Raoofeh Rostami
Interdisciplinary Artist
About
Raoofeh Rostami is an interdisciplinary artist who studied photography at Art University of Tehran. During her study she started her career as a photojournalist. Working at different magazines and newspapers made opportunities for her to be connected with different experimental theater groups which introduced her to a broader art world. She observed and learned how artist mixed different medias together to represent a concept.
By years, she realized photography alone was not enough for her as a medium, so she decided to transform this media for her self. This change in direction was not easy for her but it was necessary for her grows as an artist.
She started working on installations with photo papers as their base. She focused on location, stasis, and minute changes to explore the question of how one can redefine place and the time of presence in a place?
And as an artist who has mainly worked with photography as a medium, she considers this principle that there is some kind of going back to the past and primary principles in this viewpoint; a sort of looking at the origin.
Since 2013, Rostami has participated in several local and international exhibitions.
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