SHERVIN/E SHEIKH REZAEI

Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei شروین شیخ رضایی

As an architect, I used to observe reality in order to find a balance between logic and intuition. I attach great importance to the conceptual framework and always look for the essence. The rather rigid interplay of lines, which results from a grid or mathematical statistics, is expressed in my drawings and the preference for materiality and spatiality. These works meet the unexpected in an uneasy juxtaposing, often opening themselves to the movement, the organic matter and the themes of memory while balancing the self-confinement and sense of control. My attraction to things that are not so rigid and rational brought me from the notions of architecture into visual arts. I am fascinated by the sea, by the hidden life it harbours. Thanks to the organic shapes, it looks particularly elegant and repulsive at the same time. I soon discovered that nature (outside and within) does not allow itself to be compartmentalized. My work is situated between emotion and ratio. Thus, I often start from the emotion that eventually turns into a written text that helps me to further investigate spatiality and the use of mixed media. Transparency, the juxtaposition between mechanical and human action, the exploration of the fluidity and invasiveness of nature in contrast to the controlled and impersonal language of machines/technology.

CONTACT

Sheikh Rezaei
Shervin/e
+324 98 748 988
shervin.shr@gmail.com
instagram.com/shervinsheikhin

	WORK EXPERIENCE
	Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei (°1994) is a Ghent-based multimedia artist/architect with Iranian roots. She studied Medien Architektur at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (DE) in 2017 and graduated as an architect in Experimental Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture K.U. Leuven in Ghent (BE) in 2018. In 2019-2020 she became a guest lecturer for the subject Mixed Media Interior Design at LUCA School of Arts in both Brussels and Ghent. In 2018 she worked as an architect at Dhooge & Meganck Architecten in Ghent and since early 2019 as an art assistant at Architecten Jan De Vylder Inge Vinck/ Inge Vinck Jan De Vylder Architecten, where she also completed her architecture internship. In June 2021, Sheikh Rezaei took the step to fully pursue her own art practice (Multi Media). This path developed through the years and she tries to continue it between the walls of the artist studios of NUCLEO in Ghent. Now that she has chosen to go for her own practice, a space has come into being where she can better question her personal artistic work.
2022	Scénography of theater play Voorjaarsontwaken, by the actors of WOLFWOLF Workshop: Fragments of the Afternoon (installation/ scénography) for Interior Design, LUCA School of Arts, Brussels
2021	Riso workshop week with Leo Gabin: Crying at the workshop, LUCA School of Arts, BE- Ghent Jury for entrance examination in autonomous design KASK School of Arts, BE- Ghent Graphic Design for Artificial Architectural work for choreographer, Laurent Delom de Mézerac Scénographie of exhibition: INSTITUTION BUILDING in C.I.II.III.IV.A Brussels with architecten Jan De Vylder & Inge Vinck Architecten - AJDVIV/ IVJDVA - Pierre Labergue, BE- Brussels
2020	Publication of my book, ENSEMBLE: An Architecture of the Inbetween by A.P.E. (Art Paper Editions) Artist in Residence: Atelier Astrid, Astrid goes Coronaproof, BE-Ghent
2019. 2020	Working as Architect/ Art Assistant for Jan De Vylder & Inge Vinck Architecten - AJDVIV/ IVJDVA Workshop leader Silkscreen-printing, Atelier: ONLINE/OFFLINE in times of Quarantaine, LUCA School of Arts, BE- Ghent Teaching Mixed Media/ Design, Interior Design LUCA School of Arts, BE- Ghent and Brussels Auditor for studio Field Station: Automation, Master Architects ‘19-’20 Coordinater festival of Arts, KANON: ARCHITECTS COME TOGETHER, Stadshal BE- Ghent Working for Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
2018	Fieldwork Iran for masterthesis: ENSEMBLE/the architecture of 'the in/between' Workshop Porto Academy, led by June 14 by Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge & Sam Chermayeff Architects, Porto, Portugal Internship at Dhooge & Meganck Architecten
2017	Workshop Real Estate Architecture, Brussels, led by PIOVENEFABI Architects Guide on the Festival of Architecture in Ghent, house: De kleine Prins by Dhooge & Meganck Architecten
2016	Graphic work for Just Interior, JDW
2015. 2019	Photographer (analogue) for Clair Obscur (party concept), Stofwolk (art collective), KRAAK (music collective) and SUBBACULTCHA
2013	AIKO architecten en ingenieurs, BE- Maldegem

