SHWAN DLER QARADAKI
Born:1977, live and work: Oslo - Norway
Studio: Oslo and Slemani (KUR)
E-mail: qaradaki@hotmail.com
EDUCAYION
07-09: MA Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Norway
04-07: BA Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Norway
02-04: Nordic Institute of Stage And Studio, NISS. O.T.M. Oslo-Norway
91-97: Suleimani Institute Of Fine Arts, Kurdistan - Iraq
PRIZE
2018
Prize for best documentary film at the Minimal Short Film Festival 30Th for "To My Children" (winer)
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival - "To My Children" Audience Favorites (winer)
Amanda prize (Nominated)
2017:
Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Festival-Experimental Short Film-award (winer)
Ministry of Culture's Human Rights Prize for Short Film 2017, (Nominated)
Popular Jury Award-Human Rights Film Festival of Naples (winer)
Sandefjord Art Prize (Nominated)
2015
Norwegian Arts Council, Nykommer Prize (winer)
Prize for the best audio-visual work at Ostlandsutstillingen (winer)
2014
The City of Oslo ́s Artist Prize (winer)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019:
The Golden Wish, Oslo Museum,gallery IKM
"The Tattooed Sun, Small projects, Tromsø (NO)
"To My Children" Oslo première, Vega Scene (NO)
2017:
Mother, Kunstnerens Hus, Oslo (NO)
To My Children 2017. Klingenberg Cinema, Oslo (NO)
2016:
Qaradaki As Prime Minister, Festspillene I Nord Norge - Gallery Nord Norge - Harstad (NO)
On The Point of Being, Konsthallen in Luleå, Luleå (SWE)
Butterfly Hotel, gallery BOA (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus) (NO)
To My Children, Bjornson Festival - More and Romsdal Art Center (NO)
House of Foundation, Moss (NO)
2015:
To my children, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo (NO)
Salte Kyss I, II and III, Gjenreisningsmuseum, Hammerfest (NO)
Mitt tak er ditt gulv, Kulturhuset i Hamar, Hamar (NO)
2014:
Gallery LNM, You talking to me? OK, I'm going to paint your things, Oslo (N)
Salte Kyss, Steinkjær Kunstforening, Steinkjær (NO)
2013:
Once Upon a Time In The West, Red Security Museum (Amna Soraka) Suleimani, Kurdistan (IQ)
Unfinished Memories, Art Museum - North Trondlag, Namsos (NO)
Salte Kyss I, II and III, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (NO)
2012:
Zorbas Dance In Sniperorp gate 27, Red Security Museum (Amna Soraka) Suleimani, Kurdistan (IQ)
Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger (NO)
Salte Kyss I, II and III, Akershus Kunstnersenter, Lillestrom (NO)
Zorbas Dance In Sniperorp gate 27, Tegneforbundet, Oslo (NO)
2011:
Salte Kyss II,Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien (NO)
2010:
Salte Kyss I, Oslo Museum, gallery IKM, Oslo (NO)
Salte Kyss I, Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien (NO)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Tegnetriennalen, Kunstnerens Hus, Kurated by Helga-Marie Nordby, Oslo (NO)
Jelly Film Festival, North Hollywood California (US)
HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival, Oslo (NO)
"Truth is Flexible" Akershus Kunstnersenter (NO)
DUMBO Film Festival (NY)
2018
29th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival (BR)
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Christmas tree, curated by Ann Iren Buan (NO)
Europanorma-Oslo International Short Film Festival (NO)
Movies On War Film Festival, Elverum (NO)
the 3rd Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival (GER)
Push and Pull, Gallery Mjøsvågen – Osterøy (NO)
Statens Høstutstilling. Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo (NO)
Nordic Film Days, Slovenia, Lebanon, Croatia, Armenia, Georgia, Germany, Morocco, Palestine, Cyprus, Norway, Sweden, Finland etc
Gotenberg International Film festival (SE)
Huesca International Film Festival (SP)
Kunstnerens Hus, Det Felles Eide, Oslo Councils art collection, Oslo (NO)
Human Rights Film Festival of Barcelona (SP)
Athens International Film and Video Festival, (Ohio, USA. )
Minimalen 30th Short Film Festival, Trondheim (NO)
