photo: Maryam Barzkar.
Fatemeh Barzkar, born in 1996 in Tehran, is a sound artist and piano teacher. She has a conceptual approach towards sound and silence and explores the function of imagination regarding sound and other sensory elements. She has a bachelor's degree in handicrafts and aims to bind her diverse experience in working with different materials and media with her ideas to create sound art.
She says "For me, art is an act of pointing—of directing attention. It can be as simple as a finger indicating a landscape, or as complex as referring to an abstract concept through language or other artistic media. My engagement with sound art developed through my interest in art and music, and through a range of artistic experiences that gradually made listening and sound central to my practice. I became interested in how sound can create a sense of wonder and awe, especially in relation to other senses, perception, and imagination. Recording environmental sounds alongside photography was my first attempt to give form to this experience and to share it. As I continue this path through my studies in Sound Art composition in Germany, as well as through traveling and recording sounds to build a personal sonic archive, I remain focused on exploring new sensory experiences centered on listening. My final project is about listening to the environment through earphones. I am working on a site specific album using noises-especially white noise-and recorded sounds that interact with environmental sounds."
Awards
- 2025 - Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz - Cultural Recognition Award
2026 - DAAD price of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Exhibitions
- Dec. 2024, Fill in the Blanks in the exhibition “Jack in the Black Box” at the Black Box of the HfM
- Feb. 2025, two works at OPEN-EXPO as part of the international sound art festival OPENING at the TUFA in Trier
- June 2025 Participation in the research project “Sound Art and Industrial Culture at the Sayner Hütte” with three works
- Oct 2025 Group Composition of Sound Collage Lab/Donaueschingen Musiktage
- June 2025 Culture Prize of the Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz, world premiere of Hamhame
- Nov 2025, invitation to present Fill in the Blanks at Tehran Sound Festival, Berlin
- Jan. 2026 Invitation to participate in the Playtime:à suivre festival, HbK in Bern
Feb. 2026 exhibition “Coiled Waves” at the Black Box of the HfM, installation: Homage to Khayyam - June 2026 – invitiation to present the installation Homage to Khayyam at the festival next generation XI at ZKM, Karlsruhe