Kevork Mourad

Born in Qamishli, Syria, Kevork Mourad now lives and works in New York where he realizes three-dimensional works on paper and fabric. He makes these using a unique method which is developed through the use of Monotypes and calligraphic gestures. The countries of his origin all tell stories of destroying territories and his works are often built as theatrical backdrops, to not ever forget the devastation of a war that never ended.

The artist works through drawing and quick sketches, squirting paint squeezed from a small bottle into expressive lines, using a finger or a brush to make a sort of symbolic reportage.The rapid and definitive marking, move across the boundaries of figuration and abstraction, creating an exquisite tension between the beauty of the process itself and the inexorable destruction and fragmentation they represent. Mourad is a very versatile artist who often accompanies his installations with video, music,
performance.

Available works

Videos

Available works


  • Tower, 2019

    Acrylic on cotton fabric
    200 x 160 x 160 cm


  • Floating City, 2019

    Acrylic on cotton fabric
    160 x 310 x 60 cm


  • CD 04_PEL_8034


  • Windows on Tomorrow II, 2021

    Acrylic on fabric (3 layers installation) Plexiglas frame, 80 x 59 x 8,5 cm


  • Departure, 2021

    Acrylic on fabric
    66 diam. x 4,5 cm


  • The Gate, 2021

    Acrylic on cotton fabric
    206 x 105 x 4 cm

    Publications

    News

  • Starting from February 15, 2022, the works of Kevork Mourad will be exhibited by the Tanit Gallery in its Munich headquarters, in a beautiful show titled IMAGINARY CITIES: CHAPTER IV, the last chapter of a project divided into 4 different appointments to explore and reinvent the city. In collaboration with Anna Garano, Reisingerstrasse 6 – Munich.

  • On the occasion of the finissage of the two exhibitions THE TIES THAT BIND US by Kevork Mourad and OUT OF THE FRAME – in collaboration with Officina Dario Pegoretti –, Studio la Città organizes a live performance by KEVORK MOURAD, Saturday 5th February 2022 at 11 am. Event by reservation only  – subject to availability. In compliance with current regulations, access will be allowed with the Full Vaccination Certificate (Green Pass) and FFP2 mask.