Shahryar Nashat

Born:
1975
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
Swiss
Trust:
APT London
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  • The phrase “make-believe media” was coined by Michael Parenti in 1991 to describe how the United States’ entertainment industries reproduce myths that justify the unequal distribution of power.

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  • Absolut announced the finalists for its 2017 Absolut Art Award today, which gives prizes in two categories, Art Work and Art Writing.

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  • Absolut announced the nominees for its 2017 Absolut Art Award today.

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  • The Hammer Museum celebrates the opening of “Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only”, the third iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

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  • Taking its cue from the recently published book Avant-Garde Museology, the symposium will address the memory machine of the contemporary museum vis-à-vis its relationship to the contemporary artistic practices, sociopolitical contexts, and theoretical legacies that shape and animate it

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  • Made in L.A. 2016 is almost explicitly not about Los Angeles, though the city’s still the set.

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  • The exhibition “Model Malady” explores contemporary bodily states of fetishization, subversion and ridicule while using video and sculpture as means of defining what a body can be.

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  • “Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose When thought shows it to be deep or dark? See sun, and think shadow.”
—Louis Zukofsky, anew #21.

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  • Portikus is pleased to present “Model Malady”, an exhibition by Swiss artist Shahryar Nashat (*1975, lives and works in Berlin).

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  • The Biennale of Sydney has announced the final list of 83 artists from 35 countries for the forthcoming 20th edition from March 18 to June 5, including an additional 13 artists and collectives whose participation is detailed below.

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  • The single biggest surprise about the coming edition of “Made in L.A.,” the Hammer Museum’s biennial featuring artists who are locally based, is just how international the exhibition looks.

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  • Venice’s canals impose an odd sort of leveling on one’s sense of history here: time moves only upwards (new spires, new façades, higher doorways to beat the acqua alta), never down.

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  • As already announced previously, the 2012 season kicks off with two exhibitions. The first is devoted to the presence of the MACT Museum of Contemporary

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  • Leonard Cohen originally called Dear Heather, his 2004 album, Old Ideas, a nod to its assemblage of literary and musical influences of yore.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland, Shahryar Nashat lives and works in Berlin. Nashat uses a broad range of media including video, digital print and photography. His work is characterized by an emphasis on staging and rehearsal. His pieces often present a series of partial visibilities constructed through dramatic montages, interruptions and abridgements. These incomplete representations suggest fundamental desires and anxieties, at times framing the body as the locus of an unconscious conflict, or building psychological tension around the production of an object. Nashat also utilizes text and sound to complicate images’ straightforward appearances. His work “Plaque (Slab)” (2007) combines found footage of Glenn Gould performing amidst monolithic sculptures with a video recording that documents the fabrication of a concrete slab in a factory in Berlin.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Line up - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft” at Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2010), “Remains to be seen” at Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen (2009), “Plaque” at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle (2009), “Sharyar Nashat – Plaque” at Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Postdam (2009), “Placed High for Dramatic Impact” at Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome (2008) as well as “Shadows collide with people”, the Swiss Pavilion for the 51st Venice Biennial (2005). His work has also been shown as part of “Shifting Identities. (Swiss) Art Now” at Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius (2009), "H-Box”, touring to Centre Pompidou, Paris / MUSAC, Leòn / Tate Modern, London / MUSAC Luxembourg, (2008), "Since we last spoke about monuments”, Stroom Den Haag (2008), “The Eye of the Storm” at Kunstmuseum St. Gall Switzerland (2007), ”Globos Sonda / Trial Balloons” at MUSAC, Leòn (2006) and “Gravity” at De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (2006).

Shahryar Nashat is represented by Galeria S.A.L.E.S.


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