Galeria de Santa Maria Maior

R. da Madalena 147, 1100-006 Lisboa

14 . 10 . 2026 → 07 . 11 . 2026

monday - saturday → 03:00 pm – 08:00 pm

Artist

Raisan Hameed

Raisan Hameed (*1991, Mosul, Iraq) is an Iraqi-German multimedia artist based in Leipzig. He completed his Diploma in Photography and later his Meisterschüler with Prof. Tina Bara at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. His work spans photography, video, and installation, exploring memory, displacement, and the circulation of images in post-conflict contexts.

Recent solo exhibitions include After Image at Galerie Glaskasten, Chemnitz (2025–2026), and Embers of Narratives at GfZK Leipzig (2025). His work has also been presented in major group exhibitions, such as EMOP Luxembourg, Mois européen de la photographie Rethinking Photography at Arendt House and Rethinking Photography: Presence/Absence, Visible/Invisible at Cercle Cité, Luxembourg (2025), EMOP Berlin Europäischer Monat der Fotografie : was zwischen uns steht at Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2025), and EXPEDITION WELTMEERE at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2025–2026). Internationally, he has participated in events including PhMuseum Days, Bologna (2024), Paris Photo (2023), and the ANGELICA International Film Festival, Los Angeles (2023). Nominated for the EMOP Arendt Award (2025), Hameed continues to examine the fragility of narratives and the ways in which histories are mediated through images and archives, establishing a distinctive voice in contemporary photography and multimedia practice.

Zer-srtörung, 2022 - ongoing

These photos of family pictures were damaged in one of the wars that took place in Iraq in 2003, they fell from the wall and the glass took the layers of the photograph. My family kept these photos in a small box, and many years later I got these photos. Zer-Störung tells the story of different periods in Mosul – the city of the artist’s birth. The starting point for the project was photographic material from Hameed’s family archive. As carriers of memories, these images have visible and invisible layers; an observation that is already expressed in the title. A play on words, the English translation of „Zerstörung“ is „destruction“, describing the brutal damage that man inflicts on the world, his environment and other people. „Störung“, in turn, translates to „irritation“ – a term that Hameed connects to the impermanence of things. The artist uses abstraction as a strategy to break down the original function of the images, changing the way in which they are read. By focusing on the materiality of images in Zer-Störung, observations and their political contexts are transformed. They become a metaphorical documentation of past, present and future. The process allows for the opening of doors, negotiation, reflection and exchange.