Haleh Redjaian

About

Haleh Redjaian (*1971 in Frankfurt/Main) first studied art history at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and then drawing, printmaking and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where she completed her studies in fine arts. In Berlin, she worked for eight years as an assistant to the well-known Venezuelan artist Arturo Herrera. Her work also draws on the diversity of two cultural areas, combining the geometric tradition of Western modernism with Persian ornamentation in her line drawings on paper, on hand-woven carpets and in expansive installations. Although on paper she often draws her lines with a ruler, on the carpets and in her room installations with straight-stretched threads, her work also focuses on the disruption and inadequacy of the grid, an ordered system that is never absolutely dominant, but also not purely functional. In her textile works, traditional carpets serve as the basis for a complex, multi-layered structure of threads that the artist carefully attaches to the surface to create abstract patterns. She allows irregularities and deviations in this otherwise strict order. Her formal inventions are always directly related to objects, architectural fragments and the nature of her immediate surroundings.

Biography

Born 1971 in Frankfurt/Main. Lives and works in Berlin.

Study of art history at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Drawing, printmaking, sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
8 years studio assistance with Arturo Herrera, Berlin

Grants / awards

2012	Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt / Berlin
2015	Recherchestipendium / Berliner Senat
2019	Kunstfonds / Berliner Senat
2020	Reisezuschuss für Auslandsvorhaben / Berliner Senat, Projekt/Ausstellung in Vancouver
2021	Reisestipendium Hessische Kulturstiftung, Iran / Senegal

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2023	crumple – unfold – crumple – unfold – crumple, Isabelle Borges & Haleh Redjaian, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (D)
2020	White Leaves One and Two on Their Place, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai (UAE) Criss crossed, Whitehouse Gallery Lovenjoel (B)
2019	Some Things Last A Long Time, Kajetan Berlin (D) Points, Lines, Planes, Galerie Krobath , Wien (A)
2018	Chinamen of Oklahoma, Haleh Redjaian & Mathias Prenen, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel (B) Inhabiting the grid, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai (UAE)
2016	in-sequence II, Federkiel München (D) in-sequence, Magazin 4, Kunstverein Bregenz (AT) Verknüpft, Haleh Redjaian und die Sammlung, Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (D)
2015	In-Between Spaces,Gallery Isabelle van den Eynden, Dubai (UAE) Up on the toe the air is thinner, Arratia Beer Galerie, Berlin (D)
2013	Same Same but different, Vincenz Sala, Berlin Friday Night Lights, Sox Berlin Straight as a Line, Little Krimminals lV, Berlin
2012	Make the two into one, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2011	Mersin, Masa Berlin, Betahaus, Berlin
2003	Ijl, Galerie Koraalberg, Antwerp
2002	Gallery S&H De Buck, Gent

Group exhibitions (selection)

2022	The Tide is High, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden (D) Kajetan at Valerie Traan, Antwerpen (B) Klangteppich IV Festival, Telegrafie und Klangkunst, TAK Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, Berlin (D) L‘année dernièr à Malmaison, SAC Bucharest, (R) Textile, Haunt Berlin, drj art projects, Berlin (D) About Architecture, Valerie Traan Gallery at kajetan Berlin (D) Paper Show, Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel (B)
2022	Clara Brörmann, Caroline Kryzecki, Haleh Redjaian, Anja Schwörer Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin (D) Technê, republic gallery, Vancouver (C) XL/XS, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin (D) Sonderlage 5/5, Lage Egal, Berlin (D)
2020	Caroline Corleone \| Theresa Eipeldauer \| Anna Meyer \| Muntean/Rosenblum \| Haleh Redjaian \| Esther Stocker \| Katja Strunz \| Sofie Thorsen \| Jenni Tischer, Gallery Krobath, Vienna (AU) Der Schnitt, Valerie Traan Antwerpen (B) Stasi frenetica, MAO, Turin (I)
2019	Cross the Line, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf (D) 4 x 3: BAUHAUS, Alte Feuerwache, Berlin (D) GLUE by DAG: alternative facts / Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin (D) Century-idee Bauhaus, drj. dr julius Galerie, Berlin (D) All - in, l’oiseau présente, cubiculum, Berlin (D)
2018	High Noon, Arratia Beer Galerie, Berlin (D) Kaleidoskop Worpswede, Haus im Schluh, Worpswede (D) MKK goes Berlin, Sammlung Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Auktionshaus Ketterer Berlin (D) Jaou, Earth Pavillion curated by Khadija Hamdi, Tunis (Tun) Out of Office, Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen (D)
2017	L’horreur du plein, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis (Tun) Good Print, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai (UAE) Out of Office, Musem für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (D)
2016	Kaleidoskop, l’oiseau présente...,Ballhaus Ost Berlin (D) Emak Bakia “curated by...”, Bettina Steinbrügge, Galerie Krobath, Wien (AT) Come as you are, Arratia Beer Galerie, Berlin (D) White Cube... Literally, Curated Amanda Abi Khalil, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai (UAE)
2015	Arcadia Unbound, Funkhaus Berlin (D)