Zari Harat is a Hamburg, Germany-based artist whose practice explores themes of belonging, reconciliation, cultural memory, female eroticism,  transformation, and visibility in humans in and beyond the urban landscape.  

Working in mixed media, Harat translates the sensory and psychological experience of appreciation, being seen, the worth of land, its weight, fragility, and resilience, into visual form.

Her work explores themes of impermanence, regeneration, and the quiet persistence of nature in the urban terrain to reclaim spaces altered by human intervention and ecological impact.

In the past, Harat work has blended painting, drawing, collages, performance, and sculpture with materials such as paper, ink, watercolours, acrylics, oil, lithography, etching, resin, adhesives and metal.

Her layered compositions engage in reflection, interior mapping, color, and form while blending the inner and outer landscapes.

In her latest series, “Recalling a Bench,” she investigates human fragility and stubbornness and the tension between promise and humanity, technology, AI, between the sword of algorithms and personal, visual storytelling.

Zari Harat has always loved vibrant use of color, shape, and form. Currently she works in painting, collage, performance, printmaking, writing stories, and creating 2d films. Her work flows with each medium, echoing the other mediums.

As an actively involved visual artist since 1976, she has had the chance to live and express her artwork in Chicago, Berlin, San Francisco Hamburg.

After completing a BFA education with a major in abstract painting and a joint minor in printmaking and art education at both the School of the Art Institute and the University of Illinois at Chicago, she decided to travel the world to continue my art education.

As a result, her art has influences from travels to India, Portugal, Turkey, Germany and the United States and has been exhibited in both group and single shows internationally.