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Bissane Al Charif is a stage scenographer and installation artist. She studied architecture at the University of Damascus and scenography at the School of Architecture in Nantes. Working as a scenographer at the Damascus Opera, as well as in cinema and theater, she moved to France in 2012, where she works as an independent artist while further developing her skills in the field of media art.
She has notably designed the scenography for several productions, including “While I Was Waiting,” presented at the Avignon Festival in 2017, and “The Factory” by Omar Abusaada, a performance shown at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin in 2018.
In 2015, she was awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her multimedia installation “Memory(s) of Women,” documenting the stories of eight Syrian women who fled Syria. Her installation project “Sham,” depicting the city of Damascus from the perspective of children, was presented at the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris in November 2017. Her latest installation, “In a Garden I Entered,” in collaboration with Chrystèle Khodr, was exhibited in 2019 at Espace Globe Aroma in Brussels, at Dar El Nemr gallery in Beirut, at the Napoli Teatro Festival, and at the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen.
