Sara Von Kienegger

During my time as an Art Director in the Middle East, I developed the branding and corporate identities of leading companies. Using traditional and digital media, I explored new abstract and expressionistic styles, varying them with the influence of whichever region I found myself in:

In the Middle East, I was fortunate to study with a well-known Egyptian artist and calligrapher, Khalifa El Shimy, and am working with producer Edward Bass on a documentary based on my photographic exhibit of War Shots in Syria. In the Faces of the Middle East exhibition, i wanted the photographs to offer a different perspective of Arab culture than what you would normally be accustomed to in Western culture and media.

While travelling throughout the U.S., I was inspired by the tragic and untimely deaths of many film and music artists to create a series of paintings called "Fallen Stars", and meditating on the character of the cities I have visited around the globe, created my "Cityscapes" Collection.

This year, I have begun to explore more abstract esoteric themes and other media, such as James Franco's student collaborative film, "Artists Anonymous", which I Executive Produced.

Through my art I aim to inspire people from different cul...

Higher Technical Institute of Arts /Graphic & Communication Design

Victims Of War[edit]
Dubai: June 2013
Qatar: July 2013
New York: September 2013
Faces of the Middle East[edit]
Dubai: May 2011
Abu Dhabi: May 2011