Raoofeh Rostami
Interdisciplinary Artist
Practice
My practice takes the image as one of its primary means of thinking and making. In this process, the image is not simply something to be looked at, but a possibility for considering how seeing can take place, shift, or become something else. This process begins by looking at what already exists and placing it in relation to something else. I call this approach Based On.
Based On can generally refer to working from something that already exists and taking it as a point of departure. In my practice, however, this does not mean simply reproducing or referring to it. I bring it into relation with something that remains connected to it؛ its image, its repetition, its re-enactment, or its translation into another form. What interests me is what becomes possible in the encounter between the two: an experience or understanding that takes shape only through their being together and does not exist in either one alone.
My projects examine this condition in different ways: what becomes possible only through the encounter between the two.
CV
Education
BA In photography, Art University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2004-2007
Experience as a press photographer
Fajr International Theater Festival, Iran, 2008-2022
Shargh Newspaper, Iran, 2014-2022
Senior photo editor for Exir Magazine, Iran, 2017
Cinema Newspaper, Iran, 2015
Bani Film Newspaper, Iran, 2006-2009
Solo Exhibition
More than 90 degrees, Rishe Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2023
Do you have a good feeling under your skin?, Westwerk gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 2020
Second Time, AG gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2019
Public-Private, Shirin gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2014
Group Exhibition
Denunciation, ACC gallery, Weimar, Germany, 2024
Self Portraits of Artists, Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, Iran, 2022
Humble Arts Foundation and Strange Fire Collective's "Four Degrees: Eco-Anxiety and Climate Change" online
Exhibition, 2021
Public-Private, Pasinger Fibrik gallery, Munich, Germany, 2014
‘Biname' a photography touring exhibition
Richmond House gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2016
Penarth Fotogallery, United Kingdom, 2013
Cardiff Museum, Cardiff, United Kingdom,2013
Black and white photography, Art Center Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2010
Prize
PX3 competition, Silver, Category: Book (Series only), People-Professional, 2017
3rd prize winner of women and urban life, Tehran, Iran, 2008
Residency
ACC gallery, Weimar, Germany, 2023
The Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, Hamburg, Germany, 2021