Nafis Fathollahzadeh is an artist and researcher from Iran, based in Berlin. Fathollahzadeh works at the intersection of artistic research, video art and photography.
They were a fellow researcher in the Rosa Luxemburg scholarly program on Authoritarianism and Counter strategies and affiliated with EUME: Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. They are art director and co-editor of Momentography of a failure, a multidisciplinary artistic and urban research platform for collaborative thinking, artistic collaborations, digital mapping, and publishing.
Fathollahzadeh was awarded the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fotografie prize for their project Momentography of a failure . They were the recipients of DAAD International Scholarship for Artists.
CONTACT
EDUCATION
2015 – 2018: MFA Photography Studies and Practice, Folkwang University of Arts, Essen, Germany.
2006 – 2011: Bachelor of Arts, Visual Communication Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran.
PRIZES/GRANTS
2023: Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis, Berlin, Germany.
2022: Research stipend for visual artists, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, Germany.
2021-22: Postdoc Research Fellowship, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, International Research Group On Authoritarianism and Counter Strategies, Berlin.
2021-22 : Research Fellow, Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) Program, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.
2020: Artist scholarship, Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
2020: Presentations of contemporary visual art, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, Germany.
2019: Education Prize for Momentography of a failure project, Deutsche Geselschaft für Fotografie, Germany
2015-2018: DAAD Study Scholarships for Foreign Graduates in the Fields of Fine Art, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2023 [Upcoming]: Upheaval on the clouds, Visual Handbook of Authoritarianism, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
2022: Momentography of a failure [Translocal], Berlin, Germany
2021: Momentography of a failure [Addis ababa], Archive books, Berlin.
2019: Über alle Berge, Zeit Magazine, Germany.
2018: Momentography of a failure [Kurdistan]
2018: Momentography of a failure [Tehran]
2012-2015: Shargh newspaper, Tehran, Iran.
FILM:
2023: Khabur, Documentary, 30′.
LECTURES/SEMINARS
2022: FORMAT lecture series, Güterbahnhof Bremen – Areal für Kunst und Kultur, Germany.
2021: Knowledge Production During Revolutionary Times: Reflections From, In, and On West Asia and North Africa, Al/Berlin, Germany.
CURATION
2022: CONTESTING AUTHORITARIANISM: Perspectives from the South, Bi’bak Sinema, Berlin, Germany
2022: Momentography of a failure (Translocal), Atelier automatique, Bochum.
2022: Momentography of a failure (Translocal), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin
EXHIBITIONS
2022: Momentography of a failure (Translocal), Atelier automatique, Bochum
2022: Momentography of a failure (Translocal), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin
2020: GHOSTS, TRACES, ECHOES: WORKS IN SHIFTS, Akademie der Künste der Welt,Cologne, Germany.
2020: Momentography of a failure [Addis ababa], Fotoraum Köln.
2019: „Eye-land”, wannseeforum, Berlin.
2018: Studio: eine urbane Inszenierung, Gublia Galerie, Essen.
2018: „Exchanging Perceptions-Art for change“, Quergalerie; Berlin.
2017: „Zwischenhalt“, Folkwang Museum, Essen
2017: „Anwesend“, Folkwang Museum, Essen
2014: „Invitation to Waltz“, Group Photo Exhibition, Silk Road Gallery,Tehran, Iran.
2014: Image of the Year Photo Festival, Artist’s House, Tehran, Iran.
2013: Iranian Contemporary Photography, Ahwaz Contemporary Art Museum, Ahwaz, Iran.