Great-grandmother’s Tattoos, 2026, © Hendrik Zeitler
2026
News
Alqumit Alhamad has been named Breakthrough Artist of 2026 by Göteborgs-Posten. Read the article here
WARSALONGEN is a charity art exhibition and auction supporting children affected by war and conflict. The initiative is organised in collaboration with Stockholms Auktionsverk and Differ, and benefits War Child Sweden.
The 2026 edition presents 65 works by modern and contemporary artists, generously donated to raise funds for children living in conflict zones.
Vernissage: 10 February 2026, 18.00–20.00, Stockholms Auktionsverk, Nybrogatan 32, Stockholm
WARSALONGEN 2026 includes works from:
Alqumit Alhamad, Anastasia Ax , Angelica Harms, Ann Frössén, Anna Brandt, Anna Forster, Astrid Sylwan, Aylin Eriten, Barbro Ohlson Smith, Bartoz Kowal (Galleri Coulisse), Britta Marakatt-Labba (Galleri Helle Knudsen), Carin Bildt, Carina Marklund, Carina Moberg-Eyre, Cecilia Edefalk (Galleri Nordenhake), Daga Wennerström, Dan Wolgers, Edda Datter, Emilia Lindberg, Emma Malm, Fanny Larsson, Filip Rahim Hansson, Galina Davydtchenko, Gunnar Haller, Hampus Jan-Michael, Hesho Serray, Ida Idaida, Ilias Mani, Ines Sebalj, Joakim Ojanen, Johanna Weimer Blomberg, John Eyre, Jonas Grandér, Karin Holmström, Kersti Rågfeldt, KG Nilsson (Lena & Per Josefsson), Leo Park (Carl Kostyal Gallery), Lisa Larsson, Liselott Watkins (CF Hill), Margareta Petré, Maria Montner, Maria Sandström, Maria Vister, Martin Kaan, Martin Wickström, Mikael Genberg, Nordenhake, Nygårds Karin Bengtsson, Per Myrehed, Robert Hilmersson, Robert Jhaveri, Rose Britten Austin, Rosita Larsson, Salad Hilowle, Samuel Åhman, Sigrid Sandström, Stina Wirsén, Susanne Feinsilber, Susanne Henriques, Tesi Wesrell Gedda, Thomas Hansson, Thomas Holm, Tomas Lacke, Urban Malm, Yasin Lekorchi och Henrik Bonneviver, Yvonne Nimar
Solo exhibition Foreign Object opens January 10 at Gallery CU@Uddenberg, Göteborg. Vernissage January 10.
The exhibition presents 16 new works that return to my original practice of drawing, sculpture, and painting, now approached through abstraction. Moving away from my earlier detailed and surrealistic style influenced by the old masters.
Developed within a long-term investigation of foreignness and opacity, the works stage nordic landscapes and painted fields disrupted by dense geometric forms that refuse assimilation. These foreign objects operate as spatial and material conditions rather than symbols, asserting presence without translation, resolution, or adaptation.
The project also advances a method I developed in 2023, Sleeping as a Method. Initially working with nightmares, the method is used here conceptually to think through disorientation, estrangement, and my position as a subject navigating Western social and institutional structures.
This project is supported by Göteborg City.
Vernissage kl. 12-16
Adress: Kastellgatan 7
2025
News
Göteborgs Stad awards Alqumit Alhamad a 12 month studio support
A Thousand Forms of Resistance at Zenit art magazine.
Opening this Saturday, November 29, at @vanersborgskonsthall at 13:00-15:00.
Exhibition is curated by Saranda Azemi and Märta Cassel.
My new solo exhibition, A Thousand Forms of Resistance – my largest exhibition to date – opens on Saturday, 29 November at 13:00 at Vänersborgs Konsthall.
The exhibition brings together works created under varying forms of censorship. Some were institutional; some emerged through self-censorship; some stem from the cultural expectations that shape the practice of artists navigating contexts marked by war, migration, and trauma.
