About
About – CV
Born in 1969 in Tehran/Iran, Neda Razavipour studied art in Paris at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs EnsAD Paris. She began to work as a stage designer then continued in visual art and performance.
Razavipour co-founded several collectives and NGO in Iran.
She currently lives between Tehran and Luzern.
Upcoming
Nominated for Swiss Performance Art Awards 2023
Performance on September 23th at Kunsthaus Baselland
Solo/Duo Exhibitions-Performances
2022 – Les Trésors du Temps, Installation and Photography, with Tatjana Erpen, curated by Cornelia Ackermann and Susann Wintsch, at Trudelhaus, Baden, Switzerland
2021 –Musical Chairs, Installation and Performance, part of the festival Zürich Tanzt, Kulturehaus Helferei, Zurich, Swidzerland
2020/2021 – Gestures that must not be forgotten, series of Performances. Lucerne and Zurich, Switzerland
2018 – Daily Notes 2007-2010, Drawings. Book release at Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 – Half Objects, Performance. Borthyka Konsthall Art Festival, Norsborg, Sweden
2016 – The House of Sleep, with Katayoun Karami, Psychico Galley, Athens, Greece
2015 – Edge of Chaos, Exhibition and Discussion room.
Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 – Oscillation, Installation and Performance. Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 – Flayed Angel, Series of Photography. Igreg Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 – Disturbances, series of paintings. Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 – Self Service, Installation and Performance. Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2005 – Notes of A Housewife, Video and Installation.
Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2004 – Dream Set. Street Performance, Kargar Av., with Movazi Art Group, Tehran, Iran
2003 – Census, City Installation, in collaboration with Shahab Fotouhi. Atisaz Build. & No.13 Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2001 – A Few Centimeters Above Sea-Level, Installation and Performance in collaboration with Shahab Fotouhi. No.13 Gallery, Tehran, Iran
1997 – Others, Installation and Performance. EnsAD, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibition-Screenings
2022 – alles was ich mag/ all I can carry, MIGMA Performance, Kunstpavillon, Luzern, Switzerland
2022 – The Other Kabul. Remains of the garden,curated by Susann Wintsch, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2022 – Thingamajic, at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London, UK
2020/2022 – Le tour du jour en quatre-vingt mondes, curated by Sandra Patron, CAPC, musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2020 – Up above was fog, down below was a cloud of dust, curated by Golnar Tabibzadeh & Merve Ünsal, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 – Fragile Frontiers: visions on Iran’s in/visible borders, curated by Anna Fech & Farah Piriye, YARAT contemporary Art space Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 – Cape to Tehran/ Re-imaging personal history, Gallery Momo, Cape Town, South Africa
2017 – Trans-Trans-Figuration: Sheikh Safi’s Anecdot & Any Expandable Thing, curated by Fereshte Mousavi. Lajevardi Collection, Tehran, Iran
2016 – Where/Between, curated by Pantea Haghigh, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
2016 – Open House, Iaspis, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international programme, and Botryrka Konsthall, Norsnborg, Sweden
2015 – Dust, curated by Anna Ptak, Center for Contemporary Art CCA Ujazdowki Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2015 – Thirteen Artists for New Day, Lajevardi Collection, curated y Fereydoun Ave, Tehran, Iran
2014 – Recalling the Future, curated by Hamed Yousefi and David Hodge. Brunei Gallery (SOAS University), London, UK
2014 – Dass ich den Mond sähe im Schlaf, curated by Axel Lapp. MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
2013 – Passage Nord-Sud, curated by Michel Dewilde. Recycle-Art, Brussels, Belgium
2013 – Group Exhibition on Painting. Khak Gallery, Dubai
2013 – Inside Iran, curated by Gertjian Zuilhof and Bianca Taal. Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2012 – The secret life of plants, curated by Maya Kovskaya. Exhibit 320, Delhi, India
2012 – Festival Kanal, curated by Christa Vyvey & Michel Dewilde, Brussels, Belgium
2012 – Rewind, Pause, Fast Forward: Mirrors on Iran. Pi Artworks Gallery, Istanbul
2012 – Iranian Arts Now, performances, curated by Fereshteh Daftari. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2011 – My Super Hero. Mororno Kiang Gallery, NewYork, U.S.A.
