Imed Ben Tahar

Imed Ben Tahar

Imed Ben Tahar has been painting since early childhood. Growing up in the Tunisian Souk Lahad, a small oasis town on the edge of the Sahara, the young artist was met with moderate enthusiasm from those around
him. “Art, especially fine art, was not particularly well regarded,” he says in retrospect. But that never stopped him from continuing to paint and from learning different techniques over time.

His childlike fascination was fueled by curiosity: “Painting was a mystery to me, a game with infinite, changeable possibilities. And the path of discovering the world through painting has never let me go.”

In Souk Lahad, the young man lacked artistic openness. He felt restricted and first attended a tourism institute in Tunis. He then led tours through the desert in southern Tunisia and this is how he came to Tübingen
in 1995. Even here, in a foreign country, painting remained a part of his life for a long time until he finally devoted himself to it entirely.