Tammam Azzam: A New York Debut

Biographies

• Tammam Azzam

  Artist

  Tammam Azzam is a Syrian-German artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. Born in Damascus in 1980, he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University before relocating to Germany, where he has lived and worked since 2016. His work examines the city, landscape, and the built environment, exploring the ways architecture, memory, and history are continually transformed through painting and image-making. Azzam has exhibited internationally at institutions and biennials across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America, and his works are held in numerous public and private collections.

• Saria AlMidani

  Curator

  Saria AlMidani is a writer, researcher, and curator. He is the Curatorial Department’s Assistant at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, where he contributes to exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and collections management. His research and writing focus on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, with particular interests in museum histories, collections, and cultural memory. His work has appeared in Aljumhuriya, Syria Untold, and Jeem, among other publications. He is the co-author, with Dr. Anneka Lenssen, of a forthcoming essay on Syrian artist Moustafa Fathi to be published in Chronicle of the 1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey. In 2026, AlMidani was awarded Ettijahat – Independent Culture's Research: To Strengthen the Culture of Knowledge grant, through which he is developing research on the making of Syrian art history through museums, collections, and public memory.