Alissar Almaleh is a Syrian Expressionist artist based in Dresden, Germany. Her art comes from the intense need to materialize her deepest emotions and struggles as tangible objects—something she can actually feel physically, rather than a psychological burden on her soul. Her practice transforms memories and traumas into a communicating medium in her desperate effort to connect with the outside world.
Almaleh believes Expressionism is the essential noted diary for the human emotions, where she pursues EMOTIONAL over PHYSICAL REALITY. Her work translates inner struggles into stark visual form, evident in her black-based drawings. Here, she transforms mental suffering, depression, and anxiety into visuals showing extreme psychological torture. Her thoughts literally become barbed wire that restricts her, leaving her paralyzed and bleeding from psychological invisible scars.
She then turns to colors. Her acrylic paintings carry the heavy weight of her daily effort to go on over those thoughts of agony. She uses rich colors and thick structure to reflect her determination, delivering a message of compassion and showing people who suffer that they are not alone. Her pieces, like Old Damascus: Alley Gilded Night, use heavy texture and gold leaf to express intense nostalgia and displacement. Her crying flower pieces, like Trapped, show the agony of a vibrant prison, illustrating that a confinement made of beautiful Jasmin will still be a confinement.
Almaleh is an actively exhibiting artist, including the "FIRST EDITION: New Voices" show at Boomer Gallery in London (October 2025) and the collaborative live art project "PressureMe (Edition: Paradox of Racism)" at Weltclub Dresden (September 2025). She uses this work as a platform to share the truth of the self. While her primary focus is art, she holds a background in Management Information Systems and studied Theater Studies and Musicology.

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