Anahita Razmi | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) |
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 (born 1981) 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.
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]
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]