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.

Her practice also encompasses edutainment films, media productions, and workshops for children and young people.

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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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Her animation and educational media productions have reached broad Arabic-speaking audiences. They have been featured at television and film festivals, receiving several awards.

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