Farkhondeh Shahroudi | Book Launch

Please join us on the evening of December 11th to celebrate and discuss the latest book produced by the Goethe-Institut New York and published with Mousse Publishing. The evening will feature Farkhondeh Shahroudi, as well as all contributing authors. Shahroudi will perform some of her poems for the audience before we convene a panel discussion in which the book's contributors will discuss Shahroudi's breadth in her artistic practice and the impact of her work today. The book is available for purchase in person at the Goethe-Institut New York or through the Mousse Publishing webstore.
The publication Farkhondeh Shahroudi marks the artist’s US debut exhibition, of weeping trees (2024), at the Goethe-Institut New York. Rather than serving as an exhibition catalogue, it presents a retrospective glance at the pivotal moments and major series in Shahroudi’s practice, stretching as far back as her figurative paintings from her time as a student and extending as recently as the 2024 works made during her residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. In this publication, the authors dive into Shahroudi’s rich practice, privileging the artwork and contextualizing her artmaking within a wider concept of worldbuilding.
Edited by Zachary B. Feldman
Text by Zachary B. Feldman, Billy Fowo, and Jordan Amirkhani

Farkhondeh Shahroudi has been living and working in Berlin since 2001. Shahroudi studied painting at the Alzahra University in Tehran until she was forced to seek political asylum in Germany in 1990, where she continued her studies in Art and Design atDortmundUniversity. Her work has been exhibited and housed at numerous galleries and museums, includingHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), SAVVY Contemporary, The British Museum, and the Vehbi Koç Contemporary Art Foundation. She was the recipient of the 2017 Villa Romana Prize, 2022 Hannah Höch Förderpreis, and is the inaugural Exile Visual Arts Award for 2024, among other distinctions.
Jordan Amirkhani is Curator and Head of Research and Project Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought — a non-profit organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana committed to research and publishing, exhibitions and convenings onart of the global diaspora. Prior to taking on these roles, Amirkhani held academic positions at American University in Washington, DC and the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN. Amirkhani’s writing has been featured in many national and international publications, including: The Paris Review, Artforum, Art in America, Baltimore Arts, Boston Art Review, X-Tra, and Burnaway.org. Her emphasis on contextualizing contemporary art and artists working in the American South garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation “Short-Form”Writing Grant in 2017 and three nominations for The Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Zachary B. Feldman is a curator, writer, and scholar of media art and is currently the Curator of Visual Arts and Programs at Goethe-Institut New York. He holds a joint-Ph.D. in Comparative Media and German Studies from Vanderbilt University and was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2022-23. He has guest curated exhibitions and screenings at e-flux Screening Room (New York), Artists Space (New York), the National Gallery of Art (D.C.), and more.
Billy Fowo is a curator and writer based in Berlin, Germany and working at SAVVY Contemporary – The Laboratory of Form-Ideas. With points of interest in various fields and disciplines such as the sonic, linguistics, and literature, Fowo questions what is considered to be knowledge and endeavors to rethink the spaces in which it is disseminated. He recently graduated from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme 2023and acted between 2021 and 2023 as a Tutor at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in the framework of their COOP Academy.

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