Residency Programme

A performance presentation examining the relationship between everyday life and artistic practice, developed through dialogue with local contexts and realised collectively at Sazmanab.

A solo exhibition by Dejan Kaludjerović presenting a multi-channel sound installation based on interviews with children, using play and dialogue to examine social values, identity formation, and the ways societies construct difference and belonging.

A joint talk by Mark Allen and Jon Rubin discussing collaborative practices, experimental institutions, and artistic interventions in public space, drawing on projects that intersect art, social exchange, and everyday life.

A public conversation bringing together artists, designers, and students from the Dutch Art Institute and Werkplaats Typografie with Iranian artists, examining how informal exchanges transform when they enter public space and engaging themes such as oikopolitics, citizenship, and belonging.

A research-led programme developed by Roaming Academy with Doreen Mende and The Otolith Group, in collaboration with Sazmanab, bringing together artists, students, and theorists to explore questions of sociality, translation, and political form in relation to Iran’s modern and contemporary histories through film, text, discussion, and collective study.

A lecture by Manuel Buerger examining design as a discursive practice shaped by misinterpretation, layered meaning, and continuous communication.

A talk by Thomas Jeppe discussing Abstract Journalism as a working methodology based on research, allegory, and productive misreading.

An exhibition by Thomas Jeppe investigating cultural translation, vernacular aesthetics, and semantic slippage through publishing, sound, image, and installation.

A solo exhibition by Reza Aramesh presenting film, photography, and installation works derived from mass media imagery of conflict, examining violence, spectatorship, and political power.

A public talk by Farhad Kalantary reflecting on his exhibition Stars of Urmia and his broader practice in film and video, addressing memory, abstraction, and geopolitical context.

A one-night screening of video works by Anahita Razmi, presenting selected pieces that examine representation, circulation, and the politics of images.

A public talk by Anahita Razmi discussing her exhibition at Sazmanab and her ongoing engagement with visual memory, media appropriation, and cultural translation.

An exhibition by Anahita Razmi bringing together video and installation works that explore media circulation, translation, and the movement of images across geopolitical and cultural frameworks.

A video installation by Farhad Kalantary using layered moving images and sound to transform documentary source material from Lake Urmia into an abstract meditation on time, place, and perception.

A two-part screening by artist-in-residence Mette Juul, presenting video works drawn from personal archives and narrative structures that move between documentary, fiction, and memory.

Exhibition by Lena Lapschina brings together video and media-based works that reflect on mobility, institutional frameworks, and transnational artistic practice, shaped through the artist’s long-term engagement with international exhibition contexts and residencies.

A public conversation in which the artist reflects on the exhibition and expands on its themes of conformity, power, and collective behavior through dialogue with the audience.

An exhibition reflecting on conformity, power, and collective blindness, using allegory and narrative to examine how individuals and societies follow authority toward collapse while mistaking obedience for safety.

Hidden Screenplays brings together works by Kardelen Fincancı and İsmail Egler to examine subtle forms of resistance that emerge within everyday life under dominant political and social structures. Curated by Nesli Gül, the exhibition uses an underground spatial strategy to mirror its conceptual focus on hidden tactics, imagination, and acts of defection that operate beneath visibility and authority.

Richard Penn shares an animation practice shaped by teaching, experimentation, and collaborative production, foregrounding stop-frame as both an artistic language and a tool for learning.