Rohullah Kazimi

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Rohullah Kazimi (* 1987 in Kabul ) is an Afghan - German artist. Rohullah Kazimi lives in Hamburg .

Life

While fleeing the civil war in 1989 , Kazimi and his family emigrated to Germany via Iran and Uzbekistan . Rohullah Kazimi has lived in Hamburg since 1995. Since 2007 he has been working as a visual artist in the Schlumper studio. The Schlumper are a Hamburg studio community for artists with different disabilities. Kazimi says: "Art is that you work freely and not like graphic designers (advertising)."

Woman in front of a mirror, Dita von Teese
Self-portrait with Budda von Bamian

plant

Rohullah Kazimi works with different techniques. Drawing is in the foreground of his work, and Kazimi deals with historical topics in his pictures. Famous personalities and buildings, but also natural history topics become the subject of his drawings. In addition to the drawings, Kazimi also does etchings and embroidery. Most of his embroidery work is dedicated to the film heroes of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Exhibitions

  • Museum for Outsider Art, Schleswig (2009)
  • Kulturforum Burgkloster, Lübeck (2009)
  • Kleisthaus, Berlin (2010)
  • Affenfaustgalerie, Hamburg (2014)
  • flux 23, Vienna (2014)
  • Friese-Künstlerhaus, Hamburg (2015)
  • Gallery 3, Klagenfurt (2015)

Publications

  • The Schlumper drawings . Edited by Christian Mürner on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Schlumper Gallery, Hamburg 2009
  • An unexpected stroke of luck. The Schlumper, a Hamburg studio community . Edited by Friends of Schlumper e. V. on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kreishaus (Berlin), Hamburg 2010
  • Rohullah Kazimi: Adventure Dream Diary . Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 2011, ISBN 978-3-935791-38-0
  • Poppe, F. & Musenberg, O. (2011): "... Moses, Mohammed, they were all there" - Art and historical awareness: The historical motifs of Rohullah Kazimi. An artist in need of assistance. In: Quarterly magazine for curative education and its neighboring areas , issue 4, 310-318
  • The Schlumper - picture descriptions . Edited by Christian Mürner on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Schlumper Gallery, Hamburg 2012

Web links

  • Kazimi on the Schlumper website
personal data
SURNAME Kazimi, Rohullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan-German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul