Yaser Safi

Yaser Safi, born in 1976 Al-Qamishli, Syria, has been residing and working in Berlin since 2017. He earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking from the College of Fine Arts in Damascus in 1999. Safi's artworks have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, as well as biennials, across the
Middle East, Europe, and the USA. He was a lecturer at the Printmaking Department of the College of Fine Arts and the Adham Ismail Institute of Art in Damascus from 1999 to 2006. Additionally, he supervised the Printmaking Department at the Sharjah Institute of Art in the UAE from 2006 to 2009. Safi was involved as a lecturer in a cultural exchange project between the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany, and Tripoli University in Lebanon in 2010.

Safi speaks Arabic, German and English.