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Anahita Razmi

Anahita Razmi is a German Iranian visual artist working with moving image, photography, installation, and performance. Her transcultural artistic practice often deploys strategies of appropriation and contextual displacement – aiming to deconstruct relations between image & power and identity & representation.

Razmi’s works were exhibited in international institutions like 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, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany, and at the 7th Çannakale Biennale, the 55th Venice Biennale, and the 5th Bucharest Biennale. Among other prizes and residencies, Razmi received a residency at Tarabya Cultural Academy, Istanbul (2020/2023), the Goethe at LUX Residency, London (2018), the MAK-Schindler Scholarship, Los Angeles (2013) and The Emdash Award, Frieze Foundation, London (2011).

Anahita Razmi was a resident at the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul from April to May 2021 and again from December 2021 to January 2022. Anahita Razmi’s Istanbul residency in March 2023 is supported by the Zilberman Residency. She was a resident at Tarabya Cultural Academy with an extension from April to May 2023.