Contact

Phone/Fax

+49 - 177 - 56 12 449

e-Mail

mandana.samii@web.de

 

 

 

 

Biography

1962

Born in Tehran, Iran

1982/84

Studied painting and graphic arts with Aydin Aghdashlou, renowned Iranian painter and art scholar

1984/85

Undergraduate study of graphic design at the Tehran University

1985

Moved to Berlin, Germany

1985/89

Studied graphic design, illustration and printmaking at the Berlin University of the Arts, concluding with a graduate degree in Visual Design.

1990/98

Worked in Berlin as a freelance artist, art teacher, visual designer for print and digital media for cultural campaigns.

Since 1998 Lives and works near Heidelberg, Germany

2005

Member of the Artists' Association, Mannheim

2006 Co-founder of kleinfeld44, a collaborative art studio in Mannheim

 

Solo Exhibitions

2006

"Insight/Outlook" Portraits, Artists' Association Gallery, Mannheim

1993

Arcus Gallery, Berlin

1986

Bank für Handel und Industrie, Berlin

 

Luisiada Gallery, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2006 "Art as a Homeland" Kunstladen, Mannheim
  "Greatest Hits" Kunstraum Alte Feuerwache, Curator: Lothar Krauss
  "Printmaking 2006" Artists' Association Gallery, Mannheim
  Group exhibition, kleinfeld44, Mannheim

1992

“22 Female Artists from Reinickendorf”, City Hall Gallery, Berlin Reinickendorf

 

Art at Lichtwer-Pharma GmbH, Berlin (with Martin Gietz)

1990

“Fourteen Reinickendorf Artists”, City Hall Gallery, Berlin Reinickendorf

1988

“Thou shalt not kill”, DIN Gallery, Berlin

1987-94

Open Studio with Martin Gietz

Collections

Graphothek Berlin (Public collection of contemporary graphical art); Graphothek Hohenschönhausen

Gallery KUNST2, Heidelberg, Germany

Galerie Margret Nommensen, Bad Segeberg, Germany