Parsa Khalili: Constructions

Bildrecht is proud to present Parsa Khalili’s premiere solo exhibition, Constructions, at Bildraum 07 in Vienna.

Parsa Khalili is an architect and artist who experiments with the perception of surface effects, formal transformations, and spatial ambiguities at multiple scales, from drawings and large-format paintings to installations and buildings.

Khalili’s current body of work Constructions arises from a rigorous process of layering linework and planes of color that create the illusion of space. Chromatic regimes overlap with patterned systems, whose iterations suggest a static depth in tension with latent movement and transformation. Obscured alignments and subtle shifts in composition are juxtaposed with abrupt transitions to unsettle the eye, resist visual balance, and hint at more significant figures and operations whose entire logic is concealed. Constructions plays with contingent imbalances that force one to search for stability and coherency without resolution. The result is a series of didactic formal and spatial configurations that embrace complexity and uncertainty.

The introduction of perspective in some of the works shifts the experience from surface to volume. This encounter is further animated by a rich color palette, which evokes multidimensionality. Figures emerge from the picture plane in crisp, hard edges, adhering to their foundational logic while also presenting new readings. It is restless, probing work—in its production but also in its reception—that searches for space within the confines of painting and building.

Constructions proposes a form of architectural thinking through a classic yet reformulated medium—space and form collapsed into the limits of the canvas or the object it occupies. Read as formal projects realized through a process of drawing and building, they challenge conventional notions of space-making. Khalili’s experiments intend to blur the differences between drawings and paintings as representations of space and as formal and spatial products unto themselves, yielding a body of work that is both systematic and unexpected.

Bio
Parsa Khalili (b. Tehran, Iran) is an architect-artist based in Vienna. Spanning buildings, installation, sculpture, digital rendering, and painting, Khalili’s work explores ideas of form and space at the intersections and limits of artistic research and architectural design. His hybrid approach pushes disciplinary boundaries to foster creative transferences between artistic and architectural modalities. His versatile work has been recognized internationally through exhibitions, publications, and design projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Iran.

Bildrecht
The mission of Bildrecht, the Austrian Copyright Society, is to strengthen the economic basis of artists and creative professionals, supporting its members through solo and group exhibitions, performances and workshops. We support cultural festivals and interventions in public spaces, promote catalog and book projects as well as young talents and award several independently juried art prizes annually or biennially: the Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize, the Vienna Contemporary / Bildrecht SOLO Award and the Parallel Vienna / Bildrecht YOUNG ARTIST Award. Our long-standing cooperation partners in the fields of fine arts, new media and design include the Traklhaus Salzburg, Weisse Haus, Vienna Design Week, the Ars Electronica Festival Linz, and the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animated Film Festival. We support Design-Austria and sponsor the photo festivals La Gacilly Baden Photo, Foto Wien, the Objektiv Pressefotopreis and, from 2024, a special project for photography at the new art fair Stage in Bregenz.

Bildraum 07
Bildraum is a cluster of three exhibition spaces (Bildraum 01 / 07 / Bodensee) and an artist-in-residence program (Bildraum Studio) run by Bildrecht. In the environs of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Bildraum 07 focuses on sculpture and painting. Monthly changing exhibitions, cooperations with national and international cultural institutions, galleries, dance, architecture and design festivals guarantee a diverse program of events. The works of young artists are shown on an equal footing with established names.