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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«
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Award ceremony was held on 8 November 2018 @ designforum Wien MuseumsQuartier
The Mirrored Universe
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…
Master project A LONG GOODBYE: Facts and Fictions About Emotions, Memory and All
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
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ARBITRARY HYPOTHESES
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
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
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25 Apr 2013
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14/16,On-Site Research
By Art & Science students
Self-portrait in the Lab
‘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…
Phoenix
“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
Here and There
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
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
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The Essence 12
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
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31 May 2012
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03 May 2012
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Above 0.74 µm
Environment is not just what can be observed. Perception is confined to the senses; and is that, which forms a great part of human beliefs. By instance, the thermal environment cannot be directly observed, because our ey…
24 Jan 2012
Presentations 24.01.2012