Khaled al-Khani

Khaled al-Khani (born 17 February 1975) is a Syrian painter, currently living in Paris. Following the Syrian revolt, he has made manifest his anti-regime stance.

Work Al-Khani is an artist whose works include oil painting and mural painting. His work focuses on people, whether individuals or groups, as well as women.

Early years Khaled al-Khani was born in the ancient neighborhood of Albarodiah in Hama. At the age of seven, he lost his father, an ophthalmologist, to the Hama Massacre under the presidency of Hafez el-Assad in February 1982. He also participated in various artistic events, including the symposium of painting and sculpture of Ehden, which takes place every year at Mount Lebanon. His paintings from late 2010 show a difference from previous work, with the colours becoming brighter, although the subjects of the painting appear to follow a narrative thread, as if each painting were a fixed moment in a long novel.

Work in Paris Three months after the start of the popular uprising in Syria, Khaled al-Khani was forced to escape his country. He is wanted for his part in popular demonstrations in Damas against the President Bachar el-Assad and for having published a series of articles denouncing the 1982 massacre at Hama, for many years a taboo subject in the history of Syria.

In 2013, the museum Kunsthalle zu Kiel in Kiel, Germany, invited Khaled al-Khani to exhibit a mural painting in the museum. In a large viewing gallery, Khaled painted in an expressionist style scenes that appear to be extracted from everyday life in Syria. In the beginning of 2014, his exhibition Portrait was held at the la galerie Europa in Paris.

From 2014 to 2015, he was a participant in the Syrian cultural caravan.