	PUBLICATIONS
2022	COLLECT MAGAZINE, nr. 516/ MEI 2022: Artist of the Month: Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei FORUM+, February issue 2022 vol. 29, no.1 Inbetween East and West, an Architectural Ensemble in dialogue with Ine Engels HART-Magazine: no, no, no to nostalgia - gesprek met Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei interview with Kathleen Weyts KIOSK, Een ontmoeting tussen emotie en rationaliteit talk with Els Roelandt
2021	NEW MASTERS, Z33: Shervin Sheikh Rezaei, SUBBACULTCHA, Belgium HART-Magazine: Aubrey Beardsley, Les Monseigneurs, Shervin Sheikh Rezaei en Praneet Soi Surfaces Utiles, HOMERS, Art Meditation Process IQD- Magazine for Architecture, Italy (together with AJDVIV/ IVJDVA)
2020	Book: ENSEMBLE: An Architecture of the Inbetween by A.P.E. (Art Paper Editions) THE ARCHIVE HOTEL, magazine OD Magazine: online platform showcasing new emerging artists Gallery Magazine n°1: VERVELING/ BOREDOM, for AJDVIV/ IVJDVA
2019	SUBBACULTCHA: 20 something Issue Lecture on Book: ENSEMBLE: An Architecture of the Inbetween for the Master Students at Faculty of Architecture, KU LEUVEN, Ghent
2018	Porto Academy, booklet workshop leaded by Sam Chermayeff, published by Nonverbalclub, Porto
2017	Field Station: Hacking The Expanded Filde, leaded by Carneel Cannaerts and Michiel Helbig

	EXHIBITIONS
2022	Groupshow: Untitled, De Nieuwe Zonderling, Theater Nieuwe Vorst, NL- Tilburg Archive, images: vergetelheid / əˈblivēən Valerie Traan Gallery BE- Antwerp Elbow Room, Groupshow Wijk 8, BE-Ghent
2021	Analyse 01.23- 11: Anaesthetised KIOSK, BE- Ghent Art Meditation Process, Nucleo BLANCO, BE- Ghent RENAISSANCE, Astrid Collectief, Belfortstraat 29, BE- Ghent SORRY, Medusa Brussels, Wunderkammer - Tom Kroll, BE- Brussels Solo- exhibition: ENSEMBLE, An Architecture of the inbetween booklaunch/exhibition, Nucleo BLANCO, BE- Ghent
2020	Enter Through The Void, Exit Through The Giftshop, Kunsthal and CAMPO Victoria, BE- Ghent WWW.SHERVINSHEIKHREZAEI.COM, Archive/ Website Launch, World Wide Web, Pekelharing, BE- Ghent
2018	Grand Tour, De Wasserij van Vlaanderen, BE- Ghent
2017	Bauhaus festival: Labyrinth stage, Bauhaus university, Weimar, Germany Reverse Perspective, organised by Wim Goes, Volkmar Mühleis and Johannes Berry, Yügen, BE- Ghent

	EDUCATION
2017. 2018	Graduated with a Master in Architecture, KU Leuven Campus BE-Ghent studio Grand Tour led by Hugo Vanneste and Carl Bourgeois
2017	Medien Architektur, Bauhaus-universität, Weimar, Germany
2015. 2017	Master Architecture: Explorative Architectural Design: Field Station led by Michiel Helbig and Corneel Cannaerts Reverse Perspective led by Wim Goes and Johannes Berry KU Leuven Campus BE- Ghent
2014. 2015	Photography, Sint-Lucas BE- Ghent
2012. 2016	Bachelor Architecture, KU Leuven Campus BE- Ghent
2007. 2012	Mathematical Sciences, O.L.V. ten-Doorn, BE- Eeklo