March 11 – 12, 2026, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Many thanks to the artist & writer Mahsa Saloor for their workshop EXPLORATIONS IN PAINTING – Painting as Scene: Desire, Landscape & Haptic Perception during the basic course within the Studio Program Art Residency at BAI.
“This workshop explores painting as a perceptual practice informed by desire, memory, and the construction of scenes. Through small-scale formats, collage, drawing, and short writing prompts, participants experiment with color, surface, and composition as tactile languages. Painting is approached through haptic perception and attunement—touch, pressure, smudge, repetition, and layering—alongside narrative and poetic exercises that draw on personal memory, landscape, and fiction.
The workshop introduces artists working between painting, symbolism, queer world-building, and literature, including Etel Adnan, Bhupen Khakhar, Florine Stettheimer, Odilon Redon, and others, as points of reference for material experimentation, perceptual approaches, and scene construction. Emphasis is placed on process-based exploration rather than finished outcomes, making the workshop accessible to participants with varied levels of experience.” (Text by courtesy of Mahsa Saloor)
Mahsa Saloor is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin. They work between painting, poetry, and film, exploring desire, nature, and spirituality across bodies, land, and more-than-human worlds. Relationality between human and nonhuman life and ecological systems shapes both their process and work. They studied Fine Arts at Städelschule and filmmaking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include Isolated Bodies, Waiting for a Touch at Hua International, The New Subject at KINDL Berlin, Tropes For Falling In Love at Schloss Neuburg, and Covert Joy at BQ Gallery. They participated in residencies including the Mountain School of Arts, Peripheral Alliances at Kunstverein München, and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
More information on the Mahsa Saloor Instagram Account.
