An ever-shifting conversation between body, memory, language, and ecology unfolds within my practice. Trained in biology and chemistry before turning to art, I carry the observational precision of the sciences into drawing, installation, performance, and video. At the core of my work lies a sensitivity to situatedness, and the processes that emerge from it: paper buried in the soil, clay shaped into communal architectures, algae weaving invisible boundaries on a lake, or voices that fracture and recombine across languages. I work between Germany and Kurdistan: teaching school students in Northrhein-Westfalia, teaching pedagogical tools to artists at the art school in Braunschweig, and unlearning with my peers in Berlin and Erbil.
© 2025 Havîn Al-Sîndy
West Art – Grund und Boden, Kunstsammlung NRW
2025
'Six Shows Not to Miss in Vienna's "Curated By" Festival'
Ocula
October 7, 2024
'Let Your ( ) Do the Talking, Eyes Knee Whatever at Nak Neuer
Aachener Kunstverein'
Art Viewer
October 11, 2022
Land and Soil / How We Live Together
November 29, 2025 — April 19, 2026
K21 Düsseldorf
Ex Nihilo
Kunsthalle Barmen
17. Oktober 2025 – 14. Dezember 2025
Visible, Invisible, Irrelevant?
Temporary Gallery, Cologne
February 7 – April 12, 2025
Crime As Ornament
Galerie Crone, Vienna
September 13 – October 19, 2024
Let Your ( ) Do the Talking, Eyes Knee Whatever
Nak Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2022
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Biology and Chemistry
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Hochschule für Bildende Künste
Braunschweig
(current)
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
Professor of Art & Ecology
havin@al-sindy.de
Kunsthochschule Mainz
Lecture Series SoSe 25
2025
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