rasaq.jurhat@gmail.com

Rasaq Jurhat (b. 1994, Afghanistan) lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

In his work, he explores themes of visual politics, collective memory and the interplay between fragility and resilience within periods of socio-political transformation, using found footage that he appropriates, assembles, and transforms into new audiovisual forms. Addressing aesthetic, cultural, and historical codes of visual experience and their effects, his arrangement and interconnection of different media elements disrupt and subvert traditional forms of viewer experience. He graduated in 2025 at the Academy of Fine Arts Mainz.

Awards & scholarships

Neustart-Preis des Fördervereins der Kunsthochschule Mainz
graduation prize, Mainz
2025

Deutschlandstipendium
student scholarship, Mainz
2024

Film- und Medien-Nachwuchsförderung Rheinland-Pfalz
work grant, Mainz
2024

Deutsch-Französisches Jugendwerk (DFJW)
student scholarship, Paris, Berlin
2023

Exhibitions (Selected)

(upcoming)
Triennale Rheinland-Pfalz, Trier
group show
2026

No Man’s Land
apollo, Mainz
solo show
2025

Homestories
Institut français, Mainz
group show
2024

Urban Tales- I Walked Those Streets and Found Nothing but Signs
Zentrum Baukultur, Mainz
group show
2024

Fotolabor I
ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau
group show
2024

Press

https://www.rheinland-pfalz-triennale.de/

https://kunsthochschule-mainz.de/2025/10/das-apollo-zeigt-no-mans-land-von-rasaq-jurhat/

https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/kleve/kultur/bedburg-hau-foto-klasse-von-judith-samen-im-haus-6-der-lvr-klinik_aid-117804995

https://www.institutfrancais.de/de/mainz/event/part-gallery-crawl-27987#/