From Graz to Prague, May - June 2024
Artist in Residence Collaboration between @schaumbad.graz & @meetfactory
During his residency at MeetFactory, he is expiring and connecting with Prague’s artistic community and is taking advantage of the cultural program MeetFactory has to offer, from theatre and art exhibitions to music performances. Moreover, he plans to explore how the public sees MeetFactory and the controversial discourse around David Černý as the institution’s founder. In his art practice, Keyvan uses local recycled materials.
In his works, he repeatedly addresses controversial social issues such as religiosity, power and the role of gender. Paydar realizes his works in a wide variety of artistic media such as performance, sculpture, painting and video, whereby the clearly conceptual character is expressed in a number of projects (e.g.
a cooperation with Ae Hee Lee during his residency in Berlin 2017). Many works are created - depending on the context - in public venues (Urban Space Odyssey, 2020; PHANTOM LIMBS, 2018) or in such "non-artistic" locations during a hospital stay Abstract Narration is a screen with drawings on
napkins. Paydar borrowed the markers from the nurses.
Virtuosic, unusual and experimental, Paydar represents his self-will as a multimedia artist. Again and again he is drawn from visual arts to performing arts to music. Projects such as MIMA (Mischmaschine) or performances with saxophonist Norbert Stammberger at Halle 6 in Munich, where P. builds headgear from washing machine drums that the two musicians wear while freely improvising, testify to the artist's interdisciplinary commitment. As a musician and conductor he also works with STIO (Styrian Improvisers Orchestra).
One if the upcoming projects which he works as a curator would be at the end of august 2024 in Schaumbad, the interdisciplinary festival called GIF (Grazer Impro Fest).
Keyvan Paydar (*1984 Teheran, lives in Graz),
studied painting and anthropology of art in Iran and sculpture with Markus Wilfling and ceramics with Irmgard Schaumberger in the master classes at Ortweinschule, Graz. Since 2013 he works as a freelance multimedia artist, art educator, musician and independent curator among others at "Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz" where he is working also as a board member since 2021.
Paydar took part in international exhibitions, symposiums and residency-programs, ran a pop-up gallery in Graz and organized regional and international art projects.
Artist in Residence Collaboration between @schaumbad.graz & @meetfactory
During his residency at MeetFactory, he is expiring and connecting with Prague’s artistic community and is taking advantage of the cultural program MeetFactory has to offer, from theatre and art exhibitions to music performances. Moreover, he plans to explore how the public sees MeetFactory and the controversial discourse around David Černý as the institution’s founder. In his art practice, Keyvan uses local recycled materials.
In his works, he repeatedly addresses controversial social issues such as religiosity, power and the role of gender. Paydar realizes his works in a wide variety of artistic media such as performance, sculpture, painting and video, whereby the clearly conceptual character is expressed in a number of projects (e.g.
a cooperation with Ae Hee Lee during his residency in Berlin 2017). Many works are created - depending on the context - in public venues (Urban Space Odyssey, 2020; PHANTOM LIMBS, 2018) or in such "non-artistic" locations during a hospital stay Abstract Narration is a screen with drawings on
napkins. Paydar borrowed the markers from the nurses.
Virtuosic, unusual and experimental, Paydar represents his self-will as a multimedia artist. Again and again he is drawn from visual arts to performing arts to music. Projects such as MIMA (Mischmaschine) or performances with saxophonist Norbert Stammberger at Halle 6 in Munich, where P. builds headgear from washing machine drums that the two musicians wear while freely improvising, testify to the artist's interdisciplinary commitment. As a musician and conductor he also works with STIO (Styrian Improvisers Orchestra).
One if the upcoming projects which he works as a curator would be at the end of august 2024 in Schaumbad, the interdisciplinary festival called GIF (Grazer Impro Fest).
Keyvan Paydar (*1984 Teheran, lives in Graz),
studied painting and anthropology of art in Iran and sculpture with Markus Wilfling and ceramics with Irmgard Schaumberger in the master classes at Ortweinschule, Graz. Since 2013 he works as a freelance multimedia artist, art educator, musician and independent curator among others at "Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz" where he is working also as a board member since 2021.
Paydar took part in international exhibitions, symposiums and residency-programs, ran a pop-up gallery in Graz and organized regional and international art projects.
Fotos: Marie Sieberová
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