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Tammam Azzam’s paper collages and acrylic paintings have been “pictures without names” for twenty years. He leaves it to the beholder to interpret them. Are the works abstract? Or are they figurative, and if so: what do they show? Do they show destruction in Syria, a country at war for ten years now, without the global community being able to find a solution? Or does he paint his new home city Berlin? A city that is always becoming, and never just is, and also a city where there are still traces of the wounds and gaps left by the Second World War and the city’s division from 1945 to 1989.

We are pleased to present new works by Syrian artist Tammam Azzam, Berlin-based, in the exhibition “Temporary Title”. Guided by a universal humanity, his pictorial collages find artistic expression for the unrelenting suffering that people experience through unexpected attacks or wars by tyrannical rulers in the past, present and future. Creativity in the midst of fragmentation. The English expression “temporary title”, with which the artist titled his exhibition, can be translated in Arabic not only as “temporary title” but also as “temporary address“ and refers to the homelessness of people who have been forced to leave their homes due to terror, war or famine.