Nazanin Fakoor is a multi-disciplinary artist and director based in Brussels. Her visual installations and performances are worlds that the spectator can enter and influence. Through her work, she explores utopian possibilities at the intersection of recognition and alienation, aesthetics and social issues, and reality and possibility, blending video, performance, and installation with light, sound, movement and music.
 
One of her recent creations, Rainbow, is a music theatre performance and immersive installation. Her work has been showcased in various countries including Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, and the United States. Notably, her installations Light Drawing and Rainbow have been acquired by the M HKA  Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp as part of the Flemish Community of Belgium Art Collection.
 
Fakoor pursued her studies in theatre at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, and later earned a degree in scenography from La Cambre School of Visual Arts in Brussels, graduating with great distinction in 2008. 
2024
  • Beyond the Black Box Festival, Hexeneinmaleins premiere, Antwerp, Belgium
  • AMOK Brugge, Rainbow installation, Bruges, Belgium
  • De Delicate Revolutie: Over kunst en identiteit/eenzaamheid, Bruges, Belgium

2023
​2022
2020
2019
2018 
2017 
2016 
  • Les Halles Saint-Géry/Sint Gorikshallen,Working Title Festival, Brussels, Belgium
  • La Bellone - House of Performing Arts, Solo exhibition, La Face B Side, Brussels, Belgium
  • Kulturpackt, Orient trifft Okzident, Rathaus, Schweinfurt, Germany
  • Les Halles, Foire Attraction, Brussels, Belgium
  • Uferstudios, Wild Card - Life Long Burning project, Berlin, Germany

2015 
  • Nuit Blanche, Brussels, Belgium 

2014 
  • FMA François Martens Architects,, solo exhibition, Drawings, Brussels, Belgium 

2011 
  • 18th annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, Voluptuous Panic, Long Island, New York, USA
  • Robert Wilson's 70th birthday celebration, Flowers-performance, Elmgreen & Dragset, Berlin, Germany
  • Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, Shelter, New York, USA

2010
  • Kaitheater, Costume design, Tom & Bess O’Bedlam, directed by Sybille Wilson, Brussels, Belgium 
  • Beijing Music Festival, Costume design, Semele (Händel), directed by Zhang Huan, Beijing, China

2008
  • Kleine Akademie, Brussels, Belgium 

​2007 
  • Flagey, 100% Schubert Festival, Brussels, Belgium 

2006 
  • City Sonics, Festival des arts sonores, Mons, Belgium
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, set design, Death in vacant lot! (Shuji Terayama), Southwing Company, New York City, USA

GRANTS
  • 2022 Research grant - Flanders State of the Art 
  • 2020 Research grant - Flanders State of the Art 
  • 2020 Sabam (Belgian Association of Authors, Composers and Publishers)
  • 2019 Flemish Community Commission of Brussels
  • 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 
  • 2016 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 
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