Anahita Razmi

Biography

I am a visual artist working with installation, moving image, photography, objects, and performance. Often using my German Iranian background as a reference, my practice explores possibilities of appropriation and contextual, geographical, and ideological shifts – with a focus on shifts between an 'East' and a 'West'. I am interested in a fluid, transcultural approach to contemporary art and its histories and references, developing works that act as testing grounds for import/export, hybrid identities, and the constructions and ambiguities of cultural representation.

I studied Media Art and Fine Art/Sculpture at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Pratt Institute New York and State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart. My works were exhibited in international institutions like Große Kunstschau Worpswede, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Halle 14, Leipzig, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, The National Art Center, Tokyo and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. Among other grants and scholarships, I received the Tarabya Cultural Academy Fellowship, Istanbul (2020/2023), the Goethe at LUX Residency, London (2018), the Werkstattpreis of the Erich Hauser Foundation (2015), the MAK-Schindler Scholarship, Los Angeles (2013) and The Emdash Award, Frieze Foundation, London (2011).