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Günay Shamsi
The Baku-born and, since 2015, Berlin-based artist enjoys pushing the limits of perception. Her images possess thoroughly mannerist characteristics – the ground and parts of the body repeatedly… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
Background Information about Günay Shamsi
Introduction
Astro-Horse is a perfect example: a splendidly shimmering horse wearing a flexible astronaut’s helmet and gazing into a floating mirror sphere in which we can see a horse’s head without a helmet looking at us. We would not be wrong in pointing out that, in this way, the picture’s virtual viewer – meaning us – is indirectly proclaimed a horse.
Shamsi chooses her titles carefully, often in Latin, in order to give her works a sense of sophistication. She imbues her art with adventures as well as with deeper mysteries and cultural meaning. There are clear references to art history and classical surrealist modernism, but at the same time she is constantly reworking its themes in a highly original manner. In fact, with its unique questions of perception, her Astro-Horse recalls one of the classics of the early modern relationship between image and viewer, one that many academics and intellectuals have attempted to analyse: Diego Velázquez’s courtly painting Las Meninas.
Stephan Reisner
Bio
2003-2007 | Berufsfachschule für Malerei «A. AsimZade» bei der Aserbeidschanischen Kunstakademie |
2007-2011 | Studium der Bühnenmalerei an der Aserbaidschanischen Staatlichen Universität für Kultur und Kunst. Diplom mit Auszeichnung |
2015-2018 | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Studien gang Freie Kunst / Bildhauerei bei Prof. Else Gabriel. Diplom mit Auszeichnung |
2018-2020 | Meisterschülerin, bei Prof. Albrecht Schäfer und Prof. Else Gabriel an der Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin |
Awards
2010-2012 | Präsidentenstipendiatin, Stipendium für Malerei (Verband Aserbaidschanischer Künstler) |
2010 | Auszeichnung der DeutschAserbaidschanischen Gesellschaft e.V für Verdienste um die deutsch aserbaidschanischen Kulturbeziehungen |
2011 | Beste Nachwuchsmalerin Aserbaidschans (Ministerium der Aserbaidschanischen Republik für Jugend und Sport) |
2009 | Women's Association for Rational Development, Baku, Azerbaijan |
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2022 | Exhibition "Frack, Cut, Smoking - Stylish from the evening reception to the German Bundestag ́ ́ for the company Cut For You, Berlin Aserbaidschanischen Kulturhauses Khari Bülbül e.V., Hotel Waldorf Astoria, Berlin |
2014 | Adam & Eva, Ardes Galerie, Berlin |
2009 | Role Models - Women Daring to Change, Women's Association for Rational Development, Baku, Azerbaijan |
Group Exhibitions
2022 | Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main Weihnachtsausstellung 2022 der Stiftung Starke, Löwenpalais, Berlin UN PEZZO DI ME, Transform Galerie, Berlin |
2021 | 21 Expressions, Online exhibition, organized by Faculty of Fine Art, National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ASWARA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia und ArtFort, Indien Die Kulturelle Luftbrücke, Kühlhaus, Berlin |
2020 | Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, Transform studio & Galerie, Berlin |
2019 | Artistic meetings, Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin – Familienzentrum ZION, The New Synagogue, Berlin Weihnachtsausstellung 2019 der Stiftung Starke, Löwenpalais, Berlin |
2018 | Caspian Art Wave, gallery Resonance, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Defying Currents, Abschlussausstellung der Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Prof. Else Gabriel SURREAL GARDENS between Baku and Berlin, ArtStudio Maria Wirth, Berlin |
2017 | Aserbaidschan trifft Bulgarien in Berlin, Galerie Berlin Baku, Berlin Worpswede Price, AUTO / MACHT / MOBILITÄT, PS. Speicher, Einbeck, Deutschland Granatapfel und Feuerberg, Contemporary Azerbaijani Art, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Hessen Preisträgerin des Malwettbewerbs, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam Artrium, THE HAUS Berlin Art Bang, Berlin |
2016 | Aserbaidschan trifft Japan in Berlin, Galerie Berlin Baku, Berlin Academy of Contemporary Art, Creative Writing with Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Tromsø, Norway |
2012 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France Grand Tournoi de Chevalerie, Normandie, France Blue Water, Four Seasons Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan |
2010 | United Buddy Bears Show, Berlin, mit Ali Shamsi |
2008 | 1st place of the exhibition on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the President of the Azerbaijan Republic H. Aliyev |