After 7 October, these pressures became more pronounced. The silence and uncertainty I encountered in several art institutions reminded me of earlier experiences of suppression in Syria. The works in this exhibition were created while negotiating these conditions and examine how censorship continues to influence artistic practice.
The exhibition also includes my largest painting installation to date, as well as a new sound installation developed in collaboration with sound engineer Agnes Cassel.
Exhibition is curated by Saranda Azemi and Märta Cassel.
Swedish Radio’s P1 Kulturnyheter (Culture news) visited my studio in Majorna and interviewed me ahead of the announcement that I had received the Young Swedish Design Award. The reportage is part of a series following a selected group of Syrian artists who arrived in Sweden during the major refugee wave ten years ago and have successfully established themselves in the Swedish art scene. In the interview, I speak in Swedish about my artistic practice, creative process, and my experience as an award-winning Syrian artist who has built a professional artistic life in Sweden.
e-flux: Onassis AiR Fellows 2025–26, featuring Alqumit Alhamad
Participating in ULTRA, a GIBCA Extended exhibition at Studio 69. Vernissage 19 September 2025
Alqumit Alhamad is Onassis AiR Fellow 2026, Athens, Greece
Project War Trauma arrives at IKEA Museum in Ung Svensk Form 2025, vernissage 18 September–12 October 2025
Contributing to France-Based Art Collective Uncivilized Collective’s UMMAH – Divine Oneness, Worship Plurality, a Publication Reimagining Islam Through Plurality and Decolonial Perspectives, Marseille, France
Participating in the group exhibition Konsten att vara/The Art of Being, at SKF/Konstnärshuset, in Stockholm, October 2025
Participating in GIBCA Extended 2025 (Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art) with two projects: a solo exhibition at Vänersborgs Konsthall and a group exhibition at Studio 69.
Featured on Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen: Onboards Biennale 2025.
“This summer, 100 billboards across Antwerp once again serve as the backdrop for various artworks. During the Onboards Biennale, 100 national and international artists are exhibiting their work in the city.”
Watch HERE
Participating in the OnBoards Biennale 2025 at M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Antwerp, Belgium.
Alqumit Alhamad is part of the group exhibition SELFIE/PORTRÄT “Unruly Publishing”, at Museum für Fotokopie (The Museum of Photocopying) in Germany, celebrating its 40th anniversary.
Early preview in the Finnish newspaper of the upcoming solo exhibition I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt at Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
Göteborg Konst has appointed Alqumit Alhamad as one of its newest arts consultants
Upcoming solo exhibition “I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt” at Gallery Platform
Interview with Platform during Hersay residency in Vaasa, Finland
Upcoming Artistic Research Project and Exhibitions in Finland, 2025
Alqumit Alhamad Highlighted as a Promising and Sultry Artist in Swedish Contemporary Art by Alida Ivanov at Sexy Unique Art Sweden, Stockholm Independent Art Fair 2025
Art residency, Vaasa, Finland, from April to June 2025.
Upcoming solo exhibition at Vänesborg konsthall as part of GIBCA Extended 2025, November - Januari
Upcoming solo exhibition “Nature Mortelle” at NSFW gallery, Göteborg
Motivation from the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts for awarding Alqumit Alhamad the Vera and Göran Agnekils Prize, 2025.
Alqumit Alhamad was awarded the Vera and Göran Agnekil's prize by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 2025, Stockholm.
Alqumit Alhamad receives a diploma from HE Marshal of the Royal Swedish Academy Fredrik Wersäll.
Project “War Trauma” at this years Liljevalchs vårsalong 2025, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm
Alqumit Alhamad winning the Postnord sketch assignment for a new postal stamp design, 2025 at Arkdes, Stockholm.
Alqumit Alhamad’s project “War Trauma” won the Ung Svensk Form(young Swedish designers) 2025 contest.