Vusal Rahim

b. 1987, Ganja, Azerbaijan

He lives and works in Baku

Vusal Rahim is a multidisciplinary, multimedia artist and performer. Trained as a theater designer, he studied in the department of Theatre and Decorative Design at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in the workshop of People’s Artist Kamil Najafzadeh from 2007 to 2011. He chiefly works in painting, graphic art, decorative theatre and stage design, video art, photography and sculpture, often involved in more than one medium simultaneously, with numerous different techniques.
In his art work, Vusal expresses a unique perspective on figurative images, using the human form as his inspiration. Through this lens, he analyzes social expectations and gender roles, illuminating things which are often buried deep within the cultural memory. Through the embodied form, both individually and together as families, he confronts major life questions about culture, identity, gender and societal values. He illuminates the friction between spoken and unspoken taboos, and through his work invites viewers to examine their own agency within their culture.
Key features of his style are the deconstruction of human images and their unconventional reconstruction using a large and imaginati...

2007-2011 Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art
The department of Theatre and Decorative Design

Personal exhibition

25.01-11.02-2018 "NURCAN" / Yarat / at the ARTIM Project Space / Baku, Azerbaijan

15-18.05.2017 "MY NAME IS SARAH" /ADO Theatre-Collective / Baku, Azerbaijan

14.06-14.07.2013 "BLACK WOMAN" / YAY! Gallery / Baku, Azerbaijan



Group exhibitions

2017 “4 exhibitions” / Baku, Azerbaijan

16-30.09.2017 “Urban Olum” Art Prospect Public Art Festival / Baku, Azerbaijan

2016 “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ME” experimental performance. /Yarat / at the ARTIM Project Space / Baku, Azerbaijan

24-27.05.2016 .Nakhcivan III International Art Festival / Nakhcivan Azerbaijan

2015 “Candy mountains and oil coasts” Exhibition of modern Azerbaijani art held in Perm / Perm, Russia

2015 International PLATONOV ARTS FESTIVAL / Voronezh, Russia

22 May – 17 July 2015 presents Caitlin Aasen (St. Louis) and Vusal Rahim (Baku) DUET Gallery / St. Louis, USA

2014 BACARART project / Baku. Azerbaijan

2014 “Blue Background”, YAY Gallery / Baku, Azerbaijan

2013 Art action "The Circle of Peace" / Tbilisi, Georgia

16-20.06. 2013 II International "From Waste to Art" Gala archeological and ethnographic museum / Baku, Azerbaijan

2013 “Home, sweet home...” / YARAT! Contemporary Art Space, Azerbaijan Cultural Cen...