Haure Madjid, born in Sulaimanya in Kurdistan, studied in his hometown as well as at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where he lives today. In his painting, he decontextualizes Arabic ornamentation and Western figuration and explores the question of how images from different cultures take shape. In long-term series, he transfers memory images into painting. In a series of 15 larger-than-life portraits, he recalls the group of his friends, artists, poets in Northern Kurdistan in the early 1990s. Haure Madjid exhibited his paintings at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2018), at the exhibition Imago Mundi in Venice in 2017 and at the Citadel of Erbil (2013), among others.
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