
MARWAN
Works from 1964 to 2008
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg
Marwan Kassab-Bachi (b. 1934, Damascus, Syria – d. 2016, Berlin, Germany) known simply as MARWAN began his career after studying Arabic literature at the Damascus University. In 1957, he moved to Berlin where he attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. He very quickly integrated a group of German expressionist painters, working alongside artists such as Georg Baselitz and Eugen Schönebeck, and spent the rest of his life in Berlin where he became a professor at the Akademie der Künste. Read more




MARWAN: A Soul in Exile, Christie's, London, UK
Works from 1964 to 2008, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany
Works on Paper: 1968-2014, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany
Painting, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Not Towards Home, But The Horizon, Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom
MARWAN: Early Works (1962-1972), Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Topographies of the Soul, Barjeel Art Foundation, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE
MARWAN: Early Works 1962 - 1972, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
MARWAN, Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
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
The 99 Attributes, The Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany
Damascus - Berlin - Damascus, Damascus, Syria
Marwan: Khaddousch or the unknown early work. Watercolors and drawings 1962-1971, Lindenau Museum in Altenburg, Altenburg, Germany
Khaled Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, West Bank
Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll, Germany
Brechhaus Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Al Hanager Hall, Cairo, Egypt
Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Bibliothèque National de Paris, France
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel, Germany
Gallery Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Overbeck-Society, Lübeck, Germany
Bellevue Palace, Documenta Archive, Kassel, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, Iraq
Gruenenbaum Gallery, New York, USA
Orangerie Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Lietzow, Berlin, Germany
Arab Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria
Gallery Springer, Berlin, Germany
In Absence and in Presence: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
GIACOMETTI / MARWAN OBSESSIONS, Institut Giacometti, Paris, France
The Shade, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon
Zeitraffer 1985–2005, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Lebanon
There Is No There There, MMK: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (forthcoming)
Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Icons, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Making New Time, Sharjah Biennial 14, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA
Art in Berlin. 1945 Until Now, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
760 914 cm² print, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
11th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fred-Thieler Prize
– Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
– Darat al Funun: Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
– Solidere, Beirut, Lebanon
– Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlin, Germany
– Berlinische Galerie: Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany
– Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
– Bundeskunstsammlung: The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Bonn, Germany
– Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
– Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
– The National Museum of Damascus, Damascus, Syria
– Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany
– Städel Museum, Fankfurt, Germany
– Städtisches Museum Göttingen, Goettingen, Germany
– Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
– Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
– Städtische Museen Jena, Jena, Germany
– Tate Modern, London, UK
– The British Museum, London, UK
– European Hansemuseum, Lübeck, Germany
– Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
– Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich, Germany
– Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
– Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
– Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
– Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
– Musée-Galerie de la Saita, Paris, France
– Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
– Sammlung der LBS Ostdeutsche Landesbausparkasse AG, Potsdam, Germany
– Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine
– Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
– Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
– Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
– MoMA: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
– Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
– MCA Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, USA
Professor for Painting, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Painting, Hochshule der Künste (HdK), Berlin, Germany
University of Damascus, Arab Literature, Damascus, Syria