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Shirin Art Gallery presents Katayoun Rouhi

Shirin Art Gallery presents Katayoun Rouhi

Born in 1965, Iran, Katayoun Rouhi graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris, painting section. Doctorate in Aesthetics and Sciences of Art from Paris I,Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Duration : 47s
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Shirin Art Gallery presents Koorosh Shishegaran

Born in 1944 in Qazvin, Iran, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. In a career spanning six decades, he has established himself as an artist of great discipline, social awareness and manual skill, working in a wide array of different media, from graphic design to painting, photography and furniture design. Drawing inspiration from Iranian visual culture, Shishegaran is best known for his scribble line abstract paintings (Khatkhatis). These dynamic colourful lines, depicting the contemporary human condition, enabled the artist to find a style and language expressive of the modern era.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Shirin Art Gallery presents Sepehr Bakhtiyari

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982, Sepehr Bakhtiyari has a B.A in Graphic Design, Sooreh Art University, Tehran.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Annie Kurkdjian

Born in Lebanon in 1972, Kurkdjian lives and works in Beirut. Through the turbulent years of the Lebanese Civil War, she first studied fine arts and psychology at the Lebanese University, followed by theology at St. Joseph’s University. Kurkdjian has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Gallery Sader, UNESCO, Salon Sursock, Royal School of Arts London, and Biennale Arts Hors Normes in Lyon, amongst several others.

Duration : 55s
Maturity Level : all

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Wadi Finan Art Gallery presents Saoud Abdallah

Saoud Abdallah Saoud Abdallah was born in 1976. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2005 and he got his postgraduate diploma in 2006. Abdallah’s work was shown in several exhibitions in his homeland, Lebanon, Kuwait, UK and Italy. His work combines different types of natural sand to produce a rigid yet emotional layer of figures on canvas.

Duration : 29s
Maturity Level : all

Zaid Shawwa

Zaid Shawwa

Shawwa studied Engineering at the University of Jordan, and did his MBA at the American University in Dubai. His love and interest in art started at an early age, mainly working on portraits and landscapes in a classic form and using monochromatic shades of mainly charcoal as a medium. His paintings are mostly based on real moments in life, intensively sketched and studied to create an image that reflects a feeling rather than an act.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

193 Gallery presents Hassan Hajjaj

Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 in Larache, Morocco. He lives and works between Marrakech and London. He evolves between several artistic universes: photography, fashion, music, cinema and design, while presenting a critical and uninhibited point of view on consumer society. Hassan Hajjaj questions tradition and identity, focusing in particular on the wearing of the veil, as well as on the daily life of the people he meets, friends or strangers crossed in the streets of Morocco or elsewhere.

Duration : 35s
Maturity Level : all

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Eiwan al Gassar Gallery presents Shua`aAl Muftah

Shua`aAl Muftah is a self-taught artist. After living in various places for twenty-two years, she returned to her homeland, Qatar. The local reality was comparatively different from her childhood. The rapid urbanization and the social and cultural changes of the country inspired her to explore, artistically, various topics such as the relationship between tradition and modernity and the Qatari cultural identity, to name a few.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Leila Heller Gallery presents Soraya Sharghi

Soraya Sharghi is an Iranian artist living and working in New York City. Sharghi creates works in diverse media, such as painting and sculpture. Her artistic aim is to create new myth and narratives using the ancient mythology including persian mythology, revolving around power. She does not see her process as emulating the scenery of these tales, but instead molds them to serve her purpose and creates extraordinary or supernatural beings.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

A Short Story

A Short Story

Short Story (2020) by Steve Sabella was done right as the coronavirus started spreading. It was as a reminder that, deep down, we’re all human. We were all scared and unsure if this was the end, or what it all meant. Sabella wanted to write a story about who we are and where we’re going as people, during this big change. Sabella did shoot these hands as he was in Ireland in 2007 in an elderly hospice, he was looking at dying people, people in their last days of life. Why? At that point, he wanted to mirror to the whole world the pain of living back then in a permanent state of exile. For those living in Berlin, visit Steve Sabella’s exhibition "TranscenDance" curated by Karin Adrian von Roques at [Der Diwan,https://derdivan.org/event/vernissage-transcendance/]

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Enoc Perez | Interiors

Enoc Perez | Interiors

Enoc Perez discusses the influence of Jean-Luc Godard on his "Casa Malaparte" paintings, and revisits his “Mollino/Insides” exhibition through a cinematic perspective.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Max Hollein | The MET

Max Hollein | The MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Director, Max Hollein, reflects on the challenges, opportunities and multiple roles of the Museum both as a local and global institution.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Shoja Azari

Shoja Azari

Winter, 2011

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm & Elise Mougin | One Minute in Taipei

Erwin Wurm and Elise Mougin discuss the exhibition “One Minute in Taipei” and how COVID-19 has influenced the artist’s creative process.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

Rashid Johnson | The Hikers

Rashid Johnson discusses social injustice in “The Hikers”, a film addressing the artist’s recurring themes of escapism, and the black body in space.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau | Salt Years

Sigalit Landau reflects on memory, climate change, and her lifetime artistic relationship with the Dead Sea.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Shifting Vision

Shifting Vision

Check this dedicated channel for Shifting Vision which examines how current social, political, and ecological issues influence our perception of the arts.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Adel Abdessemed | Hope

Adel Abdessemed | Hope

Adel Abdessemed reflects on issues of identity and dislocation through “Hope”, a work inspired by contemporary global migrations. Courtesy Shifting Vision

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Michel Platnic, Genesis, 2018

Michel Platnic, Genesis, 2018

Genesis draws inspiration from the biblical world creation narrative. Day after day, the empty space is populated with flora and fauna. But with the disappearance of God and the appearance of man, the creative act takes a new turn. Man, incarnated by the artist, creates and consumes his creation. Courtesy By Lara Sedbon & Durazzo Projects.

Duration : 59s
Maturity Level : all

Biennale Architettura 2021, Sneak Peek: ELEMENTAL

Biennale Architettura 2021, Sneak Peek: ELEMENTAL

Project: ELEMENTAL Narrated by: Alejandro Aravena Video: Vicente Fernández Footage: Francisco Huichaqueo, ELEMENTAL Vicente Fernández and Raul Ruiz (extract from documentary "Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano", Chile, 1971) Music: Tecnología para ser libres Spanish translation: ELEMENTAL Mapuzungun translation: Leonel Lienlaf with the collaboration of Cesar Ancalaf With the collaboration of: Tironi and Asociados An initiative of: Asociación de Comunidades Mapuche de Loncoche and Arauco

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Christoph Niemann: Illustration

Abstract: The Art of Design | Christoph Niemann: Illustration

From New Yorker covers to Instagram sketches, illustrator Christoph Niemann plays with abstraction and interactivity and questions authenticity.

Duration : 46m
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Tinker Hatfield: Footwear Design

Abstract: The Art of Design | Tinker Hatfield: Footwear Design

Tinker Hatfield’s background in architecture and athletics sparked his game-changing shoe designs for Nike, including the iconic Air Jordan series.

Duration : 41m
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Es Devlin: Stage Design

Abstract: The Art of Design | Es Devlin: Stage Design

Stage designer Es Devlin crafts evocative sets for concerts, operas, plays and runway shows using light, film, sculpture and even rain.

Duration : 42m
Maturity Level : all

Abstract: The Art of Design | Bjarke Ingels: Architecture

Abstract: The Art of Design | Bjarke Ingels: Architecture

Architect Bjarke Ingels unites function, fantasy and sustainability in “pragmatic utopian” designs like a clean power plant topped with a ski slope.

Duration : 44m
Maturity Level : all