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2011–2022

Solmaz Farhang

Art & Science, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Master project

Solmaz Farhang (b. 1982) currently lives and works in Vienna, studying Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is interested and focused on different aspects of visual communication.

NEWS 2024: Solmaz has been announced as the winning artist in the climate Public Response 2024/25 open call from the Energy and Environment Institute at the University of Hull and Humber Street Gallery. The exhibition at Humber Street Gallery will be on from 14 February to 18 May 2025, marking her first solo show in the UK. Please find the full news in the links bellow and feel free to share.
https://www.ukcoastalresilience.org/artist-solmaz-farhang-chosen-for-climate-public-response-project
https://www.absolutelycultured.co.uk/artist-solmaz-farhang-chosen-for-humber-street-gallery-and-university-of-hulls-climate-public-response-project/

In July 2018, Somalz was nominated for the Joseph Binder Award 2018 – for her work »Herr Pomeranze lernt lachen« 

Shortlist of all nominees:
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Award ceremony was held on 8 November 2018 @ designforum Wien MuseumsQuartier

Their path at A&S27
↑↓2022
06 Apr 2022 Liquid tools for River Fiction Artscience practices · Organizer 24 Mar 2022 2,850 km transformative swimming session with the Danube Transformation Agency for Agency Guest lecture · Organizer
↑↓2018
Between the media 21 Nov 2018 · Exhibition · Exhibited An exhibition presenting two installations by young Austrian artists: Solmaz Farhang, Margit Busch and Monica C. LoCascio – students of Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich. The exhibition supplements the cycle of international me… Our Place in Space. Astronomie und Kunst im Dialog 20 Jun 2018 · Exhibition · Exhibited „Our Place in Space” offers opportunity to contemplate how and where we experience the Universe - and how we should continue to do so. How far do we dare to go? We ask similar questions in the sciences, in the arts and i… The Mirrored Universe 19 Jun 2018 · Installation, Sculpture & Object · part of Our Place in Space. Astronomie und Kunst im Dialog · Exhibited Recently unusual disturbances of electromagnetic waves occurred at increasing intervals in the centre of Vienna. The source of this disturbances turned out to be a mysterious room, a small, strange laboratory. It belonge…
↑↓2015
The Essence 15 25 Jun 2015 · Exhibition · Exhibited Exhibition opening 25th June, 2015, 19:00 Exhibition dates 25th June 2015 - 12th July, 2015 Kunstlerhaus, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 ViennaThe Essence 2015 University of Applied Arts Vienna is the culmination of the academic yea… Master project A LONG GOODBYE: Facts and Fictions About Emotions, Memory and All 17 Jun 2015 · Master project · part of The Essence 15 · Diploma project presentation Solmaz Farhang2015, visual narrative Deploying a flexible structure and different layers of information, this visual narrative follows the evolution of a character who has lost a loved one. The artist uses this medium to… 19 May 2015 ROUNDTABLE Presentation
↑↓2014
OPEN HOUSE 2014 23 Oct 2014 · Exhibition · Students The OPEN HOUSE offers insights into all the studios, workshops and laboratories of the “Angewandte”. Interested persons are cordially invited to gather information from the teaching staff and students about the universit…
↑↓2013
ARBITRARY HYPOTHESES 18 Nov 2013 · Installation · part of CRUCIAL EXPERIMENTS · Exhibited Installed documentation of experiments The installation presents artefacts from the experiments conducted in an attempt to falsify three different hypotheses. The experiments on display do not adhere to a specific scient… CRUCIAL EXPERIMENTS 18 Nov 2013 · Exhibition · Exhibited An exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna during Vienna Art Week 2013 Opening: Monday 18 November 2013, 7:30 p.m., MuseumsQuartier Wien/Ovalhalle Introduction speech: Gerald Bast, President of the University… 16 May 2013 ROUNDTABLE Protocol 25 Apr 2013 ROUNDTABLE Presentation 14/16,On-Site Research 24 Jan 2013 · Exhibition · Exhibited By Art & Science students Self-portrait in the Lab 24 Jan 2013 · Installation · part of 14/16,On-Site Research · Exhibited ‘Spending some days at the Limnology Department at the Fish Ecology Group, and observing their experiments, I tried to work with materials and tools at hand (fish larvae, test glass, Alizarin red). Being there and workin…
↑↓2012
Phoenix 19 Nov 2012 · Installation, Performance · part of EURATOM · Author “Phoenix” was a performance held on 21 July 2012 in Grau Kllktv Gallery in Brno. The audience was invited to watch the burning of a tower created of matches and a paper-made phoenix. In the beginning, people observed fro… 08 Oct 2012 Retackling Contraction and Expansion Workshop · Students Here and There 27 Jul 2012 · Installation, Sculpture & Object · part of The Essence 12 · Students The title “Here and There” refers to an on-going research and investigation project of the students of the Art & Science master programme. At the beginning of the summer semester, the programme entered into a cooperation… EURATOM 22 Jul 2012 · Exhibition · Works The Department for Ontological Patchworks (Dr. Bernd Kräftner) presents: micro-exhibition and presentations of Euratom Projects by students of Art&Science class, University of Applied Arts Vienna Art & Science The task o… 28 Jun 2012 ROUNDTABLE The Essence 12 27 Jun 2012 · Exhibition · Exhibited Exhibition opening27th June, 2012, 19:00 Exhibition dates 27th June 2012 - 16th July, 2012 Künstlerhaus, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 ViennaOpening times: daily 10:00-18:00; Thursday 10:00-21:00 (Monday closed) The Essence 2012 Un… 04 Jun 2012 ROUNDTABLE 31 May 2012 ROUNDTABLE 03 May 2012 ROUNDTABLE Field research presentation