Salah Saouli

Salah Saouli (* 1962 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese painter and sculptor .

Live and act

Salah Saouli studied painting from 1979 to 1983 at the "Institut des Beaux-Arts" in Beirut. In 1984 he came to Berlin and continued his studies with Marwan Kassab-Bachi at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with a DAAD scholarship and studied sculpture with Christa Biederbick . In 1986 he became a master student of Marwan Kassab-Bachi.

From 1987 he completed studies at the Chelsea School of Art in London, in Caracas and at Arteleku in San Sebastian .

Saouli lives and works as a freelance artist in Beirut and Berlin.

Awards

• 1991: Studio grant from the Karl Hofer Society
• 1995: Scholarship from the Thuringian Ministry for Science, Research and Culture in the studio house of the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen
• 1995–1996: Scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
• 1997: Honorary Prize of the 3rd Sharja International Biennale, UAE Emirates
• 2002: Scholarship at the Nackel Artists' Castle , Brandenburg
• 2003: “Stiftungs-Kulturfonds” grant, Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
• 2006: "Blickachse" art award ("Composition for Mondrian")

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Salah Saouli's works have been shown in over 20 solo exhibitions, including:

• 1993: Licht-Echo , open-air slide projection, Märtyrer-Platz, Beirut, Lebanon
• 1994: The Secrets of the Gods , Goethe-Institut, Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon
• 1994: Timeout , fourth floor gallery, Berlin
• 1994: Rite , Beirut Theater, Lebanon
• 1995: Looking ahead , Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
• 1996: Images , Arab Cultural Institute, Brussels, Belgium
• 1997: Details , Lebanese Art Association, Beirut, Lebanon
• 1997: Schallmauer , Galerie Perron, Delden, Netherlands
• 1997: Tableau , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Housing, Berlin
• 1998: Greetings from Beirut , Maraya Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
• 1999: The Labyrinth 1 , Darat al Funun ', Amman, Jordan
• 2000: The Labyrinth II , Beirut French Cultural Center, Lebanon
• 2001: Crossword , Goethe-Institut, Beirut, Lebanon
• 2001: Marseille Imaginée Marseille Réalité , Artena, Marseille, France
• 2002: Beirut - Berlin via Marseille , Marseille Airport, France
• 2003: Fragments , Cine-Plus, Berlin
• 2004: Obsession , rostrum gallery, Malmö, Sweden
• 2005: Victory Rush , OU Gallery Osaka, Japan

Group exhibitions

Salah Saouli has participated with his work in more than 60 group exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, including:

• 1992: By human hands, Federal Environment Agency Berlin
• 1993: Young Berlin Art , Technical Museum, Prague
• 1993: Rapid eye Movement , Sala de Archivo Diputacíon Foral de Bizkaia, Bilbao
• 1997: International Sharja Biennial, United Arab Emirates
• 1998: Mediterranea , Art Contemporain des Pays Méditerranéens, Brussels
• 1998: International Kleurkopie Projekt , traveling exhibition, Netherlands
• 1999: Expressions , Maraya Gallery, Beirut
• 1999: 20th Alexandria Biennial, Egypt
• 1999: Art in Motion , Pictures on Public Transport, Beirut
• 2000: Wood sculpture exhibition, Højer, Denmark
• 2001: multiplicatas Artena, Marseille
• 2002: 8 artists 8 countries , gallery in the Tempelhof town hall, Berlin
• 2002: Bi-Rout , contemporary art from Lebanon, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
• 2003: Gloria, DisORIENTation House of World Cultures, Berlin
• 2004: Kyoko's Marriage , BE Gallery, Nagoya University of Art, Japan (with Jeannette Lindstett)
• 2005: Amulet I , Mediterranean Encounters, Sud-Est, Parco Horcynus Orca, Sicily, Italy
• 2005: Vision about Nature , Geumgang Nature Art Pre - Biennale 2005, South Korea
• 2006: Composition for Mondrian , Blickachse Skulptur Triennale, Worms
• 2006: Berlin artists against the war , Berlin

Web links

• Salah Saouli's website