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Nairy Baghramian
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist of Armenian ethnicity. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. Using an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials, and forms, Baghramian’s site-responsive sculptures and installations explore the relationship between architecture, objects, and the human figure.
When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghramian’s practice as: "...[Exploring] the workings of the body, gender, and public and private space."
Baghramian was born in 1971, in Isfahan, Iran, the youngest child in an Armenian Iranian family. She and her mother flew to East Berlin in 1984, when she was 13, and later reunited in West Berlin with their family. She attended Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).
In addition to her artistic practice, Baghramian worked at the women’s shelter that her sister Louise co-founded.
Baghramian creates sculptural installations that reimagine the workings of the body and its connection to the spaces it inhabits. Inspired by dance classes she took as a child, Baghramian recalls her teacher speaking of the need to break down human movement into discrete elements. Her work depicts abstract forms of bodies or body parts, often contemplating the brokenness or "prosthetic" relationship between the body and its environment. Through a wide range of materials and techniques, Baghramian challenges traditional sculptural conventions, creating works that defy definitions and reveal new perspectives. A process of listening to and questioning materials is critical to her practice. “I have a very classical way of working, a traditional way of thinking of materials,” she says. “To get the sense of the politics of the material and the shapes, I have to understand it.”
For the Berlin Biennial, she collaborated with ninety-eight-year-old designer Janette Laverrière to create a set for her furniture design.
In 2017, Baghramian's exhibition, Déformation Professionnelle, was on display in the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. This exhibition is the culmination of the artist's 18 sets of works from 1999 to 2016. Déformation Professionnelle exhibits the artist's oeuvre while alluding to existing works in her field. Through a site-responsive approach that incorporates sculptural elements and photography, she challenges conventional perspectives on the connection between human body gestures and their functions.
In 2019, Baghramian took part in Performa 19 , collaborating with the artist Maria Hassabi. Inspired by the portraits taken by Carlo Mollino in the 1960s, they created Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre).
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Nairy Baghramian
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist of Armenian ethnicity. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin. Using an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials, and forms, Baghramian’s site-responsive sculptures and installations explore the relationship between architecture, objects, and the human figure.
When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghramian’s practice as: "...[Exploring] the workings of the body, gender, and public and private space."
Baghramian was born in 1971, in Isfahan, Iran, the youngest child in an Armenian Iranian family. She and her mother flew to East Berlin in 1984, when she was 13, and later reunited in West Berlin with their family. She attended Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin).
In addition to her artistic practice, Baghramian worked at the women’s shelter that her sister Louise co-founded.
Baghramian creates sculptural installations that reimagine the workings of the body and its connection to the spaces it inhabits. Inspired by dance classes she took as a child, Baghramian recalls her teacher speaking of the need to break down human movement into discrete elements. Her work depicts abstract forms of bodies or body parts, often contemplating the brokenness or "prosthetic" relationship between the body and its environment. Through a wide range of materials and techniques, Baghramian challenges traditional sculptural conventions, creating works that defy definitions and reveal new perspectives. A process of listening to and questioning materials is critical to her practice. “I have a very classical way of working, a traditional way of thinking of materials,” she says. “To get the sense of the politics of the material and the shapes, I have to understand it.”
For the Berlin Biennial, she collaborated with ninety-eight-year-old designer Janette Laverrière to create a set for her furniture design.
In 2017, Baghramian's exhibition, Déformation Professionnelle, was on display in the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. This exhibition is the culmination of the artist's 18 sets of works from 1999 to 2016. Déformation Professionnelle exhibits the artist's oeuvre while alluding to existing works in her field. Through a site-responsive approach that incorporates sculptural elements and photography, she challenges conventional perspectives on the connection between human body gestures and their functions.
In 2019, Baghramian took part in Performa 19 , collaborating with the artist Maria Hassabi. Inspired by the portraits taken by Carlo Mollino in the 1960s, they created Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre).