Nazanin Fakoor is an Iranian-German 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. 

2025

• De Warande, Stormopkomst Festival, Interplay, Turnhout, Belgium
• C-mine, Stormopkomst Festival, Interplay, Genk, Belgium

2024

• De Warande, Stormopkomst Festival, Rainbow immersive installation, Turnhout, Belgium

• C-mine, Stormopkomst Festival, Rainbow immersive installation, Genk, Belgium

• 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

• BRIXEN WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Rainbow immersive installation, Brixen/Bressanone, Italy
• Artist talk - Z33- House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture - Fitting In, Hasselt, Belgium​
• Z33 - Fitting In - Collective worldmaking in times of change - Rainbow immersive installation, Hasselt, Belgium

​2022

• F.A.S.T. Femmes Arts Siences Technologies - Rainbow installation, Polytech High Tension Lab, Brussels, Belgium
• Z33 - Fitting In - Collective worldmaking in times of change - Rainbow immersive installation, Hasselt, Belgium
• Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation - Museum Night Fever - Rainbow installation, Brussels, Belgium
• Winternights - Hexeneinmaleins (work in progress), Maastricht, Netherlands
• (Un)Holy Light Festival - Rainbow immersive installation - Leuven, Belgium

2020

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

2019

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

2018 

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

2017 

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

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

• 2024 Production grant - Flanders State of the Art
• 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 Production grant - 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