{"id":9966,"date":"2022-09-15T11:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T09:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:22:26","slug":"shirin-mohammad-portrait-of-an-artist-between-berlin-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/shirin-mohammad-portrait-of-an-artist-between-berlin-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirin Mohammad: Portrait of an Artist Between Berlin & Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shirin Mohammad photographed Nazanin Ahari<\/a> (courtesy Shirin Mohammad).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When I was asked to do this month\u2019s artist portrait, my mind wandered through all the artists I know who live in Berlin. As one of the centers of the art world, Berlin brims with creative energy. After much contemplation, I was convinced that Shirin Mohammad is the perfect fit. A young artist whose practice intertwines documentary and fiction, Mohammad\u2019s sharp eyes investigate Iran\u2019s past and present. She then showcases these \u201cunprecedented constellations of historical events” in powerful images.<\/p>\n

Shirin Mohammad\u2019s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses archival research, filmmaking, and installation art. Born in 1992 in Tehran, Mohammad earned her BA in Cinema from Sooreh Art University in her hometown in 2015. A year later, she moved to Bremen to pursue her academic studies at the Hochschule f\u00fcr K\u00fcnste (University of the Arts) in Fine Art. Mohammad now divides her time between Berlin, Bremen, and Tehran.<\/p>\n

With a particular focus on the socio-political history of Iran, Mohammad creates her own archive by bringing together elements of both documentary and fiction, scrutinizing the remains of lost, ignored, and abandoned narratives. These narratives, either found or fabricated, are in turn an attempt to show how history can be manipulated in different ways. Having received her Diploma in Fine Art from the Hochschule f\u00fcr K\u00fcnste in 2020, Mohammad spent one year doing her Meisterschule (equivalent to a Master\u2019s degree) with Professor Natascha Sadr Haghighian \u2014 in Germany students who have completed the regular course of study with above-average results can start a master class at German art or music colleges.<\/p>\n