ABOUT
My paintings are a reection of the memories and feelings I experienced during my childhood. My works are inspired by the culture, customs and traditions of Iraq where I grew up. The impressionistic and expressionistic colours and shapes are transformations of my mind and longing for my family. Whereas my earlier paintings focused on the social and human side of life, my more recent works express human suering, pain of the war and its impact on peoples and countries. Mingling memories of former Iraq with my impressions from current Europe is my creative drivingforce . My work resonates inner feelings and strong emotions that have exhausted me. From a feeling of being lost, I try to nd my way with hope, longing for home, dancing with joy and desire, despite the continuing sounds of war and smells of death”
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Amer Bader
Born in Baghdad , Iraq 1975
Lives and works in Udenhout, The Netherland
Education :
2001 BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad, Iraq
1997 BA, Graduate of the Fine Arts Institute Baghdad, Iraq
Member Pulchri Studio The Hague
Member Iraqi Plastic Artist Society
Since 2016 registration in the RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunst Documentatie,
one of worlds leading documentation and research institute).
Solo Exhibitions :
2016 State of love”, Swiss Medical Beauty Center, Zurich
2016 Hilton park Lane Hotel, UK, London
2009 Wasti Gallery, Damascus, Syria
2006 Darbouna Gallery, Amman, Jordan
Art Fairs:
2017 Art Terre- Lithoyen, Sous - terre Gallery, the Netherlands
2016 Art Fair Amsterdam ADAF, the Netherlands
2016 Art Fair Rotterdam Ahoy “Nationale Kunstdagen”
2016 Art Fair Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Group Exhibitions :
2019 . ZOMEREXPO19, museumdefundatie , Kasteel het Nijenhuis, Zwolle the Netherlands
. Route van de kunst , van delft groep, Nieuwkuijk the Netherlands
. Kunstkamerfraneker gallery, Franeker the Netherlands
2018 . SHACKLES; den-gallery. Kuwait
. Gallery Sous-terre Lithoijen, Oss the Netherlands
. Najaars salon; Pulchri Studio, The Hague the Netherlands
2017 . De Orient 2.0”; Pulchri Studio, The Hague the Netherlands
. Dierent Worlds”; Gallery Sous-Terre, Lithoyen, Netherlands
. Voorjaarssalon”; Pulchri Studio, the Netherlands
. Kunst Zicht, Heesijk-Dinther, the Netherlands
. Art Festival Monastir, Tunisia
. Kunstbeurs Noord Brabant, the Netherlands
. Pulchri Studio, The Hague, the Netherlands
. IROK Gallery, Horst, the Netherlands
2016 . World Art Delft, Groups Exhibition, Winter Guests, the Netherlands
. Common Humanity exhibition “Artists in Exile” Paintings in Iraq
. The Master Gallery, Riverside Drive, New York
. North Newton (Kansas), Bethel College, Robert W. Regier Gallery, USA
. Wichita, Clayton Staples Gallery, McKnight Art Center, Wichita Stat
. Kunstkelder, Haarlem, the Netherlands
2015 . Exhibition Auction United Nations, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
2011 . Contemporary Iraqi Art in Doha in Qatar Fine Arts Society, Qatar
2009 . Artist in Exile Exhibition, New York, USA
. For Gaza Exposition, Anda Gallery, Amman, Jordan
. Faithfulness Medal Iraqi Culture days Exposition, Damascus, Syria
2008 . United Nations Commission, Babylon Gallery, Damascus
. United Nations Commission, The French Cultural, Damascus
2000 . Jameel Hamoudi Competition, Inana Gallery, Baghdad