Ahmed Kleige

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"Mankind has always been the core of my work, through its details and through colour, I dive into the depths of shape and its implications, in hopes of finding what is silently and subtly hidden.
It’s the longing for faces engraved in memory, refusing to depart. Exhausted facades kneaded with sweat and a sun that sighs away her pains, she is lost, far away from the colours of her soil, in labyrinths that returning from is nothing but a dream.
Women whose feet have lost the warmth of the earth in a far eastern noon.
They stand on the edge of sorrow and anticipation.
These are the labyrinths of the soul."

Ahmad Kleige was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1964 and currently lives in the Netherlands. As a member of the Syrian Fine Arts Union in Damascus, he graduated from Fathi Mohamed Fine Arts Center, Aleppo, in 1988. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Lebanon at Unesco Palace, the American University of Beirut, and the Sursock Museum, as well as exhibitions across Europe. With Galerie Janine Rubeiz, he was part of a concept “Shattered faces” in 2013. He has held several solo exhibitions in Beirut, at Zamaan Gallery and at the Opera House in Damascus. His work has been acquired by different privat...

Graduated from the Plastic Arts School of Aleppo 1987.

>Gallery Zaman solo exposition (Glaring) Beirut 2002. >Gallery Zaman solo exposition (Them) Beirut 2004. >Gallery Zaman solo exposition (Transhumances) Beirut 2007. >Opera House Damascus solo exposition (Transhumances 2) Damascus 2008. >Gallery Naher Al-Khalid Homs solo exposition in Homs 2009. >Gallery Janine Rubeiz (Shattered Faces) Beirut 2013. >Gallery Van Leuke Mense Solo exposition, Netherlands 2016 >Galerie Arti-Shook Rijswijk solo exposition, Netherlands 2017.
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>The spring expositions in the UNESCO Palace, Beirut 2000. >Symposium Ras Al-Maten in Lebanon 2002 (Sculpture). >Exposition (Memories) American University, Beirut 2003. >A sculpture in AZC Heerlen, 2017. >Exposition (Memories of War), Gemeente Sittard, 2019.
His previous works have been acquired by the Ministry of Culture and Education of Damascus, Opera House Damascus and in many other countries in the world.
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