A Syrian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin whose practice moves between conceptual art, social transformation, and institutional imagination. Educated in Damascus and later holding postgraduate degrees from institutions in Odense and Frankfurt, he developed what he calls The Practice of Necessity, a methodological framework that positions art as an adaptive system responding to personal and collective urgencies.
Among others, Barakeh collaborates with organisations such as Amnesty International, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and Impunity Watch, contributing cultural strategies to human rights advocacy and transnational justice efforts.
His practice has been supported by funders and programmes including the Ford Foundation, the European Cultural Foundation, AFAC – Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Cultural Bridge (UK–Germany), the British Council, and Creative Europe.
His writing has appeared in publications including Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World (Columbia University, 2026), Global Photography: A Critical History (Bloomsbury, 2020), and Syrian State Torture on Trial (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2023).In 2017, he founded coculture, a Berlin-based nonprofit supporting displaced and underrepresented cultural producers, particularly from Syria and the Global South. In 2026, he established a sister organisation in Damascus, ثقافة مشتركة, to strengthen locally rooted cultural ecosystems.
His work has been collected and exhibited internationally.