WAHIB CHEHATA

Lives and works in Paris

Born in 1968

Wahib Chehata. Multiple people in protective gear including helmets, engaged in a task with water and blood splashing, possibly at a disaster or accident scene.

Wahib Chehata is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates between digital technologies and traditional image-making techniques. Working with photography, artificial intelligence, digital manipulation, and mixed media, he investigates the circulation of images and cultural references in an increasingly interconnected world. His works bring together diverse visual languages, creating hybrid compositions that explore identity, perception, and contemporary forms of communication. Through experimentation and technological innovation, Chehata reflects on the evolving relationship between humans and images...Read more

Wahib Chehata explores the tension between the individual and the collective, and the contradiction between personal aspirations and social norms.

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Exhibitions

Wahib Chehata. A large crowd gathers in an open field at sunset, watching a fireworks display with bright red and white explosions in the sky.

Anthropométrie

It is under the double seal of rebirth that Wahib Chehata began his career as an artist. After having practiced various professions related to artistic direction, developed his gaze in the publishing and production circles, he took the plunge in the early 2010s with a very clear vision of what his work should be. By relying on Renaissance painting, he wants to offer new paintings that are not simply images...Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Wahib Chehata. Abstract art with black splatters and golden background textures.

Summer Group Show Level 2

Summer Group Show is thus more than a summer catch. It's a gesture of passage. A moving and open step, thought like a living laboratory. The exhibition evolves, transforms over the weeks, welcoming new works, playing with displacement and surprise. She embodies a moving gallery, listening to an artistic scene in full effervescence…Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Wahib Chehata. Close-up of a woman in a black niqab, black fabric with a seam, showing texture and folds.

Next Level. The Hamid Khellafi gallery changes level for a summer. After the opening of its cycle dedicated to Algerian artists in February 2025, and the first solo exhibitions of Chemsedine Herriche, Adlane Samet and Mehdi Djelil, the gallery inaugurates a new stage with Summer Group Show, an evolving collective exhibition...Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Summer Group Show Level 1

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