Dreamland. As a graduate of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Shahbazi will be presenting a selection of her video and photographic works from the recent years.
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart is pleased to present Solmaz Shahbazi’s first solo show in Stuttgart. As a graduate of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Shahbazi will be presenting a selection of her video and photographic works from the recent years.
Solmaz Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1971 and has been living in Germany since 1985. She studied architecture and design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design and has been based in Berlin in the last few years. In addition to her participation at the 7th Sharjah Biennale and the 9th Istanbul Biennale as well as the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shahbazi’s works have been exhibited extensively in Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East.
With “Persepolis” (2005), the exhibition “Dreamland” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart will be presenting the third part of Shahbazi’s “Tehran Trilogy” as well as the photo series “Dreamland Cairo” and a video with the same title which was completed in 2010. The exhibition also showcases two of the artist’s work-in-progress pieces.
Image: © Solmaz Shahbazi
"Untitled" (detail), from the series "Dreamland Cairo", 2010
fine art inkjet print
34 x 42 cm
Press contact:
Marlene Laube: +49 (711) 617 652, ml@kuenstlerhaus.de
Opening February 10th 2012, 7pm
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Reuchlinstrasse 4b, 70178 Stuttgart
Opening hours:
Wednesday - Sunday 3-7pm
Entrance fee:
3.00 EUR (reduced: 1.50 EUR, members of Künstlerhaus free)