IMAGES, STILL AND MOVING

Abbas Kiarostami (*1940 in Teheran) became known primarily for his films made in the seventies, which were awarded prizes at film fe stivals such as Cannes (Golden Palm 1997) and Venice. Despite large-scale solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Mod ern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the photographic oeuvre of this artist, who studied painting, has yet to be sh owcased in germanophone countries. Whereas Kiarostamis films contain haunting images of the human experience, he trains his photogr aphic eye...[Read more]