Parastou Forouhar

1962. Born in Tehran, Iran

1980
1984
Received her B.A. from University of Tehran
1990
1991
Moved to Germany
1992
Received her M.A. from College of Art Offenbach, Hessen
1995
Member of the art project Fahrradhalter
2000
2001
Obtained a grant from Hessen Cultural Foundation
2001
Obtained a grant from Kunstfonds Foundation
2001
Solo show, "Blind Spot", Stavanger Cultural Centre, Stavanger
2001
Participated in the 2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2001
Group show, Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2001
Group show, "Scene Change XIX", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
2001
Group show, "Migration", Womens’ Museum, Bonn
2001
Blind Spot 2001
2002
Solo show, "Shoes Off!", De Ligt Gallery, Frankfurt
2002
Solo show, Blindspot, Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran, Germany
2002
Group show, "Source as Inspiration", Francke Foundation, Halle
2002
Group show, "Say Hello Wave Goodbye", Hohenlohe & Kalb Gallery, Vienna
2003
Solo show, "Thousand and One Day", National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2003
Group show, "MARS-Art and War", The New Gallery & Museum Joanneum, Graz
2003
Group show, "ّFeast", Arhus
2003
Group show, "Bellissima", Gallery of the Art Academy, Leipzig
2003
Group show, "Zan-e-irani", Womens’ Museum, Bonn
2003
Group show, "MARS-Art and War", The New Gallery, Graz
2004
Grant from Balmoral Künstlerhaus
2004
Solo show, "Ornamentic", City Museum, Crailsheim
2004
Solo show, "Signs", Einstein Forum, Potsdam
2004
Group show, "Far Near Distance", Centre of the World Cultures, Berlin
2004
Group show, Gabriele Münter Prize, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2004
Group show, "The Ten Commandments", German Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2004
Participated in the 4th Busan Biennal, Busan
2005
Group show, "Intersections", Jewish Museum of Melbourne / Jewish Museum of San Francisco
2005
Khoj International Artists Workshop, Bombey
2005
Solo Show, "Parastou Forouhar in the German Kathedral", Berlin
2005
Solo show, "Spielmannszüge", Dominikanerkloster Forum, Frankfurt
2005
Solo show, "Spielmannszuege", Saarland artists space, Saarbrücken
2006
Grant from the German Academy in Rom-Villa Massimo
2006
Co-curator, "Treibsand - Contemporary Art Space on DVD", Tehran issue
2006
Solo show, "Blind Spot", Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich
2006
Group show, "Eastern Exprssway", Evangelische Stadtakademie, Frankfurt
2006
Group show, "The Critical Eye", Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
2006
Group show, Hannah Arendt Thinking Space, Berlin
2007
Residency of Berlin Cultural Senat, Istanbul
2007
Solo show, "Just a Minute", Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome
2007
Group show, "Global Feminism", Brooklyn Museum, NY
2007
Group show, "Retracing Territories", Kunsthalle Fribourg
2007
Group show, "Creation and Design of Media Arts", Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt
2007
Group show, "Mahrem", Santral Istanbul, Istanbul
2008
Red Is My Name, Green Is My Name 2008
2008
Solo show, "Parade", Kunsthalle Vierseithof, Lückenwalde
2008
Group show, "Mahrem", Kunsthalle Wien/Tanas, Berlin
2008
Group show, "Re-Imagining Asia", Haus of the World Cultures, Berlin
2008
Group show, "Vote for Women", Kunst Meran, Merano
2008
Group show, "Naqsh", Pergamon Museum, Berlin
2009
Participated in the Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, South Korea
2009
Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich
2009
Solo show, "Links of Violence", Orgel Fabrik, Karlsruhe
2009
Solo show, "I Surrender", Azad Gallery, Tehran
2009
Group show, "The Power of Ornament", Belvedere, Vienna
2009
Group show, "Dream and Reality", Paul Klee Center, Bern
2009
Group show, "In Istanbul - From Arrivel To Departure", BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
2009
Group show, "Rebelle", Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
2010
2010
Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", RH Gallery, NY
2010
Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", Leighton House Museum, London
2010
Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not", Verso Arte Contemporanea, Turin
2010
Bienniale, "Veiled Memoirs", XIV Biennale Donna, Ferrara
2010
Group show, "Nagsh and Raghsh", Muesum of Islamic Art, Sharja
2010
Group show, "21st Century", Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane
2010
Group show, "War/Individium", AZKM, Muenster
2010
Ashoura Day 2010
2011
Bienniale, "Medi(t)ation", Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
2011
Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not", Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
2011
Solo show, "Written Room", Fondazione Merz, Turin
2011
Group show, "Political Patterns", IFA Gallery, Berlin / Stuttgart
2011
Group show, "Disturbing the Public Opinion", Roda Sten, Gothenburg
2011
Group show, "The Ornamental Gesture", Künstlerhaus, Dortmond
2011
Group show, "ZENDEGI", 12 contemporary Iranian artists, Beirut Show Center
2011
Group show, "Ornamental Structures", Stadtgalerie, Saarbruecken
