BIO

Tarek Elleissy

Born in Alexandria in the year 1977, he received his primary and secondary education at the reputed Collège Saint Marc, he then joined the faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Architecture Division - class of 2000. He started working in interior architectural design and contemporary murals from 1995 to 2004.

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Tarek is a digitization expert as he has been working on digital documentation of original / archaeological artworks and archaeological manuscripts (the original Description of Egypt book and the like) in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina since 2004 until now, which affected his artistic experience.

"Tarek Elleissy is pioneering an artform of Arabic calligraphy that doesn't confirm to the comprehensible Arabic word, he uses Arabic characters to form a hypnotic geometrical ensemble that invites the viewer to interpret the art from their own current mental state and perspective."

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Tarek participated in private and group exhibitions and art workshops, locally in Egypt and abroad since the late nineties until now. The most recent events can be found in our events section.

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Tarek participated in the 3 last editions of “Agenda Exhibition” which is held annually at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He also exhibited at “The Art of Staying at Home”  held at the same venue in 2020. In 2021 Tarek hosted a solo exhibition at the “Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts” (under the name Delalat). In the same year Tarek Won the first place prize at the “The World is in Your Hands” festival at Lamasat Gallery in downtown Cairo.

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Tarek has 4 pieces of artwork on permanent display at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in addition to Private collections.

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Below is a gallery of past events, this gallery is updated regularly as new events and exhibits are completed.