A Course on Colour as Sensual, Poetic, and Cultural Experience
In this course, we explore sensual encounters with colour – as the expression of inner states, fleeting impressions, and imagined realities. Participants will investigate the physicality of colour: its light, its temperature, its density. We will approach the question of how structure, form, and colour can be understood and shaped as a unified whole. Memory and its projections play a role just as much as the perception of nature.
The poetry that emerges in the artistic process requires no explanation – it is a groping, a sensing, a searching for ways of seeing and their translation into form. In this way, a bodily relation emerges to that which announces itself in the inner eye and takes shape as image.
The aim is not so much to understand images through a theoretical-logical approach as to artistically translate the sensual, empirical, and poetic dimension of seeing and experiencing.
The course begins with an introduction to working with acrylic and tempera. Together, we will explore different possibilities of applying paint and discuss the individual qualities of each work.
After initial exercises on paper, we will soon move into larger-scale formats, where physicality, expression, and gesture become all the more tangible.
key data
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 20. 7. – 1. 8. 26
- Teaching language
- English (German, Spanish, Italian possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- A curiosity to embrace new technical possibilities and to explore dimensions of seeing and experiencing.
- What to bring
- Brushes, paper, staple gun, staple, pigments, also if specific ones are desired, laptop, camera, clothes suitable for working with paint, materials for experimenting with new painting tools, if desired.
- Maximum number of participants
- 20
Mojé Assefjah
„Each painting is, to me, a vision a scene, a view. My works are invitations for the eye to gaze through a window opened onto a space of nostalgia. They unfold as vast imaginary vistas, where color acquires sculptural depth, breathing life into forms that hover between the seen and the suggested. Working in the ancient tradition of egg tempera, I explore how structure, form, and color can be experienced and shaped as a unified whole. My paintings tell stories of dreamed landscapes that hover between abstraction and figuration.“
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Im rauschend Silber fließt mein Traum, Galerie Mauroner Contemporary, Salzburg (AT).
Where Clouds Continue Dancing, Galerie Tanit & Drivers and Business Club, Munich (DE).
2023 My Song Of Love For You, Open Art, Galerie Tanit, Munich.
Tales From The Waves, Joeun Gallery, Seoul (KR).
2022 I Can Still Feel The Breeze, Joeun Gallery, Seoul.
Embrace of Memory, Neue Galerie Landshut, Landshut (DE).
2021 Par La Fenetre, Monographic Exhibitions, Art Paris, Paris.
Solo Show, Galerie Tanit, Paris.
There Are Birds Here Again, Starco, Beirut.
Remembered Landscapes, Gallery Etemad, Tehran.
2019 Winding Roots, with Susanne Thiemann, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (DE).
2018 I Cover the Waterfront, Galerie Graf und Schelble, Basel (CH).
2015 On the Other Side Of the Grape Gardens, Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
So close, yet so far, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg.
Nostalgia, blau ist die Farbe deines Flügels, Galerie Tanit, Munich.
2014 I Cover The Waterfront, +R, Barcelona (ES).
2013 ISCP, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY (US).
Down To The River, Galerie Graf und Schelble, Basel.
2012 Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg.
Il giardino e la duna, Ecke Galerie Augsburg (DE).
2011 A vista d’occhio, Galerie Tanit, Munich.
2010 Water for my flower, wind for my tree, Espace Kettaneh Kunigk, Beirut.
Selected group exhibitions
2025 Formal Approchas, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT (US).
Small Lucky, Joeun Gallery, Seoul.
Luce e Ombra, Galerie Mauroner Contemporary, Salzburg.
Bittersweet Symphony, Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
Piece of Mind, Joeun Gallery, Seoul.
2024 Piece of Mind, Joeun Gallery, Seoul.
Leave it in my Dreams, with Galerie Tanit, Cromwell Place, London.
Secret Garden, Galerie Tanit, Munich.
Landscape Plateau, curated by B Gallery Tehran & Etemad gallery at Agorahall, Tehran.
2023 Boghossian foundation, MENART with Galerie Tanit, Villa Empain, Brussels.
Dual Simplicity, Intent Gallery, Dubai (UAE).
Fragments of Home, Cromwell Place, London.
2022 Dip in the Past, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
art:badgastein, galerie Nanna Preussners, Bad Gastein (AT).
2021 Shortlisted by Chus Martinez for the WERK.STOFF award for painting, Kunstverein Heidelberg (DE).
2020 From Beirut Art and Design Scene, Piasa, Paris.
2019 IMPROMPTU, Galerie Tanit, Beirut.
Female atists of the Middle East, FAME, TSICHRITZIS Visual art Foundation, Athens.
2018 Mojé Assefjah / Anne Sterzbach, Neue Galerie Dachau, Dachau (DE).
2017 Künstlerinnen aus dem Morgenland, among others with Etel Adnan, Mona Hatoum, Simone Fattal, Galerie Tanit, Munich.
Meaning Gets Unstable, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei (IT).
Publications
"Nature, emotion, and form converge in Formal Approaches", Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT (US), in: ArtDaily, 6. October 2025.
Roberta De Righi, "Poetisch wie Liebeslieder", in: Abendzeitung, 4. September 2023.
“Mojé Assefjah: Tales from the Waves“, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Joeun, Seoul, 2023.
"Künstlerin Mojé Assefjah: Große Farben und Formen", in: Abendzeitung, 5. Januar 2023.
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, "Mojé Assefjah à la Galerie Tanit", in: Beaux Arts Magazine, 9. September 2021.
Art Fairs, Awards, etc. see website: https://mojeassefjah.com
