Solmaz Farhang is an artist-researcher and illustrator based in London. She is a graduate of the Art and Science Master programme at University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her interdisciplinary approaches she investigates the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche along with the interrelations between individuals and societies. She strives to desacralise ignorant beliefs and question society’s prejudices. Farhang works across multiple disciplines. Her practice materialises in many forms, including photography, videos, multimedia installations, book illustration and collaborative art-science projects.
Selected Exhibitions & Talks & Awards:
2022
Liquid tools for River Fiction, University of Applied Arts Vienna (die Angewandte), Vienna
How to become an Island, Novi Sad22 European Capital of Culture, Novi Sad
INTRA 2021, Angewandte Programme for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Projects in Art and Research, Vienna
Radio OE1 prize, Fixing the future – climate, Vienna
2021
Woodiana.Today , Art & Science 2021, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade
Woodiana.Today, Ars Electronica Garden Belgrade, art+science 2021, Center for the Promotion of Science, Novi Sad
Portrait in the Lab, May I introduce: Alien, SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad
Portrait in the Lab, May I Introduce: Alienexpress, Fabrikraum, Vienna
Clothes with Stories, Talk and presentation, Climate Campaign ‘Generation One’, UCL, London
2020
About dreaming fishes in test tube, AILien Talk between Science and Art, Angewandte Festival, Vienna
Portrait in the Lab, May I Introduce: Alien, AIL, Vienna
Clothes with Stories, UCL Grand Challenges of Human Wellbeing, London
2019
Inspired to Innovate, AOI exhibition, London
From analogue to digital, London
2018
THE MIRRORED UNIVERSE, Etiuda & Anima festival, Academy of Fine Arts, KraKow
THE MIRRORED UNIVERSE, Our Place in Space exhibition, NHM Vienna
COLABOR ArtScience, University of Applied Arts Vienna (With WTZ Ost)
Sketching as a medium between fact and fiction, JBS18, Designforum Austria, MQ, Vienna
Joseph Binder Award for Book Illustration, Vienna
Herr Pomeranz lernt lachen, children book publication, Austria
2017
Grant and sponsorship, Our Place in Space, European Space Agency
Der Schatten at BIB 2017, Slovak national museum, Bratislava
Social Robotics & Visual Narrative in Tandem, Research Salon, AIL, Vienna
Social Robotics & Visual Narrative in Tandem at Applied practice, AIL, Vienna, Austria
Illustration-Hub, Grant and sponsorship, WTZ Ost, University of Vienna, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2016
A Long Goodbye, NextComic festival 2016, RAUMSCHIFF, Linz
Der Schatten, Children book publication, Bibliothek der Provinz, Austria
Performative book presentation, Der Schatten, Design Austria, MQ, Vienna, Austria
Workshop, Creative memories, Summer School in Cognitive Science, University of Vienna, Austria
2015
A Long Goodbye at The Essence 2015, Künstlerhaus, Vienna