30th Anniversary: Public talk with Nairy Baghramian

Tue Nov 04 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm UTC+01:00

Malmö Konsthall | Malmö

Konsth\u00f6gskolan i Malm\u00f6\/Malm\u00f6 Art Academy
Publisher/HostKonsthögskolan i Malmö/Malmö Art Academy
30th Anniversary: Public talk with Nairy Baghramian
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Nairy Baghramian is an internationally acclaimed artist. In 2024 she was awarded honorary doctoral at The Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University. During the fall of 2025 Malmö Art Academy celebrate 30 years as an institution. As part of the celebration Nairy Baghramian has been invited to Malmö Konsthall for a Public Talk about her artistic work and upcoming exhibition nameless in WIELS, Brussels (25 October–1 March).
Nairy Baghramian’s work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, photography and drawing with fearless experimentation, historical acuity and conceptual rigor. Particularly in her prime medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual conditions of contemporary art. Through her innovative use of materials and manipulation of familiar forms, Baghramian’s work invites viewer to reconsider their sense of self, space, object, and site. Born in Isfahan, she had to flee post-revolutionary Iran as a teenager and has been living and working in Berlin since 1984.
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Biography
Baghramian was awarded honorary doctoral at The Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University (2024) and has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Aspen Art Award (2023); the Nivola Award (2022); Nasher Prize Laureate (2022); the Malcolm-McLaren-Award with Maria Hassabi (2019); the Zürich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007). She has participated in the Yorkshire Sculpture International at The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2019); Venice Biennale, IT (2019 and 2011); Skulptur Projekte Munster, DE (2017 and 2007); the 8th and 5th Berlin Biennale, DE (2014 and 2008); and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland, UK (2012).
Portrait photo: Abigail Enzaldo
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Malmö Konsthall, Sankt Johannesgatan 7, SE-211 46 Malmö, Sverige, Malmö, Sweden

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