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Nairy Baghramian explores forms and concepts inherited from the history of art to address issues of functionality, decoration, abstraction, and feminism.
Born in Isfahan, Baghramian had to flee post-revolutionary Iran as a teenager and has been living and working in Berlin since Nairy..
Nairy Baghramian
Iranian artist
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist, of Armenian ethnicity.[1] Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin.[1][2] When the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghramian’s statues as: "...[Exploring] the workings of the body, gender, and public and private space."[3]
Early life and education
Baghramian was born in 1971, in Isfahan, Imperial State of Iran (now Iran),[1] the youngest child in an Armenian Iranian family.[4] She and her mother flew to East Berlin in 1984, when she was 13,[5] and later reunited in West Berlin with their family.[1][6] She attended Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).[6][7]
In addition to her artistic practice, Baghramian worked at the women’s shelter that her sister Louise