فادي الحموي

Berlin-based Syrian artist Fadi Al-Hamwi (b. 1987, Damascus) is a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, installation, sculpture, and painting. Central to his work is the mutable nature of form and matter, and the transformative processes that emerge from deconstructing, destroying, and reforming everyday objects and images. His work explores the tension between dormant and actualized expressions of violence and desire. His early works examined latent violence within social structures and later responded to the visible manifestations of violence that erupted across Syria in 2011. He began his practice investigating the tension between dormant and actualized expressions of violence and desire within social structures, which evolved in response to the eruption of visible violence in Damascus in 2011. After moving to Berlin in 2015, subjects such as the transformations of identity across time and space became central to his practice.

Al-Hamwi studied oil and mural painting at the Damascus Academy of Fine Arts (2006–2010) and held his first solo exhibition at Art House in Damascus in 2012. Since then, he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Selected performance installations and exhibitions include Salt Sieve (2024) at Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany; Glass Fountain (2022) at Reuterplatz, Berlin; Human Mistake (2022) at European Art Academy, Trier; and Sugar Forever (2020) during 48 Hours Neukölln, Berlin.

His work has also been presented at major international art events, including the Venice Biennale and NordArt (2015), as well as in art fairs and galleries across Europe, such as The Others Art Fair in Turin, The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Some of Al-Hamwi’s works are collected by art institutions, including the Berjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), as well as private collections in Beirut, Kuwait, and New York.