Formage de Tête, 2011
aluminium, silicon, stainless steel, lacquer, cast iron
installation view at Venice Biennale, 2011

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Formage de tête (Capot seul), 2011
aluminium, silicon, stainless steel, lacquer, cast iron

Waste Basket (bin for rejected ideas), 2009
wire mesh and rubber
115.01 cm x 59.99 cm x 62.99 cm

Formage de tête, installation view, Galerie Daniel Buchholz 2011

NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN by GIOVANNI HÄNNINEN, 2011

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Fluffing the Pillows A (Mooring, Gurneys, Silos), 2012
casted painted aluminium, fabric, rubber, pleather, hemp rope, chromed pole
dimensions installed variable
installation view at Galerie Buchholz Köln, 2012

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Fluffing the Pillows A (Mooring, Gurneys, Silos), 2012
installation view at Galerie Buchholz Köln, 2012

Advertising Format, 2009
blown glass, silicon, gallery light fitting and label

Pubic Region, 2009
mixed media installation
courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire, London
photo: ANDY KEATE

Class Reunion, 2008
installation view Contemporary Art Gallery
photo: SCOTT MASSEY

Class Reunion, 2008
Heins Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath
photograph: RAPHAEL HEFTI

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Butcher, Barber, Angler & others 2009 (detail)
mixed media installation
Courtesy of the artist and Studio Voltaire, London
© 2010 Nairy Baghramian, photograph: ANDY KEATE

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Installation views from RETAINER, 2013
on view at SculptureCenter, New York
photos: JASON MANDELLA

all images courtesy the artist

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The SculptureCenter in New York just opened a few days ago the first exhibition in a major public institution in the US by NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN. An excuse to discover the work of the Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs.

NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN employs interior design, literature, and art-historical debates around minimalism to comment on materiality, manufacture, and display. Her work examines political and social systems of power, encompassing questions of context, institutional framing, and the production and reception of contemporary art. For her, exhibition spaces are conceptual structures as much as they are habitable buildings. Their historically determined design and layout become both reference and structure of the work.

She was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1971, and has lived and worked in Berlin since 1985. Baghramian’s recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery, a two-person show with PHYLLIDA BARLOW at Serpentine Gallery in London, and solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Kunstverein Aachen, and Kunstverein Nürnberg. Her work has been featured in several major international exhibitions including Sculpture Project Münster (2007), the Berlin Biennial (2008), Illuminations at the 54th Venice Biennial (2011), the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (2011) and Temporary Stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum(2011). BAGHRAMIAN was awarded the 2012 Hector Kunstpreis, which included an artist publication and an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

And good news: the exhibition RETAINER (images above) by NAIRY BAGHRAMIAN is running through March 25, 2013 at SculptureCenter in New York.

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