Shahin Charmi

Shahin Charmi (photo 1995)

Shahin Charmi (born September 17, 1953 in what is now Iran ) is a media artist. He lives in Kiel .

biography

Polecat bunker with the revolution painting (photo 2013)

Shahin Charmi was born in Iran in 1953. From 1980 to 1985 he studied free art and painting at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel. He works as a painter, media and action artist in Germany, Austria and Iran. From 1987 to 1989 he was in charge of the “Design of Public Facades” project. In this project he realized the work “ Revolution and War ” on the facade of the Iltis bunker in Kiel.

In 1990 Charmi received the first prize in the international computer art competition "Golden Plotter", Museum Gladbeck. In 1992 he completed a two-year pedagogical training course at the Waldorf Teachers' Seminar in Kiel and, in addition to his artistic activity, sometimes taught art at the Free Waldorf Schools in Kiel and Linz. From 2008 to 2011 he realized sets for three plays by the Iranian director Pari Saberi. Charmi's work has been featured in various regional, national and international festivals and exhibitions such as the retrospective "40 Years of BBK Schleswig-Holstein", Videonale Bonn, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada and Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran.

Awards

• 1990: 1st prize winner of the “Golden Plotter 1990” competition at the Gladbeck Museum. The reasoning stated, among other things: “Both the graphic series of printer graphics with the title 'Resolution' and the animation video of the same name are assessed as an independent and appropriate implementation of a complex topic for the respective electronic medium ...... The sequential one The dissolution of a realistic into an abstract image shows parallels to the development of modern art (Renaissance up to the beginning of the 20th century), realized with the means of contemporary electronic art. "

plant

Exhibitions (selection) 1985 Artpark Kiel 1987 City Museum, Flensburg 1987 Kunsthalle zu Kiel 1988 Videonale Bonn 1989 Musee D'Art Contemporain de Montreal / Canada 1989 Academy of Fine Arts / Institute for Contemporary Art, Vienna / Austria 1990 Gladbeck Museum 1991 Schleswig-Holstein State Museum 1991 Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe 1993 Municipal Gallery, Kiel 1996 Schleswig-Holstein Days, "Schleswig-Holstein on the way to the information society", Rendsburg 1987 "vikuma", the visual culture magazine, internet presentation 1998 “Millennium”, Internet as an artistic medium 1999 Schleswig-Holstein State Museum 2000 Gladbeck Museum 2003 “Order” installation, City Workshop Linz. “Street TV” project management, in cooperation with Stadtwerkstatt Linz 2004 "Kunstkanal" (platform for media art)

Public collections Kiel art gallery Museum Flensburg Wall painting - Iltis bunker, Kiel Gladbeck Museum City Gallery Kiel Ministry of Culture, Kiel

Web links

Commons : Shahin Charmi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shahin Charmi's website
• Literature by and about Shahin Charmi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Shahin Charmi, catalogs (PDF file, last modified 2006; 834 kB)
• Catalog
• Musee D'Art Contemporain de Montreal / Canada, "Points of Interest"
• "Computer Art 2000"
• The ZKM | Karlsruhe, "The Beginnings of the Future"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://sc.kunstkanal.org/pdf/katalog.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.flensburg-online.de/museum/muspub.html