“The truth expressed in these works of art is unadorned and unvarnished. The expression immediately triggers a feeling. These paintings leave nobody cold.”
– Dr Jörg Bockow –
Barham Hajou
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Biography
Bahram Hajou is an internationally recognized German- Syrian Kurdish artist living and working in Germany and has a studio in New York- USA.
Hajou is regarded as one of the great figurative painters of our time. His art examines and depicts relationships, those of his own and of others. The psychological dimension of his paintings is the result of relentless self-analysis. Body postures and positions bear witness to the inability to talk to and love one another. You can feel how arduous it is for those depicted to communicate with and understand each other. The truth expressed in his works of art is unadorned and unvarnished. The expression immediately triggers a feeling.
His work is found in several private and public collections internationally including Mathaf of Modern Art Museum in Ar-Rayyan- Qatar, ArtHall Oldenburg in Germany, Deutsche Bank in Germany, Sheikh Rashed Al Khalifa in al-Bahrain, Albert O’hayon in the U.S.A, Manfred Goubitz in Germany. In 2014 he was awarded the Henry Matisse Prize by the Château Musée Grimaldi in France. He became a star in the French media virtually overnight and even the large daily newspaper Le Monde dedicated a full-page report to him.
Born in Deruna, northern Syria, in 1952. Bahram Hajou studied at the Münster department of the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and after graduating became a master student of Professor Norbert Tadeusz.
Following a brief period of teaching at the Gesamtschule Ückendorf, a comprehensive school in Gelsenkirchen, he has devoted himself to fine arts since the early 1990s.
Institutional Collectors
- Mathaf of Modern Art Museum in Doha-Qatar
- ArtHall Oldenburg in Germany
- Deutsche Bank in Germany
- Albert O’hayon in the U.S.A
- Manfred Goubitz in Germany
Awards
- 2014, The Henry Matisse Prize by the Château Musée Grimaldi in France
Selected Exhibitions
- 2004 Kunstmesse Osnabrück – Impulse (Deutschland)
- 2005 Gallery Kreuziger, Worpswede (Deutschland)
- 2005 Atassi Gallery, Dubai (U.A.E.)
- 2006 Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover (Deutschland)
- 2006 Gallery Holbein, Hannover (Deutschland)
- 2006 Gallery Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg (Deutschland)
- 2006 Gallery Al Hiwar, Riadh (Saudi-Arabia)
- 2007 Gallery Zeugma, Köln (Deutschland)
- 2007 Gallery Michael Nolte, Münster (Deutschland)
- 2007 art club kunstverein, Burgwedel/Isernhagen (Deutschland)
- 2008 Museum for modern Art, Latakia (Syrien)
- 2008 Kunstkompakt 5, Gladbeck (Deutschland)
- 2008 Gallery Zeugma, Köln (Deutschland)
- 2008 Kairo Biennale, Kairo (Ägypten)
- 2009 Karim Gallery, Amman (Jordanien)
- 2010 Art House Gallery, Damaskus (Syrien)
- 2010 Aida Cherfan Fine Art Gallery, Beirut (Lebanon)
- 2010 Gallery Kula (Museum Split/Kroatien)
- 2012 Museum Contemporary Art (Bratislava) Danubiana
- 2013 Gallery Ludwig Trossaert, Antwerpen (Belgien)
- 2013 Gallery GNG Gilles Naudine, Paris (Frankreich)
- 2013 White Box Gallery, New York (USA)
- 2014 Art House, Wien (Österreich)
- 2014 Henry Matisse Price, Château Musée Grimaldi, Paris (Frankreich)
- 2014 Gallery Ludwig Trossaert, Antwerpen (Belgien)
- 2015 Gallery GNG, Paris (Frankreich)
- 2015 Kunsthaus Langenberg e.V. Alldie Kunst (Norbert Bauer), Langenberg/Düsseldorf, (Deutschland)
- 2015 Office Kleine Gallery (Art against violence), Wien (Österreich)
- 2015 Art Élysées (Petit Palace), Paris (France)
- 2015 Art Fair, Istanbul contemporary, Istanbul (Türkei)
- 2016 Foyer des Stadttheaters Münster, Münster (Deutschland)
- 2016 Gallery Karsi Sanat’ta, Istanbul (Turkey)
- 2016 Gallery Ludwig Trossaert, Antwerpen(Belgien)
- 2016 Sollefteå konst förening, (Schweden)
- 2016 Überkopf Kunstbegegnen, Münster (Deutschland)
- 2016 Palagio Contemporaneo (Italien)
- 2017 Kulturcentrum, Manama (Bahrain)
- 2017 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (Deutschland)
- 2017 Karim Gallery, Amman (Jordan)
Publications
Bahram Hajou in the 21st Century
published by Hermann Konradt
Helpless and Happiness are so Close
Dr. Jörg Bockow
Ut Poesis Pictura
Prof. Dr. Christoph Miething
Bahram Vis- À-Vis
Stephan Trescher
The Master of Overpainting
Published by Kontur
Bahram Hajou
Dr. Dieter M Keiner
Bahram Hajou
Published by Stylus
Le pervers narcissique dans le couple
published by santé mentale
Bahram Hajou L’Humanité en Miroir
published by Miroir de L’Art
Bahram Im Dialog
published by Akademie Franz Hitze Haus
Bahram Hajou – The Haunting Imagery of the Painter
Professor Stanisław Tobisz
