Berlin / Graphic Designer / Visual Designer
Ahmed Isamaldin
Graphic and visual designer working across editorial systems, digital interfaces, exhibition formats, and research-led cultural communication.
Braunschweiger Strasse 3, 12055 Berlin
ahmedisamaldin@gmail.com+49 1577 7015287https://ahmedisamaldin.comhttps://github.com/kaliaAldinProfile
Berlin-based graphic and visual designer from Khartoum with a practice spanning print, editorial, web, exhibition, and digital design.
Combines visual communication, artistic research, and technical production with experience in cultural institutions and socially engaged contexts.
Available for graphic design, visual design, editorial, web, and cultural communication roles.
Experience
Cultural work, communication, and design across institutions and collaborative initiatives.
Sept 2024 - Present
Head of Media & Communications
Center for Environmental and Social Studies (CESS), Berlin
Leading communication, editorial, and visual output across media channels.
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
Artistic Assistance
Digital Freedom Fund, Berlin
Contributed artistic research within the Decolonising the Digital Rights Field process.
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Graphic Designer
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Designed print and online media, publications, and communication materials.
Aug 2017 - Sept 2022
Co-Founder
Wagen Design Collective, Berlin
Worked across print design, web design, and game design.
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Curator and Programmer
Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
Jan 2013 - Jan 2015
Public Relations and Media Supervisor
Nabta Art Center, Cairo
Managed advertising, communication, website, social media, and annual magazine editing.
May 2014 - May 2016
Co-Founder and Coordinator
ArtVsWar Campaign, Khartoum
Led campaign design, publication materials, partner coordination, and volunteer mobilization.
Education
Visual communication, media art, and a scientific foundation.
Oct 2021 - Dec 2025
MA Visual Communication
Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
Scholarship: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Oct 2016 - Sept 2021
BA Visual Communication
Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin
Final score: 1.2, Scholarship: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Oct 2021 - Now
Media Art
Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
Photography / Graphic Design
Fusion Academy Centre, Cairo
Oct 2005 - Oct 2011
Bachelor of Physics
University of Khartoum, Khartoum
Final thesis in cosmology focused on solar neutrino problems, grade A
Languages
- Arabic (native)
- English (fluent)
- German (fluent)
Software
Coding
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions and festival presentations.
- Maknana / Diriyah Art Futures, Saudi Arabia, 2025
- European Digital Rights Initiative 20th Anniversary, Brussels, 2023
- PARALLAXIE, Kunstverein Springhornhof, 2022
- Transmediale, Berlin, 2021-2022
- Sudan Moves, Goethe-Institut Khartoum, 2021
- PROYECTOR Video Art Festival, Madrid, 2020
- Internet of Things Another World Is Possible, Darat Al Funun, Amman, 2020
- Art City Bologna / Teatri di Vita, Bologna, 2020
- The Soil Is an Inscribed Body, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2019
- The Elephant in the Room, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin, 2018
- The Lightest Shade of Aflatoon, Schwules Museum, Berlin, 2016
Publications
Texts, essays, and editorial contributions.
- Yemen Circles of Fire, Weird Economies
- Sudan: A Revolutionary Tale, Not a Tale of War, Arts of the Working Class
- New Perspectives in Sudanese Artistic Expression, Schirn Magazine
- Two Images from the Sudanese Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- The Migration into Virtuality: Reflections on Digital Transformations, Sudan Moves / Goethe-Institut exhibition
- Negotiating Opacity and Transparency in the Art Academy, with Miriam Schickler and Ulf Aminda, in Allianzen Kritische Praxis an weissen Institutionen