Halima Aziz (born 1999 in Germany) is a Palestinian visual artist and designer with an academic degree in Design completed in Düsseldorf. She spent part of her childhood in Palestine, an experience that profoundly shaped her sensitivity and continues to influence her artistic vision. Her bicultural identity, defined by both closeness and distance, forms the emotional foundation of her work. 

Drawn to painting from an early age, Halima began her professional artistic journey in 2018. She works primarily with acrylic and oil on canvas and later expanded her creative practice to include digital illustration. Her process is intuitive and organic. Vivid forms, soft tones, and delicate details merge into layered visual narratives rich with emotion and memory. She has created a large body of paintings and artworks across digital, traditional, and mixed media practices.

Halima’s inspiration arises from the people she encounters, the quiet poetry of nature, and the stories found in literature and art. Her cultural heritage, however, remains her deepest source of creativity. A central theme in her work is traditional Palestinian dress and the centuries old embroidery art of Tatreez. Through gentle, often nostalgic imagery, she transforms memory into visual storytelling, preserving cultural traditions with both sensitivity and strength.

Alongside her painting practice, Halima leads Tatreez workshops that create spaces for cultural exchange, collective remembrance, and empowerment. Each stitch becomes an act of preservation, a thread connecting generations and affirming identity.

Halima’s artwork has been exhibited internationally nine times. In 2020 her work was shown at the Palestine Museum US, followed by the P21 Gallery in London in December 2021 and her third solo exhibition in Münster in February 2022. Further exhibitions took place during Palestinian Culture Day in Wuppertal in October 2022, as well as in Berlin and Cologne in December of the same year. In 2024 her work was exhibited at the Museum for the Palestinian People in Washington DC, followed by an exhibition in Copenhagen in November. In December 2025, she showcased her artworks in collaboration with the student departments of the University of Cologne.

As the artist behind the official World Day of Prayer artwork 2024, Halima received notable international recognition. She has also collaborated with various organizations, including Amnesty UK, for whom she created an artwork for International Women’s Day 2025. The piece highlighted the power of artistic expression and the importance of representation for Palestinian women and for women everywhere, regardless of skin color, religion, or appearance.

“As color and stitch gently unfold, we awaken to the quiet truth that endings seed new beginnings. Through art, we touch memory anew and draw closer to the heart’s home. May this moment of genesis bring peace and remind us that each day offers the chance for our roots to bloom again.”
– Halima Aziz