Khaled Alwarea (b. 1988, Damascus) is a Syrian architect and multidisciplinary artist based in Marseille, France. His practice fluidly blends architecture, visual art, film, and digital media into a unified artistic language, viewing disciplines as tools to express the complexities of human experience.

Rooted in his personal journey from Damascus to Marseille, his work explores themes of identity, displacement, and collective memory. As co-founder and creative director of UV LAB, he has transformed public spaces into immersive environments across Europe and Asia. Notable projects include the monumental "LE KRAKEN" at Les SUBS in Lyon, which was awarded the Mondes Nouveaux grant from the French Ministry of Culture.

His experimental film "Panic Attack" received international recognition, earning the Merit Award at the Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film has been screened at festivals and venues worldwide, including the Oaxaca FilmFest in Mexico and the Scandinavian International Film Festival in Finland.

He created scenography for several performances, such as "Disparu·e·s" and "Les Murs Parlent" by Judith Depaule, "Habitus" by Nidal Abdo, "Rupture" by Maryam Samaan, "Self-Entitlement" by Mahmoud Elhaddad, and "On Marche Sur des Œufs" by Ayoub Moumen.

Through the ongoing project "Syria's Queer Memory," Khaled archives and preserves the hidden histories of the Syrian LGBTQ+ community, shedding light on narratives of resilience and identity. This work has been supported by a Production Grant from Ettijahat – Independent Culture.

His contributions have been honored with awards such as the Marie-Thérèse Alli production award for "Without Interpretation: About Autohomophobia and Other Insecurities," exhibited at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His photography has been exhibited and featured globally, winning an Honorable Mention from the Monovisions Awards in London, UK.

Khaled's multidisciplinary approach is his strength, weaving together diverse mediums to create interconnected works that invite reflection on our shared experience.

Art Residences:

• August 2023
  Chez bushwick - villa Albertine New York, USA

• March 2022
  Warehouse421 - Homebound Residency, Dubai, UAE

• January 2022

  LA BRIQUETERIE, CDCN du Val-de- Marne, France

• October 2021
  Château de Goutelas, Marcoux, Loire, France

Awards and Honors:

• 2023 Guest speaker, Impact Symposium Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany

• 2023 production grant, Sanad in the Digital Realm, Ettijahat – Independent Culture

• 2021 Production Fund Award, Mondes Nouveaux, by the French ministry of culture, LE KRAKEN at Le SUBS Lyon, France

• 2017 Guest speaker, Equal Before the Image Seminar, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Exhibitions:

• 2023 Land, Safety, and Grief
  Free Watermelons - AI-reconstructed Photography
  Oyoun, Berlin, Germany

• 2023 Euphrates, Heritage, Eternity,
  Photography Exhibition.
  Van Loon Museum
 , Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• 2023 Al Ayoun
  Video Art
  Al Beyt Collective, Basel, Switzreland

• 2022 Maintain - Heaven For Artists.
  Installation art.
  Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon

• 2021 Déflagration.
  The Syrian LGBTQ+ Memory “artifact”

  La galerie de l’aa-e, Paris, France

• 2020 Arts From the Future, Information/Misinformation 040820, Participatory Digital Performance.
  Virtual
- USA

• 2020 States of Existence.
  Video Art.
  Virtual - SEAS, Brighton, UK

• 2019 Festival Vision d’exil
  Multimedia Performance/Installation

  Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• 2019 Brown University

  Photography Exhibition 

  Providence, USA

• 2018 Festival Vision d’exil

  Installation art “BRUTALISTa”

  Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

• 2018 Engagement Program

  Audio/Visual Performance “PANIC BY PROXY”

  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

• 2017 Syrian Eyes of the World

  Photography
Exhibition
  UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX MONTAIGNE,
Bordeaux, France