Nazanin Bahrami
Nazanin Bahrami is a performance artist, theater-maker, artistic researcher, and visual artist whose work unfolds at the intersection of performance, collage, and painting. In 2017, she founded the research-based art collective “Un-formula,” which cultivates dialogue between performance and visual art and engages with social and cultural practices. Committed to examining the role of art in society, she deepened her practice through the continuing-education program “Art as Social Practice.” Her artistic practice centres on the performative investigation of mourning and death, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions of grief. Bahrami’s projects have been presented at venues including Produktionshaus NAXOS, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt LAB, Theater neben dem Turm, Staatstheater Kassel, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and KVS Brussels, as well as at festivals and art events in Germany, Belgium, and Iran.
Research Project:
The artistic research project “Voice Not Found” begins with the long and contested history of female audibility in Iran. One of its earliest modern landmarks is Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri, who in 1924 became the first woman in Iran to sing publicly before a mixed audience without a veil. Her appearance marked a radical moment in the public life of women’s voices. After the 1979 Revolution, women’s solo singing in mixed-gender public settings was severely restricted, and female voices were increasingly pushed into forms of partial visibility, coded circulation, and institutional control. This project takes that history as a living
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