Anahita Razmi Explained

Anahita Razmi
Native Name:آناهیتا رزمی
Native Name Lang:fa
Birth Place: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

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.[4] 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.[5]

Career

Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice; Halle 14 (2019), Leipzig;[6] Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw;[7] Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria;[8] Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013).[9] [10] During the Mahsa Amini protests, Razmi was one of a few artist to release protests posters.[11] [12]

Razmi received the Tarabya Cultural Academy fellowship, Istanbul (2020),[13] the Goethe residency at LUX, London (2018),[14] the Villa Kamogawa Residency, Kyoto (2015).[15] She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015),[16] [17] the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013), and the Emdash award, Frieze Foundation, London (2011).[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

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anahita Razmi . 2024-03-19 . Creative Time Reports . en-US.
  2. Web site: January 2018 . Razmi Anahita . 2022-07-21 . . en.
  3. Web site: Gregori . Daniela . February 11, 2013 . Gropp . Lewis . Portrait of the Artist Anahita Razmi: Attempts at Cultural Transfer . 2023-05-05 . . en.
  4. Web site: Anahita Razmi . 2024-03-19 . Philomena.plus . en-US.
  5. Web site: Anahita Razmi . 2023-09-30 . Loom, European Alliance of Academies . en-US.
  6. Web site: Resch . Christopher . August 2, 2019 . Global History of Ideas, Contemporary Muslim Art: Enlightenment Rediscovered . 2022-07-25 . . en.
  7. Web site: November 2016 . Social Calligraphies . 2022-07-25 . Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki . en.
  8. Web site: May 5th – June 16th Anahita Razmi Spoilers . 2022-07-25 . Kunstraum Innsbruck.
  9. Web site: Frischzelle_17: Anahita Razmi . 2022-07-25 . Kunstmuseum Stuttgart . 15 December 2012 . de.
  10. Web site: January 6, 2013 . Kunstmuseum: Ihre Heimat und seine Heimat . 2023-09-30 . . de.
  11. Web site: Waddoups . Ryan . 2023-09-20 . A Year After Mahsa Amini’s Death, Artists Have Even More to Say . 2024-03-20 . . en-US . 1091-806X.
  12. Web site: Harris . Garth . 2023-09-15 . One year on from Mahsa Amini's death, protest art marks the streets . 2024-03-20 . . 0960-6556.
  13. Web site: Anahita Razmi . 2022-07-25 . Kulturakademie Tarabya . en.
  14. Web site: Interview with Anahita Razmi . 2023-09-30 . Goethe-Institut United Kingdom.
  15. Web site: Anahita Razmi, Bildende Kunst . 2022-08-11 . Goethe-Institut Japan.
  16. Web site: 9 February 2015 . Anahita Razmi to receive 2015 Erich Hauser (Werkstattpreis) Award . 2024-03-20 . . en . 1745-9303.
  17. Web site: 9 February 2015 . Anahita Razmi erhält den Werkstattpreis . 2023-09-30 . Schwäbische . de.
  18. Web site: Anahita Razmi receives Emdash Award 2011 . 2022-07-25 . e-flux.com . en.
  19. Web site: Mickiewicz . Maksymilian Fus . 2011-08-24 . Frieze: Anahita Razmi . 2024-03-20 . Dazed . en.
  20. Web site: December 13, 2022 . Open Letter by the Artist Anahita Razmi: On the Rejection of the NeustartPlus Grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds . 2023-05-05 . BBK Berlin.
  21. Web site: Kritik am Kunstfonds - Unlautere Vergabeverfahren und Lobbyismus? . 2023-05-05 . Deutschlandfunk Kultur . de.
  22. Web site: Anahita Razmi . 2024-03-20 . Davis Museum at Wellesley College . en.
  23. Web site: Anahita Razmi – Swing State, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, bis 1. September 2013 . 2023-09-30 . Portal Kunstgeschichte . de.
  24. Web site: DO FARD / Underwear Tehran - Berlin . 2023-09-30 . visibleproject . en-US.
  25. Web site: July 2018 . Art Guide: The Future State, a preliminary . 2024-03-20 . . en-US . 0004-3532.
  26. Web site: Bailey . Stephanie . 2019-03-01 . Anahita Razmi, Carbon 12 . 2024-03-20 . . en-US . 0004-3532.
  27. Web site: March 2022 . Arts of the Working Class . ArtsoftheWorkingClass.org.
  28. Web site: 2022 . Neustart für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler . Innovative-Kunstprojekte.de.
  29. Web site: 2022-11-18 . Reflexionen über Repräsentation . 2023-09-30 . gallerytalk.net . de-DE.

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