Drisss OuAdahi - The contemporaray architectural painter

Driss Ouadahi is a contemporary Algerian painter. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Paris. He is a graduate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In his works, he combines abstract architectural formal languages with urban structures that have developed from the various districts in Europe or Africa.

In his paintings, in addition to the painterly expressive possibilities of structures that can be compared, which are shown in the respective architecture, the visualization of social processes with the means of painting is at stake. Architecture is anonymous, marginalized, isolated, but can also have the opposite effect when different ethnic groups meet.

In 2018, Driss Ouadahi showed his exhibition "Systems of demarcation" at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal. Last year he also participated in the exhibition L'un et làutre at the Palais de Tokyo , Paris with Mona Hatoum and Tamara K.E., among others.

The running exhibition in my Düsseldorf off-space is to be seen thru April 26.th, 2019 under the title: REZ-DE-CHAUSSEE.

A new interview in the art studio by Bertram Müller with Driss Ouadahi you can read, here:

Dr. Bertram Müller: In Düsseldorf fing für mich das Malen an, Rheinische Post, April 16th. 2019, page C5