BIO -
Siska was born in Beirut and resides primarily in Berlin. He holds a Master's degree in Film and Audiovisual Arts from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. A key figure in the early Beiruti graffiti scene, Siska has also produced and performed music as part of the Lebanese Hip Hop group Kitaa Beirut قطاع بیروت. A large part of his practice involves archiveology, examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collective memories. It is common for his work to take the form of extended cinema where he applies cinematic codes as well as film language in order to explore various visual narrative techniques.
In 2025, he developed Soundtrax for a Bazaar ($on’ny Music), combining live performance, music, and archival research to revive the cultural memory of Berlin’s Turkish Bazaar at the U2 Bülowstrasse subway station. From 2024 to 2025, Still Waters Run Deep, a 16mm film and performative intervention, explored water as a symbol of migration, hope, and hidden turmoil, linking Liverpool’s history with collective memory. In 2024 he became the artistic director and curator of ADfD - Alternative Monument for Germany, an Augmented Reality Memorial commemorating migration in Berlin that included workshops and public talks at Spore Initiative between other. In 2023, Port Fiction, including The Last of a Time, used archival research and interviews to document the Beirut port explosion. From 2009, Das Kino Projekt merged archives, installation, and experimental screenings across cities. Sunnosphere (2022) reflected on spatial histories. Latent Border(s)(2019) examined migration and border politics between Beirut and Berlin. In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios (2017) explored Lebanon’s lost cinematic heritage. EDL (2011) documented Beirut’s electricity building as a site of modernization and ongoing social conflict. At the Haus der Statistics in Berlin in August-2021, he curated a series of conversations, films, readings, and live performances as the artistic director of redeem ردیم, a platform for ongoing conversations between voices from Beirut in Berlin.
Additionally, Siska has collaborated on numerous performance and music productions, taking a midpoint between his career as a visual artist and performance artist. In 2022, he completed his residency and fellowship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
Siska's work has been internationally shown, including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Halle 14 (Leipzig), Paris 104 (Paris), Beirut Exhibition Center (Beirut), Mosaic Rooms (London), Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) and Silent Green Kulturquartier among others...
Siska was born in Beirut and resides primarily in Berlin. He holds a Master's degree in Film and Audiovisual Arts from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. A key figure in the early Beiruti graffiti scene, Siska has also produced and performed music as part of the Lebanese Hip Hop group Kitaa Beirut قطاع بیروت. A large part of his practice involves archiveology, examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collective memories. It is common for his work to take the form of extended cinema where he applies cinematic codes as well as film language in order to explore various visual narrative techniques.
In 2025, he developed Soundtrax for a Bazaar ($on’ny Music), combining live performance, music, and archival research to revive the cultural memory of Berlin’s Turkish Bazaar at the U2 Bülowstrasse subway station. From 2024 to 2025, Still Waters Run Deep, a 16mm film and performative intervention, explored water as a symbol of migration, hope, and hidden turmoil, linking Liverpool’s history with collective memory. In 2024 he became the artistic director and curator of ADfD - Alternative Monument for Germany, an Augmented Reality Memorial commemorating migration in Berlin that included workshops and public talks at Spore Initiative between other. In 2023, Port Fiction, including The Last of a Time, used archival research and interviews to document the Beirut port explosion. From 2009, Das Kino Projekt merged archives, installation, and experimental screenings across cities. Sunnosphere (2022) reflected on spatial histories. Latent Border(s)(2019) examined migration and border politics between Beirut and Berlin. In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios (2017) explored Lebanon’s lost cinematic heritage. EDL (2011) documented Beirut’s electricity building as a site of modernization and ongoing social conflict. At the Haus der Statistics in Berlin in August-2021, he curated a series of conversations, films, readings, and live performances as the artistic director of redeem ردیم, a platform for ongoing conversations between voices from Beirut in Berlin.
Additionally, Siska has collaborated on numerous performance and music productions, taking a midpoint between his career as a visual artist and performance artist. In 2022, he completed his residency and fellowship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
Siska's work has been internationally shown, including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Halle 14 (Leipzig), Paris 104 (Paris), Beirut Exhibition Center (Beirut), Mosaic Rooms (London), Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) and Silent Green Kulturquartier among others...
