Veil→Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 80 cm
I don’t think of the city as something to be depicted.I relate to it as something that has to be read.
Tara Haghi is a painter born in Iran and based in Enschede, the Netherlands. She works with colour, migration and urban space, turning familiar streets into psychological reflections on belonging and displacement.
Biography
Early memories that later became color and light.
Born in Iran and based in the Netherlands, Tara Haghi explores migration, memory, and belonging through paintings that turn urban landscapes into emotional spaces.
Reading the City
Her method, made navigable. Choose a recurring form and it is lifted out of every painting at once, ordered by hue, so the same motif can be read across the chromatic conditions it has passed through.
Texts
Texts →Artist’s text · 26 December 2025
Reading the City Through Color
On Calvino, Kandinsky, and repetition as a method rather than a motif.
Read →Exhibition note · 26 May 2026
Walking Through the City — KunstenLandschap 2026
Showing Reconstruction in Color at the 26th edition of KunstenLandschap.
Read →Announcement · 27 March 2026
Reconstruction in Color Receives Support from het Cultuurfonds
A development grant in support of the ongoing series.
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