Nazanin Fakoor is a Brussels based visual artist and director. She was born in Teheran and grew up in Germany, where she studied theatre arts at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. She continued her education at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and subsequently studied scenography at the La Cambre School of Visual Arts in Brussels. Her studies ultimately led her to the border between theatre and the visual arts.
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Her visual installations and performances are utopian approaches to reality, which are also located at the boundary between the recognisable and estranging, between truth and illusion.
Her recent creations include the interactive installation Light Drawing and the music theater performance and installation of Rainbow. Her work was shown in Belgium, Germany, France, the United States and Canada.

2020

• M HKA museum for contemporary art - Performance in My Name is Language by 
  ​Nicoline van Harskamp, Antwerp 
• Working Title Festival: A room with a view, online
• Argos center for audiovisual arts - 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080/1000 BRUXELLES*, Brussels
• De Brakke Grond - Beyond the Black Box, Amsterdam
•  M HKA museum for contemporary art- Art's Birthday, Antwerp

2019

• Perte de Signal, KidZlab Festival, Montreal 
• KIKK Festival, Namur 
•  Landscapes 2.0, Rainbow, Kortrijk 
•  C-Takt#3 Festival - C-Mine, Genk 
•  Waking Life Festival, Crato, Portugal 
•  Kaaistudio's - Working Title Festival, Brussels
•  Rotterdam Operadagen, Rotterdam
•  Kunstencentrum nona - Lunalia XS, Mechelen 
•  De Brakke Grond - Beyond the Black Box, Amsterdam
•  Halles Saint-Géry - Sint-Gorikshallen, Shelter of Art, Brussels

2018 

• Kanal - Centre Pompidou, Working Title Festival, Brussels
• M HKA museum for contemporary art, Middle Gate II, Saint-Dymphna church, Geel
• Workspace Brussels, A Kind of Space, The Fragmented Self, Brussels 
• Festival Safra’Numériques – arts numériques et nouvelles technologies, Amiens
• Artist talk, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Faculté des Arts, Amiens
• M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Light Shifts, Art's Birthday, Antwerp

2017 

• Cutuurcentrum Strombeek, NEVER WALK ALONE #2, Grimbergen
• Les Halles, VISIONS, Brussels 
• Maison de Molenbeek, Dark Matter Games book launch, Brussels
• Les Halles Saint-Géry/Sint Gorikshallen, John Doe in the Metacity -
  Utopia + Dystopia in Architecture, Brussels

2016 

• Les Halles Saint-Géry/Sint Gorikshallen,Working Title Festival, Brussels 
• La Bellone - House of Performing Arts, Solo exhibition, La Face B Side, Brussels 
• Kulturpackt, Orient trifft Okzident, Rathaus, Schweinfurt
• Les Halles, Foire Attraction, Brussels
• Uferstudios, Wild Card - Life Long Burning project, Berlin

2015 

• Nuit Blanche, Brussels 

2014 

• FMA François Martens Architects,, solo exhibition, Drawings, Brussels 

2011 

• 18th annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Voluptuous Panic, Long Island, New York
• Robert Wilson's 70th birthday celebration, Flowers-performance, Elmgreen & Dragset, Berlin
• Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, Shelter, New York

2010

• Kaitheater, Costume design, Tom & Bess O’Bedlam, directed by Sybille Wilson, Brussels 
• Beijing Music Festival, Costume design, Semele (Händel), directed by Zhang Huan, Beijing

2008

• Kleine Akademie, Brussels 

​2007 

• Flagey, 100% Schubert Festival, Brussels 

2006 

• City Sonics, Festival des arts sonores, Mons
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, set design, Death in vacant lot! (Shuji Terayama),
  Southwing Company, New York city

GRANTS

• 2020 Research grant - Flanders State of the Art 
• 2019 Flanders State of the Art
• 2018 Sabam (Belgian Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers)
• 2017 Flemish Community Commission of Brussels
• 2016 Federation Wallonia-Brussels 
  Flemish Community Commission of Brussels

EDUCATION 

• Master in Scenography 
  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels ENSAV, La Cambre, Brussels 2003 - 2008 
• Bachelor in Theater Arts 
  Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich 1999 - 2001 
  ​University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle 2001 - 2003