Anahita Razmi

Biography

1981Born in Hamburg
2001-2006Study of Media Art, Bauhaus University Weimar
2005-2006Studies Media Art and Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, New York
2007-2009Studies of Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart with Rainer Ganahl and Christian Jankowski
2010Work Stipend, Edith Russ House for Media Art, Oldenburg
National Young Artists Grant, Kunstverein Hannover
Artists Exchange Reutlingen – Szolnok/Hungary
2011 The Emdash Award 2011, Frieze Foundation
2012MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program, Los Angeles
2013Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Production Grant, Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung
2014Visiting Lecturer MA Fine Arts, Organisation “Same Same Different”, Master of Fine Arts Symposium, ZHdK Zürich, with Prof. Dominique Lämmli
Art Division / New Face Award, 18th Japan Media Arts Festival
Goethe-Institut, Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto
2015Cultural Exchange Scholarship of the State of Berlin, Istanbul
Workshop Prize, Art Foundation Erich Hauser
Project Funding, Cultural Administration of the Berlin Senate
2016Research Grant, Cultural Administration of the Berlin Senate
Outset Residency, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2017Move Arts Japan Residency, Tokyo
Braunschweig Projects Scholarship, Braunschweig University of Art
2018Lecturer BA Fine Art 4D Pathway, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Goethe at LUX Residency, London
2019Auslandsstipendium, Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig
Journey Across Asia Award 2019, GAAB Warsaw
Associate Lecturer, Fine Art, Kingston School of Art, UK
Workshop HGB Leipzig, Akademie für Transkulturellen Austausch
2021Kulturaustauschstipendium des Landes Berlin, Global
Stipendium Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul

The artist lives and works in Berlin.

Solo Exhibitions – Selection

2019Take Me to Your Leader, Carbon 12 Dubai
2018The Future State, a preliminary, LUX London
Spoilers, Kunstraum Innsbruck
2017Term and Reversion, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016Beat Sheets, Galerie Sturm, Nürnberg
Bellydancing 12.000.000 views This Girl She is insane ! Subscribe !!!, Galerie Karin Sachs, München
do fard / Underwear Tehran -Berlin, with State of Concept / Athens, Art Brussels
Solo Booth Artissima Turin / mit Carbon12 Dubai
2015Tutti, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
do fard, uqbar projectspace, Berlin
Sharghzadegi, Carbon12 Dubai
2014some links, some projections, Ab/Anbar – Sazmanab, Tehran
Domino Dancing, Muratcentoventidue, Bari
2013Swing State, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
Automatic Assembly Actions, Carbon12 Dubai

2012Frischzelle_17, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

2011Emdash Award / Frieze Art Fair, London
Make – Believe – Remake, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen
2010Ikeallahu Akhbar, Interventionsraum Stuttgart
Robberies, Portiersloge, Kunstverein Das weisse Haus, Wien

