Anahita Razmi (b.1981; Persian: آناهیتا رزمی) is a German-born contemporary artist, of Iranian and German descent. She works with installation, sculpture, video art, and performance. Razmi’s work deploys an art processes of appropriation, in which the meaning(s) of existing images are altered by situating them in another temporal context. Her work often deals with both political and social issues, ones in fact that are often related to Iran, the homeland of Razmi's father. She lives in Berlin, and London.

Early life and education

Anahita Razmi was born in 1981 in

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. Her mother is German, and her father is Iranian. She studied media art at Bauhaus University, Weimar; followed by classes at

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

in New York City; and continued her studies in fine art and sculpture at

State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded on 25 June 1761, and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical sig ...

Career

Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the

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(2013), Venice; Halle 14 (2019), Leipzig;

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National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw;

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, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria;

Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art Sazmanab ( fa, سازمان آب) is a curatorial project which originally started as an artist-run space and residency program in Tehran, Iran, in 2008. Sazmanab supported artistic work in a wide range of media through exhibitions and events, resi ...

, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and

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(2013). During the Mahsa Amini protests, Razmi was one of a few artist to release protests posters. Razmi received the Tarabya Cultural Academy fellowship, Istanbul (2020), the Goethe residency at LUX, London (2018), the

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Residency, Kyoto (2015). She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015), the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013), and the Emdash award,

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, London (2011). In 2022, Razmi rejected an artist grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, criticizing the foundation's structural setup and the lack of diversity within its jury. Her work is included in several public art collections, like the

Bundeskunstsammlung The Bundeskunstsammlung (Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) - The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, is a collection of modern works of art held by the government of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. Base ...

in Germany; the

, Stuttgart, Germany; the

Museo del Novecento The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city. The muse ...

, Florence; and the

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, Massachusetts, USA.

Solo exhibitions

* ''Swing State'' (2013), travelled to Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (City Gallery Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken, Germany; her first solo exhibition * ''Do Fard – Underwear Tehran Berlin'' (2015, 2016), travelled to Schwedenstr. 16, Berlin, Germany; and State of Concept Athens, Athens, Greece * ''The Future State – a preliminary'' (2018), LUX London, London, England * ''Anahita Razmi Spoilers'' (2018), Kunstraum Innsbruck,

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* ''Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy'' (2022), collaboration with

Sohrab Kashani Sohrab Kashani ( fa, سهراب کاشانی) is an Iranian artist and contemporary art curator. Work as artist Super Sohrab (2009-present) Super Sohrab, Kashani’s alter-ego is a superhero who utilises satire and failure in their attempts to n ...

; traveling to Philomena in Berlin, Germany, and Uqbar in Vienna, Austria * ''The Riff'' (2022), Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE

References

External links

Official website

Profile
at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Razmi, Anahita 1981 births Living people Artists from Hamburg Bauhaus University, Weimar alumni German installation artists German people of Iranian descent German performance artists German video artists German women artists Iranian installation artists Iranian video artists Pratt Institute alumni State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni

Early life and education

Career

Solo exhibitions

See also

References

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