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Abbas Akhavan is a Canadian artist and guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (HBK Braunschweig), Germany. From October 2024 to September 2026, he leads the project class at the Institute of Fine Arts, supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the DAAD funding program for international guest lecturers. Born in Tehran in 1977, he studied fine arts at Concordia University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
His artistic practice focuses on contemporary art, installation, and sculpture, with recent exhibitions at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark, as well as an upcoming project at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Akhavan’s work integrates themes of cultural identity, materiality, and spatial interaction, reflecting his international artistic collaborations and residencies.
No scientific awards or formal academic grants are explicitly mentioned, though his current position is funded by the BMBF/DAAD program. No PhD/master’s students or academic articles are listed in the provided texts.
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