Yasmin Barakat is a visual artist based in Cairo, Egypt.
Yasmins work is about the body. Through movement and painting she explores themes of rhythm, boundaries, and change. Yasmins visual language plays with opposing matters, how two entities must exist for a balance to occur. Yasmin’s work is focusses on the idea of the body as a place, explored internally and externally.
BIO
B. 1991 Cairo Egypt
Palestinian,Kuwaiti,Iraqi,Cairo Based
Education
Chelsea College of Art and Design UAL
2010-2011 Foundation
2011-2014 BA Fine Arts
2022-2023 CCDC (Cairo contemporary Dance center)
Exhibitions
SOLO
JUNE-JULY 2021 ‘Still Water Runs Deep’ That Really Cool Studio Art space
GROUP SHOWS
April 2014 BRIDGES Group Show at Unit 24 Gallery London UK
June 2014 Final Degree Show at Chelsea College of Art London UK
Dec 2016 Zamalek Market exhibition, Cairo Egypt
March 2017 Medium' Group Show, Cairo Egypt;organized&curated by the Artists
March 2017 Group Show at MARKAZ space, Cairo Egypt
Dec 2017 'Medium II' Group Show
April 2019 'Karkadeh' Exhibition, Cairo Egypt
Oct 2021 ‘Sedimentary’ Soma Art Gallery
Oct 2021. ‘My Favorite Things 6’ Mashrabia Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
July 2022 ‘Think BIG!’ Mashrabia art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Dec 2022 ‘Do you Abstract’ Mashrabia Art Gallery at President Hotel, Cairo, Egypt
Feb 2023 ‘BLOG’ Exhibition Access Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt