Ausstellung Negin Rezaie – This Takes Space

In her exhibition ‘This Takes Space’, Iranian performance artist Negin Rezaie shows parts of the continuously expanding Protest Archive - An archive of ephemeral forms of protest, which she founded in 2022, and re-contextualises them. The archive brings together various forms of political and artistic resistance that have emerged from the civilian population. After the Women. Life. Freedom protests in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, the archive expanded to bring together various forms of civil resistance from different countries around the world. The representations range from photos of graffiti shared on social media to artistic recreations and actions of resistance to video and audio footage of protests. The archive aims to describe the history of totalitarian regimes from multiple perspectives. The various forms of protest, which are often subject to censorship and suppression, are to find a place of preservation here where they cannot be eliminated or made invisible.

Negin Rezaie is an Iranian performance artist, curator, educator and researcher. Having fled to Vienna in 2015, Negin has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in the performance class since 2021. She has curated numerous exhibitions and realised her own solo performances, for example at the mumok, the Volkskundemuseum and as part of Wienwoche. From 2021 to 2024, she was part of the artistic-scientific PEEK/FWF project Confronting Realities at the Film Academy Vienna/mdw, where she conducted artistic research on the representation of autosociobiography in the context of family relationships.

www.neginrezaie.at