Borai Kahne Ateliers

Collage Newspaper Collaboration

Since the 1980s, Borai and Kahne have worked together as an artist duo, creating joint paintings on newspaper – enriched with elements of comics, graffiti, and visual poetry. Their imagery emerges in dialogue: spontaneous, associative, and often polyphonic.

They collect, alter, and recombine fragments of information. Newspaper becomes a canvas for present, future, and possible events. Their work is about rewriting, rethinking, and recycling visual and textual meaning.

Their artistic process is both craft and conviction – a collaborative act that often feels like a spiritual experience.

ARTE Creative:
“Today in the newspaper – tomorrow on it!” (21.05.2011)
“A mix of comic and graffiti turns newspaper into artwork” (20.12.2011)
“Borai & Kahne make their own banner lines – only with far more style and humour” (27.02.2012)

The Huffington Post (02.08.2012):
“The Olympic Spirit”, Saatchi Online, Sheet 11.

Borai and Kahne Ateliers

Karl Heinz Kahne
Born 1950 in Uslar, Germany
1981–1988 Member of the Berlin-based art group endart
Based in Göttingen, Hannover, and Berlin

Ahmed Borai
Born 1960 in Darmstadt, Germany (German/Egyptian)
1981–1987 Self-taught artist, active in Berlin
1993 Master student (Meisterschüler), Hanover University of Art
Artistic projects since the 1990s:
– artrecycle (since 1995)
– paperplaining (experimental paper work)
– Collaborations with international artists
Based in Hannover

Selected Exhibitions – Borai & Kahne Ateliers

Karl-Heinz Kahne
1984 Vernadoun Gallery, West Hollywood (US) – Paintings
1984 CCD-Galerie, Düsseldorf (DE) – Large-Format Photos
1984 Art Cologne, Cologne (DE) – Painting, Sculpture
1985 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (DE) – Cross Culture
1985 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne (DE) – Metal Sculptures
1985 Galerie Artinizing, Munich (DE)
1986 Galerie Kaessweiss, Stuttgart (DE)
1986 Nationalgalerie Berlin (DE) – Art in the Federal Republic of Germany
1986 Musée de Toulon (FR) – Berlin aujourd’hui
1986 Galerie Joachim Becker, Cannes (FR) – Berlin 86
1986 Galerie Torch, Amsterdam (NL) – Paintings, Graphics
1989 Galerie Henn, Maastricht (NL) – Paper Sculptures
1991 Galerie Weinand, Berlin (DE) – Berlin Plywood Objects
1995 Wrapping Reichstag Paint-Action with G. Zaucker, Berlin (DE)
1997 CREATE Center, Bristol (UK) & Neues Rathaus, Hanover (DE) – Colours grow again
2001 Kramerstraße, Hanover (DE) – TäterOpfer – Art Against Violence
2008 Galerie Zeitzone, Berlin (DE) – Quiet Days in Cliché

Ahmed Borai
1987 Galerie Jüdes, Meiborssen (DE) – Collages
1990 Art Award for Ecology, Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (DE), Vienna (AT), Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden (DE)
1991 Kunsthaus Hamburg (DE) – Unres...