Maryam Farhang
Curriculum Vitae
1983 Born in Tehran, Iran
Education
2022 — studying painting at Ortweinschule, Graz, Austria
2007 — BFA, Painting, Shahed University, Tehran/Iran
2016 — MFA, Painting, University of Elm o Farhang, Tehran/Iran
Activities
2014–2019 — Teaching art to Afghan children, Child Labor, Tehran/Iran
2022 — Artist in Residence Scholarship, Kulturvermittlung
2021 — Styria-Artist-in-Residence-Scholarship, November 2021-January 2022, Graz/Austria, land Steiermark.
2022 — interview about the “Me and Persimmon Tree “ book with GKP Steiermark.
https://www.gkp.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/12857550/2598949/
2022 — screening Encounter movie, Afro-Asiatisches Institut Graz
2021 — Physical and virtual curation of Encounter-exhibition together with a 50-minutes-film with two Austrian and two Iranian artists, initiated and supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Teheran, at SOO Contemporary Gallery Teheran, to commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2021
http://soocontemporary.com/vr99soo/encounter9912/
( + internet-LINK for the trailer of the film “Encounter”)
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVr4HUzFzl7/
( + internet-LINK for the film “Encounter”)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqOhlctoUE&feature=emb_logo
Solo Exhibitions
2022 — Waves come,Waves go. Schaumbad, Styria-Artist-in-Residence-Scholarship, Painting, Poems, Installation: Maria on the Cross. Video:untitled, Photo:The birth of Maria, Performance, Installation music. Graz/Austria
2021 — Me and the Persimmon Tree, book and paintings, Aktionsradius Wien, Vienna/Austria
2019 — Catch and the Stuck, artworks based on Aquatint Etching technique, Graphikwerkstatt Neunteufel–Kreilinger, Primmersdorf/Austria
2018 — The Silent Narrative of Things, Dastan Gallery, Installation,painting, video, Installation music. Tehran/Iran
A presentation of my domestic realm: an installation of home and domestic atmosphere, emphasizing the interaction between me and my surroundings, using visual metaphors in an absence/presence perspective. Telling my own stories by personal narratives. My still life paintings demonstrate the frictions of life and the duality of public and private space in social environments.
Group exhibitions
2022 — Self-portrait of war
Photo graz022, Biennale der steirischen Fotokunst, Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Altes Kino Leibnitz, Austria
2021 — Encounter
Physical & virtual exhibition & film, curator and participant
Initiated and supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Teheran, for SOO Contemporary, Tehran/Iran
2020 — Bird
Soo Contemporary, Teheran/Iran
2020 — Resemblance
Oct. 2–20, SOO Contemporary, Tehran/Iran
2018 — This Inflated Era
Dena Gallery, Tehran/Iran
2011 — Leading Young People
Pardis e Mellat Gallery, Tehran/Iran
2010 — Door
Rahe Abrisham Gallery, Tehran/Iran
2008 — 2005 Wishes and Dreams
Mobile Exhibition for International Cultural Exchange, Washington D.C./USA
2005 — Honar e Javan Festival
Contemporary Art Museum, Tehran/Iran
2005 — Still life
Mah e Mehr Gallery, Tehran/Iran
2003 — Faber Castell Festival
Farhang saraye Niavaran Gallery, Tehran/Iran
Publication
2019/2020 — Me And The Persimmon Tree
Book with 45 Paintings and poems from the series Home
Edited by Michael Pilz, published by Richard Pils, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Großwolfgers/Austria
https://www.bibliothekderprovinz.at/buch/7678/
On March, 16th, 2021 a talk was held about the book in Aktionsradius Vienna/Austria
https://aktionsradius.at/content/de/medien/videoarchiv-themenveranstaltungen#Veranstaltung_2021-03-16
https://youtu.be/K-0i4NuB8t0