The exhibition ‘colourful elements’ shows a deliberate selection of works by Arezou Shayesteh Sadafian, an artist who was born in Tehran in 1975 and has been living in Austria for several years. Her artistic practice stems from her enthusiasm for colour, her interest in abstract forms and her focus on the materiality of textiles. She explores the aesthetics of textile surfaces and investigates how their properties and textures constantly give rise to new design potential, far removed from traditional textile uses.
The artist creates colourful thread pictures whose basic concepts germinate intuitively, but which then take on a life of their own in accordance with their materiality and properties through principles that sometimes seem almost mathematical, resulting in concepts of abstraction, order and visual aesthetics. She opens up a different level of perception of the textile by using the thread as a painterly element and at the same time exploring its nature. Her analytical approach to the laws of colour and recurring rhythms and her interest in the underlying mathematical principles is probably also due to her initial studies as a physicist.

Arezou Shayesteh Sadafian is currently a Master's student at the University of Art and Design Linz and will take her Master's examination in the ‘textil.kunst.design’ course on 15 May as part of an exhibition in Haslach. Following the examination, there will be a preview of the exhibition for all interested parties as part of the International Museum Day programme.

Between mid-May and mid-July, the exhibition in Haslach will continue to grow and be supplemented with other works by the artist. From the opening of the Haslach Textile Culture Summer Symposium on 13 July 2025, the ‘colourful elements’ will then be open to all textile enthusiasts in their entirety until mid-October 2025. Arezou Shayesteh Sadafian will be available for an artist talk in the exhibition one evening per week during the three summer course weeks.

Special exhibition room of the Textile Centre Haslach

Duration: Tue, 15 July - Sun, 12 October 2025
Opening hours: Tue - Sun, 10 am - 4 pm
Weavers' market weekend: Fri, 6 - 8 pm, Sat, 9 am - 6 pm, Sun, 9 am - 5 pm

Exhibition evenings with the artist in attendance:
Mon, 14/21/28 July, 6 - 8 pm
Fri, 18 July, 4 - 7 pm