MARWAN
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Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2016
Marwan Kassab Bachi (1934-2016) is an internationally renowned artist, regarded as one of the pillars of modern painting in the Middle East. Living in Berlin since 1957, Marwan’s work embodies the influences of German Expressionism and Sufi mysticism from his native culture. His early works were figurative yet surreal representations of people. Since the early 70s, he increasingly focused on the face, until it became his main subject matter. Each painting is a product of several layers of faces repeatedly painted on top of each other in a flurry of color and brush strokes, in his attempt to discover the inner self, ultimately creating spiritual intensity and depth to his work.
Recent exhibition participations include: Making New Time, Sharjah Biennial 14, (2019); ARTE VIVA ARTE, Venice, Biennale (2017); Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Barjeel Art Center, Sharjah (2014); Kunst in Berlin. 1945 bis heute, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut (2013); Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (2009); Museum für islamische Kunst, Berlin (2008); Darat al Funun, Amman (2004); Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris (1993); Haus der Kunst, Munich (1991). His works can be found in international collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; Tate Modern, London; British Museum, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman; Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle Bremen; National Museum, Damascus; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg and many more international private collections.
Marwan passed away in Berlin, Germany in 2016. His soul lives on in his paintings.
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2018 | Works on Paper: 1968-2014, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany |
2016 | Painting, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
2015 | Not Towards Home, But The Horizon, Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom |
2014 | MARWAN: Early Works (1962-1972), Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal Topographies of the Soul, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE |
2013 | MARWAN: Early Works 1962 - 1972, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon |
2012 | MARWAN, Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey |
2009 | Seventy Five, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Painting, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany Open Until the End - Marwan A Retrospective in Eleven Acts, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany |
2008 | The 99 Attributes, The Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany |
2005 | Damascus - Berlin - Damascus, Damascus, Syria Marwan: Khaddousch or the unknown early work. Watercolors and drawings 1962-1971, Lindenau Museum in Altenburg, Altenburg, Germany |
2004 | Khaled Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan |
2002 | Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany |
2001 | Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, West Bank Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, Germany |
2000 | Brechhaus Weissensee, Berlin, Germany |
1998 | Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
1996 | Al Hanager Hall, Cairo, Egypt |
1995 | Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
1993 | Bibliothèque National de Paris, France Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
1991 | Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
1987 | Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel, Germany |
1985 | Gallery Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, Germany |
1984 | Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany |
1983 | Overbeck-Society, Lübeck, Germany |
1981 | Bellevue Palace, Documenta Archive, Kassel, Germany |
1980 | Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, Iraq |
1976 | Gruenenbaum Gallery, New York, USA Orangerie Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany |
1972 | Gallery Lietzow, Berlin, Germany |
1970 | Arab Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria |
1967 | Gallery Springer, Berlin, Germany |
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2022 | In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany |
2021 | Icons, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium |
2019 | Making New Time, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE |
2017 | Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
2014 | Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA |
2013 | Art in Berlin. 1945 Until Now, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2011 | 760 914 cm² print, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
2009 | 11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey |
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2005 | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
2002 | Fred-Thieler Prize |
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Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman; Solidere, Beirut; State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin; Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin; Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin; Berliner Bank - BerlinHyp, Berlin; Art Collections of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Graphic CollectionVeste Coburg, Germany National Museum Damascus; Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany Städel Museum, Fankfurt / Main; Städtisches Museum Göttingen, Germany; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Municipal Museum Jena, Romantikerhaus, Jena, Germany; Tate Modern, London; British Museum, London; Museum of Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Germany; Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany; Bavarian State Painting Collection, State Gallery of Modern Art Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Ludwig Gallery Castle Oberhausen, Germany; Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris ; Musée-Galerie de la Saita, Paris; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Collection East German Landesbausparkasse LBS, Potsdam, Germany; Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine; Municipal Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris | |
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1980 | Professor for Painting, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
1963 | Painting, Hochshule der Künste (HdK), Berlin, Germany |
1957 | University of Damascus, Arab Literature, Damascus, Syria |