2011
Group show, "20 Years of Presence", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
2012
Winner of Sophie von La-Roche Prize of Offenbach city
2012
Group show, "The Elephant in the Dark", Devi Foundation, Dehli
2012
Group show, "Feminst and …", The Matrass Factory Museum, Pittsburgh
2012
Group show, "Fertile Crescent", Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
2012
Group show, 7th Asia Pasific Triennal of Contamporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
2012
Solo show, "No Home-game", Kunst-Raum-Akademie, Weingarten
2012
Group show, "Killing", Kunstpalais, Erlangen
2012
Co-curator, "Omid is my Name", JBS Anne Frank, Frankfurt
2013
Participated in the 5th Moscow Biennale
2013
4th Biennial of Thessaloniki
2013
Participated in Gothenburg Biennial
2013
Group show, "The Fold", CAB Contemporary Art, Brussels
2013
Group show, "Free View", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013
Group Show, "Conflicts", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2013
Group show, "The Passion of Persia", Rietberg Museum, Zurich
2013
Solo show, "The Time of The Butterflies", Hinterland Gallery, Vienna
2013
Solo show, "The Poetry of Unloved Perception", Art Galerie of Fuerth
2013
Solo show, "Ornament and Crime", Law Warshaw Gallery of Macalester College, St. Paul
2013
Solo show, "The Subtle Tempo of Pain", Roemer 9, Frankfurt
2013
Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not II", Stadtgalerie, Neunkirchen
2014
Solo show, "Repeating Patterns of Mrs. P", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2014
Solo show, "Kiss Me", Rose Issa Projects, London
2014
Solo show, "Body Letter", El Greco Festival, Toledo
2014
Group Show, "Recalling the Future", Brunei Gallery at SOAS, London
2014
Group show, "The Art of Life", Uppsala Konstmuseum
2014
Group show, "Ornamental Structures", Kunstverein Worms
2014
Portraits II 2014
2015
Group show, "Insomuch That It Slowly Goes Drown", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2015
Water Mark 2015
2015
Solo show, "New Works", Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
2015
Solo show, "Burnt Paper", Hinterland Gallery, Vienna
2015
Solo show, "Re-imagining the Illusion", Pi Artworks, London
2015
Group show, "The Common Grounds", Villa Stuck Museum, Munich
2015
Group show, "Magic and Power", Marta Herford Museum, Herford
2015
Group show, "Agoraphobia", Azad Gallery, Tehran
2015
Artist residency of the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University, NJ
2016
Solo show, "Written Room", Pi Artworks, London
2016
Group show, "The Disturbing Green", Marta Herford Museum, Herford
2016
Group show, "Sew+Zan", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2017
Bienniale, "The Art of Joy", MANIF D’ART/8: The Quebec City Biennale
2017
Solo show, "Written Room", Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
2017
Solo show, "Written Room", Pi Artworks, Istanbul
2017
Solo show, "Contested Memories", Anne Frank Center, Frankfurt
2017
Artist residency, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
2017
Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
2017
Participated in the "11th Biennale for Contemporary Art", Dresden
2017
Group show, "Disturbance", Kunsthalle Leipzig
2017
Group show, "Waste Lands", San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian
2018
Art fair, Teer Art, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2019
Group show, "A Bridge Between You and Everything ", Haines Gallery, California
2019
Group show, "40 - 50 - 60", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2019
Solo show, "Deadlines", Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrucken
2019
Group show, "A Bridge Between You and Everything", High Line Nine Gallery, New York
2019
Group show, "Me", Kabood Atelier Art Gallery, Tabriz
2020
2020
Group show, "Me", Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan
2020
Group show, "Shabtab (7)", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2020
Group show, "Me", Haan Gallery, Shiraz
2020
Group show, "One by One", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2021
Solo show, "Augen und Hände", Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich
2021
Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York
2022
Group show, "The First Fertile Element", A Gallery, Tehran
2022
Group show, "Decapitalize Humanity", Deutscher Kunstlerbund e V, Berlin
2022
Group show, "Mohammad Siyah-Qalam Award - Featured Artists", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2022
Group show, "The Other Kabul. Remains of The Garden", Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
2024
Solo show, "Papillon", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
2024
Group show, "Vintage Modern", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
2025
Group show, "Portraiture Now: Iranian Contemporary", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles
2025
Group show, "Remembrance", 009821 Projects, Tehran
2025
Art fair, 8Fair, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2025
Art fair, MENART Fair, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Paris

