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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 Hamburg, Germany. Her mother is German, and her father is Iranian.
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.




Career



Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice; Halle 14 (2019), Leipzig; Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (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 Villa Kamogawa Residency, Kyoto (2015). She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015), the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013), and the Emdash award, Frieze Foundation, 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 in Germany; the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; the Museo del Novecento, Florence; and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 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, Innsbruck, Austria
Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022), collaboration with Sohrab Kashani; traveling to Philomena in Berlin, Germany, and Uqbar in Vienna, Austria
The Riff (2022), Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE




See also


List of Iranian women artists




References






External links


Official website
Profile at University of the Arts London

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Festival Seni Media Jepang
• Anahita Razmi
• Razmi
• Anahita (given name)
• Kianush Sanjari
• Fatemeh Sepehri
• Frieze Art Fair
• Shirin Neshat
• Niloofar Hamedi
• September–October 2022 attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan
• 2022 Shah Cheragh attack