2011 – Pulso Iraniano, curated by Marc Potier. Centro Cultural | Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 – Home Spun, curated by Girish Shahane. Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India
2011 – Disturbing the Public Opinion, curated by Barbad Golshiri and Edi Muka. Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011– Drawn from Life, curated by Hammad Nasar. Green Cardamom Project, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, London, UK
2010 – Promise of Loss, curated by Shahin Merali. Aario Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2009 – Promise of Loss, curated by Shahin Merali. Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
2009 – Golden Gates, curated by Daniela da Prato. F&A Projects, Paris, France
2009 – Major exhibition of Contemporary Iranian video art, Gallery Henry Moore, Royal College of Art, MOP, London, UK
2009 – Drawn for Life: Drawing Form, curated by Nada Raza. Gallery Green Cardamom, London, UK
2009 – One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran, curated by Taraneh Hemami. Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
2009 – Tehran Blues, curated by Bettina Schönfelder, Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 – Breaking News, curated by Daniela da Prato, F&A Projects, Paris, France
2008 – The Messenger, curated by Michel Dewilde, Cultuurcentrum Bruges, Brüges, Belgium
2008 – Waldweben, Het Betoverd Bos, curated by Michel Dewilde. Le Chateau de Maria Aalter-Belgium
2008 – Naqsh, curated by Melanie Nazmi. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
2008 – Lion under the rainbow, curated by Alexandros Georgiou. D-Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2007 – Art Without Borders, curated by Sonia Balasanian, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Tehran and Istanbul
2006 – Iran.com, curated by Isabel Herda and Nicoletta Torcelli, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
2006 – Off LOOP’06, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2006 – TAIWA, curated by Shigeno Sawada. Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan
2006 -–Video Ephemere, Festival VIDEOFORMES 2006, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2005 – Off LOOP’05, Video Art Festival, Barcelona
2005 – Too Much Pollution to Demonstrate, Soft guerrillas in Tehran, curated by Amiel Grumberg. Apex Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2004 – Iran Sota La Pel, curated by Firouz Firouz. Center de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, C.C.C.B., and Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
2004 – Turning point. Seven Iranian Artists, curated by Media Farzin and Laleh Khoramian. Leroy Neumann Gallery, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
2004 – Beams of Blue, curated by Hamid Severi. A Peejay Media Gallery, Delhi, India. Sala 1, Centro Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
2002 – Seating Woman, New Art Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, MoCA, Tehran, Iran
2001 – Returning Home, The Willow Tree, in collaboration with Ramin Dehdashtian. First Conceptual Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, MoCA, Tehran, Iran
Selected Talk- Panel– Jury- Curating
2023 – Event/Debate, Le Centre Pompidou, initiated by Bani Khoshnoudi, Paris, France
2023 – Ronde Table, at AWARE women artist with Zamân Books & Curating, Paris, France
2022 – Talk, Fondazione Imago Mundi
