Aria Farajnezhad
Selected Solo / Duo Exhibitions
2024
The Wreckage of the Sunk Ship, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen
2021
Listening to the Rainbirds, BLG Forum Bremen
2018
Temporary Dislocation As Response to A Friend, Julias Ida Green, Bremen
2016
Collective Expansion, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
91. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover
2025
Plural Memory: A Genealogy of Figurative Pedagogy (2003–2024), Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran
2024
47. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst, Städtische Galerie Bremen
2024
HIAP Open Studios, Gallery Augusta, Helsinki
2022
Weaving Echoes, Gerhard Marcks Haus Museum, Bremen
2021
Where the River Resides, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
project partly presented at MMM
Residencies / Fellowships
2025–2026
Kunstverein Hannover Award (Villa Minimo Fellowship)
2025
Kulturakademie Tarabya Residency, Istanbul
2024
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme Residency
2023
WHW Akademija Program, Zagreb
2023
(Un)Limited Artistic Resource Residency, AIR InSILo Hollabrunn
2020–2021
Future Archives, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
2018–2019
Home Workspace Program (HWP), Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Selected Talks / Workshops / Screenings
2025
A Trial to Remember / Self Implosion: Towards Plural Present, Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul
with Larissa Araz
2024
Spaces of Difference: Art and Agency in the Middle East, University of Liverpool
with Azadeh Sarjoughian
2024
A Rehearsal to Scuttle a Monument, GAK Bremen
2023
Everyone an Island After All?, GAK Bremen
2023
Guest presentation in Indigenous and Feminist Methodologies, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2022
39th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (screening)
Selected Publications
2024
Probe 1: A Rehearsal to Scuttle a Monument, co-publication with GAK Bremen
2022
Weaving Echoes, Gerhard Marcks Haus Bremen
2022
A Reply from ZEFAK to Virgil, Artists Space, New York
commissioned as part of the ZEFAK project
Awards / Grants
2025
Kunstverein Hannover Award
2024
Filmstart 10 Bremen – Production Grant (How to Abolish a Name)
2023
Nomination, 47th Bremen Art Prize
2021
Project Grant, Senator für Kultur Bremen (Listening to the Rainbirds)
Initiatives / Collaboration
2020–2022
Co-runner, Circa 106 artist-run project space, Bremen
2020–2022
Future Archives collaborative research initiative
Education
2021–2022
Meisterschüler, class of Natascha Sadr Haghighian, University of the Arts Bremen
2015–2021
Diploma in Fine Arts, University of the Arts Bremen
Languages
Persian (native), English (C2), German (B2/C1)
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