EDUCATION
2022–2025 Diploma in Expanded Cinema, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2020–2021 Photography and Moving Image, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2017–2020 MA in Digital Media, University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2009–2014 BA in Visual Communication, Al-Zahra Art University, Tehran, Iran
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2025 MdbK [jetzt]. Positionen junger Kunst aus Mitteldeutschland, Germany
2024 Förderankäufe, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Germany
2024 Studienpreis, Freundeskreis der HGB, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Honorable Mention, Frese-Design-Preis, Bremen, Germany
2019 Honorable Mention, Hochschultage 2019, Bremen, Germany
2018-2020 DAAD Scholarship, Field of Fine Arts, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 Bleeding, Pirsook Art Space, Shiraz, Iran (Curated by Mohsen Zare)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2025
Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, nGbK Berlin
2024
WIN/WIN, Gunzenhauser Museum, Chemnitz, Germany
Exit allowed? , Universitätsbibliothek Albertina, Leipzig, Germany
2023
Showing what we (don’t) know – Images as research, Japanisches Palais, Dresden, Germany (Curated by Anna-Lisa Reith)
Everchanging, Galeriefest Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Sorry, I have to leave, EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany (Curated by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien)
When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect, MZIN / MdBK, Leipzig, Germany
2022
Return, Pejman: Kandovan, Tehran, Iran (Curated by Foad Alijani)
LAACT 3.0 Workshop and Exhibition, Four Domes Pavilion, Wrocław, Poland (Curated by Noks Collective)
2021
Arcipelago, Eglise, Palermo, Italy
Paradiesvögel, Taubenheim Gallery, Bremen, Germany (Frese-Design-Preis)
Archivio Performante, HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Tina Bara, Alba D’Urbano, Bettina Hutschek)
Come Closer, Halle 14 / f/stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany (Curated by Özlem Altin, Tina Bara, Sophia Kesting, Sandra Schubert)
2020
Amateur PET, Mygration Festival, Berlin, Germany
2019
SEE Djerba Festival, Houmt Souk, Tunisia (Curated by Bettina Pelz)
2018
Poet mit Feder und Schere, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
New Cybernetics Research, Flut Gallery, Bremen, Germany
2017
Dar-al-Wrong; The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, Dastan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Border Control, CC Art Space, Isfahan, Iran
DAH project, Node Forum for Digital Art, Frankfurt, Germany (Curated by M. Hazrati and M. Forouzandeh)
2015
Iranian Living Room, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, Italy (Curated by E. Bossan – Book)
2013
Iranian Living Room, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy
SCREENINGS
2024
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
Archival Shifts: Rewinding and Resuming History, Shapeshifting Festival, Berlin, Germany
2023
Schöne Welt, Wo Bist Du?, Lichtspiel Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
DIFFUSION, YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Filmfest Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2017
7th Limited Access Festival, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran
CURATION AND ORGANIZATION
Sphere Project Space, Bremen, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Art and Research in Conversation, Stannaki Forum / Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
2024 Exit Allowed, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Germany
2013 Iranian Living Room, Fabrica Institute, Italy
WORKSHOPS
2023 Summer School, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany
2022 Summer School, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin, Germany
2019 City Sounds – City Atmospheres on Auditory Urban Research, Berlin, Germany
2013 Enrico Bossan Photography Workshop, Tehran, Iran