2022 – Kunst und Bau, Waldbad Zimmeregg, stadt Luzern, invited artist, Luzern, Switzerland
2019 – Member of the selecting Panel for 8th Biennial of Sculpture, Tehran, Iran
2019 – Member of the Jury Panel, Sculpture exhibition, Two gardens, Tehran and Kerman, Iran
2017 – Co-curating the ceramic based exhibition Frontier, Artist Forum, Tehran, Iran
2016 – Artist Talk, Athens Biennale 2015-2017, OMONOIA
2015 – Panel and Presentations, Art in Public space, Aaran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 – Member of the Jury Panel of the Video Art Exhibition, Isfahan, Iran
2014 – Presentation of Urban Art, University of Tehran, Faculty of Art, Tehran, Iran
2011 – Member of the Jury Panel, Aksbazi the photography-based Website, Tehran, Iran
2011 – Member of the Jury Panel, Monoleeve Theatre Festival, Tehran, Iran
2010 – Panel Discussion- L’Iran dévoilé par ses Artistes – moderated by Catherine Millet with Abbas Kiarostami, Alireza Sami Azar, Rose Issa, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2009 – Curating Iran on Paper with works from the Fereydoun Ave LaaL collection, Tehran, Iran
2008 – Panel Discussion: Contemporary Art scene in Tehran, with Catherine David, Amir Ali Ghassemi , moderated by Alexandros Stanas. Art Athena Biennale, Athens, Greece
2008 – Member of the Jury Panel for One Shot Film Festival, Tehran Avenue, Tehran, Iran
Acting
2012 – Featuring in the film Ziba, directed by Bani Khoshnoudi, Iran/France. Official selection: Rotterdam film fest., Dubai Int. film fest., Kosmorama Norway film fest. Denmark film fest. Mexico
Awards-Residencies-Workshops
2023 – Nominated Artist for Swiss Performance Art Awards, Switzerland
2022 – Invited Artist, Kunst und Bau, Waldbad Zimmeregg, stadt Luzern, Switzerland
2016 – Artist in Residence, IASPIS, Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for Visual and Applied Artists, residency, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 – Artist in Residence A-I-R Laboratory of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
2013 – Artist in Residence Cité international des arts, Paris, France
2012 – Artist in Residence Cité international des arts, Paris, France
2010 – Invited Artist, Square Mile, A Cultural and Environmental Mapping Project Study, Visiting Art Project, Tehran, Iran
2009 – Artist in Residence at The Delfina Foundation, London, UK
Founding
2014 – Nafas, Artists and Environmental Activist NGO against the Air Pollution in Tehran, Iran
2012 – Karestan, Organization for Artist’s Health Support
2007 – Artist-Run Space, Studio, Exhibition space and Residency
2004 – Movazi Art Group, Public Performance and Installation Group in Tehran, Iran
2001 – Katibeh Art Gallery
1998 – Leeve Theater Company, Experimental and Research based Theatre Company
Selected Publications
2022 – Kunstmuseum Thun & Verein Treibsand: The Other Kabul,Remains of the Garden, Hirmer, Thun, 2022
2019 – Ferestheh Daftari: Persian Reframed: Iranian vision of modern and contemporary Art, I.B.Tauris, London, 2019
2018 – Neda Razavipour: Daily Notes 2007-2010, with interviews by Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, Abbas Kowsari, artist and Homayoun Askari Sirizi, artist. Pejman Foundation and Bon-Gah Publication, Tehran, 2018
2017 – Die Teheran Moderne. Ein Reader zur Kunst im Iran seit 1960 / The Tehran Modern. A Reader about Art in Iran since 1960. Herausgegeben von Dorothée Brill, Joachim Jäger, Gabriel Montua. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2017.
