Anahita Razmi

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. 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. 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. She lives in Berlin, and London.

Early life and education Anahita Razmi was born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany. Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria; Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013). During the Mahsa Amini protests, Razmi was one of a few artist to release protests posters.

Razmi received the Tarabya Cultural Academy fellowship, Istanbul (2020), the Goethe residency at LUX, London (2018), the Villa Kamogawa Residency, Kyoto (2015). She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015), the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013), 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.

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.

Solo exhibitions Swing State (2013), travelled to Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (City Gallery Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken, Germany; her first solo exhibition Do Fard – Underwear Tehran Berlin (2015, 2016), travelled to Schwedenstr. 16, Berlin, Germany; and State of Concept Athens, Athens, Greece The Future State – a preliminary (2018), LUX London, London, England Anahita Razmi Spoilers (2018), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022), collaboration with Sohrab Kashani; traveling to Philomena in Berlin, Germany, The Riff (2022), Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE