times"
2023 | Cellesche Zeitung, "What I Paint Bursts Out of Me"
2022 | Cellesche Zeitung, "Artistic and Emotional Opening"
2018 | Cellesche Zeitung, "Expressive Coming to Terms with War"

Languages: Kurdish (native), Arabic (native), German, English