Anahita Razmi
Anahita Razmi | |
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آناهیتا رزمی | |
Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Hamburg, Germany |
Education | Bauhaus University, Weimar, Pratt Institute, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart |
Occupation | Visual artist |
Known for | Installation art, performance art, video art, sculpture, photography |
Website | www |
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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] She lives in Berlin, and London.
Early life and education
Anahita Razmi was born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany.[3][4][5] Her mother is German, and her father is Iranian.[3]
She studied media art at Bauhaus University, Weimar; followed by classes at Pratt Institute in New York City; and continued her studies in fine art and sculpture at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.[3][6][5]
Career
![Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022), a project by Anahita Razmi and Sohrab Kashani in Berlin, Germany](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Darookhaneh_Apotheke_Pharmacy.jpg/220px-Darookhaneh_Apotheke_Pharmacy.jpg)
Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice;[5] Halle 14 (2019), Leipzig;[7] Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw;[8] Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria;[9] Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013).[10][11] During the Mahsa Amini protests, Razmi was one of a few artist to release protests posters.[12][13]
Razmi received the Tarabya Cultural Academy fellowship, Istanbul (2020),[14] the Goethe residency at LUX, London (2018),[15] the Villa Kamogawa Residency, Kyoto (2015).[16] She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015),[17][5] the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013),[1] and the Emdash award, Frieze Foundation, London (2011).[1][18][19] 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.[20][21]
Her work is included in several public art collections, like the Bundeskunstsammlung in Germany; the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; the Museo del Novecento, Florence; and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA.[22]
Solo exhibitions
- Swing State (2013), travelled to Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (City Gallery Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken, Germany; her first solo exhibition[11][23]
- Do Fard – Underwear Tehran Berlin (2015, 2016), travelled to Schwedenstr. 16, Berlin, Germany; and State of Concept Athens, Athens, Greece[24]
- The Future State – a preliminary (2018), LUX London, London, England[25]
- Anahita Razmi Spoilers (2018), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria[26]
- Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022), collaboration with Sohrab Kashani; traveling to Philomena in Berlin, Germany,[4] and Uqbar in Vienna, Austria[27][28]
- The Riff (2022), Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE[29]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Anahita Razmi". Creative Time Reports. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "Razmi Anahita". Iniva. January 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ a b c d Gregori, Daniela (11 February 2013). Gropp, Lewis (ed.). "Portrait of the Artist Anahita Razmi: Attempts at Cultural Transfer". Qantara.de. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ a b "Anahita Razmi". Philomena.plus. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Anahita Razmi erhält den Werkstattpreis". Schwäbische (in German). 9 February 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi". Loom, European Alliance of Academies. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ Resch, Christopher (2 August 2019). "Global History of Ideas, Contemporary Muslim Art: Enlightenment Rediscovered". Qantara.de. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Social Calligraphies". Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. November 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "May 5th – June 16th Anahita Razmi Spoilers". Kunstraum Innsbruck. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Frischzelle_17: Anahita Razmi". Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (in German). 15 December 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Kunstmuseum: Ihre Heimat und seine Heimat". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). 6 January 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ Waddoups, Ryan (20 September 2023). "A Year After Mahsa Amini's Death, Artists Have Even More to Say". Surface. ISSN 1091-806X. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Harris, Garth (15 September 2023). "One year on from Mahsa Amini's death, protest art marks the streets". The Art Newspaper. ISSN 0960-6556. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi". Kulturakademie Tarabya. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ "Interview with Anahita Razmi". Goethe-Institut United Kingdom. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi, Bildende Kunst". Goethe-Institut Japan. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi to receive 2015 Erich Hauser (Werkstattpreis) Award". Art Review. 9 February 2015. ISSN 1745-9303. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi receives Emdash Award 2011". e-flux.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- ^ Mickiewicz, Maksymilian Fus (24 August 2011). "Frieze: Anahita Razmi". Dazed. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Open Letter by the Artist Anahita Razmi: On the Rejection of the NeustartPlus Grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds". BBK Berlin. 13 December 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Kritik am Kunstfonds - Unlautere Vergabeverfahren und Lobbyismus?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi". Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Anahita Razmi – Swing State, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, bis 1. September 2013". Portal Kunstgeschichte (in German). Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "DO FARD / Underwear Tehran - Berlin". visibleproject. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
- ^ "Art Guide: The Future State, a preliminary". Artforum. July 2018. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ Bailey, Stephanie (1 March 2019). "Anahita Razmi, Carbon 12". Artforum. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
- ^ "Arts of the Working Class". ArtsoftheWorkingClass.org. March 2022.
- ^ "Neustart für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler". Innovative-Kunstprojekte.de. 2022.
- ^ "Reflexionen über Repräsentation". gallerytalk.net (in German). 18 November 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
External links
- Official website
- Profile at University of the Arts London
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