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1962. Born in Tehran, Iran

1980

1984

Received her B.A. from University of Tehran

1990

1991

Moved to Germany

1992

Received her M.A. from College of Art Offenbach, Hessen

1995

Member of the art project Fahrradhalter

2000

2001

Obtained a grant from Hessen Cultural Foundation

2001

Obtained a grant from Kunstfonds Foundation

2001

Solo show, "Blind Spot", Stavanger Cultural Centre, Stavanger

2001

Participated in the 2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin

2001

Group show, Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2001

Group show, "Scene Change XIX", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt

2001

Group show, "Migration", Womens’ Museum, Bonn

2001

2002

Solo show, "Shoes Off!", De Ligt Gallery, Frankfurt

2002

Solo show, Blindspot, Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran, Germany

2002

Group show, "Source as Inspiration", Francke Foundation, Halle

2002

Group show, "Say Hello Wave Goodbye", Hohenlohe & Kalb Gallery, Vienna

2003

Solo show, "Thousand and One Day", National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

2003

Group show, "MARS-Art and War", The New Gallery & Museum Joanneum, Graz

2003

Group show, "ّFeast", Arhus

2003

Group show, "Bellissima", Gallery of the Art Academy, Leipzig

2003

Group show, "Zan-e-irani", Womens’ Museum, Bonn

2003

Group show, "MARS-Art and War", The New Gallery, Graz

2004

Grant from Balmoral Künstlerhaus

2004

Solo show, "Ornamentic", City Museum, Crailsheim

2004

Solo show, "Signs", Einstein Forum, Potsdam

2004

Group show, "Far Near Distance", Centre of the World Cultures, Berlin

2004

Group show, Gabriele Münter Prize, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004

Group show, "The Ten Commandments", German Hygiene-Museum, Dresden

2004

Participated in the 4th Busan Biennal, Busan

2005

Group show, "Intersections", Jewish Museum of Melbourne / Jewish Museum of San Francisco

2005

Khoj International Artists Workshop, Bombey

2005

Solo Show, "Parastou Forouhar in the German Kathedral", Berlin

2005

Solo show, "Spielmannszüge", Dominikanerkloster Forum, Frankfurt

2005

Solo show, "Spielmannszuege", Saarland artists space, Saarbrücken

2006

Grant from the German Academy in Rom-Villa Massimo

2006

Co-curator, "Treibsand - Contemporary Art Space on DVD", Tehran issue

2006

Solo show, "Blind Spot", Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich

2006

Group show, "Eastern Exprssway", Evangelische Stadtakademie, Frankfurt

2006

Group show, "The Critical Eye", Kunstverein Aschaffenburg

2006

Group show, Hannah Arendt Thinking Space, Berlin

2007

Residency of Berlin Cultural Senat, Istanbul

2007

Solo show, "Just a Minute", Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome

2007

Group show, "Global Feminism", Brooklyn Museum, NY

2007

Group show, "Retracing Territories", Kunsthalle Fribourg

2007

Group show, "Creation and Design of Media Arts", Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt

2007

Group show, "Mahrem", Santral Istanbul, Istanbul

2008

Red is My Name, Green is My Name — Red Is My Name, Green Is My Name *2008*

2008

Solo show, "Parade", Kunsthalle Vierseithof, Lückenwalde

2008

Group show, "Mahrem", Kunsthalle Wien/Tanas, Berlin

2008

Group show, "Re-Imagining Asia", Haus of the World Cultures, Berlin

2008

Group show, "Vote for Women", Kunst Meran, Merano

2008

Group show, "Naqsh", Pergamon Museum, Berlin

2009

Participated in the Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, South Korea

2009

Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich

2009

Solo show, "Links of Violence", Orgel Fabrik, Karlsruhe

2009

Solo show, "I Surrender", Azad Gallery, Tehran

2009

Group show, "The Power of Ornament", Belvedere, Vienna

2009

Group show, "Dream and Reality", Paul Klee Center, Bern

2009

Group show, "In Istanbul - From Arrivel To Departure", BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul

2009

Group show, "Rebelle", Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem

2010

Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", RH Gallery, NY

2010

Solo show, "Parastou Forouhar", Leighton House Museum, London

2010

Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not", Verso Arte Contemporanea, Turin

2010

Bienniale, "Veiled Memoirs", XIV Biennale Donna, Ferrara

2010

Group show, "Nagsh and Raghsh", Muesum of Islamic Art, Sharja

2010

Group show, "21st Century", Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane

2010

Group show, "War/Individium", AZKM, Muenster

2010

2011

Bienniale, "Medi(t)ation", Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

2011

Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not", Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich

2011

Solo show, "Written Room", Fondazione Merz, Turin

2011

Group show, "Political Patterns", IFA Gallery, Berlin / Stuttgart

2011

Group show, "Disturbing the Public Opinion", Roda Sten, Gothenburg

2011

Group show, "The Ornamental Gesture", Künstlerhaus, Dortmond

2011

Group show, "ZENDEGI", 12 contemporary Iranian artists, Beirut Show Center

2011

Group show, "Ornamental Structures", Stadtgalerie, Saarbruecken

2011

Group show, "20 Years of Presence", Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt

