Nour Shantout

Nour Shantout, was born in Damascus, Syria in 1991 and have spent the last 6 years in Beirut, Paris and Vienna. She started studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2009 and continued her work abroad. She completed her bachelor’s of art in 2014 at The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts where she received the Helen EL Khal prize (2014) and continued her graduate studies at the École de Beaux-Arts of Paris. She is currently living in Vienna and studying at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Textual Sculpture, Prof. Heimo Zobernig) since 2015.
She works around social barriers, heritage, counter-memory, and counter-history. Through concepts of failure she questions the different aspects of protection and preservation.

2009-2012 Damascus University, Fine Arts.
2013-2014 License (L3), ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts).
2014-2015 Masters 1, ALBA.
2015-2018 Akademie der bildenden künste Wien (Textual Sculpture).
Prizes:
Helen El Khal prize

2014 Experimental Art- Collective exhibition- The Venu Gallery (Beirut).
2015 How Soon Is Now?- Collective exhibition- Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2016 Sos art liban- Collective exhibition- unesco (Beirut).
2016 How High Can You Bounce?- Collective exhibition- Produzentengalerie (Vienna).
2016 In Between- collaboration with Danielle Pamp- Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Aula).
2016 Salon der Künste- Looshaus (Vienna).
2016 Salon der Künste- Wien Museum.
2017 Auction- Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Aula).
2017 Forum Biotopia- Creau (Vienna).
2017 FTvS- Casino Baumgarten (Vienna).
2018 Spielzimmer- solo- (Vienna).
2018 Hometown Berlin- urban project.
2018 Monumenta- Pittlerwerke (Leipzig).