Short biography

Bahzad Sulaiman © Christoph Holz
Bahzad Sulaiman © Christoph Holz

Bahzad Sulaiman

Visual Arts

August, September 2024

Ministerium für Bildung und Kultur Saarland

Bahzad Sulaiman, born in 1991, is a Kurdish artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores themes ranging from rethinking the definitions of spaces, identities, and traditional practices to a critical examination of transformation and consumer cultures. These issues are expressed through visual, performative, and installative mediums.

From 2021 to 2022, Bahzad was awarded a fellowship in the European Network of Opera Academies at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2022, he received a scholarship at the International Theater Forum at the Berlin Festival. In the same year, he was honored with the Culture Award from the Regional Association of Saarbrücken. From 2023 to 2025, he received a scholarship from Akademie Musiktheater heute in the directing category.

He has also received several other artistic residencies such as Art Omi Residency (New York, USA), Bijloke Residency (Belgium), 7THEX Residency (Portugal, Italy, Germany), Stiftung Kunstfond, Look Up Residency (UK and Germany), Dullers Residency (Belgium), Akademie der Künste, Liberty Creative Europe (UK), IMPACT19 - PACT Zollverein, World Wood Day (Turkey), among others.

His work has been exhibited in institutions such as Kunsthalle Mannheim, Saarland Museum - Modern Gallery, Friedland Museum, Penticton Art Gallery (Canada), Aix-en-Provence Festival (France), Esponja House of Culture (Brazil), Journeys Festival International (UK), Stübing Museum (Austria), Luna Light Art (Netherlands), and in Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Syria, and Turkey.

https://bahzad.de/