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About

EL BOUM is Berlin based illustrator Jasmina El Bouamraoui.

A graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, their work combines bright colours and narrative figurative elements to address historical and contemporary forms of erasure, particularly where gendered assumptions influence craft, labour, sports, and the stories told about them. They create visual archives that counter omission, reframe overlooked perspectives and open spaces for imagining future narratives.

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Their multidisciplinary practice ranges from illustration and painting to large-scale works on wood, where materiality, surface, and craft processes play a central role.

Education

Postgraduate Masterclass Student KH Weissensee, Berlin, GER

Master of the Arts –  KH Weissensee, Berlin, GER

Bachelor of the Arts –  University of the Arts, Berlin, GER

Awards /
Residency

2026 Ø­Ù„قات (Halaqat), White Villa, Goethe Institut, Cairo, Egypt

2025 World Illustration Awards Cross Category Award Winner

2024 Mart Stam Stipendium, DE

2021 Villa Eläintarha, Goethe Institut, Helsinki, FI

2019 HIAP Suomenlinna, Goethe Institut, Helsinki, FI

2017 No Selfie Thought No Culture. Thessaloniki, GR

2015 Embrace. Taiwan Student Intl. Design Competition. Taipeh, TW

Exhibition

2025 Algorithmic Biases, Group Show, feldfünf, Berlin, DE

2024 The Undocumented Archive of Queer Craftsmanship, Group Show, feldfünf, Berlin, DE

2023 Colors Of Pride, Group Show, The Social Hub, Berlin, DE

2022/23 Wegschauen Verboten! Das Politische Bilderbuch, Group Show, Troisdorf, DE

2022/23 Wegschauen Verboten! Das Politische Bilderbuch, Group Show, Rosenheim, DE

2019 From Riot To Respectability, Group Show, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Deutschland

2016 No Selfie Thought No Culture, Group Show, Thessaloniki, GR

2016 SHAPE, Blank Poster x NODA x Flip, Tromsø, Norwegen

2016 SHAPE, Weltformat Poster Festival, Lucerne, Schweiz

Service

Illustration

Print Design

Advertising

Brand Collaborations

Editorial Illustration​

Art Exhibitions

Book publishing

Screenprinting

Graphic Design

Product and Packaging

Graphic Recording

Campaigns

Selected Clients

Logos of selected clients of the illustrator EL BOUM in a grid next to each other
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