Mahroo Movahedi is a visual artist from Isfahan, Iran. She received her bachelor and MFA from Iran in painting and Master transdisciplinaryarts at (ZHDK)Art university of zurich in Switzerland.
She uses painting, printmaking and photography as her medium for her artworks that usually helps her in creating new ideas. With an outstanding eye for color and texture, she employs these two elements as the most notable factors in her artworks.Her ideas comes from her imagination and intuition. She is always fascinated by blending traditional and modern.Another part of her work focused on collage techniques and make it possible for her to go into the mixed-media.
Due to her move to Switzerland she has entered into the interdisciplinary arts areas that has opened a new chapter in her artworks.Mahroo explores themes of culture, landscape and language questioning the notion of identity and sense of belonging.The audio-visual elements of her work shift in the shapes of documentary-experimental style.Mahroo movahedi engages with the representation(s) of self and other through the lens of her experience of living in and between different spaces, cultures and languages.
She is the winner of Young art Award 2016 at Ute Barth Gallery in Zurich and she participated and exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions during her profession in Iran and Switzerland.
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Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 “Crossing Corners” Solo Show, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2020 “How Is Life” Group Exhibition, Le Manoir de la Ville, Martigny
2020 “Contemporary Masters” Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2020 “Winter Iran” Group Exhibition, Alpen Museum, Bern
2019 “CHETORI” Group Exhibition, Vienna
2019 “Narrative Stones”, Solo Show, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2018 “Kunst: Scene Zürich” Group Exhibition, Helmhaus, Zurich
2018 “Works on Paper” Group Exhibition, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2017 “Stories” Group Exhibition, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2017 “Resistance” Whitespace black Box Group Exhibition, Neuchatel
2016 “The Forgotten” Tree Solo Exhibition, Performance, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
“Memory Update” Solo Exhibition, Steindruck Atelier Wolfensberger, Zurich
“Young Art Award” Group Exhibition, Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
2015 “Time and Space” Solo Exhibition, Kunstforum Raiffeisen, Winterthur
“Life in Between” Solo Exhibition, Gallery 1, Toni Areal, Zurich
“Fishing Reality” Group Exhibition, Kunstkommission Rathaus Aarau
“Gender Identities” Group Exhibition, Toni Areal, Zurich
2014 “Guck mal Günther” Art Festival, Lenzburg
“What we see and make seen” Art Collaboration with Zürich und Hong Kong,
Bärengasse Museum, Zurich
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Honors & Awards Nominated Award to "Biannual Young art Award" exhibition at Ute Barth Gallery, Zurich
Internships awarded at THOMI WOLFENSBERGER Lithographey
Internships awarded inFOA-FLUX Institute in Zürich
“My Heterotopia” collection,has published at pipeline issue 49 in Hong Kong
Ranked 1st in MA project of painting
Winner of the medal for the best work from Esfahan one-day Gifted student of Art University of Isfahan Winner of the medal, tablet and award
ranked 2nd in the Third cultural and Artistic festival of Saghalayn, Isfahan, Iran
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