Natascha Sadr Haghighian

Natascha Sadr Haghighian , pseudonym Natascha Süder Happelmann (born 1967 in Tehran ) is an Iranian-German installation and video artist. She is a professor for sculpture at the HfK Bremen .

Biography as a staging

As a result of her artistic practice, various information is available about her biography: She was therefore born in 1963 in Tehran , 1967 in Budapest , 1979 in Munich or Kassel , 1966 in London , 1953 in Tehran, 1967 in Iran or Sydney . From the various biographies it can be seen that the artist lives and works in Budapest, Ellendale , Wimbledon or Gütersloh or Berlin or Great Britain or Santa Monica , California or Bremen .

job

Sadr Haghighian's work primarily examines the structural foundations and complicity, interactions or entanglements between the complexes of politics, economy and industry as well as the way in which these affect the shape and structure of everyday life. Haghighian works on individual as well as collaborative works - installative, performative, with text and sound (or) in the areas of installation , performance , text and sound . She leaves many possible versions open for viewing her works, a not entirely tangible, not particularly representative artist who eludes the company through name changes and pseudonyms as well as through collaborations with others.

The artist's collaborations are mostly long-term, open and cumulative. For example, Haghighian founded the Institute for Incongruous Translation in 2010 together with the author, scientist and curator Ashkan Sepahvand with the aim of promoting discord and dialogue in translations.

She has exhibited her sound installation Pssst Leopard 2A7 + , a demilitarized copy of the Leopard 2 A7 + battle tank made in Germany , several times since she conceived the work in 2013. “Fictitious field recordings from the production and deployment locations, manipulated noises from the tracked vehicle and letters to the leopard create an ambivalent scenario. The apparently clear functions of the military equipment are being undermined. The animal separates from the tracked vehicle. "

Haghighian rejects the usual concept of resumes , biographies and résumés. She insists that only biographical data about her person that are taken from the bioswop project are used in printed matter about her artistic work . The idea of ​​a closed narrative of their personal biography / s and artistic production runs counter to their political and / or artistic ideals. bioswop is a biography exchange platform initiated by her, which was published in 2004 for artists and other cultural activists to swap, borrow or compile CVs. Her goal is to get more and more people to switch or change their résumés for representative purposes such as catalogs.

Haghighian has been variously referred to as a sound artist, installation artist, documentary filmmaker, chemistry student, 29-year-old fake blonde. She also worked as a sculptor (1986), operator for a transport company (1988–90) and bartender (1990–96).

Haghighian has received various awards and grants and has had various group and solo exhibitions: for example, she exhibited in 2013 in the König Galerie , Berlin under the title pssst LEOPARD 2A7 + solo, was represented at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012 and at the Manifesta 7 in Trentino - Alto Adige , Italy and in 2002 Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2019 she will be playing in the German Pavilion (curated by Franciska Zòlyom ) at the Biennale di Venezia and adapted her last name to the event and is now called Natascha Süder Happelmann . With this algorithm-improved version of her name, reminiscent of a southern jumping jack, the artist wanted to expose the auto-correction programs and the inattentiveness of public authorities. When asked for interviews about the German pavilion in Venice, she sometimes replies with drawings that are visually reminiscent of graphics that make sounds visible, so that the interpretation and decoding of her drawn answers seems almost impossible.

Prices

• 2019: Hannah-Höch-Förderpreis , Berlin

literature

• Natalie Gutgesell : Sadr Haghighian, Natascha . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 100, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023266-0 , p. 321 f.
• Seeing Studies / Documenta 13 , 2012. Institute for Incongruous Translation . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2972-7 .
• Stefan Peter (Ed.): Solo Show. Catalog, König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-522-1 ; for the exhibition at the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna .
• Anselm Franke (Ed.): No Matter how Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night. Cologne: König, 2006, ISBN 3-86560-151-0 .
• Ars Viva 00/01. Art and science, Hörner / Antlfinger , Christoph Keller , Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Jeannette Schulz , exhibition catalog, Berlin, 2000, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, State Gallery Moritzburg , Halle, Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen.
• Natascha Sadr Haghighian , Karl Schmidt Rottluff Scholarship , catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , 1998.
• Dorothea von Hantelmann , Marjorie Jongbloed (Hrsg.): Performativity in art . On the occasion of the exhibition I Promise It's Political, June 21 - September 8, 2002. Cologne: Theater der Welt, 2002 ISBN 3-9807903-3-9 . Natascha Sadr Haghighian: improvement pp. 84/85; Short CV p. 139

Web links

• Artist's website
• Biography exchange platform bioswop.softmonsters.com
• Exhibition directory
• Website for the project path / trail at Documenta 13 (2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information in the general artist dictionary
2. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian (profile). University of the Arts Bremen, accessed on March 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian , in 2017 as a juror at Villa Romana , website of Villa Romana, Florence, accessed on October 25, 2018
4. ↑ Pssst Leopard 2A7 - Press Release. König Galerie, Berlin, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2018 (English). 
5. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Ashkan Sepahvand. 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2016, accessed on October 15, 2018 . 
6. ↑ bioswop.net in dOCUMENTA 13 booklet , page 300
7. ↑ ZKM (ed.): Natascha Sadr Haghighian | ZKM . ( zkm.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).
8. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian | MoMA. MoMA, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian. In: 3rd Berlin Autumn Salon. berliner-herbstsalon.de, 2017, accessed on October 15, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Arsenal: Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (UK English). 
11. ↑ Pssst Leopard 2A7 - Press Release. König Galerie, Berlin, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2018 (English). 
12. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Retrieved October 18, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Natascha Sadr-Haghighian | Bidoun. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (American English). 
14. ↑ Surprise coup: The artist of the German pavilion 2019 is called Natascha Süder Happelmann. Retrieved October 25, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian with Ashkan Sepahvand . In: the8thclimate.org (Ed.): The8thclimate.org . ( the8thclimate.org [accessed October 18, 2018]).
16. ↑ pssst Leopard 2A7 + . Feature of Deutschlandradio Kultur. First broadcast on August 1, 2014.
17. ↑ CV | Natascha Sadr Haghighian | King Gallery. Retrieved October 18, 2018 . 
18. ↑ 9 Artists. MIT List Visual Arts Center, accessed October 18, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Retrieved October 18, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Arsenal: Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (UK English). 
21. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Retrieved October 18, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Natascha Sadr Haghighian | ZKM . ( zkm.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).
23. ↑ the8thclimate.org . In: the8thclimate.org . ( the8thclimate.org [accessed October 18, 2018]).
24. ↑ Tirdad Zolghadr: Interview with Natascha Sadr-Haghighian | Bidoun. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (American English). 
25. ↑ Works | Natascha Sadr Haghighian. König Galerie, Berlin, accessed on March 15, 2019 (English).  
26. ↑ Manifesta 7 - Archives. 2007, accessed October 23, 2018 . 
27. ↑ Manifesta 4. 2002, accessed October 23, 2018 . 
28. ^ Artist for German pavilion - surprise coup. In: Monopoly magazine. Elke Buhr, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 . 
29. ↑ Bremen art professor designs the pavilion for the Venice Biennale . In: buten un inside . ( butenunbinnen.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
30. ^ Catrin Lorch: Sign Language . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 1, 2019, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed March 15, 2019]).
31. ↑ Monika Baer receives the 2020 Hannah Höch Prize Natascha Sadr Haghighian receives the 2020 Hannah Höch Prize. November 1, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Ars Viva 00/01. Art and Science | 2000 | ZKM . ( zkm.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).