SOHORAB RABBEY
b.1994
Dhaka, Bangladesh
sohorabrabbey@gmail.com
Lives and works between Hamburg and London
EDUCATION
2021-2024 MFA (Fine Arts)- HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, GE.
2022-2023 MA (Art and Ecology)- Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2016-2021 BFA (Fine Arts)- HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, GE
2012-2015 BFA (Drawing and Painting)- Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, BD
CURRENT
2025- Visual Arts Fellow at Künstler*dorf Schöppingen
2021-2023 Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift eV. Hamburg, GE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 'If you follow the river long enough', Dietikon Projektraum', Zurich, SWZ
2024 'Unarchiving Landscape: Line, Space, River' - MK&G Museum Hamburg, GE
2024 'NEELNAKSHA'-Gaduate project, HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg, GE
2023 'Almanac of an eroded land'- Samdani Art Award Project, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, BD
2022 ‘Delta Divergence’ at Raum Links-Rechts, Hamburg, GE
2021 ‘Eclipse Apocalypse’ at Art Off Kultur Sommer in Vorwerkstift Garden, Hamburg, GE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 (Upcoming) Stipendiaten des Arbeitstipendium, Kunsthaus Hamburg, HH, GE
2025 (Upcoming) 'Entangled Landscapes'- Kunstlerdorf Schöppingen, GE
2025 'Shifting Grounds' at Hypha Studios, London, UK
2024 Redcar Contemporary Summer Exhibition, Redcar, UK
2023 Graduate Show MA (Art and Ecology), Studio B, Goldsmiths, UOL, UK
2022 Masterclasses, Sommer Frische Kuenst, Bad Gastein, AT
2022 ASA Open Studios, Karolinenstrasse 2A, Hamburg, GE
2021 ‘Indefinitely Sequential’ at Kuenstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, GE
2021 ‘Pandenale’ - Residence exhibition of the Kuenstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, GE
2021 ‘A room will be read to you’- A collective project on archives of rooms, Hfbk Hamburg, GE
2019 ‘held’ an exhibition by Martin Boyce class at HFBK Gallery, Hamburg, GE
2019 “Jahresausstellung-2019” HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg, GE
2018 ‘Abendstund hat gold im mund’ HFBK Hamburg at Goldsmiths, UOL at Limbo, London, UK.
2017 “Too Early Works” a show of Young Artists, Elektrohaus, Hamburg, GE.
2017 “250 Years of HFBK Hamburg” exhibition, HFBK Hamburg, GE
2015 “Urban Hour-2nd edition” Site specific art project by ‘Back Art’, Curzon Hall, Dhaka, BD
2014 “Matter-Reality” Curated by Mustafa Zaman, Chhobir Haat, Dhaka, BD
2013 ‘Mourn’ Curated by Rafiqul Shuvo, Dhaka Art Centre, Dhaka, BD
EXHIBITION CURATED
2021 ‘Indefinitely Sequential’ group exhibition at Kuenstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg. GE
2018 ‘Tautology’ - A process based collective exhibition experiment at HFBK Gallery, GE
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2025 Künstler*dorf Schöppingen residency fellowship 2025, GE
2024 Working Grant (Arbeitstipendium) for visual artists 2025, Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg, GE
2023 Samdani Art Award Finalist, Dhaka Art summit, Dhaka, BD
2022 ASA Scholarship for Department of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2019 Freundeskreis project Sponsorship 2019/2020, Hamburg, GE
2018 Exchange Exhibition Scholarship in Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
2015 Graduated with Distinction (1st position), Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka.
2014 Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Scholarship Awarded for Artistic Excellence, Japan.
2012 Best media award in Drawing and Sketch, Year Exhibition, Faculty of Fine Arts, DU. Dhaka, BD
SELECTED WORKSHOP
2023 ‘Cultivating Stories’ with Åsa Sonjasdotter at Delfina Foundation.
2023 ‘Microscopy’ with Microbilologist Melissa Thompson at Goldsmiths.
2023 ‘Movement as a Living Landscape: Somatic and Embodied practice’ with Keira Greene.
2023 ‘Deep Observation: Plant Time’, Botanical Drawing with Joseph Walsh.
2022 ‘Listening with Matterlurgy’ and ‘Fieldwork’ at Deptford Creek Discovery Centre.
2022 ‘Decolonising Natural History’ with Harun Morrison at the Horniman Museum.
2017 ‘Basic Audio-Lab Techniques Audio workshop with Felix Raeithel in Hamburg.
2016 ‘Photography Analog’ Photography workshop with Wolfgang Soeder, Hamburg, GE
2016 ‘Analog and Digital Video Basics’ two workshop with Ute Janssen, Hamburg, GE.
2015 ‘BEYOND GENOCIDE’- An art workshop on war and memory with Amy Fagin, BD
2014 ‘VASTU-SHATYA’- Found object Art workshop with Mustafa Zaman at CHHOBIRHAAT, Dhaka, BD
SELECTED PUBLICATION
2024 Hydrotrauma in The Bengal Delta: Hydropower Dams and Epistemicide by The Colonial Legalities in An Unsettling Landscape, MA Thesis, HFBK Hamburg, GE https://www.academia.edu/117775547
2023 ‘Hydrotrauma in the Bengal Delta: Indigenous Hydroontologies, Hydropower Dams and Onto-Epistemological Survey of the Colonial Legalities in An Unsettling Landscape’’-The Journal of Art and Ecology; Goldsmiths, UOL, UK. (https://journalofartandecology.com/Sohorab-Rabbey)
2023 ‘Sensing encounter, belonging and ecological Kinship’. - Individual Report on Experimental Laboratory Fieldwork, Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, UK https://www.academia.edu/118351498
2023 ‘Almanac of an eroded land, borrowed from our children’ Research Portfolio, Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, UK https://www.academia.edu/118454161
2021 ‘Agencies of Art as Gesture: Resistance, Performance or Event?’; HFBK Absolventinen 2020-2021, Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste Hamburg, GE https://www.academia.edu/102480930
2018 JAHRBUCH 2017-18, Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste Hamburg, GE
2016 Paining beyond a Surface, a narration and more…’, Artist writes-Published in “DEP ART”-A South Asian Contemporary art magazine, Dhaka, BD https://departmag.com/index.php/en/detail/400
2015 Co-editor: “KURI”- A short book of art appreciation published as part of the art appreciations workshop at University of Dhaka, BD
2015 Presentation of Works by Back Art Foundation at LEELA, Dhaka, BD
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018-2020 Teaching Assistant, HFBK University of fine Arts Hamburg, Germany
2015 Lecturer at Art appreciations workshop for the newcomers at University of Dhaka, BD
