Tammam Azzam, Studio, Berlin
Tammam Azzam’s practice explores architecture, place, and memory through painting, collage, and mixed media. His work reflects the fragility of places and the persistence of memory, shaped by time, destruction, and erosion. Born in Damascus in 1980, he grew up in the village of Ta’ara in southern Syria and currently lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus in 2001 and participated in advanced workshops with the late German-Syrian painter Marwan between 2001 and 2003 in Amman, Jordan.
Azzam gained international recognition in 2013 with The Syrian Museum series, which addressed the tension between destruction and cultural memory. Since relocating to Germany in 2016, he has developed an extensive body of collage works using prepared and colored paper. Through tearing, layering, and reconstructing paper, his work explores fragility, accumulation, and the aesthetics of the unfinished. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collections.