Anahita Razmi
Born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany, Anahita Razmi is a digital and performance artist. She mines her Iranian cultural heritage and appropriates iconic works of art—particularly those of feminist artists—bringing to them a new Eastern context. She is best known for Roof Piece Tehran (2011), a video installation for which Razmi recreated Trisha Brown’s seminal 1971 work Roof Piece, filming 12 dancers not on the rooftops of New York but on those of Tehran—a reference to the rooftop demonstrations during Iran’s 2009 election protests. “My works are always conceptual and political but they also have a sense of humor,” she has said.
EDUCATION
Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste, Art
Stuttgart, Germany
Pratt Institute, Art & Media Arts
New York, United States
Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Media Arts
Weimar, Germany
JURY
Jennifer Allen
Markus Miessen
Joanna Mytkowska
Heimo Zobernig
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