2012

Winner of Sophie von La-Roche Prize of Offenbach city

2012

Group show, "The Elephant in the Dark", Devi Foundation, Dehli

2012

Group show, "Feminst and …", The Matrass Factory Museum, Pittsburgh

2012

Group show, "Fertile Crescent", Princeton University Art Museum, NJ

2012

Group show, 7th Asia Pasific Triennal of Contamporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery

2012

Solo show, "No Home-game", Kunst-Raum-Akademie, Weingarten

2012

Group show, "Killing", Kunstpalais, Erlangen

2012

Co-curator, "Omid is my Name", JBS Anne Frank, Frankfurt

2013

Participated in the 5th Moscow Biennale

2013

4th Biennial of Thessaloniki

2013

Participated in Gothenburg Biennial

2013

Group show, "The Fold", CAB Contemporary Art, Brussels

2013

Group show, "Free View", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

2013

Group Show, "Conflicts", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

2013

Group show, "The Passion of Persia", Rietberg Museum, Zurich

2013

Solo show, "The Time of The Butterflies", Hinterland Gallery, Vienna

2013

Solo show, "The Poetry of Unloved Perception", Art Galerie of Fuerth

2013

Solo show, "Ornament and Crime", Law Warshaw Gallery of Macalester College, St. Paul

2013

Solo show, "The Subtle Tempo of Pain", Roemer 9, Frankfurt

2013

Solo show, "He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not II", Stadtgalerie, Neunkirchen

2014

Solo show, "Repeating Patterns of Mrs. P", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2014

Solo show, "Kiss Me", Rose Issa Projects, London

2014

Solo show, "Body Letter", El Greco Festival, Toledo

2014

Group Show, "Recalling the Future", Brunei Gallery at SOAS, London

2014

Group show, "The Art of Life", Uppsala Konstmuseum

2014

Group show, "Ornamental Structures", Kunstverein Worms

2014

2015

Group show, "Insomuch That It Slowly Goes Drown", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2015

2015

Solo show, "New Works", Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich

2015

Solo show, "Burnt Paper", Hinterland Gallery, Vienna

2015

Solo show, "Re-imagining the Illusion", Pi Artworks, London

2015

Group show, "The Common Grounds", Villa Stuck Museum, Munich

2015

Group show, "Magic and Power", Marta Herford Museum, Herford

2015

Group show, "Agoraphobia", Azad Gallery, Tehran

2015

Artist residency of the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University, NJ

2016

Solo show, "Written Room", Pi Artworks, London

2016

Group show, "The Disturbing Green", Marta Herford Museum, Herford

2016

Group show, "Sew+Zan", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2017

Bienniale, "The Art of Joy", MANIF D’ART/8: The Quebec City Biennale

2017

Solo show, "Written Room", Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

2017

Solo show, "Written Room", Pi Artworks, Istanbul

2017

Solo show, "Contested Memories", Anne Frank Center, Frankfurt

2017

Artist residency, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland

2017

Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

2017

Participated in the "11th Biennale for Contemporary Art", Dresden

2017

Group show, "Disturbance", Kunsthalle Leipzig

2017

Group show, "Waste Lands", San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian

2018

Art fair, Teer Art, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2019

Group show, "A Bridge Between You and Everything ", Haines Gallery, California

2019

Group show, "40 - 50 - 60", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2019

Solo show, "Deadlines", Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrucken

2019

Group show, "A Bridge Between You and Everything", High Line Nine Gallery, New York

2019

Group show, "Me", Kabood Atelier Art Gallery, Tabriz

2020

Group show, "Me", Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan

2020

Group show, "Shabtab (7)", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2020

Group show, "Me", Haan Gallery, Shiraz

2020

Group show, "One by One", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2021

Solo show, "Augen und Hände", Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich

2021

Group show, "Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians", Asia Society Museum, New York

2022

Group show, "The First Fertile Element", A Gallery, Tehran

2022

Group show, "Decapitalize Humanity", Deutscher Kunstlerbund e V, Berlin

2022

Group show, "Mohammad Siyah-Qalam Award - Featured Artists", Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2022

Group show, "The Other Kabul. Remains of The Garden", Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun

2024

Solo show, "Papillon", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles

2024

Group show, "Vintage Modern", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles

2025

Group show, "Portraiture Now: Iranian Contemporary", Advocartsy - West Hollywood, Los Angeles

2025

Group show, "Remembrance", 009821 Projects, Tehran

2025

Art fair, 8Fair, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Tehran

2025

Art fair, MENART Fair, Represented by Azad Art Gallery, Paris