Anahita Razmi

Anahita Razmi
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.anahitarazmi.de

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

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

• List of Iranian women artists

References

1. "Anahita Razmi". Creative Time Reports. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
2. "Razmi Anahita". Iniva. January 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
3. Gregori, Daniela (11 February 2013). Gropp, Lewis (ed.). "Portrait of the Artist Anahita Razmi: Attempts at Cultural Transfer". Qantara.de. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
4. "Anahita Razmi". Philomena.plus. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
5. "Anahita Razmi erhält den Werkstattpreis". Schwäbische (in German). 9 February 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
6. "Anahita Razmi". Loom, European Alliance of Academies. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
7. Resch, Christopher (2 August 2019). "Global History of Ideas, Contemporary Muslim Art: Enlightenment Rediscovered". Qantara.de. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
8. "Social Calligraphies". Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. November 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
9. "May 5th – June 16th Anahita Razmi Spoilers". Kunstraum Innsbruck. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
10. "Frischzelle_17: Anahita Razmi". Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (in German). 15 December 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
11. "Kunstmuseum: Ihre Heimat und seine Heimat". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). 6 January 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. "Anahita Razmi". Kulturakademie Tarabya. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
15. "Interview with Anahita Razmi". Goethe-Institut United Kingdom. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
16. "Anahita Razmi, Bildende Kunst". Goethe-Institut Japan. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
17. "Anahita Razmi to receive 2015 Erich Hauser (Werkstattpreis) Award". Art Review. 9 February 2015. ISSN 1745-9303. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
18. "Anahita Razmi receives Emdash Award 2011". e-flux.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
19. Mickiewicz, Maksymilian Fus (24 August 2011). "Frieze: Anahita Razmi". Dazed. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
20. "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.
21. "Kritik am Kunstfonds - Unlautere Vergabeverfahren und Lobbyismus?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2023.
22. "Anahita Razmi". Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
23. "Anahita Razmi – Swing State, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, bis 1. September 2013". Portal Kunstgeschichte (in German). Retrieved 30 September 2023.
24. "DO FARD / Underwear Tehran - Berlin". visibleproject. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
25. "Art Guide: The Future State, a preliminary". Artforum. July 2018. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
26. Bailey, Stephanie (1 March 2019). "Anahita Razmi, Carbon 12". Artforum. ISSN 0004-3532. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
27. "Arts of the Working Class". ArtsoftheWorkingClass.org. March 2022.
28. "Neustart für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler". Innovative-Kunstprojekte.de. 2022.
29. "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