Galerie

Georg Nothelfer

Elmira Iravanizad

Document No. 14
2022, Collage and pencil, 70 x 100cm
Document No. 14,
2022, Collage and pencil, 70 x 100cm
Document No.14, paper and pen,100x75 cm, 2022
Object No. 44
2022, Metal and wood, 147 x 20 x 28cm
Object No. 44,
2022, Metal and wood, 147 x 20 x 28cm
GalerieNothelfer_IravanizadElmira_ObjectNo.44_2022_MetallUndHolz_147x20x28cm
Object No. 35
2021, Ceramic and metal, 32 x 46 x 15cm
Object No. 35,
2021, Ceramic and metal, 32 x 46 x 15cm
Iravanizad_Object No.35, Ceramic and Metal, 32x46x5cm, 2021_bearbeitet
Untitled
2024, Mixed media/paper, 29,7 x 21 cm
Untitled,
2024, Mixed media/paper, 29,7 x 21 cm
Iravanizad_Collage_3
Untitled
2024, Mixed media/paper, 29,7 x 21 cm
Untitled,
2024, Mixed media/paper, 29,7 x 21 cm
Iravanizad_Collage_2
Object No. 61
2023, Metal and wood, ca. 52 x 8 x 20 cm
Object No. 61,
2023, Metal and wood, ca. 52 x 8 x 20 cm
Object No. 61, Metal and Wood, 8x20x52 cm, 2023
Graben Serie
2020, Ceramic objects, dimensions variable. Installation View
Graben Serie,
2020, Ceramic objects, dimensions variable. Installation View
Iravanizad, Graben Serie, Installationsansicht 2, 2021, Keramik
Trench No. 8
2020, Oil on wood, 50 x 50 cm
Trench No. 8,
2020, Oil on wood, 50 x 50 cm
Iravanizad, Trench No.8, Oil on canvas, 50x50cm, 2020
Document No.15
2022, Paper and pen/Collage, 100 x 75 cm
Document No.15,
2022, Paper and pen/Collage, 100 x 75 cm
Document No.15, paper and pen,100x75 cm, 2022
Trench No. 13
2020, Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
Trench No. 13,
2020, Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm
Trench No 13_2020_Oil on canvas_200 x 200 cm_1
Untitled
2018, Pillar, wood and metal, 200-400 x 19 x 15 cm
Untitled,
2018, Pillar, wood and metal, 200-400 x 19 x 15 cm
4.Iravanizad,Elmira,Pillar,Wood and Metal,(200-400)x19x15cm,2018.

Biography

born 1987 in Tehran
2011 BA Painting, Tehran University
2012 MA Fine Art, London Metropolitan University
2014 DAAD Scholarship, University of the Arts Berlin
2018 NAIRS Residency, Center for Contemporary Art, Engadin, Switzerland
2018 Villa Lena Artist Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2019 Krems Art Residency (AIR), Scholarship of the Federal State of Lower Austria, Austria
2024 Scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2024 First solo exhibition at the Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Lives and works in Berlin.

Elmira Iravanizad's work encompasses a variety of themes, materials and artistic genres. The artist paints in oil, creates sculptures from ceramics, metal and wood and assembles collages from drawings, cut-outs, paste-overs and overpaintings. She archives, arranges and reuses the remnants of her artistic work. Her forms, which move from artwork to artwork and from one genre to another, are reminiscent of signs, vessels, objects and architecture; they appear organic or functional and mechanical. Yet they always remain abstract and represent only themselves. They are, however, reminiscent of the artist's cultural background in Iran, of the urban landscapes of Tehran, London and Berlin, of connections and seemingly insurmountable ruptures between the present and history as well as between different cultures, and of the brutality of ideology. Iravanizad's artistic approach and the result are characterised by great openness. Sometimes an image or a memory stands at the beginning of a new work, sometimes an interesting material or the will to go a new way. The artworks are also open and accessible: they play with the magic of the unfinished and contrast perfectly finished with still raw areas, which arouses curiosity and encourages the viewer to reflect. What can classical materials such as oil paint, wood, clay and iron still tell us in the digital age? Iravanizad succeeds in posing old questions about art in a new way and critically positioning her work in the context of global, post-colonial contemporary art. (Text by Hannah Jacobi)

Exhibitions

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