Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1977, Sulafa Hijazi is an interdisciplinary artist and director based in Berlin.

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Her practice spans installation, moving image, print, drawing, and hybrid media. Hijazi often works with drawn and digitally constructed bodies, gestures, and symbols, placing them in new contexts with shifting meanings.

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Growing up and working in media and animation in Damascus, and later living and working in Germany, Hijazi experienced major shifts in media, technology, and politics: from state-controlled broadcasting to satellite television, from analog to digital media, and from the early internet to artificial intelligence, alongside political rupture and war.

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These layered histories and shifts remain active in her work, as subjects, methods, and questions.

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Hijazi’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the British Museum, London; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Wallonie Centre d’Art Contemporain, Liège; and Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich. It is held in the collections of the British Museum, Barjeel Art Foundation, and IMS, Copenhagen.

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She studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, Contemporary Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, and holds an MA in New Media Design from the European University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.