Toulu Hassani

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17 October - 20 December 2015
Opening hours Wed-Sa: 15-18 h, Sun: 11-18 h

Opening: Friday, 16 October 2015, at 8 pm
It speaks: Gudrun Thiessen-Schneider, Michael Kramer (First District Council),
Ulrike Schneider (Consultant for Visual Arts, Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation)
Introduction: Lena Hartmann, M.A. (Osnabrück)

In Toulou Hassani's paintings, the focus is not, as usual, on the motifs on the canvas, but on the picture carrier itself - stretcher frames, fabrics and the material foundations of painting. Hassani's works are fluid connections between painting, drawing and sculptural objects.
In 2014, Hassani was awarded the New York Fellowship of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the State of Lower Saxony for the technical precision of her works and the sensitive examination of familiar structures, which was combined with a one-year stay in New York. The exhibition features works that were created before, during and after Hassani's stay in New York.

Born 1984 in Ahwaz, Iran. Studied at the Universidad Valencia in Spain and at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, where she was a master student of Walter Dahn until 2012. She has her first solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim.

Exhibition catalogue: Toulu Hassani, "whoever brought me here has to take me home".


Exhibition 28.11.2015 – 17.01.2016 at Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst: Toulu Hassani "before the night is gone"

Finissage with reading and artist talk
on Sunday, December 20, at 11:30 a.m.
Toulu Hassani talks about her work.
Reinhard Prüllage (Nordhorn) reads the long poem by the Iranian philosopher, mathematician and writer Omar Khayyam (born 1048), known as Omar the tentmaker.

The project is funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the City of Neuenhaus

In 2016, Toulu Hassani is awarded the Sprengel Prize for Fine Arts by the Lower Saxony Sparkassenstiftung. This prize has been awarded every two years since 1991 to artists with a connection to Lower Saxony. http://www.nsks.de/nsks/bildende_kunst/sprengel_preis/