Djawid C. Borower was born in 1958 in Cologne, Germany. He now lives in Vienna, Austria with his wife and daughter, where he paints, writes, and ponders on philosophy.

He studied both history and philosophy at the universities of Cologne and Vienna, and has written a body of dramatic work, that has been performed on international stages. 

In 1992 he began writing for the feuilleton of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, leaving in 1999, when he began transferring text into visual art and combining it with a multitude of figurative elements.

Over the years he has established his art in the here and now: revolving around God and Mammon, Time and Death, language and image. Thus addressing the forces that make the world go round.

In his serial form, Borower has discovered an ideal method to lend a visual expression to the ubiquity of his chosen themes. His series has become a key element of his artistic concept, with the inclusion of text and numbers and the scrapping of the oil on the still wet canvas, resulting in a deliberate and unique deconstruction, thus revealing his artistic power and individual signature. 

Djawid Borower’s work was exhibited at the Palazzo Bembo, an official event of the 55th Biennale of Venice in the summer of 2013. The exhibition presented an installation of his recent sculptural series “The Folds of Matter, and the Folds of the Soul”. This series is a reflection of Gilles Deleuze, and an interpretation of the baroque philosophy of Leibniz, who claimed that neither time, space, nor our identity, is linearly structured but fluently folded.

Borower's paintings are in several public and private permanent collections worldwide.