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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] She lives in Berlin, and London.

Anahita Razmi was born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany.^[3][4][5] Her mother is German, and her father is Iranian.^[3]

She studied media art at Bauhaus University, Weimar; followed by classes at Pratt Institute in New York City; and continued her studies in fine art and sculpture at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.^[3][6][5]

Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice;^[5] Halle 14 (2019), Leipzig;^[7] Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2016–2017), Warsaw;^[8] Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Kunstraum Innsbruck (2018), Innsbruck, Austria;^[9] Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art, Tehran; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013).^[10][11] During the Mahsa Amini protests, Razmi was one of a few artist to release protests posters.^[12][13]

Razmi received the Tarabya Cultural Academy fellowship, Istanbul (2020),^[14] the Goethe residency at LUX, London (2018),^[15] the Villa Kamogawa Residency, Kyoto (2015).^[16] She was awarded the Erich Hauser Art Foundation award (2015),^[17][5] the MAK–Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2013),^[1] and the Emdash award, Frieze Foundation, London (2011).^[1][18][19] 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.^[20][21]

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.^[22]

• Swing State (2013), travelled to Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken (City Gallery Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken, Germany; her first solo exhibition^[11][23]
• Do Fard – Underwear Tehran Berlin (2015, 2016), travelled to Schwedenstr. 16, Berlin, Germany; and State of Concept Athens, Athens, Greece^[24]
• The Future State – a preliminary (2018), LUX London, London, England^[25]
• Anahita Razmi Spoilers (2018), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria^[26]
• Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy (2022), collaboration with Sohrab Kashani; traveling to Philomena in Berlin, Germany,^[4] and Uqbar in Vienna, Austria^[27][28]
• The Riff (2022), Carbon12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE^[29]

• List of Iranian women artists

• Official website
• Profile at University of the Arts London