Group Exhibitions – Selection

2021VIDEOKUNST!, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart
À Bout de Souffle, Carbon12, Dubai
202037. Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (online)
Present Continuous, Sumac Space (online)
7th Cannakale Biennale: “Constellation”, Canakkale, Turkey
Word by Word, Aaran Projects, Tehran
Out of the Woods Carbon 12, Dubai
Ab/Anbar Club Online Series
#VideoMondays, Carbon12 Gallery (online)
2019Female Portraits, Muratcentoventidue, Bari
Laboratory of Dissent: The Screen, Winchester School of Art
Stadstriennale Hasselt-Genk – SCREEN IT
The Body Politic, Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Welten erkunden, Kunsthalle Göppingen
Setouchi Triennale 2019, Japan
Forgotten Enlightenments – Unknown stories about Islam in contemporary art, Halle 14, Leipzig
City Movement – Von Menschen und Räumen, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
Blickwechsel: Neue Frauenbilder, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Stuttgart
2018Scripted Reality, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Loop 2018. Domestic and Urban Landscapes, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
Lab30, Festival, Augsburg, Germany
The Body is a Sacred Garment, Museo Novecento, Florenz
OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, EXPO CHICAGO
Report – Notes from Reality, European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück,
Söhne des Mars 2, FAR OFF, Köln
Qublic, The University of Tokyo
2017Pilger Mills, Kunstverein Nürnberg
Die Sprache des Textilen, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden/D
Celibataire Divas, Herkenrode Refuge, Hasselt/Belgien
Performing the Border, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
Woanders – Künstler auf Reisen, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
Waffle Falling Over, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Its blueness soothes the sharp burn in your eyes, Yi Projectspace @ Loris, Berlin
The New Normal, The Hangar – UMAM Documentation & Research, Beirut
2016A Heritage Transposed, Box Freiraum, Berlin
Social Calligraphies, Zacheta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
AFA 2 (2), Organized by 63rd-77th STEPS & hosted by Art-O-Rama, Marseille
In the Mouth of the Wolf, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Mapping the Body, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
In the Here and the There, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Closer to Close, Periferi Istanbul
Gutes böses Geld, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Marrakech Biennale / Parallel Project, Marrakech
Show of Talks, lAb Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld
2015Of Other Places, State of Concept, Athens
Wo ist hier? #2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen
Hundstage, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Ein Knie geht einsam durch die Welt, es ist ein Knie, sonst nichts, Palermo Galerie, Stuttgart
Im Rausch, Städtische Galerie Bremen
Hiwar’, Amoca: The Arab Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sakhnin
A 1000 Times No, Kunstintervention, E-Werk, Freiburg
Connexion en cours, Goethe-Institut Paris
Expanded Media, 28. Stuttgarter Filmwinter
2014Digital Marrakech Festival, Marrakech
Daily Memories, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg/DE
Schwein gehabt, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon/CH
One Minute Remix pt. 2, Furtherfield Gallery, London
Q 2051, Cité des Arts, Paris
#Interference, Farjam Foundation, Dubai
Music Palace, Villa Empain, Brussels
Closer Encounters, Carbon12 Dubai
Mon Amie L’Image, v_kunst, Frankfurt
Perpetually Transient, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
Luggage & Observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
2013Transition Project, Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul
Selma Alacam / Anahita Razmi, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
The wall behind something/nothing* happened, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
Currency X-change, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis
Encyclonospace Iranica, Access Gallery Vancouver
Silk Map, Padiglione Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia
1.pers.sing, b-05 art and design center, Montabaur, Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin
Right Brain Problems, Heidelberger Kunstverein
Swing State, Kunstverein Hannover
Present Tense Future Perfect, FELDBUSCHWIESNER, Berlin
2012Videonale 13 on Tour, Izolyatsia, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Donetsk, Ukraine
Zeppelin Universität artsprogram,Friedrichshafen
Festival Internacional de Cine, Casa del Cuno, Costa Rica
Forward / Vorwärts, Carbon 12 Dubai @ Q Contemporary, Beirut
Bucharest Biennale 5: Tactics for the Here and Now
Neue Klasse, Wiensowski&Harbord, Berlin
Life is Too Short, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Best Of Best Of Best of, Asociación Libre, Mexico City
Art Dubai Performance Night, Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2011Iran via Video Current, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Videonale on Tour, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Tausendundeine Heimat, Landesvertretung Niedersachsen, Berlin
Roof Piece Tehran, Emdash Award / Frieze Art Fair 2011
The State: Social / Antisocial?, Traffic, Dubai
A History out of Context, Promenade Gallery, Vlore, Albania
Produced@, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
Wie geht’s, Stuttgart?/ Stuttgart, How are you doing?, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn

Collections

The Farook Collection, Dubai
The Farjam Collection, Dubai
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Deutschland
SPM: Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Davis Museum At Wellesley College, USA

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Exhibitions