Ahmed Borai

I am an independent visual artist based in Hanover. My practice combines painting, collage, and installation - often using newspaper, found materials, or recycled packaging. Since the 1990s, I have developed long-term projects such as artrecycle and paperplaining, addressing themes like ecology, memory, and transformation. Everyday materials become carriers of poetic, multilayered visual narratives.

1993 Master student of Prof. Peter Redeker, University of Fine Arts, Hanover
1987–1993 Studies in Fine Arts, HBK Hanover
1987 Working grant, "Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst e.V.", Berlin
1981–1986 Self-taught artistic work, Berlin

Artistic Focus & Long-Term Projects:
- artrecycle (since 1994): Reuse of children's drawings, found - material and printed matter
- paperplaining (since 2014): Painting technique on recycled
paper
- Newspaper Art Novels: Series on newspaper paper with
narrative elements
- Mixed media, painting, collage, assemblage, object art
- Installations with painted paper shopping bags

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

- Collages, Galerie Jüdes, Meiborssen
- Auf Montage, Nordbrücke Artists' Association, Wiesmoor
Safarizone, Galerie Seifert, Hanover
- The Patrol Boat, billboard installation, Kulturzentrum Faust
Hanover
- Adalbert Road, Zeitzone Gallery, Berlin
- World Images, Bevern Castle

Selected Group Exhibitions:

- Kunstverein Hannover – multiple Autumn Exhibitions
- Kunsthaus Hamburg
- Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
- Natural History Museum, Bielefeld
- Zeitzone Gallery, Berlin
- Forum Schloss Wolkersdorf, Vienna
- Create Center, Bristol (UK)
- Galerie Rode & Lanfer, Hanover
- Kulturzentrum Faust, Hanover
- BBK Hannover / Kubus / Salon Salder
- Inside – Outside, Historic Town Hall, Duderstadt