Leila Pazooki

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Leila Pazooki (* 1977 in Tehran , Iran ) is an artist who grew up in Iran and lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Pazooki studied painting at the Art Academy in Tehran and graduated in 2000. A year later she moved to Germany, from 2002 she studied New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Shortly before graduation, Pazooki was expelled from college due to a bureaucratic matter. Back in Tehran, she opened a graphics studio in which she designed book covers for Iranian publishers. In 2004 she received the approval from the Weißensee University of the Arts to continue her studies in Berlin. There she graduated in sculpture in 2007 . In 2009 she achieved a master's degree in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Pazooki now lives and works in Berlin after having worked in Mexico City , Indonesia and London .

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Her work has been exhibited internationally; including solo exhibitions in Berlin, Dubai , Mexico City and Tehran. She has also participated in a number of group exhibitions in New Delhi , Jerusalem , Tehran , New York and Hong Kong among others . In 2007 she conceived and realized the interdisciplinary project entitled "I yearn and don't quite know what". This brought 17 artists from Berlin to Tehran, who became artistically active on site and left their works behind. Pazooki's work is inspired by Eurocentrism in art history and the appreciation of art as a cultural product. The work "The Aesthetics of Censorship" in 2009 dealt with the censorship of western art history books in Iran. In the neon installation "Moments of Glory" (2010) Pazooki shows the complexity of aesthetic relationships according to their geographical context. With the work "Fair Trade" (2011) Pazooki shows a series of works that primarily relate the role of the museum in the context of a globalized society and the tensions between the mass market and artistic authenticity.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2012

  • Magical Thoughts, Langgeng Art Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia

2011

  • Untitled, Gallery Ernst Hilger, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  • Fair Trade, Gallery Christian Hosp, Berlin, Germany

2009

  • Leila Pazooki - Two Minute Photo, B21 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai
  • Pixel Gallery, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • Pixel Diary, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2006

  • Hidromanía, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2004

  • Photo collage, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2003

  • Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1998

  • Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran

1996

  • Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Group exhibitions

2013

  • A bomb with a ribbon around it: Queens Museum, New York, USA
  • The Space Between: Contemporary perspectives on tradition and society, Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), Jersey City, USA
  • Calligraffiti 1984/2013, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
  • Summer Selects, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
  • Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Roaming Images, Thessaloniki, Greece

2012

  • The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Museum, Berlin, Germany
  • Westend, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Elephant in the Dark, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India
  • New Positions, Participant Finalist, Art Cologne

2011

  • See the Light, Louis Vuitton Boutique, Hong Kong, China

2010

  • Illumination, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
  • Bild texte - text pictures, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • One Year, Gallery Christian Hosp, Berlin, Germany
  • Photo Album, 'The Archivist's Impatience', The LOFT, Mumbai, India

2009

  • The Augmented Flaws, Kunstagenten Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • Promise of Loss, Ernst Hillger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  • Iran Inside Out, the Chelsea Art Museum in collaboration with Leila Heller, New York, USA

2008

  • Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for Art, San Francisco, USA
  • Conportamientos, Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Cali, Colombia
  • Contemporaneo, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia
  • Ey! Iran, Contemporary Iranian Photography and Video, traveling exhibition, New Zealand and Australia

2007

  • I'm Longing and I don't Know for What, "Parallel Moments", Azad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
  • Persian Vision, traveling exhibition; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY / Art Gallery of the University of Maryland / University of Michigan Museum of Art / Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson / Honolulu Academy of Art / Chicago Cultural Center / Nicolaysen Art Museum, WY

2006

  • Close Up II, video projection in the streets of Mexico City, Casa Vecina, Mexico
  • Pomegranate -Tehran, DGB House Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2004

  • IRÁN BAJO LA PIEL, Casa Asia, CCCB, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • Second Iranian Photography Biennial, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

Collections

  • Devi Art Foundation, India
  • Nadour Collection, Germany
  • Langgeng Art Foundation, Indonesia
  • Boghossian Foundation, Belgium
  • Farook Collection, Traffic Art Center, United Arab Emirates
  • Salsali Private Museum, United Arab Emirates

Selected bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Klette: Free Art: The Bridge Builder. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  2. ↑ http://nadour.org/collection/the-aesthetic-of-censorship/
  3. ↑ http://www.complex.com/art-design/2012/12/art-basel-miami-2012-highlights-128/moment-of-glory-by-leila-pazooki
  4. ↑ http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/tour-dart-berlin-gallery-week/?_r=1
  5. ↑ http://www.christianhosp.com/AUSSTELLUNGEN/FAIR-TRADE/
personal data
SURNAME Pazooki, Leila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran