Parastou Forouhar

Photographer, installation and multi-media artist Parastou Forouhar was born in 1962 in Teheran, received her BA in Art from the University of Tehran (1990), and since 1991 has lived in Germany, where she received an MA from the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main.

Forouhar’s most recent solo shows include “Parastou Forouhar” curated by Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum, London (2010); “Links of Violence”, Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe (2009); “Parastou Forouhar”, Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich (2009); “Parade”, Kunsthalle Vierseithof, Lückenwalde (2008); “Just A Minute”, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2007); “Spielmannszüge” (“Marching Bands”), Forum of the Dominican Monastery, Frankfurt (2005); “Parastou Forouhar”, Deutscher Dom, Berlin (2005); “Tausendundein Dag” (“1001 Days”), the National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, (2003); “Schuhe ausziehen” (“Take Off Your Shoes”), Gallery de Ligt, Frankfurt (2002); and “Blind Spot”, Exhibition Hall Schulstrasse 1A, Frankfurt/M and Stavanger Cultural Centre, Norway (2001-2).

She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently "Zendegi: Twelve Contemporary Iranian Artists" (curated by Rose Issa Projects) at the Beirut Exhibition Center (2011); “Iran diVerso: Black or White?”, Verso Arte Contemporanea, Turin (2010); “Krieg/Individuum”, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Germany (2010); “Veiled Memoirs”, XIV Biennale Donna, Ferrara (2010); “Die Macht Des Ornaments” (“The Power of Ornament”), Belvedere, Vienna (2009); “Traum und Wirklichkeit” (“Dreams and Reality”) at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland and BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (2009); “Rebelle”, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2009); “Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity”, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2009); Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea (2009); “Iran Inside Out”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2009); “Mahrem”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and Santralistanbul, Istanbul (2008); “Re-Imagining Asia”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and New Art Gallery, Walsall (2008); “Global Feminisms”, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2007); “Retracing Territories”, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland (2007); “Unfinished”, BM-Suma Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul (2007); “Multispeak I”, Witte Zaal, Ghent (2007); “Vote for Women”, Kunst Meran, Merano (2007); “Naqsh”, Pergamon Museum, Berlin (2007); “Eastern Expressway”, Evangelische Stadtakademie, Frankfurt (2006); “Das Kritische Auge” (“The Critical Eye”), Neue Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (2006); “Hannah Arendt Denkraum”, former Jewish Girls’ School, Berlin (2006); “Intersections”, Jewish Museum of Melbourne and Jewish Museum San Francisco (2005); “Gabriele Münter Price” at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin and Frauen Museum, Bonn (2004); “Die Zehn Gebote” (“The Ten Commandments”), Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (2004); “Triennale of Contemporary Art”, Oberschwaben, Weingartenand (2004); and “Far Near Distance”, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2004).

Forouhar has also participated in the Biennales of Istanbul (2007), Berlin (2001), and Busan, South Korea (2004) and has been awarded residencies at the BM Centre of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (2007); Villa Massimo, Rome (2006); Gertrude Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2005); and Schloss Balmoral, Austria (2004).

Her work is in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria; Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt; and the Deutsche Bank Art Collection.

Recent publications include “Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life & Death in Iran”, edited by Rose Issa (Saqi Books, 2010) and “Iranian Photography Now”, edited by Rose Issa (Hatje Cantz and Beyond Art Production, 2008).


past EXHIBITIONS:
"parastou forouhar" (2010)

publicaTIONS:
"parastou forouhar: art, life and death in iran" (2010)