Inka ter Haar

Inka ter Haar: “Zeichnung”, 2024, Ink on paper, framed, 44 × 63 cm each

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Father Figures, 2 parts”, 2025 Digital, 16:9, 33:48 min, Sound

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Clouds”, 2024, Oil and pigments on canvas, 8 parts, 190 × 90 cm each

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Temple of Men”, 2025, Exhibition view

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Dein Ende, dein Erbe ( )”, 2024, Oil and pigments on linen, 210 × 250 cm each

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Dein Ende, dein Erbe ( )”, 2024, Oil and pigments on linen, 210 × 250 cm each

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar: “Dein Ende, dein Erbe ( )”, 2024, Oil and pigments on linen, 210 × 250 cm each

Image credits: Leah Studinger

Inka ter Haar

*1980 in Duisburg, DE. Lives and works in Basel, CH.

Inka ter Haar’s artistic practice focuses on the observation and visualization of inner figures and psychological bodies. Her work examines the interweaving of individual and collective experiences, situating biographical references within broader social and global contexts such as patriarchal structures, the struggle for women’s rights, environmental destruction, violence, and war.Her current focus lies on the transgenerational transmission of experiences of violence, the psychological mechanisms of trauma and aggression, and the possibilities of their disclosure and visual articulation.

Inka ter Haar (*1980, Duisburg, DE) lives and works in Basel (CH). From 2015 to 2017, she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel (HGK) under Prof. Chus Martínez. Previously, she earned her Diploma in Fine Arts from the Kunstakademie Essen in 2011, after studying Social Sciences and Sociology at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg-Essen between 2001 and 2007.

Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (IT), Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (CH), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (AT), Wouters Gallery, Brussels (BE), Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich (CH), and Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH). Ter Haar has received several awards and grants for her artistic work.

CV

2023–ongoing

Jurymember of städtische Kulturkommission Bern, CH

2022–2025

Lecturer in painting at HKB Bern, CH

2019–2021

curatorial participation, administrative activities and supervision at Bürobasel (Waldburger-Wouters/Shanghart), Basel, CH

2017–2022

Assistance at painting workshop, Academy of Art and Design (HGK), Basel, CH

2015—2017

MA Fine Arts at HGK Basel, studied under Prof. Chus Martinez, department of Fine Arts, Basel, CH

2007–2011

Diploma of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Essen, DE

2001–2007

Studies of Social Sciences / Sociology at Gerhardt-Mercator University, Duisburg-Essen, DE

2025

Bühne, Bilder, Politik, with Malte Bruns, Aura Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE

2023

Doom of Dick, Grand Palais, Bern, CH

Freud me, duo with Matthias Dornfeld, Wouters Gallery Brussels, BE

2022

more than a feeling, Blue Velvet Projects; Zürich, CH

2021

LOVE, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH

Inka ter Haar, amore, Basel, CH

2017

some have seen everything, Galerie 3000, Bern, CH

CalypsoDeutschland, Pförtnerhaus (# 16), Freiburg, DE

2025

Amore Postale, Amore Basel, CH

Social Fight Club, Mustermesse der Gewalt, Theater Basel, CH

Gewalt, Milieu Bern, CH

2024

History invades the present, b-05, Montabaur, DE

A gentle cruise. JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE

Synthese. Walter Haymann Stiftung Zürich, CH

2023

Sensing Painting. Works from the Collection of Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, IT

2022

ohne Titel: Junge Malerei aus Süddeutschland und der Deutschschweiz

Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen und Kunstmuseum Singen, CH, DE

Irgendwo in den Bergen: reflecting painting, Scala Trun, CH

(un)certain ground, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, CH

2020

thirst, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, A

Motor, Kunstraum Riehen, CH

A-Part, Kunstkredit Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, CH

2019

placette europeene, curated by ornothing.org, CH, FR

2018

Bikini Collection Pop up store, BIKINI Space Basel, CH

God Girls Golgotha, GGG Atelierhaus Basel, CH

Plattform 18, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH

2017

we invite you to hope, Kunsthaus Baselland, CH

Swimming in Love, Artachment, Basel, CH

MIRAGE MIRAGE, Ambra Viviani and Inka ter Haar, Der Tank,

Campus der Künste, Basel, CH

site visit, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE

2016

c`est fini l´ironie, Masterklasse 15, Carosserie, Basel, CH

2015

Künstlerbücher, Atelierhaus Recklinghausen, DE

543m3 offen, neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, DE

2014

Schichtwechsel-GENESIS, Treppenstr.17, Wuppertal, DE

Beruhigte Zone, Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen, Vestischer Künstlerbund, DE

Schichtwechsel, Schreinerstr. 31, Wuppertal, DE

2013

Serientäter, Galerie Merkle, Stuttgart, DE

Merkle dir was, Galerie Merkle, Stuttgart, DE

2025

Atelier Mondial Berlin (Jan.-July.)

2023

Projektbeitrag Basel-Stadt, CH

2022

Swiss Art Awards, CH

2021

Swiss Art Awards, CH

2020-2027

Förderateliers Klingental, Basel CH

2018-2020

GGG Atelierstipendium Basel, CH

2019

Werkbeitrag, Kunstkredit Basel, CH

2019

Swiss Art Awards, CH

2018

Plattform 18, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH

2023

Detailbetrachtung, Milieu, Bern

Therapeutik Talk, one shot exhibition, curated by Mulhouse-les-Flots, FR

2022

Therapeutik Talk, Souvenir Souvenir, Lugano

2025

Father Figures 1, Gewalt, Milieu, Bern, CH

Father Figures 1, 2, Bilder Bühne Politik, Aura Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE

Ohne Titel, Junge Malerei aus Süddeutschland und der Deutschschweiz, Kunstmuseum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen und Kunstmuseum Singen, modo, 2023

LOVE, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Ingo Niermann, Raffael Dörig, Eva Maria Knüsel, 2021

Durst, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Katharina Brandl, Alice Wilke, 2020

Künstlerbücher, Atelierhaus Recklinghausen, Gerhard Reinert, 2015

Fondazione CRC, IT

Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, CH

Exhibitions & Projects

Inka ter Haar
Temple of Men
17.10.–27.11.2025

Available works