Shahram Karimi paints from memory gardens of Shiraz, the rustle of trees, the scent of blossoms carried through time. These impressions shape In The Garden, his online solo exhibition with Taymour Grahne Projects, running from 15 August to 12 September 2025.
Karimi’s practice is rooted in the sensory and the symbolic. Figures and fragments of everyday life appear across his canvases, woven into fabrics carefully sourced from places like Uzbekistan. For him, textiles are not neutral grounds but vessels of spirit, absorbing and holding memory within their weave. Flowers appear persistently, functioning as metaphors for fragility, transience, and remembrance. His visual language draws from Persian miniature painting, German aesthetics, and his years spent between Iran, Germany, and New York – an interplay of cultures, yet always tethered to Shiraz.
While not overtly political, the works carry the quiet resonance of post-revolutionary Iran, shaped by resilience, longing, and transition. A poet as well as a painter, Karimi creates works that unfold like verses: delicate, layered, and enduring. In The Garden offers a glimpse into his inner landscapes, a space where memory blooms, stories linger, and beauty persists in fragility.
About Shahram Karimi
Shahram Karimi (b. 1957, Shiraz, Iran) is a painter, poet, and multidisciplinary artist living between Germany and New York. Beginning his career in Iran in the 1970s, he relocated to Germany in 1988 and has since exhibited widely in solo and group shows internationally. His practice spans painting, installation, and set design, with works held in both public and private collections. Karimi was awarded the Rhein-Sieg V Painting Prize in 1997 and collaborated with Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari on Women Without Men, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.