SHORT BIO

Aklima Iqbal is a Visual Artist from Bangladesh, based in Vienna, Austria. She completed post-graduation in drawing and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University. From 2016 to 2017, she studied printmaking at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych in.Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu, Poland. Since 2017 she has been studying contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She uses drawing, painting and collage to create works where surprise and color play a main role, in the same time creating absurd narratives and contexts, exciting formulations and arrangements, artistic thinking and research full of surprises and peculiarities in a tension between clarity and mystery. Her work is about the construction and deconstruction of forms and structures of our daily life, which she tries to liberate from their ideology. The artist is guided by a sensitive intuition and curiosity for human communication and interpersonal behavior.

Aklima’s work was part of the 1st International Print Triennial in Cieszyn, Poland,entitled »In the search of Impossible«. For her contribution she was awarded with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts Award. She received the Fügerpreis (2021) from Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. Recently she was nominated for the Stiftung Vordeberge-Gildewart award and showed at the nominees exhibition at Museum of modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK), Vienna. She is also part of group show ‘Soft Machine‘a unique collaboration with the Austrian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition La biennale di Venezia by Artist Ashley Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Kneblalongside their students. Phileas, Vienna, Austria. Her work has been shown nationally & internationally.

 

Education:

2017 –

• Contextual Painting, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

 

2016 – 2017

• Printmaking, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland.

 

2012 – 2013

• Drawing & Painting, Master of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2008 – 2011

• Drawing & Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Awards:

2021

• Fügerpreis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

 

2017

• In Search of the Impossible, 1st International Print Triennial in Cieszyn, Poland.

DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AWARD.

 

Nominated:

2023

• Ö1 Talent Scholarship 2023

 

2022

• The Stiftung Vordeberge-Gildewart award 2022, showed at the nominees exhibition at Museum of modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK), Vienna.

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2023

• Encounter, Duo Show,Galerie Kornjača Udruženje, Belgrad, Serbien.
• Questioning & searching the surreal, Red Carpet Showroom, Schottentor, Wien, Austria

 

2020

• Dear Fish, online solo show, Art Collection Schlichtner, Vienna, Austria

 

2017

• I have a plan, Gablota Przy Rektoracie, Wrocław, Poland

 

 

Group Exhibitions:

Upcoming:

• Parrallel Vienna Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna, Austria.
• Collector’s Choice, Galerie Hilger Next, Vienna, Austria.

 

2023

• Darkness 2, In the wood, Pater,Vienna, Austria.
• Boom Awakening, Stable Galerie , Wien, Austria.
• 1200 days of Art, Never at home, Wien, Austria.
• “who is we” Galerie Die forum, Wels, Austria.
• Carina´s choice auction Exhibition-2023, Floymca, Vienna, Austria.
• Female art auction Exhibition-2023, Floymca, Vienna, Austria.
• Rundgang Exhibition-2023, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
• Reflections of Shock, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, . 2022 “New Beginnings”, Floymca, Vienna, Austria.

 

2022

• Die Menge der Dinge, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria.
• “New Beginnings”, Floymca, Vienna, Austria.
• What are you looking at? Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna, Austria.
• Identitäten, Blau Gelbe Galerie St. Peter in der Au, Austria
• Wiener Freiheit, galerie3, Klagenfurt, Austria.
• Parrallel Vienna Semmelweis Vienna, Austria.
• ‘Nominated’…STIFTUNG VORDEMBERGE-GILDEWART awards Exhibition,        Mumok, Vienna, Austria
• Soft Machine, a unique collaboration with the Austrian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition La biennale di Venezia by Artist Ashley Hans Scheirl & Jakob Lena Knebl alongside their students. Phileas, Vienna, Austria
• Rundgang Exhibition-2022, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

2021

• Parrallel Vienna Semmelweis Vienna, Austria
• 21. SYMPOSIUM 2021, Cselley Mühle in Oslip, Austria
• Darkness Project, In the wood, Pater,Vienna, Austria
• The Hybrid Exhibition, Desiderio Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• Grafik meets Contextual painting, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Real Stories (Question me & answer –Group show III), Das Moebel das Café, Vienna, Austria
• 1st Yanjiao Biennial (Made in Mind,Series 2), online show, Beijing, China

 

2020

• Light at the end of the tunnel, AA Collections Gallery, 2020, Vienna, Austria.
• Parrallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• De|Real, online show, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Made in Mind, online show, Gallery Mcube, Nepal
• Mixtsherz Exhibition, Artcare, Vienna, Austria
• Rundgang Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

2017

• Der [Kun:st] Preis 2017, Galerie Kerstan, Stuttgart, Germany.
• In Search of the Impossible, 1st International Print Triennial in Cieszyn, Poland.
• Conversations, Macondo Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland.
• Why Poland?, Galerie Mutant Letterpress, Wrocław, Poland.
• Memory of Death, Gallery of Contemporary art MD_S, Wrocław, Poland.
• Mirror,Mirror after all, Gallery of Contemporary art MD_S, Wrocław, Poland.

 

2012

• MOURN: Senses always make new sense (Process based show), Seven Senses (Compliment of Asian Biennale in Bangladesh), Dhaka Art Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Asian Art Biennale: 500mg, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

2010

• Annual Exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts, Zainul Gallery, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Group Exhibition of Water Color, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

 

Residency Program:

2021

• 21. SYMPOSIUM 2021, eu-art-network, Cselley Mühle in Oslip, Austria.

 

Workshops

• Anti-discriminatory communication-2018 By Perry Percy

Baumgartinger,Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.

• Post-Digital Printmaking Workshop-2017 By Paul Catanese

(Associate Professors, Columbia college, Chicago US)

The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in

Wrocław, Poland.

• Mentoring Session by Richard Noyce (Artist, Writer & critic)

from UK. The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design

in Wrocław, Poland.

• Egg tempera workshop 2008 by eminent artist Shahid Kabir.

Zainul Gallery, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Water Color Workshop 2009 by Hamiduzzman Khan, Dhaka.