Opening: Friday, February 10, 2012, 7pm
Künstlerhaus 4th floor

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.

Schedule:

Friday, February 17, 2012, 6-9pm
LINIE WEST No. 6
tour through the galleries Hauff, Friese, and Parrotta as well as Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
www.liniewest.de

Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6pm
curatorial tour through the exhibition with Adnan Yildiz

Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7pm-2am
LANGE NACHT DER MUSEEN
exhibition and workshops will be open 

Friday, March 30, 2012, 7pm
screening program „State of Fluidity“
As part of the solo project „Dreamland“, Cairo based curator and participant of dOCUMENTA 13 Sarah Rifky will present a screening program, “State of Fluidity”, co-curated with Maha Maamoun. The audience will then be invited to question how the reading and reception of film changes from standing alone as a work in an exhibition to becoming part of a screening program.