Tenthaus, Spring Depot, Oslo (NO)
Umeå university, Umeå (SE)
2017
Pori Film Festival (FIN)
Festival Del Cinema dei Diritti Umani di Napoli, (IT)
Radio Kamina, Lomé, curated by Samuel Olou (Togo)
Sandefjord Kunstforening, nominating-exhibition for Sandefjord art award (NO)
Retrospektiv med perspektiv, Leksands Kulturhus (SE)
Stiftmuseum, Maribo (DEN)
Lys Over Lolland International Art festival, withe Mikkel McAlinden, Ole Lislerud, Mariann Heyerdahl and Anita H. H. (DEN)
Transition ll, Meken Konsthall, Smedjebacken (SWE)
Gallery Heike Arndt, Berlin (GER)
2016:
10th Arte Laguna Prize/ International Art Contest, Arsenale - Venece (IT)
Kungsbacka Konsthall, Hem ljuva hem? Kungsbacka (SE)
LEKSANDS KULTURHUS, Transition: Movements / moving man / changing human landscape, Leksands (SE)
Akershus Artsenter, The Big Draw, in cooperation with Oslo National Academy, Lillestrøm (NO)
KAPITTEL, International Festival of Literature And Freedom of Expression, Stavanger (NO)
Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) Tromsø (NO)
Book project "Avstand" in cooperation with Mette Karlsvik, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (NO)
Unknown Numbers with Johannes Høie at Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo (NO)
2015:
Kunstnerrnes Hus, Krigens skygge. Politisk kunst i Norge 1914-2014, curated by Kari J. Branzæg, Oslo (NO)
Statens Høstutstilling. Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo, Norway
Tent Haus, Human Condition with Behjat Omar Abullah, Oslo (NO) Ostlandsutstillingen, Oslo, (NO) Kiel, (GER)
Mollebyen literature festival, Moss (NO)
Human Right Human Wrong festival at Gallery Kunstplass 10, with Johannes Høie and Andrea Lange, Oslo (NO)
2014:
.NO - A NON-PROFIT Gallery, New York (USA)
Typical Norwegian, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (NO)
Ostlandsutstillingen, Kunstbanken Hamar (NO)
Likehet Ingen Garanti at Grorud T-bane, with: Johannes Høie, Esther Maria Bjorneboe and Behjat Omar Abdulla, . Oslo (NO)
Human Rights Human Wrongs festival, Kunstplass 5, Oslo (NO)
State Of The State, BOA, Oslo (NO)
All King, No Kingdom Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (NO)
Oslo Open, Oslo (NO)
2013:
sculpture Biennale, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (NO)
Cinemateket, Entry Denied, Bergen (NO)
2012:
.NO - A NON-PROFIT Gallery, New York (USA)
Trondelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Tronheim (NO)
Sorlandsutstillingen, (NO)
Podia Paardekoper. In Den bosch, Tilburg (NE)
2011:
Gallery BOA, Tapte Baller, w/ Lars Sandaas, Oslo (NO)
Scope International Film festival, www.festivalscope.com
FONLAD Digital Arts Festival, Coimbra, (Portugal)
CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea, Szczecin, (Poland)
Polish Film Festival - Norwegia Fest, Krytyka Polityczna (Political Critique) Gdansk- (Poland)
Skien Kunstforening, Peformance- For What It's Worth, w/ Tone Berg Størseth, Skien (NO)
Be Patient (Art in public space) Herkules Center, Skien (NO)
Goethe Institute Kiev (Ukraina)
Ostlandsutstillingen (NO)
Sorlandsutstillingen (NO)
2010:
Tegnebiennale (drawing biennial), Momentumhallen, Moss (NO)
International Video-Art Festival (Oslo Screen Festival) Cinemateket, Oslo (NO)
FIFVC Festival -Beirut (Libanon)
Visual Container TV ( Romania)
Örebro Video Art Festival (SE)
Delhi International Arts Festival (India)
Tegneforbundet, Oslo (NO)
The Nomadic Video Library project, Brussell (Belgia)
Videochannel Cologne, Köln (Tyskland)
Ostlandsutstillingen, Ostfold Art Centre, Fredrikstad (NO)
2009:
Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (SE)
Consumption and eternity, Oslo S, Oslo Open 2009, Oslo (NO)
Transactions (part 2) Moss, (NO)
Hous of Foundation, Moss (NO)
Bohemian Consumer, galleri Gago, Oslo (NO)
The Living Dead Walked again, Podium, Oslo (NO)
Brod for kunsten, Gallery BOA, Oslo (NO)
Graduation Exhibition, Gallery 0047, Oslo (NO)
International Peace Research Institute, (PRIO) Oslo (NO)
Paper City, Skien (NO)
Kunstnersenteret i Buskerud, Drammen (NO)