2017 – Hanna Jacobi: Stimmen aus Teheran. Interviews
zur zeitgenössischen Kunst im Iran. Übersetzungen von Jutta Himmelreich und Petra Post. Frankfurt a. M., Edition Faust, 2017
2016 – Blade and warp and weft, Lili Golestan in conversation with Neda Razavipour, Sales Publication, 2015
2014 – Abbas Daneshvari: Amazingly Original. Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroad, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California 2014
2013 – Hamid Keshmirshekan: Contemporary Iranian Art. New Perspectives, Saqi Books, London 2013
2012 – Ehsan Lajevardi: Tehran: A Popular Revolution , Volume 1, Contemporary Art Publications, 2012
2011 – Hamid Keshmirshekan: Amidst Shadow and Light, Hamid, LTD Publications, 2011
2009 – Hossein Amirsadeghi, Hamid
Keshmirshekan: Different Sames. New Perspectives in
Contemporary Iranian Art, Thames and Hudson Publication, London 2009
2007 – Lion Under the Rainbow, D-Art publication, Athen
2007
Selected Reviews-Interviews-Bibliographies
2022 – Kunstmuseum Thun & Verein Treibsand: The Other Kabul,Remains of the Garden, Hirmer, Thun
2022 – Feli Schindler: Kunst Bulletin,6/2022
2015 – Mohsen Saghafi: “Identity redefinition”, in: Honar Agah montly, n1, Tehran, 2015
2014 – Sara Kamalvand: Les Oscillations de Neda Razavipour, artpress, Bonus, 12. Mai 2014. http://www.artpress.com/article/12/05/2014/bonus–iles-oscillationsi-de-neda- razavipour-/29568, Art Press
2014 – Homayoun Askari Sirizi: “Status of Military
Arrangment”m Mahan Moalemi: “Oh Dear Objects”,
Mahmoud Reza Bahmnapour: “We men and this woman”,
Alma Bahman: “Is this Artist a woman”, in: A dossier about Oscillation performance, Golestaneh monthly magazine, n.130, 2014, Tehran
2013 – Michel Dewilde: (One)Hope Map, Stad Brugge Publication, Brugge 2013
2013 – Daria Kirsanova: “Articulating Dissensus Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment”, in: Ibraaz.org, 28 August 2013 http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/72
2013 – Ali Etehad: „Self Portrait, as a portrait of Society”, in: Contemporary practices magazine, p. 48-45, Volume XI, 2013, Tehran
https://issuu.com/ali-ettehad/docs/self-portrait
2013 – Geoffrey Macnab: “Eyes wide Open”, in: Daily
Tiger #6, daily newspaper of the 42nd edition of
International Film Festival Rotterdem, from 23 January to 3 February 2013, p.7 http://issuu.com/iffr/docs/dk06_int_hr
2012 – Michel Dewilde: “Flayed Angel by Neda Razavipour, A Covert Exhibition in Tehran”, Hart Magazine, Berlin, 2012
2011 – Nasrin Tabatabai: “Self Service, Performance in Iran”, Pages magazine, Mai 20, 2011, n.8
2010 – Lili Golestan: “Neda Razavipour”, Shahrouz Nazari: “L’image du corps. Representing the body”, in: Art Press n.17, p. 55-58 and 69-71, 20.08.2010
2010 – Ali Etehad: “Therapeutic effect and experimental
interaction: Neda Razavipour”, in: Art Tomorrow 2, 2010, Tehran
2010 – Homayoun Askari Sirizi: “Disturbances”, Golestaneh monthly, n.110, 2010, Tehran
2010 – Sohrab Mahdavi : “On Housewives, Rugs, and other Items of Consequence”, in: tehranavenue.com (website out of service), 2010, Tehran
2009 – Ali Etehad: “Self Service”, Art Tomorrow 1, 2009, Tehran
2007 – Serhan Ada, Deniz Ünsal (Editor), Emerging Cultural Continent: Actors and Networks: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, santralistanbul, 2008, Istanbul
2005 – Tirdad Zolghadr: “Being Neighbors”, in: Beral Madra (Editor), Neighbors in Dialogue, Norgunk Yayinevi, Istanbul 2005
2005 – Katherine Bovee, Arthur Danto: Danto at PAM http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2005/11/danto_at_pam.html
2005 – “Notes of a Housewife”, Jinoos Taghizadeh, in: tehranavenue.com (website out of service), 2005
2004 – Daryush Shayegan, Maria Jesús Merino, Firouz Firouz: Irán bajo la piel. Un encuentro con las culturas iraníes. Exhibition catalogue, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, CCCB, Barcelona, 2004
2003 – Condition of Performance, Jinoos Taghizadeh, in: tehranavenue.com (website out of service), 2003
2003 – Behnam Kamrani: “Building’s Faces”, in: Herfeh Honarmand, Tehran 2003
Selected Collections
CNAP, France
Devi Art Foundation, India
Laal Collection, Iran