BERAHNA MASSOUM

THE LIFE OF THE ARTIST

Growing up in a society , he considered as limited and conservative, Berahna wondered, as a little boy, what was hidden under the veil and why they tried desperately to hide physical and abstract truths. Feeling the inner unease and the urge to break through the darkened and hidden spheres, he began to model faces and bodies despite strict prohibitions by Islamic religion and the Afghan state. Whereas leaves, flowers and fishes were taught in art studies, human nature remained largely taboo.

Berahna's art is socially critical. His talent not only convinced in competitions, but also enabled him through a state scholarship to study abroad and adapt his environment to his abilities. After his time as a student in Moscow, as a refugee in Germany and as a traveler around the world, Berahna has found his place in Kassel, and his home in the studio. Here, the artist has created his own world in which he finds peace and has never forgotten the joy of creating art.

LIFE CAREER

AWARDS

MEMBERSHIPS

EXHIBITIONS

PUBLICATIONS

1958

1976

1978 - 1985

since 1978

since 1989

1991 - 1993

since 1998

2003

since 2003

Sayed Omar „Berahna“ Massoum was born on

August 6 in Kabul, Afghanistan

Award of the cultural price of the Afghan

Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs

Student at the USSR Art Academy, Moscow,

at the national W.I. Surikow Institute, under

Prof. Paul Iwanowitsch Bonderenko,

graduated as state-certified sculptor

Extensive study trips to Asia, Europe, the US,

Africa and Australia

Numerous individual and group exhibitions

Re - education as stonemason and stone sculptor

Public contracts in Europe, Turkey, Australia

and the United States

Presentation of the plaque “Buddha Gandhara”

to the spiritual leader and Nobel Prize Laureate

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Memberships: International Association of Art

(IAA-AIAP UNESCO), Afghanistan Peace

Association (APA) and the Mahmud Tarzi

Cultural Foundation (MTCF)

1976

2007

Award of the cultural price of the Afghan

Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs

Recorded in the encyclopedia Who is Who

in the Federal Republic of Germany

Carrier of Who's Who insignia

1995

1999

2000

2002

2004

Member of "Enlighteners Association of

Afghanistan" (V.d.A.A.e.V.)

Member of "Bund Bildender Künstler"

(BBK)

Member of "Internationalen Gesellschaft

der bildenden Künste" (IGBK)

Member of "International Association of Art"

(IAA-AIAP UNESCO)

Member of "Afghanistan Peace Association"

(APA)

Lecturer and member of the

"Kunstwerkstatt Kassel e.V." (KWK)

One of the first co-founders of the

"Kasseler Künstler Kreises" (KKK)

Member of the Mahmud Tarzi Cultural

Foundation (MTCF) The MTCF logo

is designed by Berahna Massoum.

1995 - 2000

2001 - 2002

2003 - 2006

2007 - 2009

2010 - 2018

Participants in the ART 4 in Nuremberg

Participant at the art exhibition in Cologne, VHS Forum

Solo exhibition in Göttingen, foyer of the town hall

Solo exhibition in Bad Homburg, Wicker-Klinik

Solo show in Kassel, side hall Rathaus

Solo exhibition in Kassel, Kasseler Sparkasse

Solo exhibition in Kassel, La Piazza

Vellmar, town hall gallery together with Enrico Pellegrino

Solo exhibition in Kassel, art cellar

Permanent exhibition in bell and art foundry Rincker

Special exhibition bronze casting in Homeo-Artic

Participant at the Atrium Gallery artwork, Kassel

BBK exhibition in "Dock 4" in Kassel

Portrait exhibition in the "Museum Europäische Kunst"

Solo exhibition in Bad Wildungen, Klinik Westend

Solo exhibition in Kassel, Karl Branner Halle, Town Hall

Solo exhibition in Kasseler Sparkasse at Brasselsberg

Permanent exhibition "Picture & Frame" -P. Waldmann,

Unveiling of the bust "Susanne Fouche" in Le Neubourg

Solo exhibition in the Emmaus church, Kassel

Permanent exhibition in practice Fahim, Kassel

Solo exhibition with Prof. Dr. Ludewig + Sozien, Kassel

Permanent exhibition at Post-Apotheke Kassel

Solo exhibition in the Open Channel Studio Kassel

Solo exhibition in the foyer of the Marienkrankenhaus,

Group exhibition in the Kunstwerkstatt Kassel e.V.

Participant at the charity art auction in Berlin

BBK exhibition in the atrium, wedding house in Eschwege

To His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Solo exhibition at the Commerzbank Kassel

Group exhibition in CHP

Exhibition in Kassel, Galerie Reitzenstein

Exhibition in Kassel, Gallery 108 with Xiaoming Song

KKK exhibition in the Paracelsus -Elena clinic, Kassel

BBK exhibition in the Kulturhalle Wolfhagen

BBK exhibition in the Kur Museum, Bad Wildungen

CHP exhibition in Kassel, Karl Branner Hall, Town Hall

BBK exhibition patrician house, Fritzlar

KKK exhibition in the Open Channel, Studio Kassel

Solo exhibition in the Sparkasse Münden

Solo exhibition Städtische Werke Kassel

Permanent exhibition in the restaurant Babylon, Kassel

Solo exhibition at Post-Apotheke Kassel

Solo exhibition in the Brothers Grimm-Museum, Kassel

Group exhibition "Art on location" in City-Point Kassel

Solo exhibition in the town hall Lohfelden

Solo exhibition in the town hall Baunatal

International exhibition "Form-Art", Glinde

Solo exhibition at Rathaus Vellmar

Solo exhibition in the town hall Baunatal

Annually in the castle Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein

Solo exhibition at the Museum Kloster Hasungen

1999

2001

2003

2004

2007

2008

Catalogue: Der Bildhauer & Zeichner Sayed

Omar Berahna Massoum „Seele enthuellen“;

ext and design: Dr. Hans-Kurt Boehlke, Kassel

Catalogue: Cast-Art 3 Kunst in Guss, Duesseldorf

Paul Schmahling: Kuenstlerlexikon Hessen-Kassel

1777 – 2000, Kassel

Catalogue: Art & Management Jeanette Drews,

Berlin

Catalogue : Cast-Art 4 Kunst in Guss, Duesseldorf

„Angeschliffen“ – works by the Kassel Artists’

Circle (KKK)

„Presseforum“: Eine Dokumentation ausgewählter

Medienberichte von 1995 bis 2005

Catalog raisonne: Berahna Massoum - Perfect

Sculptor Illustrator Calligrapher Poet

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