2008:
Preus Museum, Horten (NO)
Ostlandsutstillingen - Ostfold Kunstsenter- Kunsthalle St. Annen, lubeck (NO) – (DE)
Southern Comfort – Gallery 21:24 – 21:25, Oslo (NO)
2007:
Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover (DE)
Botnik Studios, Gerleborg (SE)
Preus Museum, Horten (NO)
Arts High School, Malmö (SE)
2006:
Strada Service/ Play, Oslo (NO)
PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
2019
Admission Committee, Oslo National Academy of The Arts
2017-2019
Jury member – Arts Council, Norway
2015:
Jury member - (BKH, Visual Artists' Assistance Fund) - Oslo National Academy of The Arts
2013:
National Jury Member - The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus (Hostutstillingen, Norwegian Visual Artists Association, NBK)
Fineartsprice committee member, nominating committee, The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus (Høstutstillingen, Norwegian Visual Artists -Association, NBK)
2012:
National Jury Member - The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus (Høstutstillingen, Norwegian Visual Artists Association, NBK)
Fineartsprice committee member, nominating committee, The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus (Høstutstillingen, Norwegian Visual Artists -Association, NBK)
2011:
Jury member for Ungdommens kulturmønstrings (UKM) Skien (NO)
COLLECTIONS
Piero Atchugarry, Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry, Uruguay (UR)
Buskerud Kunstnersenter (Buskerud Art Centre), Drammen (NO)
Kristiansand commune (Kristiansand municipality) (NO)
Oslo kommune (Oslo municipality) (NO)
Art museum North-Trondelag (NO)
Namsos Kunstforening (NO)
Mandal commune (Mandal municipality), Mandal (NO)
Mandal Kunstforening, Mandal (NO)
Kunstnersenteret i Buskerud, Drammen (NO)
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen (NO)
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIP
2018:
Norwegian Government Scholarship for established artists, 5-year
2016:
Norwegian Film Institute, in cooperation with Kulturbyrået Mesen - 2016
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagsfond 2-years
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagesfond - projectsupport
Frittord
Arts Council - Utstillingsstipend
2015
Arts Council - projectsupport
Frittord
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagesfond - projectsupport Billedkunstnerens Vederlagsfond 1-year
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagesfond - projectsupport
Arts Council - projectsupport
Oslo (NO) Norsk Illustration fund - projectsupport
2014:
Arts Council - projectsupport
Arts Council - Utstillingsstipend
Ingrid Lindback Langaards Stiftelsen
Frittord
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagesfond - projectsupport
OCA (Office for Contemporary art - Norway)
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagsfond 1-year
2013:
Oslo Kommunes Kunst - og Kulturstipend, diversestipend
Ingrid Lindback Langaards Stiftelse
Billedkunstnerens Vederlagsfond 1-year
Namdal Artist Scholership - 2013
OCA (Office for Contemporary art - Norway)
Arts Council - Norway
2012:
NBK, Billedkunstnerens Vederlagsfond
2011:
Fritt ord, Salte Kyss III, I samarbeid med Kulturbyrådet Mesèn, Oslo
Arts Concil Norway, utstillingsstipend
2010:
Norwegian Government Scholarship for younger / newly established artists, 2-year
Fond for Lyd og bilde
Skien Artist Scholarship
Arts Council Norway, (Exhibition support to artists in the establishment phase)
Arts Council Norway, Hanging Gardens In cooperation with Kulturbyrået Mesén, Oslo
Oslo Kommune, Hanging Gardens In cooperation with Kulturbyrået Mesén, Oslo
2009:
KORO (Art in Public Spaces)
2008:
Fond for Lyd og bilde
MEMBERSHIP
NBK ( Norwegian Visual Artist Association ) Tegneforbundet
BONO - Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society
COMMISSIONS
Vika Indigo, in cooperation with Kulturbyrådet Mesen (NO)
Polarsirklen high school, Mo I Rana (NO)
Aquarama, Kristiansand (NO)
Telemark Krisesenter, Skien (NO)
Internasjonal Hus, Stavanger (NO)