Rafik Greiss

Rafik Greiss’s work navigates the shifting states of objects and images, exploring their inherent vulnerability and capacity for transformation. Using photography, sculpture, moving-image, and collage, he captures fleeting moments and repurposes found materials, imbuing them with new narratives. His practice often revolves around themes of impermanence, memory, and the quiet poetry of overlooked details, creating works that feel at once intimate and expansive. Through subtle interventions, Greiss recontextualizes materials and forms, allowing them to exist in a state of transition between past and present, presence and absence.

Greiss (b. 1997) is an Irish-born Egyptian artist currently based in Paris. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2020. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul,2025), Kunsthalle Zurich (Zurich, 2024), the Swiss Institute (New York, 2023), and Balice Hertling (Paris), among others. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Balice Hertling in 2021.

By the Highway

Ser Serpas mit Rafik Greiss und Dora Budor