{"id":2413,"date":"2020-06-15T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharzuher.be\/biography-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:15:48","slug":"biography-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saharzuher.be\/?page_id=2413","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sahar Zuher<\/h1>

Sahar Zuher (b. Baghdad, Iraq) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kapellen, Antwerp. Working across painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, sculpture, and video, she incorporates materials such as rusted metal, cardboard, scrap fabric, antique paper, ink, and wood to explore memory, identity, displacement, and survival. Her childhood, shaped by war and forced migration, profoundly informs her work, which transforms worn garments, fragmented scripts, and makeshift shelters into visual languages of resilience.<\/p>

Arabic calligraphy, particularly geometric Kufic script, recurs throughout her oeuvre as both a personal reflection and a vessel for collective cultural memory. Zuher is best known for Once Upon a Time<\/i>, an installation narrating the story of a fighter who carried his lover\u2019s letters through war\u2014fragile yet enduring symbols of connection stronger than violence. This work, which employs six printmaking techniques layered on Lokta paper treated with ink and coffee, marked a milestone in her practice as her first sculptural work presented to a professional audience and was awarded first prize by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, leading to a solo exhibition.<\/p>

Among her other important series, Monoprint on Postcard<\/i> (2002\u20132004) reflects on family correspondence during the fall of Iraq\u2019s regime, using symbolically encoded monotype prints to explore the fading intimacy of handwritten letters. Fragile<\/i> (2016) examines the social consequences of war, particularly its impact on children, transforming photographs and media images into works depicting hunger, illness, loss, and displacement. Recent works expand into stop motion, animation, and installation, addressing migration, the history of Iraq, the lives of working children, and cross-cultural connections inspired by Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/i> and Islamic concepts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Her technique merges traditional printmaking methods\u2014monotype, drypoint, linocut, lithography, and screen printing\u2014with contemporary mixed-media processes. She layers, erases, and re-inscribes elements, stains paper with coffee and ink to evoke age and memory, and incorporates textiles or garments to embed traces of lived experience. Zuher\u2019s style is defined by layered surfaces, textured materiality, and the interplay between abstraction and symbolism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2025 \u2013 Group Exhibition, Voor Kunstwerkt, CC De Schakel, Waregem, Belgium<\/p>

2025 \u2013 Group exhibition, the juried exhibition Magrafika
2025 \u2013 Group exhibition, 2025 \u2013 Group Exhibition, M HKA Museum \u2013 Antwerp Participation with an animated film in remembrance of the Belgian artist Panamarenko.<\/p>

2025 \u2013 Solo exhibition, The Gallery Iraq \u2013 Baghdad
2025 \u2013 Solo exhibition, Kunstkring Jacques Gorus \u2013 Antwerp
2024 \u2013 Group exhibition, Zomerexpo, Campo Campo \u2013 Antwerp<\/p>

2023\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions At Blackbox \/ Royal Academy of Fine Arts<\/span><\/p>

2022\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation Blikfabriek, in Antwerp<\/span><\/p>

2020\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation stadsmagazijn<\/span><\/p>

2020\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibition, Stadsmagazijn, \u00a0Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2019\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibition,\u00a0 villa de gravier brakel<\/span><\/p>

2018\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions, The Others , Banks hotel, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2017\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Solo exhibition gallery,In Bredabaan Merksem<\/span><\/p>

2017\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0exhibition gallery In Galerie Villa De Graeve<\/span><\/p>

2016\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions Fragile in Sint-Jozefskapel Brasschaat.<\/span><\/p>

2016\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions Fragile in Cultuurcentrum De Steiger<\/span><\/p>

2014\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Workshop in Menen for children Arabic Calligraphy as an ArtForm<\/span><\/p>

2013\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, Baghdad capital of Arab culture , European Parliament<\/span><\/p>

2013\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions, The Others , Banks hotel, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2011\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, In Ogen Van, in Zuiderpershuis, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2011\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation in the art auction organized at benefit of the Harvey cushing Centre, in province House Antwerp<\/span><\/p>

2011\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, Babylon Revisied- outside the green zone,Eindhoven<\/span><\/p>

2010\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, la fete l\u2019humanite, charl gol paris<\/span><\/p>

2010\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, zomerexpo, Campo campo ,Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2009\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions, the red sky, Protestants Sociaal Centrum, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2008\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Solo exhibitions, Memory walls,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Zuiderpershuis, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2008\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, Kultuur 08, Dendermonde<\/span><\/p>

2008\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Live drawing with poems with Cactusbloem vzw, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

2009\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0Participation, Pro Patria, Antwerpen<\/span><\/p>

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