MYRIAM SCHAHABIAN
Biography
The German Iranian artist Myriam Schahabian was born in 1965. She spent her childhood and youth in Tehran, where she completed a classical painting course.
In 1981 she moved to Germany.
After graduating from high school, she studied sculpture at the art academies of Bologna, Florence and Stuttgart, where she was awarded the Academy Prize in 1992 and a scholarship to study abroad in 1993, which brought her back to Tehran.
There she had the opportunity to meet the art scene and to participate in the 1994 Biennale of Plastic Art.
In 2007 she was the winner of the Pamina Art Prize of the Museum am Schloss in Ettlingen.
In 2008, the German Foreign Office funded her solo exhibition "Spaces in Between" at the Tarrahane Azad Gallery in Tehran.
In 2009, she acted as curator and participating artist in the exhibition "Tehran Blues" in Karlsruhe at „Frauenperspektiven“ Festival in Karlsruhe.
Since 2009, she has been working with the State Majolica in Karlsruhe.
In 2010, together with the ZKM (Center of Media and Art) in Karlsruhe, she created the exhibition project "Limits of Control" on the current situation in Iran.
In 2012, her ceramic installation "Pattern Reflections" became part of the permanent exhibition Global Culture at the Badisches Landesmuseum (State Museum of Baden) in Karlsruhe.
In 2015, she realized the multimedia project "Fortress Europe" on the topic of migration at the city anniversary in Karlsruhe.
Since 2016, she has been working on the imagery in art, handicrafts and literature of Iran and its reinterpretation in ceramics. She showed these works for the first time in the solo exhibition "Found Footage" in 2018 at Blao Gallery in Heidelberg.
In 2022, she received a project grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds for her project "Inner Archives".
Public Acquisitions
2006, 2007, 2014
Städtische Galerie (Civic Gallery) , Karlsruhe
2008, 2023 , 2024
Badisches Landesmuseum (State Museum of Baden), Karlsruhe
Exhibitions and Festivals (selection)
2025
The Resilience Of Beauty - A Witness, Yvonne Hohner Contemporary, Karlsruhe, solo, catalogue
2024
Spolia – Vom Gedächtnis der Dinge, Badisches Landesmuseum (State Museum of Baden), Karlsruhe, solo
Art Fair, Karlsruhe
2022
Monochrom, State Maiolica, Karlsruhe
2018
Found Footage, Blao Gallery Heidelberg, solo
2017
Tierra, Blao Gallery, Heidelberg, solo
2015
Spuren.Suche.Begegnungen, Civic Gallery Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe
2013
Global Culture, State Museum of Baden, Karlsruhe
Revision, Artpark Gallery, Karlsruhe, solo
Art Fair, Karlsruhe
2012
Virtual Borders II, Gallery of Saarland, Berlin
Virtual Borders, Kommandantenhaus, Dilsberg
2011
Interaction. Art &Media Crossing, AB Gallery, Luzern
Spektral – Diametral, Civic Gallery, Karlsruhe
Schnittmenge, pART Galerie, Karlsruhe
2010
The Limits of Control, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, solo
Limited Accsess II, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2009
Tehran Blues, Prinz Max Palais, Karlsruhe
Qu(art)ett, State Majolica, Karlsruhe
Limited Access, Azad Gallery, Teheran
2008
Urban Jealousy, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin
Collision, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, catalogue
Spaces in Between, Azad Gallery, Tehran, solo, catalogue
2007
Virtual Residency, European Centre of Art and Industry Culture, Völkingen, catalogue
Oriental Pottery, State Museum, Karlsruhe, catalogue
2006
corps blessés, ibz Karlsruhe (International Center for Encounter)
scharf, Museum of Art and Crafts, Hamburg, catalogue
Pamina Art Prize, Museum am Schloss, Ettlingen, catalogue
2003
Femme Totale, short film festival, Dortmund
2002
Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
1998
Ablaze, DAI (German-American Institute), Heidelberg, solo
1995
Biennial of Sculptural Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran/Iran