Marjan Fahimi

Marjan Fahimi is an Iranian artist born in Tehran in 1982. At the age of 15 she began attending painting courses at Hossein Maher’s Studio and after graduation she started studies in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Tehran; in the meantime she participated in several group exhibitions in some of the most important galleries of the Tehran art scene such as Elahe Art Gallery, Bahman Cultural Center, Robat Art Gallery.
Fahimi has also realized two solo exhibitions: in 2003 with the “Urban Details” project at Atbin Art Gallery and in 2004 with the exhibition “Birds” at Seyhoon Art Gallery. The latter period of work is particularly influenced by the city and its landscapes, details and urban views seen so closely as to become abstract images, the only creatures to animate the scene are the birds, almost always sitting to contemplate the passageways of the concrete city.
In 2004 she came to Rome to study architecture. Being in contact with Renaissance and Baroque art changed her artistic vision in a perceptible way; subsequently she moved to the roman countryside, moving closer to nature and undertaking research on the naturalistic component of the landscape and its poetics, interpreting it in an abstract manner where...

Italian Language and Literature - University of Tehran - 2004
Architecture and Interior Design - "La Sapienza" University of Rome - 2011
Master degree in Architecture and Urban Planning - "La Sapienza" University of Rome - 2013

Main Exhibitions:

2023 — “ CROSSOVER - The Present is unfolding”, curated by Giulia Coccia, Domus Art Gallery, Athens
2023 – “Libertà/Azadi”, curated by Vinicio Prizia, Sala Orsini del Palazzo Chigi, Formello
2022 – “Ex-Stasis”, curated by Rossella Savarese, Syart Gallery, Sorrento
2022 – “ArtKeys Prize”, NEXT – Capaccio, Paestum
2021 – “Art is over”, curated by Rossella Savarese, Syart Gallery, Sorrento
2019 Astrazione figurativa, edited by Juan Carlos Garcìa Alìa, Galleria della Biblioteca Angelica, Roma
2018 FORMA MENTIS. Estetica del tatto, edited by Associazione culturale “Don Quijote”, Museo Tattile Statale Omero – Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
2018 – Traveling project “Ape Regina” – edited by Giancarlo Costanzo & Gian Ruggero Manzoni
- 1° step: “Vittoria Colonna” Museum of Modern Art, Pescara
- 2° step: Palazzo dell’Emiciclo – Regional Concil of Abruzzo, Aquila
2018 – “Forma Mentis” Aesthetics of touch – edited by Massimo Bignardi, “Omero” Tactile Museum, Ancona
2018 – “III Millennio Michele” – edited by Francesco Ruggero, “San Michele” Institute, Roma
2018 – “Extra Moenia II”– edited by Giancarlo Costanzo & Licio Di Biase, Casa D’Arte D’Antino, Caramanico, Pescara
2018 – “Matrice del Paradiso” – edited by Shura Oy...